GloomMonger Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 That's a horrible location - close to the North Circular. Also, I'd describe Bounds Green as "grim" rather than "average", though like everywhere there are less grim parts. But half a million for someone's failed renovation project is laughable. Nethouseprices shows semis being sold there for around £360K around two years ago. Looks like someone's trying to make a hundred grand for trashing a house. They have just dropped it by 40k. I'm expecting it to go under offer very soon! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40045891.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superted187 Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 They have just dropped it by 40k. I'm expecting it to go under offer very soon! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40045891.html No Parking Needs at least £50k of work Priced at £459k Could only be London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superted187 Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Long time lurker etc.. I am currently looking for a new flat to rent in Reading. Not the worst in this thread I'm sure, but it's the first time I have opened a link to a flat in this price range and started laughing. Gumtree link How are you getting on in Reading mate? I lived there for 3 years in private rented. It was a nightmare. We tried to move twice and found the rental market was impossibly fast to keep up with. That and the biggest letting agents were crooks. Nothing else. It put us off the area totally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 £90K garage in Ramsgate. Ok you can't live there! Maybe the Austin is included? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37074709.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 £90K garage in Ramsgate. Ok you can't live there! Maybe the Austin is included? http://www.rightmove...y-37074709.html Some of the chaps from Autoshite.com would love the Maestro. Doubt that the car would justify the asking price, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Holy sh*t! 3 bed ex-LA house in Norwich, £190k It is across the road for the University of East Anglia (NR4) but still...£190,000 for solid, spacious but outdated former council house! Bloody hell! :angry: In other parts of the city, houses of this type are around £115-150k. These houses sometimes get turned into stooodent lets for around a grand a month. However, with the UEA expanding their campus accommodation to increase revenues the private student lettings market may get more competitive. Council tenants are paying about £90.00 a week for a house like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 The quarter-million pound shed is here... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-27483153.html?premiumA=true Marvel at the 'master bedroom'/landing/gallery/roof space... Another shed, this time not even in Cambridge, and another £25k. Shed living must be the new boom, replacing the brownfield executive highrise slavebox boom of 2001-2007. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42941627.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Holy sh*t! 3 bed ex-LA house in Norwich, £190k It is across the road for the University of East Anglia (NR4) but still...£190,000 for solid, spacious but outdated former council house! Bloody hell! :angry: In other parts of the city, houses of this type are around £115-150k. These houses sometimes get turned into stooodent lets for around a grand a month. However, with the UEA expanding their campus accommodation to increase revenues the private student lettings market may get more competitive. Council tenants are paying about £90.00 a week for a house like this. Seems to have blasted the ceiling price and then some for that road, as a drooling kirsty might put it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Another shed, this time not even in Cambridge, and another £25k. Shed living must be the new boom, replacing the brownfield executive highrise slavebox boom of 2001-2007. http://www.rightmove...y-42941627.html £8,250 to pay in Stamp Duty. And to live in someon'e backyard too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDW Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 £8,250 to pay in Stamp Duty. And to live in someon'e backyard too. Offer them £250k and not a penny more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pras Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 £250k is way too much!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexton Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 The Guardian said "Let's move to Tenby, Pembrokeshire 'The Welsh seaside resort is so perfect, I have to tap the town walls to make sure they aren't fibreglass'" So i looked on rightmove and found this! http://www.rightmove...y-42491033.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork of Damocles Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 The Guardian said "Let's move to Tenby, Pembrokeshire 'The Welsh seaside resort is so perfect, I have to tap the town walls to make sure they aren't fibreglass'" So i looked on rightmove and found this! http://www.rightmove...y-42491033.html Stunning. I can't believe it was built like that originally – it look as though you get in from the balcony if it's above ground level so I can only assume some idiot has sawn a larger flat in half and created this...thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Good grief. Most hotel rooms I've been in put this studio flat to shame. Not big enough to get a double bed in and that window above the bed is obscure glass. That's pretty depressing for £50k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) I think I've posted this one already! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-129...=1&tr_t=buy Not sure where the porthole appears on the photo of the exterior. Imagine climbing up the ladder after a few beers! Some time on it's still on and the price is about the same. It looks like they painted it and someone 'lived' in it. Nice floorplan! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28624837.html Edited September 1, 2013 by Ash4781 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Some time on it's still on and the price is about the same. It looks like they painted it and someone 'lived' in it. Nice floorplan! http://www.rightmove...y-28624837.html Kitchen right by the bathroom door - nice! The bunk bed arrangement is interesting - do they expect 2 sharers to occupy it? Studios are best suited to singles and couples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Kitchen right by the bathroom door - nice! The bunk bed arrangement is interesting - do they expect 2 sharers to occupy it? Studios are best suited to singles and couples. Couples living in such close proximity are guaranteed to have rows. So 2 beds will be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Kitchen right by the bathroom door - nice! The bunk bed arrangement is interesting - do they expect 2 sharers to occupy it? Studios are best suited to singles and couples. I am not sure if it is just storage space. There's nothing worse than falling through into the kitchen when someone is cooking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Council tax is £2k pa .......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starla Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 It's a lazy way of doing it, but typing in "London" and "Studio Flat" into Rightmove is gauranteed to produce results. I've gone back to look at the floorplan and in particular the bathroom many times with this one. Is this bathroom "open air" like No.2 (scuse the pun) court at Wimbledon? Whatever's going on it seriously, makes me smile. You'd be proud to invite people round but you wouldn't want to need the bathroom. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37439632.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 It's a lazy way of doing it, but typing in "London" and "Studio Flat" into Rightmove is gauranteed to produce results. I've gone back to look at the floorplan and in particular the bathroom many times with this one. Is this bathroom "open air" like No.2 (scuse the pun) court at Wimbledon? Whatever's going on it seriously, makes me smile. You'd be proud to invite people round but you wouldn't want to need the bathroom. http://www.rightmove...y-37439632.html Hi Starla. That's a fine example of a once grand home being subdivided too many times. I take it that there's another flat at the back of the building on the ground floor? Shame as it would have made a decent , 2 or even 3 bedroom flat. No pics of the bathroom I see - probably no room to swing a cat - let alone a towel. Yes, grim having the door right onto the main room, which is also the kitchen. Meanwhile, close to the University of East Anglia, 3 students can collectively rent this 3 bedroomed ex-council house for £780 a month. Costs more than twice the rent as what council tenants would pay for a similar house (without even accounting for housing benefit claims). Just as well it's nicely funished for that money. nr5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkins Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 (edited) It's a lazy way of doing it, but typing in "London" and "Studio Flat" into Rightmove is gauranteed to produce results. I've gone back to look at the floorplan and in particular the bathroom many times with this one. Is this bathroom "open air" like No.2 (scuse the pun) court at Wimbledon? Whatever's going on it seriously, makes me smile. You'd be proud to invite people round but you wouldn't want to need the bathroom. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37439632.html I viewed a room in a shared house in Brixton which was a bit like that but even worse. The bedroom I was being shown had a big beige box in the corner which didn't go all the way up to the ceiling, no door on it. Turned out it was the en-suite toilet for the adjacent bedroom, which had been built by knocking a hole in the wall and building a box in the room I was being shown. I went to the adjacent bedroom and opened the tap. When I came back I could hear every splash and gurgle through the obviously very thin and entirely unsoundproofed wall. Imagine waking up every morning to the sound of your flatmate taking a dump in the corner of your bedroom! I feel sorry for whoever took it. Edited September 13, 2013 by Dorkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I went to the adjacent bedroom and opened the tap. When I came back I could hear every splash and gurgle through the obviously very thin and entirely unsoundproofed wall. Imagine waking up every morning to the sound of your flatmate taking a dump in the corner of your bedroom! I feel sorry for whoever took it. Jesus! Sounds like hell. Just having a browse on rightmove at an area that would be quite handy for my commute. This 3 bedroom suburban semi is on the market for offers in excess of £190k! Would have been an OK price if it was modernised but the decor looks mid-late 1980s at best. To add to the negatives, Streetview shows that it's right next to an electricity substation AND a garage. 'OIEO' for this house seems incredibly cheeky. I think £150k is a more realistic asking price for this house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eztiger Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Behold this little beauty i found whilst browsing my local area: clicky clicky No parking, on a busy main road and asking price about double what its worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bemusedmover Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Behold this little beauty i found whilst browsing my local area: clicky clicky No parking, on a busy main road and asking price about double what its worth. ........Jesus! - that's worse than North Wales property Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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