New "Have a Look at This" thread

Dandie89

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147682172  Got an escape annexe for when the sea comes in.

Gers

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147536483#/?channel=RES_BUY

Apart from the questionable colour scheme, the prices paid previously for this property are interesting and intriguing. Something weird must have happened between 2007 and 2008. 

robatwork

Abbafan1972 said:

Can I ask for your honest opinions on this listing please? It’s not my house, but I do know the person that lives there (I have never been to house, have only seen pictures). 

I do have my opinions on it, but want to see what you all say first? 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147138329

If vanilla ice cream was a house.

Green_hopeful

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147536483#/?channel=RES_BUY

Apart from the questionable colour scheme, the prices paid previously for this property are interesting and intriguing. Something weird must have happened between 2007 and 2008. 

I don’t think it is the right flat. If you look at the pictures for no 5 it’s a different flat. 

joho

Spot the cat.

Photos of Wheatley Green, Havant PO9 - 67289103 | PrimeLocation

Gers

Green_hopeful said:

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147536483#/?channel=RES_BUY

Apart from the questionable colour scheme, the prices paid previously for this property are interesting and intriguing. Something weird must have happened between 2007 and 2008. 

I don’t think it is the right flat. If you look at the pictures for no 5 it’s a different flat. 

How can you tell? Just curious.

Dandie89

joho said:

Spot the cat.

Photos of Wheatley Green, Havant PO9 - 67289103 | PrimeLocation

I don't think that cat will be moving.

Gers

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146498594#/?channel=RES_BUY

This type of bedroom 'renovation' is horrible.

SallyDucati

Gers said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146498594#/?channel=RES_BUY

This type of bedroom 'renovation' is horrible.

Why, just why when there is a dedicated bathroom in the next room!

RHemmings

I hope this is ... within the bounds of decency, but I've been looking into George Harrison's birthplace of 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool. 

Surprisingly, to me at least, according to Google Maps there is no blue plaque on it. 



On Zoopla, it has no sales history, or any other sort of history. I had a look at the title register, and it's owned by a lettings agency, or by some sort of company that lets out houses. It was bought in 1982, but there is no price recorded.

On OpenRent, the same company has a list of houses, and there's only one on Arnold Grove. However, there are no shots of the house from the street, that would allow the street number to be confirmed. There's nothing about the history of the house, if it is the right one, on the OpenRent listing. Arnold Grove is a very small road, but not small enough for stingy me to shell out £3 for each one to work out if the company only owns that one house in the road. The company does seem to own multiple houses in other nearby roads. 

https://www.openrent.co.uk/property-to-rent/liverpool/2-bed-terraced-house-arnold-grove-l15/1634605

It rented in June 2023 for £775 a month. Looking at the inside photos, it's modernised. With fittings and colour scheme that look very similar to other properties offered for rent by the same company. 

If this house was available for purchase for the amount that Zoopla says it is worth, then I would just buy it and work out what to do with it afterwards. (AirBnB to Beatles fans?) But, I'm pretty sure that if it came up for sale nowadays, it's not going to be selling for as little as comparable properties in the road. 

EDIT: Ringo Starr's childhood home, 10 Admiral Grove, Toxteth, Liverpool, has been up for sale, and sold for not too much over comparables in 2016. 

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/10-admiral-grove/toxteth/liverpool/l8-8bh/39754833/

It was listed for £55,000, and then sold for £70,000. I'm not sure which house it is, as Google Streetview doesn't get close as access to the house is pedestrian only. 



Ringo Starr's birthplace of 9 Madryn Street, Toxteth, has no sales history on Zoopla. No blue plaque either. 



Looking at the title register for 9 Madryn Street, it seems that a large number of houses have been bundled into a single freehold, and sold as a job lot to a company called Madryn Street Investment Co in 2020. I can't see any sign that this is just the freeholds, as there are no sign of other documents being leaseholds. The title register says:

MERSEYSIDE : LIVERPOOL The Freehold land shown edged with red on the plan of the above title filed at the Registry and being 3-11 (odd) 15-19 (odd) and 27-47 (odd) Madryn Street and 142 and 144 High Park Street, Liverpool.

At first, these houses look tiny from the outside. I have in my life lived in a house like this (in Harrow, London), and also I viewed quite a few up until I purchased recently, and I found they seem to look much better inside. In Harrow we had good neighbours both sides, and it worked out fine.