New "Have a Look at This" thread

mi-key

Emily_Joy said:

If you ever wanted a place where Charles I and Jane Austin used to stay... https://www.onthemarket.com/details/12731336/#/photos/1

I always think its a shame when stately homes get converted into flats. It would be quite cool to live there and pretend you were a Lord or 70s rock star though !

tooldle

silvercar said:

joho said:

Spot the owner (the cat) and a lovely blue bathroom suite. Sweet little house.

Llanddeusant, Caergybi, Llanddeusant, Holyhead LL65, 3 bedroom end terrace house for sale - 63999408 | PrimeLocation

What is in the centre of the lawn in the final picture?

Stevenson screen or beehive, maybe?

ManuelG

mi-key said:

Emily_Joy said:

If you ever wanted a place where Charles I and Jane Austin used to stay... https://www.onthemarket.com/details/12731336/#/photos/1

I always think its a shame when stately homes get converted into flats. It would be quite cool to live there and pretend you were a Lord or 70s rock star though !

Most of it hasn't been.You can go on a guided tour!

https://www.stoneleighabbey.org/

Wonder what the ground rent is, mind you...

SadieO

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

in_my_wellies

SadieO said:

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

Of course we don't know circumstances but it's sad to think the relatives who inherit the 2.5m let their relative live like that. 

mi-key

SadieO said:

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

Or you could buy this on the same road https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128500280#/?channel=RES_BUY for  £400K more.

Looking at the £2.5 million one ( which is a terrace, not a semi ) I am guessing at least £350K+ to gut it and modernise it to the standard a buyer would expect, so I think they may be pushing it a bit. 

It is mad though that terrace houses are worth that much, it has a tiny garden, on street parking and it's not exactly huge. I know its Little Venice, which is mega expensive, but even so !

For £2.5 million I would want a country house with the nearest neighbours at least a mile away. It does make you wonder who buys these places

silvercar

in_my_wellies said:

SadieO said:

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

Of course we don't know circumstances but it's sad to think the relatives who inherit the 2.5m let their relative live like that. 

Quite probably, rich relative has been living in luxury elsewhere for a long time. The property would have been left empty and unloved for many years because there was no need to sell it and the cost and hassle of renovation was not worth the money. Particularly for an asset in that location where the valuation would only go one way - as the price tag has shown. There is also the argument that who ever buys will totally refurbish anyway. 

SadieO

in_my_wellies said:

SadieO said:

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

Of course we don't know circumstances but it's sad to think the relatives who inherit the 2.5m let their relative live like that. 

Absolutely. I hate it when you see listings of houses that are absolutely dilapidated and full of hoarded junk plus evidence that someone is still living there (or was until recently). So sad. 

I wonder (and hope) if that particular house has just been abandoned for a long time and for whatever reason is only now getting round to being sold, rather than it being that someone has lived there recently in its current state..? 

mi-key

silvercar said:

in_my_wellies said:

SadieO said:

The word "unmodernised" is doing a lot of work here! I am sure this does have fantastic potential and could be absolutely gorgeous. And of course you are paying for location. But at 2.5M to buy and heaven knows how much to renovate, you'll need deep pockets!

Of course we don't know circumstances but it's sad to think the relatives who inherit the 2.5m let their relative live like that. 

Quite probably, rich relative has been living in luxury elsewhere for a long time. The property would have been left empty and unloved for many years because there was no need to sell it and the cost and hassle of renovation was not worth the money. Particularly for an asset in that location where the valuation would only go one way - as the price tag has shown. There is also the argument that who ever buys will totally refurbish anyway. 

I agree, looking at what is left in there, it looks like it was last decorated in the 70s so was probably owned by the same person since at least then, so the mortgage could have been paid off years ago, and the house was bought for very little in the first place

It may well have been empty for quite a long time too, and the owner was living somewhere else and has recently passed, so has been inerited by the family

TBagpuss

mi-key said:

Emily_Joy said:

If you ever wanted a place where Charles I and Jane Austin used to stay... https://www.onthemarket.com/details/12731336/#/photos/1

I always think its a shame when stately homes get converted into flats. It would be quite cool to live there and pretend you were a Lord or 70s rock star though !

Yes, although I guess the options as to how to maintain them are limited -originally you'd have had lots of servants and guests living there so flats may be closer to how it would have been, in terms of the numbers living there and the community it supports than a lot of other possible uses!