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RelievedSheff

Good properties have flocks of people beating down the door to buy them. You cant get a look in and paid prices are usually well over asking price.

It just doesn't make financial sense at the minute to buy in Sheffield for any thing even half decent in an area you would want to buy and live.

ethank

muhandis wrote: »

This one I think?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61967313.html

This is a beautiful house, but seems well over the ceiling price for the area.

edgex

muhandis wrote: »

This one I think?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61967313.html

That's been staged for the photos, & the gardens had work done.


North facing garden, with the house itself blocking a lot of sun.
Is the roadway to the side now access to the new estate?
Not many sockets in the kitchen is there... 3 doubles, & notice there's no toaster/microwave/coffee machine etc out


Next door, also a 3bed, sold for £136k this year.
This house previously sold in 2003 for £159,500

Doozergirl

What a lovely house. That wouldn't be £250k where I live!

How many walls have textured wallpaper? Knowing period houses like I do, any smooth wall without textured wallpaper having been put on to disguise the state of the wallpaper behind is worth a fortune, when plaster just falls off the walls in sheets when you strip paper on original Victorian/Edwardian plasterwork these days.

I can see textured paper in the hall, but the house looks well maintained so I wonder if they done a lot of the plastering already. The radiators are new as well.

I'd ask how much work they've done since being there, because it looks like a lot. You might find that it's genuinely worth more in saved labour and stress.

I have too many clients who buy a period house thinking it just needs a bit of work. There's no such thing as a bit of work with a period house with original plaster.

The murder means nothing. 0.7 miles is pretty far and the vast number of murders are personal. There's bigger risks you take every day.

pioneer22

edgex wrote: »

That's been staged for the photos, & the gardens had work done.


North facing garden, with the house itself blocking a lot of sun.
Is the roadway to the side now access to the new estate?
Not many sockets in the kitchen is there... 3 doubles, & notice there's no toaster/microwave/coffee machine etc out


Next door, also a 3bed, sold for £136k this year.
This house previously sold in 2003 for £159,500

Sorry if I sound Naive but why does it matter about being staged for photos? and the garden?

Also, what impact do you think it has the home next door going for 136?

Thanks! We're going for a 2nd viewing at 10am tomorrow view a view of offering after.

RelievedSheff

Knowing the area that is well over priced.

It might be a beautiful house and in other areas it might be worth a lot more but in Deepcar it isn't worth that much and you would be mad to offer anything like that for it.

Davesnave

I always think that if I had to ask a bunch of strangers on MSE whether to buy a house or not, it wouldn't be pulling me hard enough towards it.

Mind, if I'd shown you lot this place 10 years ago, I think the "Nooooooo!!!" would still be reverberating across the internet!:rotfl:

pioneer22

RelievedSheff wrote: »

Knowing the area that is well over priced.

It might be a beautiful house and in other areas it might be worth a lot more but in Deepcar it isn't worth that much and you would be mad to offer anything like that for it.

We went in at 232 so will see what they say.

edgex

pioneer22 wrote: »

Sorry if I sound Naive but why does it matter about being staged for photos? and the garden?

Also, what impact do you think it has the home next door going for 136?

Thanks! We're going for a 2nd viewing at 10am tomorrow view a view of offering after.

It's been staged so that the photos look nice, & any viewers look around & immediately go 'ooh isnt this nice'
A lot of the photos are close-ups of decorative details, which don't tell you anything about the actual size & usability of the rooms.
Look at pics 4, 7, 19 & 20. This is the dining room. That's a very small table, notice how the chairs are pushed under, & the backs are actually touching each other. A decent sized table & chairs will be quite a bit bigger than that. Also notice that there's no other decent sized furniture, like a sideboard.
Apart from the purple bedroom, the bedrooms have very little furniture in them. Small set of drawers, no bedside furniture, desk, other drawers etc.

Garden, that terracing is brand new, so how well has it been done?


Next door is a 3bed detached. This is a 3bed detached.
So what is there that makes it 'worth' £100k more?

scholesfan88

I'd be horrified if I seen a listing with photos that made a place visually look bad and immediately put me off the place.

The whole idea of the listing is to pull people in.

Do you leave your chairs out from under your dining table? I certainly dont, so why should they on the listing?