[MattW]

12th floor flat in a council block, £84,950

• 125 year lease from 1982 - so 94 years on the lease.

• On the 12th floor - so probably unmortgageable. In turn, making the asking price seem very high.
• Wall removed in kitchen - because we love 'open plan living', don't we? I wonder if the structual integrity of the block has been comprimised?
• Service Charges (includes heating) is £1,975 a year.
• Looks like a 3rd bedroom has been squeezed in somehow.

[rented]

Up for auction is this25m2 studio in Sheffield.
Not overpriced (well, 10k would be all I'd want to part with for that) but the image surely has to be a contender for unsettling property image of the year.

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[iamdamosuzuki]

rented, on 25 April 2013 - 09:05 AM, said:

Up for auction is this25m2 studio in Sheffield.
Not overpriced (well, 10k would be all I'd want to part with for that) but the image surely has to be a contender for unsettling property image of the year.

Why 10k - it's an awning / shed / shambles!!!!! Bubbles in trailer park boys has better accomodation.


The UK is well and truly FKD. I hope whoever is trying to flog that disgrace goes bankrupt.

[MattW]

^^ That studio flat is utterly depressing - even at £25k! It doesn't even appear to have it's own letterbox!

This unremarkable early 1960s 1 bedroomed ex-council flat is on at an eye-watering £115k! Despite it's central location I can't quite see why it's on for this amount. It might sell at £85k. Even 2 bedroomed ex-LA flats in NR2 seem to be lingering on the market at around the £100k mark with little interest.

[montesquieu]

London fantasy pricing bleeding out .. here's one in a nondescript strip redbrick hamlet in the flat and noisy badlands of the Heathrow final approach between Ascot and Windsor ... compact lounge that needs to double as a diner as the kitchen is tiny and there's no dining room ... three small bedrooms (one little more than a box room) ... a 'workshop' too narrow to be a garage ... and all for OFFERS OVER £550k. (At least £150k too much if you ask me and we are reasonably clued up on asking prices in this area).

Seems to me the muppet who owns it overpaid wildly for it when it was a newbuild in 2004 (£400k).



Rightmove link here

Suppose not a total shithole really but in fairy dreamland land when it comes to pricing for such a poky little place ...

(incidentally the Street View is a classic of its kind). BTW that's Next Door's Boxter casually cropped into the shot for a bit of kerb appeal. Needs all the help it can get.

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[Executive Sadman]

montesquieu, on 09 May 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

London fantasy pricing bleeding out .. here's one in a nondescript strip redbrick hamlet in the flat and noisy badlands of the Heathrow final approach between Ascot and Windsor ... compact lounge that needs to double as a diner as the kitchen is tiny and there's no dining room ... three small bedrooms (one little more than a box room) ... a 'workshop' too narrow to be a garage ... and all for OFFERS OVER £550k. (At least £150k too much if you ask me and we are reasonably clued up on asking prices in this area).

Seems to me the muppet who owns it overpaid wildly for it when it was a newbuild in 2004 (£400k).



Rightmove link here

Suppose not a total shithole really but in fairy dreamland land when it comes to pricing for such a poky little place ...

(incidentally the Street View is a classic of its kind). BTW that's Next Door's Boxter casually cropped into the shot for a bit of kerb appeal. Needs all the help it can get.

Width wise, it has exactly (maybe a bit smaller even) the same footprint as a double garage. Maybe thats what it was, an extended double garage for a neighbouring property.

[the flying pig]

One bed flat, Peckham, 550 sq feet, £335k.

My link

I keep turning round expecting the horsemen of the apocalypse to ride past.

[MattW]

montesquieu, on 09 May 2013 - 10:46 PM, said:

compact lounge that needs to double as a diner as the kitchen is tiny and there's no dining room ... three small bedrooms (one little more than a box room) ... a 'workshop' too narrow to be a garage ... and all for OFFERS OVER £550k. (At least £150k too much if you ask me and we are reasonably clued up on asking prices in this area).

Seems to me the muppet who owns it overpaid wildly for it when it was a newbuild in 2004 (£400k).



Rightmove link here

That house looks quite spacious compared to this one in Norwich NR7 At least the Berkshire one has a downstairs WC and it has a larger lounge.

Looking at the front of the house I would have guessed a 2 bedroomed house - but the developers managed to squeeze in a partition wall at a jaunty angle between the two bedrooms and cut into the bathroom too.



Offers in excess of £180k. OK priced for a normal detached house in the area but not one as small as this.

[Tankus]

Its got a garage and grass in front of the front door........

That's a touch of indulgence that is

[Starla]

the flying pig, on 11 May 2013 - 05:08 PM, said:

One bed flat, Peckham, 550 sq feet, £335k.

My link

I keep turning round expecting the horsemen of the apocalypse to ride past.

The Peckham flat is my style, it's no sh*thole, it's just located in one. There's a few places in London where I hide my keys and cash when I get off the tube and Peckham is one (add to that Camberhell and Stratford). Peckham has always been cheaper for a reason, it hasn't just undergone some massive re-generation has it, not that I'm aware of? £335k, stroll on! London can't make up it's mind can it? For 10 k less you could have this in Chiswick with more square metres http://www.rightmove...y-37617286.html and rather than get mugged, the worst that will happen to you is someone will do a wild 3-point turn in the road.

[Starla]

It's not the house for sale I'm interested in (although it is in Morden so overpriced by about £249,900), it's the house at the end of the terrace attached to it. What is that?

http://www.rightmove...e&premiumA=true

[MattW]

Starla, on 14 May 2013 - 10:20 PM, said:

It's not the house for sale I'm interested in (although it is in Morden so overpriced by about £249,900), it's the house at the end of the terrace attached to it. What is that?

http://www.rightmove...e&premiumA=true

Cripes, talk about shoehorning a house into an awkward space! L shaped house on what looks to be a triangular plot. I bet the unattached neighbour was not impressed watching that being built. One more house competing for a parking space at the end of the cul de sac. Energy rating is E sounds very poor for a fairly modern house.

If the house is number 25a then it sold for £189,950 in November 2010. So £60k overpriced straight away.

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[Starla]

MattW, on 15 May 2013 - 07:24 PM, said:

Cripes, talk about shoehorning a house into an awkward space! L shaped house on what looks to be a triangular plot. I bet the unattached neighbour was not impressed watching that being built. One more house competing for a parking space at the end of the cul de sac. Energy rating is E sounds very poor for a fairly modern house.

If the house is number 25a then it sold for £189,950 in November 2010. So £60k overpriced straight away.

Excellent research. I'm wondering what you could fit in the long thin L shaped bit. A really long toilet next to the hallway. Or just a really long hallway, a bowling alley...

[Starla]

I was totally sold just by looking at the "substantial south west facing private terrace".

http://www.rightmove...y-38912437.html

What a load of over priced sh*t.

[righttoleech]

Starla, on 14 May 2013 - 06:04 PM, said:

The Peckham flat is my style, it's no sh*thole, it's just located in one. There's a few places in London where I hide my keys and cash when I get off the tube and Peckham is one (add to that Camberhell and Stratford). Peckham has always been cheaper for a reason, it hasn't just undergone some massive re-generation has it, not that I'm aware of? £335k, stroll on! London can't make up it's mind can it? For 10 k less you could have this in Chiswick with more square metres http://www.rightmove...y-37617286.html and rather than get mugged, the worst that will happen to you is someone will do a wild 3-point turn in the road.

Has Peckham got a tube station.....or Camberwell for that matter?