Individual house thread

[Democorruptcy]

What does this 2 bed flat with communal garden, have in common with this 6 bed detached house, that has a huge garden that wraps around the neighbour's?

[Onsamui]

On 29/11/2023 at 15:42, One percent said:

I love the time warp here. I don’t know how you would fix the stairs so that it didn’t funnel heat away

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142534697#/?channel=RES_BUY

Looks a cold house.

[One percent]

1 minute ago, Onsamui said:

Looks a cold house.

Yes. It’s the staircase I think. It’ll act like a chimney, sucking all the heat upstairs.  

[JoeDavola]

I think we're actually going to see a half a million pound semi in Belfast soon.

https://www.propertypal.com/40-ormiston-crescent-belfast/921478

Insane.

[JoeDavola]

Here's one of the newbuild areas that are very fashionable at the moment:

https://www.propertypal.com/69-millreagh-avenue-dundonald-belfast/918599

Yes a nice modern house, but virtually no back garden and most of all there's no front garden/yard at all, your front window looks right out onto the street.

[Kendo]

This was added today and is listed not much more than the 2017 price. Small I know but this is Billericay, traditionally a fairly well-to-do Essex commuter town.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142630763#/?channel=RES_BUY

[Petatep]

17 hours ago, Kendo said:

This was added today and is listed not much more than the 2017 price. Small I know but this is Billericay, traditionally a fairly well-to-do Essex commuter town.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142630763#/?channel=RES_BUY

I know this is irrelevant, but it's Saturday and I love Ian Dury.

Good evening, I'm from Essex
In case you couldn't tell, my given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay and I'm doing very well.

[sleepwello'nights]

1 minute ago, Petatep said:

I know this is irrelevant, but it's Saturday and I love Ian Dury.

Good evening, I'm from Essex
In case you couldn't tell, my given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay and I'm doing very well.

Billericay Dicky can also be a very nasty disease. 

[Petatep]

2 minutes ago, sleepwello'nights said:

Billericay Dicky can also be a very nasty disease. 

Certainly sounds painful.

[apples]

This one's not having much luck!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126527624#/?channel=RES_BUY

Price History

5 Dec 2023	Unavailable	→	£164,950
3 Dec 2023	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
7 Oct 2023	Unavailable	→	£170,000
19 Aug 2023	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
28 Jul 2023	Unavailable	→	£170,000
12 Sep 2022	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
30 Aug 2022	First seen	→	£170,000

[Wight Flight]

1 hour ago, apples said:

This one's not having much luck!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126527624#/?channel=RES_BUY

Price History

5 Dec 2023	Unavailable	→	£164,950
3 Dec 2023	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
7 Oct 2023	Unavailable	→	£170,000
19 Aug 2023	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
28 Jul 2023	Unavailable	→	£170,000
12 Sep 2022	£170,000	→	Unavailable (Sold)
30 Aug 2022	First seen	→	£170,000

My usual thought. Where do these people eat?

[Bobthebuilder]

12 minutes ago, Wight Flight said:

My usual thought. Where do these people eat?

I bet your dining table looks like this, with a butler to pass the ketchup from one end to the other.

[Wight Flight]

7 minutes ago, Bobthebuilder said:

I bet your dining table looks like this, with a butler to pass the ketchup from one end to the other.

Not quite. I have a circular solid slate dining table that seats 6, (or 8 or 12 if i use the restaurant rounds i keep in the garage for events.)

 

[Bobthebuilder]

20 minutes ago, Wight Flight said:

Not quite. I have a circular solid slate dining table that seats 6, (or 8 or 12 if i use the restaurant rounds i keep in the garage for events.)

 

Heres a boring fact for you, I used to make big posh dining tables when I was younger, and this bit is true, the MD was called Richard Head.

[Wight Flight]

16 minutes ago, Bobthebuilder said:

Heres a boring fact for you, I used to make big posh dining tables when I was younger, and this bit is true, the MD was called Richard Head.

 

16 minutes ago, Bobthebuilder said:

Heres a boring fact for you, I used to make big posh dining tables when I was younger, and this bit is true, the MD was called Richard Head.

Same name as my guillotine operator.

[Bobthebuilder]

Just now, Wight Flight said:

 

Same name as my guillotine operator.

Did he used to make tables?

Did he used to make tables?

[Wight Flight]

5 minutes ago, Bobthebuilder said:

Did he used to make tables?

Did he used to make tables?

No. But be had a very, very ugly girlfriend that he had a picture of stuck to the guillotine.

I always thought it might be a health and safety issue.

[wherebee]

This is why the USA is so great.

Imagine making a few million on some 1-bed shithole in New York or California due to financialisation, selling it, and buying this place.  Putting over a million in the bank to live off for 40 years and turn this into a haven for self sufficiency

https://chilloutmind.com/on-11-acres-in-the-virginia-mountains-circa-1940-95000

[nirvana]

7 hours ago, wherebee said:

This is why the USA is so great.

Imagine making a few million on some 1-bed shithole in New York or California due to financialisation, selling it, and buying this place.  Putting over a million in the bank to live off for 40 years and turn this into a haven for self sufficiency

https://chilloutmind.com/on-11-acres-in-the-virginia-mountains-circa-1940-95000

wow now that is totally fekkin amazing and an interesting reminder that actually some parts of the west are actually 'totally fekkin amazin' lol

do you think you could live there for say 6 months of the year without having to 'register for the mad US system'???

edit: interesting location, didn't realise Virginia went so far inland.....and got Kentucky and Tennessee close by.......might have problems with some of those dudes like off Deliverance 

Edited December 9, 2023 by nirvana

[Democorruptcy]

7 hours ago, wherebee said:

This is why the USA is so great.

Imagine making a few million on some 1-bed shithole in New York or California due to financialisation, selling it, and buying this place.  Putting over a million in the bank to live off for 40 years and turn this into a haven for self sufficiency

https://chilloutmind.com/on-11-acres-in-the-virginia-mountains-circa-1940-95000

No bid. It's obviously a flooder.

[ashestoashes]

19 minutes ago, Democorruptcy said:

No bid. It's obviously a flooder.

zillow says it's under contract, base is blockwork and river bed looks likes it gets washed out, so yes flood risk

[nirvana]

3 minutes ago, ashestoashes said:

under contract

does that mean 'provisionally sold'? when the floods come, just go sit up in the trees till it passes by 

 

[ashestoashes]

1 minute ago, nirvana said:

does that mean 'provisionally sold'? when the floods come, just go sit up in the trees till it passes by 

 

can't be that bad, presumably the satellite dish is above the flood level

[wherebee]

https://chilloutmind.com/fixer-upper-alert-on-134-acres-in-west-virginia-204000

134 acres for under 300k GBP.  Probably needs 200k of work.

134

acres

 

[JoeDavola]

1 hour ago, wherebee said:

https://chilloutmind.com/fixer-upper-alert-on-134-acres-in-west-virginia-204000

134 acres for under 300k GBP.  Probably needs 200k of work.

134

acres

 

...and the house is still bigger than most houses in the UK listed at that price without the 134 acres!