TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-23397859.html Price changed: from 'Guide Price £9,000,000' to 'Guide Price £7,000,000' 31 October 2009 * Price changed: from 'POA' to 'Guide Price £12,000,000' [Found by n/a] * Title changed: Streatley Hill, Pangbourne, Streatley, Reading, Berkshire [Found by n/a] 18 September 2009 * Initial entry found. [Found by n/a] I'm glad I didnt buy it in 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinzano Bianco Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 NB These are computer generated images. The property is due to be completed in early 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantnrave Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I haven't looked at the link, but I'm hoping it's not a two-bed terrace... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 It's quite large, but looks like a mental home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwin Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 It's quite large, but looks like a mental home. That's probably intentional since you'd have to be nuts to pay £12,000,000 £9,000,000 £7,000,000 for a property that probably only exists inside a computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwin Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Well, okay, I was being facetious. Looking at the satellite picture, seems like there's an awful lot to be done on this property. I wonder when the satellite imagery was created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim123 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 It's quite large, but looks like a mental home. for a country "mansion" it looks flipping awful tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brocken spectre Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 So do you like my House Mr Bond? Bit of a Sh*thole actually Blofeld. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 for a country "mansion" it looks flipping awful tim When they started building they probably thought a Premiership footballer from Reading FC would buy it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro2706 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Just up the road from me in Streatley which is populated by a lot of folk with serious money and where £2 million plus for a "nice" house is not regarded as excessive. There was amazement when they got planning for a monstrosity on this scale and there were weekly rumours that so and so celebrity was buying it.I seem to recall that the developers were originally hoping to get more than the £12m quoted but the problem is that anybody with that sort of firepower isn't going to spend £12m on what looks like a mental institution. Last rumour was that the developers where going to apply to turn it into a hotel! Ultimately it will sell at a price per square foot which somebody thinks is good value,particularly with23 acres-it is actually in a great spot,pity about the design. Pricing in Thameside villages like Pangbourne & Streatley seems to be its own little universe and there are still stupid prices being paid. I pulled out of a purchase in 2005 because I was convinced that the market was going to crach big time,only to see it motor northwards-the next 2 years should be interesting! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiges Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 for a country "mansion" it looks flipping awful You can't buy taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingertips Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Looks ideal for a Football Player....where are the nearest Premiership clubs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 It's quite large, but looks like a mental home. ,,,what mental to buy it you mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennon Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Looks ideal for a Football Player....where are the nearest Premiership clubs? From next season - probably QPR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venger Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 He was hoping for £14 million at one stage. Re-found the article it was featured in easily enough because I remember people calling it a banana house. http://www.dailymail...keen-again.html http://property.time...icle7006539.ece He bought the land in 2003 for just over 1 million but began building the massive boom time mansion only in 2008. "My family would all like to move in, but it's on the edge of what I can afford. I would probably have to go back to work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzardo Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Asking price: £12,000,000 £9,000,000 £7,000,000 Agent: Strutt and Parker..... Q'elle surprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Woods? Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 It's quite large, but looks like a mental home. Y'd think that for 12 million a decent architect might have been involved. What a disaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Asking price: £12,000,000 £9,000,000 £7,000,000 SOLD! To Mr Bob Diamond! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeast Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 looks more like 3 to 4 million to me. Can get some pretty nice houses in berskhire or hampshire for that too, and its not very country house looking really either IMO.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonb Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks ideal for a Football Player....where are the nearest Premiership clubs? Fulham and Chelsea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyAndy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Fulham and Chelsea The back of it at the bottom with the glass looks like our local Tesco Express. I regret to say that a premiership footballer with a fantesy of running a local convenience store is probably not that rare. I bet Torres would love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 A year later, another million off the asking price, and still not sold. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22097493.html I think this place might give the Old Bakehouse a run for it's money in the most ridiculously overpriced category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 The trouble with these top end ones is costs can get carried away quite easily. A six figure sum spent in the kitchen alone, or a marble staircase, bathroom, high tech entertainment room etc. Its like that Updown court in Windlesham. I think they wanted £75mn for it, after buying it as a shell for £20m in 2001 (it sold last year for £20) so millions lost. This ones been for sale for ages too http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-17756118.html £12million asking...most expensive previous sale price on that road is £4million back in 2008, most £2-3million http://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/esher/blackhills/?q=Blackhills%2C%20Esher%20KT10&search_source=nav If ive got my house numbers right, the builder would have paid £4million+ for the plot alone, had to demolish one mansion and replace with another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomadd Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 The trouble with these top end ones is costs can get carried away quite easily. A six figure sum spent in the kitchen alone, or a marble staircase, bathroom, high tech entertainment room etc. Its like that Updown court in Windlesham. I think they wanted £75mn for it, after buying it as a shell for £20m in 2001 (it sold last year for £20) so millions lost. This ones been for sale for ages too http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-17756118.html £12million asking...most expensive previous sale price on that road is £4million back in 2008, most £2-3million http://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/esher/blackhills/?q=Blackhills%2C%20Esher%20KT10&search_source=nav If ive got my house numbers right, the builder would have paid £4million+ for the plot alone, had to demolish one mansion and replace with another. Exactly. Spotted this one in Manchester (South) yesterday: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-37202762.html Now you can buy a staggeringly good house in that area for £2-3 million, so it makes you wonder what on earth people were thinking when they built the thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Exactly. Spotted this one in Manchester (South) yesterday: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-37202762.html Now you can buy a staggeringly good house in that area for £2-3 million, so it makes you wonder what on earth people were thinking when they built the thing. One too many episodes of Homes under the hammer? It makes me wonder more what the banks were thinking. Oh, thats right, Brown and Osbourne courtesy of the taxpayer have got our backs. I can only see these things going on the top end rental market. Only footballers like to buy such gaudy things, and mostly they like to have a bespoke design tailored to them, like theirry Henri and his 'troy mcClure' fish tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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