Individual house thread

[HousePriceMania]

Mullion soon to be renamed, Half a Mullion 

 

[Frank Hovis]

2 minutes ago, HousePriceMania said:

Mullion soon to be renamed, Half a Mullion 

 

 

Pollurian Cove is very nice, that's probably not far off the money for a five bed there with a decent plot.

Mullion village is more inland so would be cheaper. It's also a bit jammed in with new infill development and general lack of parking, I wouldn't live there but nearer the sea from there as in your example is nice.

 

[eek]

1 hour ago, Frank Hovis said:

 

Pollurian Cove is very nice, that's probably not far off the money for a five bed there with a decent plot.

Mullion village is more inland so would be cheaper. It's also a bit jammed in with new infill development and general lack of parking, I wouldn't live there but nearer the sea from there as in your example is nice.

 

It’s on the Lizard though so add 20 minutes to get to Helston before your journey to where ever you want to go to begins 

[Frank Hovis]

11 minutes ago, eek said:

It’s on the Lizard though so add 20 minutes to get to Helston before your journey to where ever you want to go to begins 

 

The nicest places in Cornwall tend to be like that though, the relative inaccessibility keeps them quiet and unspoilt.

You would only want to live in them if you didn't go out much, except in the local countryside.

[HousePriceMania]

This caught my eye today, looks like a developer in trouble

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147733346#/?channel=RES_BUY

Well under £200 per sq ft which is back at 2019 do-er-up-er prices



I think calling it a block of apartments is pushing it a bit.

Edited May 8 by HousePriceMania

[Frank Hovis]

A bit of musical history here: Fairport is up for sale.

Listed last year at £6m and now reduced to £4.3m.

 

An exceptional, fully detached, period home which inspired the famous folk band Fairport Convention. The house is spread over three floors and boasts a landscaped rear garden and a duplex annex with a self contained flat and garage space for multiple cars.

Ideally located within the vibrant  Muswell Hill Broadway area with a mixture of restaurants, coffee shops and bars, making this location one of the sought after parts of town to live in. Fortis Green is also within school catchment for some of the best schools in the area.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137254526#/&channel=RES_BUY

[AWW]

I used to live in Muswell Hill. It's just a massive traffic jam. Transport not as bad as everyone thinks. Ally Pally close by. Quite a long way from anywhere truly shit so safe enough. Just a bit dull despite its musical history.

[sarahbell]

6 hours ago, Frank Hovis said:

A bit of musical history here: Fairport is up for sale.

Listed last year at £6m and now reduced to £4.3m.

 

An exceptional, fully detached, period home which inspired the famous folk band Fairport Convention. The house is spread over three floors and boasts a landscaped rear garden and a duplex annex with a self contained flat and garage space for multiple cars.

Ideally located within the vibrant  Muswell Hill Broadway area with a mixture of restaurants, coffee shops and bars, making this location one of the sought after parts of town to live in. Fortis Green is also within school catchment for some of the best schools in the area.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137254526#/&channel=RES_BUY

The roof room is nice! 

 

[sarahbell]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145280219

Here we have a large, detached four bedroom extended family home with an opportunity to put your own stamp on it, offered with no onward chain.

Although the property needs to be finished off, we believe the finished work to be of a good standard and would suggest an internal inspection.

 

[One percent]

6 minutes ago, sarahbell said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145280219

Here we have a large, detached four bedroom extended family home with an opportunity to put your own stamp on it, offered with no onward chain.

Although the property needs to be finished off, we believe the finished work to be of a good standard and would suggest an internal inspection.

 

Someone nicked the stairs.  

[Joncrete Cungle]

9 minutes ago, sarahbell said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145280219

Here we have a large, detached four bedroom extended family home with an opportunity to put your own stamp on it, offered with no onward chain.

Although the property needs to be finished off, we believe the finished work to be of a good standard and would suggest an internal inspection.

 

£400k to live on an unfinished building site

[Bear Hug]

30 minutes ago, sarahbell said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145280219

Here we have a large, detached four bedroom extended family home with an opportunity to put your own stamp on it, offered with no onward chain.

Although the property needs to be finished off, we believe the finished work to be of a good standard and would suggest an internal inspection.

 

Kids' room? Portal to hell? 

 

 

[sarahbell]

47 minutes ago, One percent said:

Someone nicked the stairs.  

I know! The back garden isn't finished which isn't a major problem usually. but the kitchen needs a bit of finishing too (Lights!)

[Bobthebuilder]

25 minutes ago, Bear Hug said:

Kids' room? Portal to hell? 

 

 

So many of these refurbished places have old 1980 radiators, I see it all the time, re decorate without up dating the internal working basics.

Screams shoddy job to me.

[apples]

18 hours ago, sarahbell said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145280219

Here we have a large, detached four bedroom extended family home with an opportunity to put your own stamp on it, offered with no onward chain.

Although the property needs to be finished off, we believe the finished work to be of a good standard and would suggest an internal inspection.

 

No mattress and damp stains above the unshaded light. Inviting!

17 hours ago, Bear Hug said:

Kids' room? Portal to hell? 

All the walls look like they're using textures from DOOM

[spygirl]

Googled popped up this

'A knock on the door led us to buy our dream home... but now we're selling it for £600k'

'When you finally finish renovating your forever home after eight years but then... we’ve put our beautiful house on the market'

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/property/a-knock-door-led-buy-29133008.amp

After wanting to sell their new-build house, Roxy, 35 and her husband stumbled across their perfect family home by chance - a gorgeous detached three-bed Victorian house in Bury - which they bought for £250,000. It was steeped in history with a family connection, and so the pair spent eight years bringing it back to life and retaining all of its original period features.

 

....

 

Despite creating their 'forever' home, the couple have now taken the decision to put their house on the market. "I guess we got the renovation bug," Roxy said: "We absolutely love this house but we’re only young. With a growing family we’ve probably got another renovation in us.

"We’ve spent way more than what we planned on it so we had to consider whether to throw more money at it to expand it or take on another renovation project. It does make me sad to be selling it because I know I'll probably never find a house like this again. It’s now move-in ready for its new owner."

https://houseprices.io/?q=West+Bank%2C+Walmersley+Road%2C+Bury

[Boon]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146946044#/?channel=RES_BUY

Already been one reduction despite being on a month, so doesnt seem as if there is a lot of interest, why do the article otherwise.

Seems way out of kilter with other prices though. There was a similar one nearby at £371k, but these people assume they have been geniuses at interior design, but really it's just about money.

 

[spygirl]

7 hours ago, Boon said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146946044#/?channel=RES_BUY

Already been one reduction despite being on a month, so doesnt seem as if there is a lot of interest, why do the article otherwise.

Seems way out of kilter with other prices though. There was a similar one nearby at £371k, but these people assume they have been geniuses at interior design, but really it's just about money.

 

I dont know Bury.

Selecting 'See similar' shows other, high priced For Sales.

Looking at houseprices.io - and I think this is 680 - its a very looonnng road.

Address:	680 Walmersley Road, Bury, BL9 6RN
Type:	Detached
Tenure:	Leasehold
New build:	No
Estimated value:	£389,000
Links:	Price map (Bury)
Transaction type:	Standard price paid transaction

Registered sales:

Date Sold	Price Paid	Nominal change	Real change
23 Nov 2016	£245,000	55.6%	2.9%
05 Apr 2002	£157,500	26.0%	17.4%
10 Aug 1998	£125,000	n/a	n/a

It also seems to be the posh area.

However ....

Houses near it arnt going for anywhere near those prices.

The house was bought during ZIRP.

Theyve got to take at least 30% off the price.

If Bury goes like the rest of the North then you are looking at ~2004ish prices which, for them, is going to be a massive loss.

Daft wimmin let near credit.

If its their dream houses then why re they selling?

Why spend so much money on a big house and not do the obvious value earners - loft to bedroom and extra bathroom?

 

 

 

[spygirl]

7 hours ago, Boon said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146946044#/?channel=RES_BUY

Already been one reduction despite being on a month, so doesnt seem as if there is a lot of interest, why do the article otherwise.

Seems way out of kilter with other prices though. There was a similar one nearby at £371k, but these people assume they have been geniuses at interior design, but really it's just about money.

 

I hink its about access to credit and daft TV programmes.

Womans 35.

Her entire adult life has been with IR at ZIRP.

She was a new born when there was last a serious down turn.

 

[Boon]

14 minutes ago, spygirl said:

If its their dream houses then why re they selling?

Why spend so much money on a big house and not do the obvious value earners - loft to bedroom and extra bathroom?

 

I would imagine she is a regular watcher of Homes under the Hammer.

I bet they must have ridden the covid boom of Londoners moving out to places like this which juiced house prices but now the tide is coming in and they are seeing their 'profits' draining away so are fishing in the last chance saloon.

Here is the one nearby, very similar footprint but offers the benefit of not being directly on a traffic light or a junction:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-133423268-93982563?s=4ed3706f646c192d21b526b650ed7a602e9faf8c724f777373caa30a1cdba8ad#/

Is there £230,000 of renovation difference between those two? Definitely not.

I just think they are like many. Maybe in 2016 they didn't buy with the intention of becoming property developers, and I bet they thought it's be the 'forever' home. But then 'what you own, ends up owning you' and 80%+ of their net worth ends up tied up in it and they see a chance for a £100k profit or something.

[HousePriceMania]

Click on the rightmove link and flick through to the last photo...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147948488#/?channel=RES_BUY
 

 

[Frank Hovis]

Credit to @HousePriceMania for this one as he picked it up on the Property Crash thread, this is a hell of a house for the money.

He picked it up because it has dropped from £1.5m to £850k in two years.

Firstly the downside - this was a care home so will need a lot of work to turn it into a top quality private dwelling, hundreds of thousands probably.  This would be why it has been on the market for two years.

And now to the upsides.

Lelant is really nice, it's near St Ives but withut the vast tourist influx as they mostly drive through it on the way to St Ives.

Twelve bedrooms, three storeys, big gardens backing onto permanent woodland.

Front:

Back:

Soem of the back gardens:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123345467#/?channel=RES_BUY

@Delboy

[HousePriceMania]

IIRC is about £180 per sq foot, the best way to gauge value, probably about right for do-er-up-er at that size, would be better at £120 though given the price of renovation but all in all not bad.

You going to see it Frank ?

[Frank Hovis]

14 minutes ago, HousePriceMania said:

IIRC is about £180 per sq foot, the best way to gauge value, probably about right for do-er-up-er at that size, would be better at £120 though given the price of renovation but all in all not bad.

You going to see it Frank ?

 

Not sure.

I don't fancy spending the next five years living in a huge renovation project whatever the value in it, but it will be superb when it's finished.  Hmmm.....

I have seen it in the past, drive through Lelant and you see it and it is impressive.

[HousePriceMania]

16 minutes ago, Frank Hovis said:

 

Not sure.

I don't fancy spending the next five years living in a huge renovation project whatever the value in it, but it will be superb when it's finished.  Hmmm.....

I have seen it in the past, drive through Lelant and you see it and it is impressive.

Saw this one relisted in Northants, similar price
 

Think I'd rather the one in Cornwall.

it does seem that the bigger houses that need work are seeing some falls again.