Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[p1stonhead]

V8RX7 said:

5potTurbo said:

That is such a fking massive place at >18,000sq. ft., any "normal" family would be rattling around in there!

Whilst I'm sure it's still huge I've never seen an Agent include garaging in the given sqft

"18,200 sq ft in all to include the spa complex and garaging"

We have built one recently with a 3000sqft garage so it makes a difference!

[Davey S2]

RichB said:

Davey S2 said:

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Odd to utterly empty the house, yet leave a car behind

Obviously just put the car there to show what it was for.

And what is it for?

So you can admire your car while you have a swim!

Autotrader founder John Madjeski had a glass walled garage in his house so he could look at his car whilst in his gym.

[TheJelley]

TheLordJohn said:

mattyn1 said:

Scrub my last post......

This.... All day long.

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

Price is a little strong, no?
A lovely house and I'm still 4 mil short of the asking price...

It has been for sale for a while, i am hoping that the euromillions comes in before it goes. I absolutely love it, and it is a great location (if the rain stays away)

[Harry Flashman]

SilverSpur said:

chasingracecars said:

alock said:

Not my style of house, but picture 17 is interesting.



http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/prop...

I am guess the McLaren comes with it given the house is empty other then the "fixtures and fittings"

Rather bland, dull and soul-less.

And the house too.

Interesting.

Wentworth is my home, where I grew up, and my mother still owns our family home there. It sits on 2 acres of land. Our old house is one of only three on the road that have not been flattened and turned into the mock Georgian mansions like the ones you see in that link. And the streets are empty. No one in Wentworth really socialises with their neighbours (except at the Clubhouse), but these days there are far fewer neighbours to socialise with!

Developers keep dropping letters through my Mum's door. One offered her a penthouse flat in Windsor in exchange for her house and suggested that an old lady who had lost her husband might be lonely and scared living in the big house, and wouldn't a nice flat be much better. He then took to turning up in the middle of the night (Mum had refused to have gates and a fence - now she does) to talk to (i.e. intimidate her). I had to stay at home for a week and intercept the guy myself and report him formally to the police etc to stop it from happening. Some of these people are scumbags, trust me.

Luckily my mother has all her marbles (she is still actively running her own company at the age of 69), and is a long way from stupid. When next door's newly built house goes for huge money, she knows not to sell hers for a pittance - it is her pension and the ticket to a really nice life in retirement, or even medical bills if things go wrong, as they did for my father.

They bought her house in 1984. The high end property market there is artificially inflated by overseas (largely non EU) money. It was always thus - when my parents bought it was a lot of Arab money. Now it's Russians and Indians. Smattering of City folk (about 50% British ownership in Wentworth, apparently I think) - plenty commute to London during the week. The local taxi firm ran 2 Bentley Arnages as station hacks for a while!

But I'll tell you this. It's a grim place to grow up. No neighbours, nothing to do, and boring as hell. It's just a very expensive housing estate, really. I prefer living in London in every way, except for missing our huge and very beautiful garden (large oaks and chestnuts, rhododendrons). Nearest decent big town is Windsor (8 miles), and that's great, though.

Edited by Harry Flashman on Thursday 30th June 12:46

[renmure]

Fairly near me. Lovely main house with 12 bedrooms, set in 12 acres with 4 additional cottages and a PH-worthy 13 car heated garaging.. all for about £1.8M

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

[Rich135]

renmure said:

Fairly near me. Lovely main house with 12 bedrooms, set in 12 acres with 4 additional cottages and a PH-worthy 13 car heated garaging.. all for about £1.8M

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

I have a feeling Drew visited that place on Salvage Hunters - it was owned by a rather pretty young lady and been in her family for a generation or two... Beautiful place.

[jke11y]

Rich135 said:

renmure said:

Fairly near me. Lovely main house with 12 bedrooms, set in 12 acres with 4 additional cottages and a PH-worthy 13 car heated garaging.. all for about £1.8M

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

I have a feeling Drew visited that place on Salvage Hunters - it was owned by a rather pretty young lady and been in her family for a generation or two... Beautiful place.

An easy 30 seconds googling for what is in the garages...

https://drive-my.com/en/blogs/entry/marcus-dean-s-...

An absolutely incredible place, just a bit too far from a major airport for me for lottery win house...

Edited by jke11y on Thursday 30th June 14:26

[Nick Grant]

jke11y said:

An easy 30 seconds googling for what is in the garages...

https://drive-my.com/en/blogs/entry/marcus-dean-s-...

I've never seen any of these about, shame.

[TheLordJohn]

TheJelley said:

It has been for sale for a while, i am hoping that the euromillions comes in before it goes. I absolutely love it, and it is a great location (if the rain stays away)

Good luck...!

[jke11y]

This just came on today. Incredible house / land / gear for the money. R107 in the drive too.



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

[Thankyou4calling]

When I look at that on a map it makes me realise that when people say how crowded the UK is they need to get out more.

[snobetter]

jke11y said:

This just came on today. Incredible house / land / gear for the money. R107 in the drive too.



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

Is it just my impression from this thread or does Scotland have a lot of these houses still as single dwellings in comparison to the rest of the country?

[jke11y]

snobetter said:

jke11y said:

This just came on today. Incredible house / land / gear for the money. R107 in the drive too.



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

Is it just my impression from this thread or does Scotland have a lot of these houses still as single dwellings in comparison to the rest of the country?

If it was anywhere near london it would be 20 flats, with 200 houses already built in the grounds. I found an old article from 1984 where the bit thats for sale now was up for £150k, or you could have picked up the full 1379 acres for £575k...

[mattyn1]

jke11y said:

This just came on today. Incredible house / land / gear for the money. R107 in the drive too.



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

Some view!

[Harry Flashman]

jke11y said:

This just came on today. Incredible house / land / gear for the money. R107 in the drive too.



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

Some deeply suspect interior design going on there. Purple Aga, anyone?

[mattyn1]

Have we had this little tinker yet?

First photo was a bit average, but it gets better with each click.

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

Common as muck purple Aga too!

[TheJimi]

Just look at the price of that ^^

versus the prices of the two previosuly posted, in Scotland.

Incredible! Never fails to amaze me how little you get for your money south of the border.

[p1doc]

renmure said:

Fairly near me. Lovely main house with 12 bedrooms, set in 12 acres with 4 additional cottages and a PH-worthy 13 car heated garaging.. all for about £1.8M

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

that is gorgeous!

[jke11y]

coyft said:

Love the interior design, including the purple Aga! What fantastic value, I wonder how much that would cost to build today?

I was reading up about the house after I found the for sale advert, I find places like this fascinating as I am an interior designer I like to find out as much as I can.

One of the things I found was the company who replaced the windows in 2004ish - contract value was £105k+vat, so I think we can safely say that it would cost more than the current price to build. Thats if you could even find 130+acres to build similar on.Copper roof was done in 2005, I can only imagine it was pretty scary cost wise! We did a similar size new build on a comparative sized estate (original house had been demolished) and i think their final was about £4m. Its about the same distance out of Glasgow as this place.

Edited by jke11y on Friday 1st July 13:18

[Rosscow]

Some absolute crackers not far from me:

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

Or:

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

Or:

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