New "Have a Look at This" thread

Ditzy_Mitzy

Scotbot said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104493299#/
I wonder what the back story is here?

The same as it always is: someone bought or inherited the place and started the usual sort of modern makeover.  He or she ran out of time, money or patience, threw in the towel and put it back on the market in a partially wrecked state.  Lots of people, naively, seem to believe that one can take an already high priced executive place and turn it into a million pound mansion by putting in a new bathroom.  Those places have a ceiling value, generally, and there's not much easy profit in them as they don't really let.  The real money seems to be in turning round smaller houses for rent.  

edgex

Scotbot said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104493299#/
I wonder what the back story is here?

Been bought by someone who was going to do it up & flip it most likely, but with borrowed money. No sales history, so probably 1 owner since new, which is why the kitchen etc all look dated.

edgex

jennyred said:

I thought I was viewing this in black and white! NO colour at all!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79078983?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ufGlZCG8wkArbvs607oxrggAPSPjwwxll-fOjXOgbgEIMaCbt6QaJIp0#/media?id=media0

Interesting that the first bedroom on the pictures isn't a bedroom, it's the space with no windows in the basement. Pic 10 says a lot; they've spent all the money on naff stuff in the garden, yet the edge of the door isn't painted. I would be wondering about the state of the electrics etc.

Patr100

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

Scotbot said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104493299#/
I wonder what the back story is here?

The same as it always is: someone bought or inherited the place and started the usual sort of modern makeover.  He or she ran out of time, money or patience, threw in the towel and put it back on the market in a partially wrecked state.  Lots of people, naively, seem to believe that one can take an already high priced executive place and turn it into a million pound mansion by putting in a new bathroom.  Those places have a ceiling value, generally, and there's not much easy profit in them as they don't really let.  The real money seems to be in turning round smaller houses for rent.  

Sale history suggests it was not bought or sold since at least  the 90s so possibly inherited though there is a short gap before sales transactions show up in the Land Registry.
The shower (only) room suggests a formerly infirm resident. I expect the original bathroom from the 90s or before had a bath.

GaleSF63

Caraway90 said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/89999839#/

Another time warp property in the same village as my last post. For someone that browses Rightmove a lot, I'm surprised at just how many retro properties are out there. Not in a bad way, just surprising!

I really like the wallpaper in pic 5 yet I know if I'd seen it in a wallpaper sample book I would have thought no, never!  (Not that I've ever had a room that could carry it off).                        

Oxon

Not sure the master bedroom is big enough 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87804100#/

od244051

Oxon said:

Not sure the master bedroom is big enough 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87804100#/

It’s awful! Especially the stairs, kitchen and bulging wood features

newlywed

od244051 said:

Oxon said:

Not sure the master bedroom is big enough 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87804100#/

It’s awful! Especially the stairs, kitchen and bulging wood features

And they obviously didn’t invest much time or thought into the “family room” either, or the master bedroom where even the tv is placed strangely given that there is nothing to sit on but the bed....

ProDave

Oxon said:

Not sure the master bedroom is big enough 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87804100#/

It just needs a little more furniture to fill it out.

Toastie2018

Real difficult to work out the room sizes based on these pictures
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90161728#/