Bob Loblaw Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This house has just come on the market near me for £3.65m. looks impressive although if you use the Google StreetView on the RightMove link it spoils the party somewhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackgoose Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 From the outside, it looks more like a factory or office building than a house. On the end of a shit hole street in a nothing town in the NE of England. There are very few people with that kind of cash to splash in the NE, and I doubt any of them will want to live there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back. Again. Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Footballer? Cant think of anyone else likely to be around there with so much money and so little taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagle Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 You mean because it's right on an A-road or because it's in a flood-plain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_ichikawa Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 You mean because it's right on an A-road or because it's in a flood-plain? That and I'd probably be thinking blimey it must cost a lot to heat that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Smith Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 From the outside, it looks more like a factory or office building than a house. On the end of a shit hole street in a nothing town in the NE of England. There are very few people with that kind of cash to splash in the NE, and I doubt any of them will want to live there. If anything, it lowers the tone of the street! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Loblaw Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 If anything, it lowers the tone of the street! I do like the balcony so in the morning you can get a great view of the Ford garage and Premier Lodge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This must be the most bizarre property on RightMove -- the picture on Google StreetView is hilarious. Why not build a £3.5 mansion between a row of £25,000 terraced houses and a car dealership (though I guess the dealership is technically across the other side of the A road)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I'd love to hear what the locals have to say about whoever built that/lives in it!!! £3m my f****g ar*e...... It wouldn't get that much in Sandbanks.... and they have loopy prices there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Oops, sorry. i stand corrected. It is a lifestyle mansion (the EA's words, not mine). Words fail me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Nice to see architecture that fits in with its surroundings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I thought it was in Sandbanks or Lilliput. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Fur Q Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Location, location, location TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I think I have seen that house on the telly before. Is it on the edge of a commercial/industrial area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1swellfoop Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Why isn't this is in the Most Overpriced Sh*thole forum. A quick search found these gems: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/britains-best-homes-the-proud-owners-of-some-leading-contenders-invite-us-through-their-keyholes-792618.html "I reckon it's worth about £5m" http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article3327940.ece "The final bill was far more than Keen had anticipated, and local agents are dubious that he’d get more than £1m for it, because of the location" Pure comedy gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1swellfoop Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Oh God, it has it's own book! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tindale-Towers-Mansion-Designed-2005-2007/dp/0955386934 I just love the cement factory next door, gives an interesting symmetry to the industrial estate behind and the garage and Premier Inn across the main road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 For gods sakes. What goes through these people's minds? And how much is RBS/HBOS/Taxpayer on the line here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justthisbloke Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Keen Replicas accounts 2009 here http://www.levelbusiness.com/doc/company/uk/02478946 NB. top site for easy access to Companies House files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim123 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This house has just come on the market near me for £3.65m. looks impressive although if you use the Google StreetView on the RightMove link it spoils the party somewhat. 3 and half mil to live in Bishop Auckland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where do they think that they are going to find someone that daft? tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article3327940.ece "The final bill was far more than Keen had anticipated, and local agents are dubious that he’d get more than £1m for it, because of the location" Owned by Mike Keen, 51 (owns furniture distribution company)"We spent a year planning and designing and two years building the house. We christened it Tindale Towers, after the name of the house originally on the site, which we demolished – and we also wanted to make it sound grand. It has, after all, four storeys, and a real sense of size. The five bedrooms each have their own bathroom. Three are for my children; then there is a guest bedroom, and a penthouse suite that takes over the whole top floor. The brief I gave our architect, John Lavender, was simple: I wanted everything I could possibly think of. I wanted it to be big. I was keen on it being more like an office block or a hotel than a home. I was after some real scale. Style-wise, we decided to go with something approaching Art Deco, or like a Spanish villa. One of my favourite parts of the house – apart from the swimming pool and specially built dance floor, which my lady likes to use when she's had a drink – is the kitchen. It has this curved work-surface against a curved wall. We had all these contractors up from London who said they couldn't properly craft curved counters. But we hired a local joiner who made a granite-topped oak job without much fuss. My next favourite room is the bar. I can sit there and still have a cigarette with my pint of lager. You could get 50 people in there, easy. We've got all the trimmings: a squirty Coca-Cola gun and beer from the barrel, which we get straight from the local wholesaler. Although the house didn't cost very much to build, I reckon it's worth about £5m. The garden came to around £25,000, and has been crafted by a landscape gardener in a Mediterranean or Beverly Hills style. We didn't want anything English." You were all too quick to mock. It seems that the property has a squirty Coca-Cola gun so the valuation is more than justified. Is the dance floor specially built to take the weight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHERWICK Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Owned by Mike Keen, 51 (owns furniture distribution company) "We spent a year planning and designing and two years building the house. We christened it Tindale Towers, after the name of the house originally on the site, which we demolished – and we also wanted to make it sound grand. It has, after all, four storeys, and a real sense of size. The five bedrooms each have their own bathroom. Three are for my children; then there is a guest bedroom, and a penthouse suite that takes over the whole top floor. The brief I gave our architect, John Lavender, was simple: I wanted everything I could possibly think of. I wanted it to be big. I was keen on it being more like an office block or a hotel than a home. I was after some real scale. Style-wise, we decided to go with something approaching Art Deco, or like a Spanish villa. One of my favourite parts of the house – apart from the swimming pool and specially built dance floor, which my lady likes to use when she's had a drink – is the kitchen. It has this curved work-surface against a curved wall. We had all these contractors up from London who said they couldn't properly craft curved counters. But we hired a local joiner who made a granite-topped oak job without much fuss. My next favourite room is the bar. I can sit there and still have a cigarette with my pint of lager. You could get 50 people in there, easy. We've got all the trimmings: a squirty Coca-Cola gun and beer from the barrel, which we get straight from the local wholesaler. Although the house didn't cost very much to build, I reckon it's worth about £5m. The garden came to around £25,000, and has been crafted by a landscape gardener in a Mediterranean or Beverly Hills style. We didn't want anything English." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1swellfoop Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Here's the bar. http://http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/britains-best-homes-the-proud-owners-of-some-leading-contenders-invite-us-through-their-keyholes-792618.html?action=Gallery&ino=35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagle Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 (edited) Although the house didn't cost very much to build, I reckon it's worth about £5m A house it at most worth the value of the land plus the current cost of rebuilding the house as it is. I doubt the land is worth much in that location, so why the heck does he think it's worth 5m give that he himself says it didn't cost much to build??! How can someone like this be a businessman?? Edited May 19, 2011 by wise_eagle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Oh God, it has it's own book! http://www.amazon.co...7/dp/0955386934 HPCrs - do your duty and review it on amazon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloraPoste Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I love the total randomness of his valuation. This bit is sensible though: 'We had all these contractors up from London who said they couldn't properly craft curved counters. But we hired a local joiner who made a granite-topped oak job without much fuss.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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