Idential houses, one sold for 460k and one for 420k?

johnathan45

Both sold around July/August 2018.

460k:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=66522482&sale=7887784&country=england

14 Milton Avenue, Langdon Hills, Basildon, Essex SS16 6TT

420k:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=66522482&sale=7887784&country=england


22 Glenwood Gardens, Langdon Hills, Basildon, Essex SS16 6TU

Both are in the same neighbourhood. In fact the 420k property looks in a better condition to me. Am I missing something?

johnathan45

I am not able to post the link correctly. You'll have to copy paste the link I guess? Sorry.

johnathan45

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=52558489&sale=7300129&country=england

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=66522482&sale=7887784&country=england

tom9980

delete the space in cou ntry near the end to make the links work

johnathan45

I am not sure why that space is coming back again!
I am able to click on them now though

NaughtiusMaximus

Just looked on google streetview, I'm not 100% sure but the Glenwood Gardens property looks to be just off the road and accessible via a driveway shared with 3 other properties which would make it less desirable than the Milton Avenue property.

ReadingTim

Who knows, who cares - £40k may be a lot of money, but it's only 10% of the purchase price, so not that significant really.

Maybe the sellers of the 2nd place needed to move quickly - job elsewhere, divorce, debt, death, whatever - only they know for sure, so make up whatever reason you like to keep you happy...

getmore4less

First house £420k

Second house £460k


The second one still has the add on line asking was £480/£475
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-66522482.html

way back has the other one April 2016 asking £475.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160426144403/https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52558489.html

Most likely first one got a bit desperate after 2 years on the market and someone negotiated harder to get a better price.


( you can edit posts to fix the links)

davidmcn

johnathan45 wrote: »

I am not able to post the link correctly. You'll have to copy paste the link I guess? Sorry.

You can post the links correctly provided you use the "insert link" button:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=66522482&sale=7887784&country=england

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=52558489&sale=7300129&country=england

johnathan45

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

Just looked on google streetview, I'm not 100% sure but the Glenwood Gardens property looks to be just off the road and accessible via a driveway shared with 3 other properties which would make it less desirable than the Milton Avenue property.

I see. I also noticed that it has changed hands 5 times since it was built in 1995 and the other one property just once. Maybe there's some hidden issue?

AdrianC

johnathan45 wrote: »

I am not sure why that space is coming back again!

Long standing "feature". The site just puts them into long unbroken "words".

Why was one more expensive than the other? <shrug> Simply because somebody wanted to pay more for one than somebody wanted to pay for the other...