andybee33 Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Another hopelessly optimistic (greedy?) seller in Eastbourne: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-15952098.html#mapandlocalinfo They want £400k, the highest for the road is £266k, pre-crunch. And they're done the place out like a crap pub. That's a topper! Like the set from some sort of Vauxhall-Conference version of Footballer's Wives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Feast your eyes on this beauty: Cottage in Norfolk, GP £70-80k In picture 3 there's a loo in the same room as the fridge freezer. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Gloom Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Anyone fancy a shed for £225,000. Courtesy of Megan Bakers Estate Agent, Cowes, Isle of Wight. http://www.meganbakerestateagents.com/ViewHome.asp?idProperty=480&Mode=0&Page=Homes.asp&MinP=150001 Bare in mind this is an unemployment blackspot and is expensive to get to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Gloom Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 At first glance this place doesn't seem so bad: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-16820883.html But then take click on the Street View link to see the lovely area, complete with expletive graffiti and cars rusting away in overgrown driveways! Who would turn up to such a place and then spend a quarter mill on a house??? Sold STC Someone's living the dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Taeper Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Feast your eyes on this beauty: Cottage in Norfolk, GP £70-80k In picture 3 there's a loo in the same room as the fridge freezer. Nice. Been about 6 years since I posted (or even looked) but I don't think it's that bad when you look outside the box. I'm not sure of the area so I don't know what the going price is but when you strip out the rubbish it's a shell you can do what you like with. The fridge freezer in the loo is not an issue to my mind as I'm sure the contents of either is not included in the asking price. The junk in the rooms is an eyesore but you are not looking at buying a property loaded with junk, they take it with them and you make sure they do. It's then just a few buckets of paint and maybe a skip to get rid of the peeling wallpaper. As the paper is almost off anyway it should not be too big a job. If I were looking to buy in that area and was happy with a few weeks clearing it , it might take my fancy, but it would depend on location and getting the price right along with adjustments for condition. I do like this at the top right of the web page though - More like this | Get mortgage quote | Save to favourites | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Taeper Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Sold STC Someone's living the dream This one would be a no no for me though. For Doctor Gloom also it seems as the picture says a million words and the inside of the property is not really an issue here, the outside speaks for itself. Pays to do a bit of research in my mind before you even get away from the keyboard. You won't always get it right but there is stacks you can find out about a property before you even pick up the phone to view. Classic example was a property I was looking at about 5 years ago. Small village in Bucks, property that seemed slightly overpriced (next door to Melanie Brown of the Spice Girls I recall which might account for the pice ramp) When I googled the property map I found this http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.57971,-0.736685&spn=0.013494,0.027423&t=h&z=15 Bottom of the picture is the majestic Thames rambling down to Cookham. The thing that looks like an upside down anchor is a cement works and all the little circular blobs on the bottom left is a sewerage treatment works. That is going to be lovely sitting out in the garden regardless of which way the wind blows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_fluid Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 'Premium Listing Prefab on bricks With a generous price discount of £4 shiney pounds 22 November 2010 * Price changed: from '£239,999' to '£239,995' 28 October 2010 * Status changed: from 'Available' to 'Premium Listing' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_fluid Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 What a mess we are in Council flat quadruples in 10 years Listing history First listed on Zoopla £327,500 on 9th Nov 2010 Property details page views Last 30 days: 26 | Since listed on Zoopla: 51 Last sale £72,000 on 15th Jan 1999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmang Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Sold STC Someone's living the dream Mon 03 Jan 2011 23:06:45 BST * Status changed: from 'Sold STC' to 'Available' [Found by n/a] Cold feet? Maybe they checked HPC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bricksnmortarhaha Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 OK, so I know it's got a view over the Thames, but still! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-17940909.html?thumbnailId=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_fluid Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Wow just wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie73 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Ok these were advertised in the newspaper this morning. But considering I've just bought a 1 bed flat about 4 months ago in the same street for around 200K and that most 2 bed flats in this area are for sale at about 250 or 260K, these ones below are totally insane!! They're brand new, but who's gonna put 350K in that??? They're having a laugh http://search.knightfrank.com/KRD101129 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Ok these were advertised in the newspaper this morning. But considering I've just bought a 1 bed flat about 4 months ago in the same street for around 200K and that most 2 bed flats in this area are for sale at about 250 or 260K, these ones below are totally insane!! They're brand new, but who's gonna put 350K in that??? They're having a laugh http://search.knightfrank.com/KRD101129 But there's a bathroom window! Very rare in new build flats nowadays. OK then, may not be worth the £150k premium. New build prices are a complete joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiting&watching Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 (edited) Thoughts on this characterful home?:- http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-17740830.html?premiumA=true Wow - EPC is off the graph! Is there a prize? I'm sure I can find lots................ Edited February 12, 2011 by waiting&watching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peetle Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I happen to work near Old St so I've been aware of the Bezier development for a couple of years. It won the Private Eye "Worst New Building 2010" award last year and now you can buy a 2 bed flat in it for £750k. Or a bigger, but still 2 bed, one for £1.7M. I like the idea of having the dressing area for the master bedroom in the window. If you are a billionaire looking for a London pied a terre, why would you want to be looking at the Old St roundabout ? http://www.bezierlondon.com/availability1.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I happen to work near Old St so I've been aware of the Bezier development for a couple of years. It won the Private Eye "Worst New Building 2010" award last year Ah, that must be why I cannot find any pictures of the outside of the block. Amazed that there is still a market for flats over £1m. Here is my nomination: overpriced sh*thole, Norwich £164,950 On a nice quiet road and on a decent sized plot admittedly but I suspect that the lack of interior pictures hide a multitude of sins. A good 33% overpriced, imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Untoward Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 The best and most deluded EA description I have ever seen. They are desperate. "WELCOME TO PARADISE" - next to a Motorway: http://www.haart.co.uk/buying-house/Mapsearch/search-results/Property-details_170666.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennaval Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Suicide anyone?????? if you dont decapitate yourself on the beams the monoxide from the combi boiler by the bed should do the trick! YOURS for £575,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustbinlidsid Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32484311.html I'm sure it will be well worth the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32484311.html I'm sure it will be well worth the money I thought that it was a decent looking place, until I noticed that it only appears to have one side window in the building in the bedroom. All of the other glass seem to be velux windows. I suppose the reason it's white is to disguise how dark it is inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankief Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It looks like an 'apartment' over a block of three garages. The builders are doing these a lot now to maximize number of sales. So it is sort of detached - the estate agent however describes it as a house! Just forget about that late morning lie in - you will have a metal door scraping open, car door thud, then an engine firing up beneath you, accompanied by bass frequencies from the latest hits .....x3. Not to mention the other allocated car parking spaces all round you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Untoward Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Who buys these new houses? How have the major home builders managed to shake off their dodgy reputation from the 70's/80's and continued to build overdeveloped, poorly-built, Architectural pastiche nightmares? As Frankief says, invariably you are surrounded by parking, concrete, "Communal" gardens (Normally a flowerbed in the centre of a roundabout or traffic control island), you can hear every bump and grunt from the next door neighbour and the dimensions of the properties are oppressive. Invariably they are located in some Brookside-esq close, which you share with the other rats stuck in your long-haul rat race. I could not live a massive chunk of my life working to pay off a debt for THAT. A huge number of people in this Country have no sense and no taste. Surely, escaping the Country is becoming the only option. We are doomed. I was looking at properties in Wells and Glastonbury at the weekend. Lurking on the outskirts of both, you have new development 4 bed nightmares with the same traits stated above, they are on the market for the same price as some beautiful 4 bed Georgian Townhouses and Country piles which are located right in the Historic Centres or in the near Countryside. Deluded. Rant Over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) Studio Flat, Norwich - £35,250 Asking prices for studio flats in this area usually around £70-80k but this particular one is very small in a badly managed block & very draughty. Edited March 8, 2011 by MattW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincolnshire123 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Wow just wow I had to laugh at that - especially as it was being marketed by an EA called CAMERONS STIFF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phead Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Stolen from MSE: Have you always wanted to stir the beans while lying in the bath? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-18310647.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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