Show us your local real estate prawn

[Blown2CV]

jdw1234 said:

Blown2CV said:

GreatGranny said:

This is just a few miles from my parents in Cheshire.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, just to say the inside isn't what you would be expecting.
Must be a footballer!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

erm. Wow.

There is a very nice house under that.

If it was redecorated and in the home counties it would be lovely.

well redecorated certainly. However Cheshire is actually a nice county. It gets a very bad rap and isn't all rich tasteless tts. The country has a lot of those overall.

[jdw1234]

Blown2CV said:

jdw1234 said:

Blown2CV said:

GreatGranny said:

This is just a few miles from my parents in Cheshire.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, just to say the inside isn't what you would be expecting.
Must be a footballer!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

erm. Wow.

There is a very nice house under that.

If it was redecorated and in the home counties it would be lovely.

well redecorated certainly. However Cheshire is actually a nice county. It gets a very bad rap and isn't all rich tasteless tts. The country has a lot of those overall.

Sorry, I wasn't insinuating Cheshire is bad (I have never been there).

I was just assuming a house would need to be closer to London (commutable) to count as true "property prawn".

[Blown2CV]

jdw1234 said:

Blown2CV said:

jdw1234 said:

Blown2CV said:

GreatGranny said:

This is just a few miles from my parents in Cheshire.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, just to say the inside isn't what you would be expecting.
Must be a footballer!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

erm. Wow.

There is a very nice house under that.

If it was redecorated and in the home counties it would be lovely.

well redecorated certainly. However Cheshire is actually a nice county. It gets a very bad rap and isn't all rich tasteless tts. The country has a lot of those overall.

Sorry, I wasn't insinuating Cheshire is bad (I have never been there).

I was just assuming a house would need to be closer to London (commutable) to count as true "property prawn".

southerners do tend to do that. Don't worry, we're used to you and we don't let it wind us up

[Ungarsee]

Not really Real Estate prawn BUT is that an F1 car in the garage???

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/photo...

[Distant]

That's a painted garage door.

[RichB]

And if you've got a triple you can have a 747 in it

[FourWheelDrift]

That's a 737 with 2 extra engines painted on

Probably did it because the 747 wouldn't fit that low roof line

[Ungarsee]

Distant said:

That's a painted garage door.

I had no idea they even existed and have even less of an idea why. What utter tat!

[Gareth79]

wsurfa said:

Frik said:

Does that count as Godalming? Great position, plus you can get to be one of those people who moves in and then complains about the noise from Dunsfold.

No noise from Dunsfold around here (I'm within a few miles of that plot above), you'd have to have superhero hearing, or a separate issue as Godalming is about 10km from Dunsfold.

Ah I wondered how they might build something that HUGE in that area, seems it was an old brickworks:

http://www.derelictmisc.org.uk/industrial/nutbourn...

And looking at the Google Earth aerial picture, that had been taken after groundworks begun, you can see the main house staked out. (IIRC they re-did the pics here (Farnborough) very recently.)

[TimJMS]

jdw1234 said:

Sorry, I wasn't insinuating Cheshire is bad (I have never been there).

I was just assuming a house would need to be closer to London (commutable) to count as true "property prawn".

The first still working link in this thread is of a property in Bermuda.

[ianrb]

Ungarsee said:

Not really Real Estate prawn BUT is that an F1 car in the garage???

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/photo...

And lots of Artex and low ceilings. What is it with low ceilings? It just makes the place look cramped & cheap.

[RichB]

ianrb said:

Ungarsee said:

Not really Real Estate prawn BUT is that an F1 car in the garage???

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/photo...

And lots of Artex and low ceilings. What is it with low ceilings? It just makes the place look cramped & cheap.

Not only that, and I agree low ceilings and artex are dreadful but they build rooms like corridors. That lounge is so long and thin it's like a station waiting room! You'd all be lined up along one wall

[vescaegg]

Yes its the Daily Mail but I think this one cropped up earlier in the thread?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513096/A-...

Is it the one with the underground car park?

[FourWheelDrift]

vescaegg said:

Yes its the Daily Mail but I think this one cropped up earlier in the thread?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513096/A-...

Is it the one with the underground car park?

Yes. Brochure on here - http://search.knightfrank.com/krd110831

It was originally on for £75m so it's had a £40m reduction since going to market.

[RichB]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Agree, it needs a compete re-fit; wooden dado rails, Mahogany doors, the most awful Artex ceilings, awful tiles in the bathroosm etc. all about 25-30 years old. Plus the loft hatch in the master bedroom would drive me mad, it would have to be moved to a corridor.

[Cheib]

FourWheelDrift said:

vescaegg said:

Yes its the Daily Mail but I think this one cropped up earlier in the thread?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513096/A-...

Is it the one with the underground car park?

Yes. Brochure on here - http://search.knightfrank.com/krd110831

It was originally on for £75m so it's had a £40m reduction since going to market.

They're actually two almost identical houses....developer knocked down one of the old houses and put two 20,000 sg ft gangster mansions on the plot. They are literally about 10 ft from each other. Wonder if the other one sold for near asking ?!?!

Avenue Road is a really busy road but has a lot of "statement" houses on it....Israeli Ambassador lives a few doors up.

[FourWheelDrift]

Looking at google maps aerial the constructions looks the same, is that identical (mirrored) garage lifts I can see? - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=avenue+road+st+jo...

Never seen any details for the bare brick 1st floor one. Maybe the developers own place?

[NomduJour]

FourWheelDrift said:

is that identical (mirrored) garage lifts I can see?

Suspension lifts are what you need for Avenue Road. Never-ending speed bumps.

[KTF]

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Olf]

Here's a stonker for the (rich) hobbits amongst you... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...