OnionTerror Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656337/Couples-rural-home-market-10-YEARS-buyers-lack-mobile-signal-slow-broadband.html Ah, its the mobile signal, no, sorry, its the poor broadband, actually, no, its because the house is overlooking a graveyard...or dare I say it, because its overpriced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Preacherman Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29962827.html 1 double bed, 1 box room and a loft conversion. Similar nearby 2 beds have gone for £115K in 08 and £105 in 06. In 2004 the house went on the market for £175,000, falling to £163,000 in around 2007. By 2011 as the housing market recovered the price was back up to £167,500 and is now on sale for £175,000 again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) You can believe all you want love... 'We believe it is a perfect country getaway. But rather than helping to generate interest, the property’s rural location is putting people off.' ...of course..nobody lives in the countryside...everyone lives in 300 storey tower blocks.. Edited June 12, 2014 by Dave Beans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeas Domus Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 compare the car in the photo with the front door, it must be about 4 feet tall - potential buyers cant get inside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 'desperate' to move further south but has tried to.sell for a decade. Usual clickbait nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Possitt Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 The comments are great though, about 200 people saying 'just drop the price'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Their asking price actually went down between 2004 and 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 The comments are great though, about 200 people saying 'just drop the price'. That's the pretty universal view, that and the fact it's right on a road junction so you get idling cars right outside your window, null, 13 hours ago A house is worth what someone else will pay for it. It hasn't sold because it is overpriced. 12 1516 Rated 2 of 4 repliesSee all replies Deckchair, Beach, United Kingdom, 8 hours ago And there's also the remote possibility it's because there's a GRAVEYARD in the back garden. Even if it's over the fence still a bit eerie 9 54 Click to rate jenny, spain, United Kingdom, moments ago Given that within 5 miles you can buy a 3 bed semi with front garden for 125k or less, it is over priced by more than 50k 0 0 Click to rate AdgeCutler, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 13 hours ago It's too much money! 10 841 Rated Question, SouthEast, 9 hours ago Its well over priced for that money, I mean who wants to live on a road junction, or have all that pipework exposed, and that decor, I know some people have different tastes, but that house needs gutting and starting again! Some house sellers are truly in cloud cuckoo land and in total and utter denial over the worth of their property. Time to get real before you chase the market down love! 1 60 Click to rate morpethian, krakow, Poland, 13 hours ago The fact that it is on a main road on a bend has nothing to do with it? 11 820 Rated Marcus, Northamptonshire, 14 hours ago Something is only "worth" what someone else will pay for it. This home is clearly not "worth" £175 000. 6 758 Rated Madhatter, Bangor, 13 hours ago I can't believe they had the cheek to ask £175k ten years ago.. I live in a village close to theirs and houses simply aren't worth that.. My house is similar (but my plumbing a electrical work are done to a better standard) and its not worth that. 13 656 Rated educateyourself, Leeds, United Kingdom, 9 hours ago If they really wanted to sell, obviously they would lower their price. Lots of people just stick their houses in the market, just on the off chance someone is willing to pay a very high price for it. 0 49 Click to rate Middle House forever, Mayfield, United Kingdom, 13 hours ago Maybe time to lower the price to a more realistic level? Rural getaway? Just beside a busy road? 8 537 Rated marie, leeds, 13 hours ago Don't know who did the plumbing but i'd be asking for a refund ! It's way overpriced, thats why it's not sold ! 5 417 Rated Woweegoodstuff, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 14 hours ago Simple. Asking too much. 4 372 Rated loubiex, Shropshire, United Kingdom, 13 hours ago Not the fact it's right on a main road junction? 7 327 Rated wkdmarty, Reading, 13 hours ago It's obviously overpriced then. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Possitt Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 The cemetery gets a few mentions too but I lived overlooking an old Victorian cemetery for several years and quite liked it. It was basically just a big green leafy park that happened to have a lot of stones in it. The dead make good neighbours, no loud parties, cars revving up at night, barbecues when you've got your washing out, arguments over parking etc etc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 The cemetery gets a few mentions too but I lived overlooking an old Victorian cemetery for several years and quite liked it. It was basically just a big green leafy park that happened to have a lot of stones in it. The dead make good neighbours, no loud parties, cars revving up at night, barbecues when you've got your washing out, arguments over parking etc etc.... People having drinking parties in them, camping in the corners. http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Woman-s-despair-state-Camborne-Cemetery/story-21133593-detail/story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Possitt Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 (edited) People having drinking parties in them, camping in the corners. http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Woman-s-despair-state-Camborne-Cemetery/story-21133593-detail/story.html Very occasionally there used to be teenagers drinking in the cemetary near me, but it was rare there was any trouble or serious damage. Quite surprising really considering it was in an area with generally high levels of petty crime and vandalism. I came to the conclusion that chavs are scared of ghosts Edited June 13, 2014 by Neil D Possitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantnrave Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Their only chance at that price is some numpty from London buying it and then telling all their neighbours that they can't believe how cheap houses in the area are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantnrave Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 (edited) Housing experts said they are baffled by the lack of a buyer for the house Wonder if these experts were trained by Phil & Krusty? Edited June 13, 2014 by rantnrave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Dear Daily Mail Editor I have had my 1988 1.3 litre Ford Escort on sale for £5,000 for the last ten years and still nobody has bought it. I do not understand what is wrong with people, it is a nice colour and still runs. All I can think is that it does not have an integral satnav and that is putting people off. I would much appreciate it if your paper could print a big advert for my Escort masquerading as a serious article about why people are are strange in not wanting to give me £5k for my car. Your Faithfullly Mrs Trellis North Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsby Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 "Honestly, extended family, we really are desperate to come and live near you, it's just that nobody will buy our house!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJPJP Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Its not really for sale is it. The owner has an aspirational price that he would sell it for and decided to make that number known. If someone came knocking on my door an offered me enough for my house that I could move to the next house I have planned, then I would sell (and likely so would you), but I don't put an advert on right move to that end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Possitt Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 (edited) I've often wondered how sh!te like this ends up in national papers masquerading as news? Is the owner a mate of the editor? Are journalists taking backhanders from EAs? Another classic that seems to pop up frequently is 'IS THIS BRITAIN'S CHEAPEST HOUSE?', with a link to a trashed ****hole in somewhere like Goole that the agent is no doubt struggling to sell. There was one in the Daily Excess not long back, and where people had posted comments saying things such as 'That's still too expensive for this area', someone at the paper had subsequently gone back and deleted all of the comments. The fact that they would bother going to the trouble of doing that suggests to me that someone there had a vested interest in it selling. Edited June 13, 2014 by Neil D Possitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neverwhere Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I've often wondered how sh!te like this ends up in national papers masquerading as news? Is the owner a mate of the editor? Are journalists taking backhanders from EAs? Another classic that seems to pop up frequently is 'IS THIS BRITAIN'S CHEAPEST HOUSE?', with a link to a trashed ****hole in somewhere like Goole that the agent is no doubt struggling to sell. There was one in the Daily Excess not long back, and where people had posted comments saying things such as 'That's still too expensive for this area', someone at the paper had subsequently gone back and deleted all of the comments. The fact that they would bother going to the trouble of doing that suggests to me that someone there had a vested interest in it selling. All they are is vested interests... DMGT is an international group quoted on the London Stock Exchange with a portfolio of market-leading digital, information, media and events businesses. 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Both The Sun and ITV tempt him, and he is understood to have made a bid for Channel Five. "I've got so much money it's ridiculous," he says. "I know exactly what I want and exactly what I'm going to do." He has a fearful reputation based on legendary tales of his expletive-strewn, vein-bursting outbursts, of executives locked in cupboards or being attacked with cattle prods by enemies from the New York mafia. His sense of loyalty mirrors that of the Cosa Nostra. "As good a friend as I am," he once told a close associate, "I'm the worst enemy you'll ever have." But he doesn't care that he's widely disliked, not when he is sitting in an office which former visitors have compared to a ballroom and a football pitch, with its 10-storey-high, 180-degree river view from Tower Bridge to the Palace of Westminster. "It's great at night when you turn the lights off and see everything sparkling," he says. "I've been in this office now for six years and I still get a great kick. I have a little smile to myself. Fantastic." Each morning, by a quarter to seven, Mr Badger is taking the air on Hampstead Heath in north London, having emerged from "The Badgers" – his sett, if you will – a mansion on The Bishops Avenue, which is known locally as "Millionaires' Row". He has placed a deposit on a $60m (£40.4m) Gulfstream G650, reckoned to be the gold standard in business aviation, but he's not beyond booking his holiday flight with easyJet or dining on fish and chips ("If you eat lobster all day long you forget about haddock"). Like the underground mammal with which he aligns himself – he has a company called Badger Property Partners – Richard Desmond displays contrasting shades of black and white. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/richard-desmond-ive-got-so-much-money-its-ridiculous-2006112.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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