New "Have a Look at This" thread

kipperman

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

You really would have thought that they would have taken the washing off the line (pants?) and the rubbish out of the backyard!

silvercar

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Kitchen with no window! That would put me off.

RHemmings

silvercar said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Kitchen with no window! That would put me off.

Isn't that a window behind the plants, covered by a blind with vertical 'slats'? 

kipperman said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

You really would have thought that they would have taken the washing off the line (pants?) and the rubbish out of the backyard!

Leaving the toilet seat up may also put off a proportion of their potential buyers. 

Abbafan1972

kipperman said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

I wasn't remotely interested. Then I saw the close up picture of a piano..

Yes I didn’t like it at all. Don’t know what’s with the photo of the piano? 

mark_cycling00

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Spot the estate agent in pic 20

And again in 19. 

silvercar

RHemmings said:

silvercar said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Kitchen with no window! That would put me off.

Isn't that a window behind the plants, covered by a blind with vertical 'slats'? 

kipperman said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

You really would have thought that they would have taken the washing off the line (pants?) and the rubbish out of the backyard!

Leaving the toilet seat up may also put off a proportion of their potential buyers. 

It’s an opening into the next room. Presumably that was the outside wall of the house before they extended, now it’s an internal opening.

RHemmings

silvercar said:

RHemmings said:

silvercar said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Kitchen with no window! That would put me off.

Isn't that a window behind the plants, covered by a blind with vertical 'slats'? 

kipperman said:

RHemmings said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145189061#/?channel=RES_BUY

This has been on the market for very long time and is overpriced by £150-200k.  The current asking price is actually lower than what it was up for originally, having been reduced in October 2023.  It's a case in point for the fact that the costs of lavish refurbishment cannot be recouped at time of sale*.  In addition, the interior decoration is highly individualized and unlikely to be to many buyers' tastes.  I suspect, too, that open-plan is going to become the new naff in these austere times (expensive to heat).  

Note the lack of photos of the exterior.  You'll have to check Streetview to see why...  

*there's another house round my way that's in the same boat: the owners spent extravagantly on interior decoration and are trying to get the money back by selling over the odds.  Surprisingly, nobody has bought the place.  It has been for sale, at least in principle as it goes on and off the market, for years.  

Looking outside, it looks like a normal not that impressive house, and if I read you right you're saying that they are expecting that it will have moved up whole price bands due to the renovation inside. 

I'm reminded of the following house that has just gone up for sale near me. It's in a road that I used to live in, and I've never understood why these houses seemed to sell for as much as larger houses. The interior - which I've never seen - is 'property developed' a lot in my opinion. But, I just can't see it being worth that price. Maybe a buyer will disagree. But, when I saw it was on for £350k, before seeing the pictures, my ears shot up in a Snoopy fashion. 

 Outside:



Inside:


Link:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145306112#/?channel=RES_BUY

You really would have thought that they would have taken the washing off the line (pants?) and the rubbish out of the backyard!

Leaving the toilet seat up may also put off a proportion of their potential buyers. 

It’s an opening into the next room. Presumably that was the outside wall of the house before they extended, now it’s an internal opening.

Oh, I see. I could see what looks like neighbouring house through the kitchen window, but upon checking the floor plan, it's a view through to the next room (as you mentioned), and then through the window in that room. 

lea_uk

Not sure how safe the extension is. Nothing about the 1st floor looks right, especially the stairs/landing.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141891929#/?channel=RES_BUY

Abbafan1972

lea_uk said:

Not sure how safe the extension is. Nothing about the 1st floor looks right, especially the stairs/landing.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141891929#/?channel=RES_BUY

I didn’t know what you meant about the extension until I saw the picture!  Spot the wallpaper coming off the wall in picture 7. I know it’s a renovation but what a pile of junk. 

RHemmings

lea_uk said:

Not sure how safe the extension is. Nothing about the 1st floor looks right, especially the stairs/landing.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141891929#/?channel=RES_BUY

Why would someone build an extension like that - what were they thinking?