New "Have a Look at This" thread

Mutton_Geoff

silvercar said:

This one was on the Sarah Beeney ‘double your money’ programme a few years back. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129059315

Sold for 900k June 2012, was ‘Beeney-fied’ and sold for 1.95m January 2016. In fact she was quite scathing of the work they were doing and wasn’t optimistic they would double their money, but I guess if you wait long enough house prices do eventually catch up.

Now on the market for 2.3m, already reduced from 2.5m after only 2 weeks on the market.

Particular attention to picture 4,  the small back garden containing a swimming pool that looks to be the width of the slide. Could be a re purposed duck pond.

It was .. and now reduced to £2m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwKDTGdYN8

Mutton_Geoff

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129078875

Sarahspangles

Mutton_Geoff said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129078875

I feel like there are code words in the blurb!

Very investable... it just needs plenty of investment.
The property is smoke damaged - although there has been no fire.

Presumably someone will buy it to drop the house and rebuild so the instruction to the photographer was to focus on the setting and not the interior and then they were allowed to sneak in one arty one. I bet the estate agents are already fed up of recharging their torches to show tyre-kickers round the spooky house up the unmade road.

ProDave

Sarahspangles said:

Mutton_Geoff said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/129078875

I feel like there are code words in the blurb!

Very investable... it just needs plenty of investment.
The property is smoke damaged - although there has been no fire.

Presumably someone will buy it to drop the house and rebuild so the instruction to the photographer was to focus on the setting and not the interior and then they were allowed to sneak in one arty one. I bet the estate agents are already fed up of recharging their torches to show tyre-kickers round the spooky house up the unmade road.

Look at the land included, and proximity to an existing housing development

IF and it is a big IF you could get planning permission for 10 or more houses to extend that existing estate,  it would be a good buy.

Usually the first thing anyone with that sort of property would do is employ a planning consultant to try and get PP to develop it.  It would be interesting to look at the planning history and see if anyone has tried.

Sarahspangles

ProDave said:

Look at the land included, and proximity to an existing housing development

IF and it is a big IF you could get planning permission for 10 or more houses to extend that existing estate,  it would be a good buy.

Usually the first thing anyone with that sort of property would do is employ a planning consultant to try and get PP to develop it.  It would be interesting to look at the planning history and see if anyone has tried.

True, it's actually odd that the triangle of woodland at the top of the turning head of the estate road hasn't already been developed as infill.  Maybe someone is holding out or we need a contour map and it's a cliff!

kerri_gt

Marmaduke123 said:

SadieO said:

Bath in the bedroom anyone? 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/135005768

I'm a shower not a bath person anyway, but even if I liked baths I wouldn't want all that steam and damp in the bedroom 

A bit of a strange mixture altogether - kind of farmhouse style decor with so called trendy features such as open plan ground floor and the bath in the bedroom. The layout would work better with more modern style decor

I really like the house and style. Can't say I like the bath in the bedroom, seems pointless when there's one in the actual bathroom, unless you want to luxuriate whilst watching the neighbours have their Ocada delivery dropped off?

I'd want a proper shower in the bathroom though, not one of those shower curtains on a ring which always end up getting stuck to you when wet.

BikingBud

GaleSF63 said:

A @Rigolith nightmare?
How much smaller can they get? Both bedrooms so narrow and the WC is straight off the kitchen. 
Surely there will be a washing machine somewhere but I can’t see it?

2 bedroom terraced house for sale in 35 Templeton Way, Helensburgh, G84 8FA, G84 (rightmove.co.uk)

Daily sunshine? Really? This is the west of Scotland! OK so today is sunny..

Big clock and picture of hairy cow = loadsamoney!

Patr100

The Tunnel goes from Hill View Cottage and joins up with several historic properties in the village, with a small central meeting room. It was likely to have been built when Henry VIII created the church of England and was most likely used by Catholics and Protestants as an escape route when persons of authority visited, so as to avoid persecution. It is believed this could be the last remaining access to the tunnel, with others having been sealed off. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/134917190

Dandie89

Patr100 said:

The Tunnel goes from Hill View Cottage and joins up with several historic properties in the village, with a small central meeting room. It was likely to have been built when Henry VIII created the church of England and was most likely used by Catholics and Protestants as an escape route when persons of authority visited, so as to avoid persecution. It is believed this could be the last remaining access to the tunnel, with others having been sealed off. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/134917190

Top marks for music choice on the vid

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Dandie89 said:

Patr100 said:

The Tunnel goes from Hill View Cottage and joins up with several historic properties in the village, with a small central meeting room. It was likely to have been built when Henry VIII created the church of England and was most likely used by Catholics and Protestants as an escape route when persons of authority visited, so as to avoid persecution. It is believed this could be the last remaining access to the tunnel, with others having been sealed off. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/134917190

Top marks for music choice on the vid

How do they avoid getting copyright striked I wonder...