Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[Roger Woods]

Moominho said:

iwantagta said:

Roger Woods said:

I know its not in the Millions but this just rather nice

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

Just style I know but I prefer that to a lot of the millions houses on this thread.

Yes that is lovely. It's a new build but very tastefully done. I thought maybe it wouldn't have much land if it's a new build but apparently it comes with three acres.

Its funny, I have no idea what that area is like but Peterborough is a swift (but expensive) train journey into London, I keep going back to that house, and thinking, I wonder.....

[Targarama]

Roger Woods said:

Moominho said:

iwantagta said:

Roger Woods said:

I know its not in the Millions but this just rather nice

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

Just style I know but I prefer that to a lot of the millions houses on this thread.

Yes that is lovely. It's a new build but very tastefully done. I thought maybe it wouldn't have much land if it's a new build but apparently it comes with three acres.

Its funny, I have no idea what that area is like but Peterborough is a swift (but expensive) train journey into London, I keep going back to that house, and thinking, I wonder.....

Looks nice but needs the driveway finishing properly, plus the internal floorplan looks very odd IMHO. The hallway should be much deeper.

[ReaperCushions]

Having recently moved to an upmarket part of California (from the UK), I can now start playing this game properly

Very odd interior design taste on this one, but I love the 'built into a cave' look of this:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/31107-Coast-Hwy-...



That is the pacific right in front... wouldn't fancy it in a Tsunami though. And that road on the roof of the house might get on your tits after a while.

This one also caught my eye on an Island in Newport Harbour:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12-Bay-Is-Newpor...

[h0b0]

This one finally sold

Notoriously Unsellable Fleur de Lys Sells For Record-Busting $102 Million in Holmby Hills

[FourWheelDrift]

A French Château in the USA "and the new owner is a 'mystery' French billionaire"

[shiftydave]

h0b0 said:

This one finally sold

Notoriously Unsellable Fleur de Lys Sells For Record-Busting $102 Million in Holmby Hills

Only a nine-car garage? I'll pass.

[h0b0]

shiftydave said:

Only a nine-car garage? I'll pass.

I was going to submit the photo to the "These pictures make my teeth itch" thread as the cars are out of order.

OK, I have now.

Edited by h0b0 on Tuesday 1st April 15:11

[RichB]

h0b0 said:

shiftydave said:

Only a nine-car garage? I'll pass.

I was going to submit the photo to the "These pictures make my teeth itch" thread as the cars are out of order. ok. i HAVE NOW

You're right, they're bang out of order. Ferraris don't have to be red, they look good in yellow and dark blue too!

[Pesty]

FourWheelDrift said:

A French Château in the USA "and the new owner is a 'mystery' French billionaire"

Your posts come around like the inevitability of an un loved season

[Andrew[MG]]

Anyone fancy a bit of restoration work? http://www.scotlandshomes.co.uk/detached-houses/fo...

[skibum]

Quite like the look of this one - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Looket]

Time for some Swedish prawn! In order of ascending price:

1. Nice little country house approximately 1.5 hours away from Stockholm. Very nice, though in need of a bit of renovation: http://www.wrede.se/objekt/208105?qt-item_tabs=1#q... (£880k)

2. 14th century castle in the very south of the country, only a stone's throw away to the bridge to Denmark and the rest of the continent (top tip: 'planlösning' means floor plan): http://www.wrede.se/objekt/208923?qt-item_tabs=1#q... (£1.4M)

3. Your own, personal little archipelago: http://tillsalu.sjonara.se/images.aspx?GUID=4273O7... (£2.5M)

4. Mansion with a view... of Denmark, though unfortunately a bit light on photos: http://valvet.capitex.se/bilder.aspx?TYP=CMVilla&a... (£2.5M)

5. Yet another mansion with a view, only this time of the Baltic, and only a 10 minute train journey away from the centre of Stockholm. Includes two berths right across the road for aquatic adventures, but really a place like this needs its own access to the sea. But on the other hand it's got a 4-car double-decker garage and awesome cellars: http://www.wrede.se/objekt/394691?qt-item_tabs=1#q... (£3.8M)

6. Proper stately home fit for a king. Currently used as some kind of an events venue, but who cares... look at it! http://www.esny.se/sv/object/images/--315195 (£4.9M)

7. A depressing concoction of a 60's bunker given some... flair. There's an old Swedish saying that goes something like 'styling a Volvo is like applying make-up to a pig'. This is a Volvo, albeit in a kick-ass location, but it's just wrong none the less. It does have a secret passage from the study to the wine cellar though (which seems to have been converted into a bedroom...): http://hemnet.sfd.se/BildLista/Default.aspx?objgid... (£5.5M)



And finally, a bonus house! Belonging to hockey legend Börje Salming, this new-build isn't really to my taste but it does tick quite a few boxes: http://hemnet.sfd.se/BildLista/Default.aspx?objgid... (£2.5M)


EDIT: A few more!

8. I remember this was on the market a good 5-6 years ago for something in the region of £5M. It's obviously since been completely renovated, and considering the boom in property prices since I shudder to think what the owners want for it. This place in particular is pretty much situated in a national park, right on the door step of the city centre (Stockholm that is). You could probably count the amount of residents in the general vicinity on your fingers and toes. Crazy exclusive, and with historical connections to boot: http://www.residence.se/till-salu/objekt/?obj=OBJ2... (£POA)

9. An English country house on the west coast of Sweden. Once the home of an industrial magnate (founder of SKF), it's pretty sweet: http://www.residence.se/till-salu/objekt/?obj=OBJ2... (£POA)

Edited by Looket on Thursday 3rd April 15:59

[jdw1234]

skibum said:

Quite like the look of this one - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I really don't like it at all.

Its like someone has been given the challenge to build a footballer pad, but they are only allowed to buy things from Homebase and B&Q.

I assume they didn't use an architect either.

[FourWheelDrift]

Big rooms, small furniture.

"Saviles Close" is he? I thought he was dead.

[Andrew[MG]]

Wow, they are amazing! It's interesting how timeless the Swedish design really is with furniture not being updated much over the years.

What's with all the different designs of fires? There's lots of them that you would never see in the UK.

[Looket]

Andrew[MG] said:

Wow, they are amazing! It's interesting how timeless the Swedish design really is with furniture not being updated much over the years.

What's with all the different designs of fires? There's lots of them that you would never see in the UK.

Most of them are ceramic stoves that work much in the same way as Agas, storing and radiating heat for long periods of time.

Considering the winters up here, fire places had to be practical and not just pleasing to the eyes!

[Looket]

Excuse the link spamming, but I forgot a few houses!

The first pair of houses are quite literally opposite each other. If I was rich I'd buy one for myself and the other for the parents. Need a baby sitter? Put the little bds on a jet ski and ferry them across the water.

1. http://www.wrede.se/objekt/209213?qt-item_tabs=1#q... (£2.5M)
and
2. http://www.tradition.net/objekt/383617/#bilder (£2.45M)

3. Coolest garage I've seen! A bomb shelter blasted into the bed rock that used to belong to the armed forces: http://www.skeppsholmen.se/sv/object/images/s-3879... (£1.8M)

[Looket]

Glad you guys like them.

But now for something completely different: footballers' houses!

1. First up, Zlatan is selling his mansion in Malmö. He allegedly paid ~£3M a couple of years ago and has since completely renovated it from the ground up, so who knows what he wants for it now. Unfortunately there are no interior shots: http://hemnet.sfd.se/BildLista/Default.aspx?objgid...

2. Belonging to a certain ex-England manager with a dubious sexual history, this pile is located slap-bang in the arse end of nowhere. Heaven knows what exactly you're paying for here, except of course its... 'provenance' and half-arsed interior renovation effort (I recommend you click the 'list' view at the top for larger images): http://objekt.fastighetsbyran.se/?objektGID=OBJ524... (£3.7M)

3. I don't actually know if this belongs to a footballer, but at a guess I'm probably not too far off. I rather like it despite some of its OTT-ness, and I'm sure THAT garage will hold certain appeal to the PH populace! http://www.husmanhagberg.se/alla-bilder/?objectid=... (£3.5M)

[pontypool]

h0b0 said:

This one finally sold

Notoriously Unsellable Fleur de Lys Sells For Record-Busting $102 Million in Holmby Hills

Is anyone else annoyed that the Enzo and F50 are not the other way round, thus in proper chronological order?

[FourWheelDrift]

No they are all out of order to me, I always read from left to right, so it should be from the left 288, F40, F50, Enzo