Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

[Bonefish Blues]

DonkeyApple said:

Bonefish Blues said:

It's actually a cutting there, but it runs hard next to the furthest house you see in picture 1. There's plenty of work going on hereabouts for the next, what, 10 years or so I guess.

Fortunately we're over a hill to the South about 2 miles away.

Being a cutting is a small mercy at least. 10 years to be done and another 10 years before it starts to look like it has always been there. You'd think a buyer would wish for a very hefty discount for that 20 year plan to come to fruition?

I'd say there's maybe a very low 6-figure discount already built in, but yes, it's a starting point and it'll end up much lower I'm sure.

[Sporky]

DonkeyApple said:

I reckon all those properties are ruined just so a handful of Brummies who haven't worked out what a fking telephone is or how to operate a car can travel to London with messages of no importance. I genuinely don't understand the upside of linking either of those cities together. Let alone why you'd spoil nice countryside when Buckinghamshire has a raft of towns crying out to be flattened in the middle of the night. HS2 could have zigzagged through multiple towns and tidying them up with an armada of JCBs and wrecking balls.

I would just like to say I greatly enjoyed this post.

[DonkeyApple]

Bonefish Blues said:

DonkeyApple said:

Bonefish Blues said:

It's actually a cutting there, but it runs hard next to the furthest house you see in picture 1. There's plenty of work going on hereabouts for the next, what, 10 years or so I guess.

Fortunately we're over a hill to the South about 2 miles away.

Being a cutting is a small mercy at least. 10 years to be done and another 10 years before it starts to look like it has always been there. You'd think a buyer would wish for a very hefty discount for that 20 year plan to come to fruition?

I'd say there's maybe a very low 6-figure discount already built in, but yes, it's a starting point and it'll end up much lower I'm sure.

In this market that's the sort of discount just for the refurb needs. Poor sods. And all just so a few morons who can't work a laptop can attend the meeting in person.

[Sheepshanks]

DonkeyApple said:

I was going to post that depending on where and how the line ran it could be an opportunity for someone to bag a nice home and just wait the 20 years for the line to become normalised but that image you've added changes that opinion!

One of my colleagues has done that - paid £700K for a place that was blighted although it’s a mile from the line. He said road closures and construction traffic have been an issue at times but everything has settled down and prices have returned to normal. He’s thinking of retiring and had the house valued at £1.2M and he thinks that’s low based on other recent sales.

[DonkeyApple]

Sheepshanks said:

One of my colleagues has done that - paid £700K for a place that was blighted although it’s a mile from the line. He said road closures and construction traffic have been an issue at times but everything has settled down and prices have returned to normal. He’s thinking of retiring and had the house valued at £1.2M and he thinks that’s low based on other recent sales.

Fortune favours the brave. HS2 is a great opportunity for forward thinkers willing to buy smart but it's a huge shame for the vendors who need to sell while all this is going on and I've comprehensively failed to date to appreciate what great purpose this run of track will serve that two existing motorways soon to be full of EVs over the next 20 years and the internet isn't already serving.

[Sheepshanks]

DonkeyApple said:

Fortune favours the brave. HS2 is a great opportunity for forward thinkers willing to buy smart but it's a huge shame for the vendors who need to sell while all this is going on and I've comprehensively failed to date to appreciate what great purpose this run of track will serve that two existing motorways soon to be full of EVs over the next 20 years and the internet isn't already serving.

Imagine how people north of Birmingham who sold feel. Although, near me, John Bishop did astonishing well out of it.

[dxg]

DonkeyApple said:

dxg said:

Here's my latest:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146203652#/...

I actually quite like it. Can't explain why.

But, man, the layout. The layout!

(Clearly there's a self-contained airbnb extension to the left, but that doesn't fully explain it...)

I guess the fundamental shape has been set by the landscape. The living room bit was probably the original garage and workshop/stores and given they've put a front door on it I suspect they were planning to eventually turn it into holiday let space once they got permission or no one was looking. The holiday let on the other side was probably so form of outhouse originally.

I imagine the internal walls of the original part are probably all stud and have been moved around to create as many rooms as possible.

It's a great part of the world if you happen to like that sort of lifestyle and I imagine even though it's on the wrong side of the water the holiday rental side is pretty robust. Would be tempting to just remodel the core for nice sized spaces for just two people and run the limbs either side as holiday lets although the lack of cooking space implies it's been a B&B originally?

Just out of interest, but also because I'm actively looking for something at the moment, what makes it the wrong side of the water? It's the north side, so shouldn't be in shade...

[DonkeyApple]

dxg said:

Just out of interest, but also because I'm actively looking for something at the moment, what makes it the wrong side of the water? It's the north side, so shouldn't be in shade...

Ahh, no, I mean that most tourists would be aiming for Skye and the majority, despite the bridge being free now, will probably favour staying on the island more than the mainland. Kyle of Lochalsh only really exists as a gateway to Skye opposed to being a specific destination. Even the 500 passes it by. So, as a tourist earner I wondered if it wouldn't struggle versus other venues not far away?

[DonkeyApple]

Sheepshanks said:

Although, near me, John Bishop did astonishing well out of it.

How come? Have JCDecaux taken a 100 year billboard lease on his front teeth to advertise to train travellers?

[hidetheelephants]

DonkeyApple said:

Fortune favours the brave. HS2 is a great opportunity for forward thinkers willing to buy smart but it's a huge shame for the vendors who need to sell while all this is going on and I've comprehensively failed to date to appreciate what great purpose this run of track will serve that two existing motorways soon to be full of EVs over the next 20 years and the internet isn't already serving.

That might be true if it had been built for that purpose, but it wasn't. HS2 is little to do with carrying passengers to and from London slightly faster, that's nice but very much a fringe benefit of increasing capacity on the network for local and regional stopping trains for commuters and crosscountry traffic and a massive increase in freight capacity.

[dxg]

DonkeyApple said:

dxg said:

Just out of interest, but also because I'm actively looking for something at the moment, what makes it the wrong side of the water? It's the north side, so shouldn't be in shade...

Ahh, no, I mean that most tourists would be aiming for Skye and the majority, despite the bridge being free now, will probably favour staying on the island more than the mainland. Kyle of Lochalsh only really exists as a gateway to Skye opposed to being a specific destination. Even the 500 passes it by. So, as a tourist earner I wondered if it wouldn't struggle versus other venues not far away?

Ah, right - I get what you mean. When I did the 500 a few years back, I jumped over to Skye completely missing the castle...

[Kowalski655]

Pay 1.5 million to live in the countryside, with lovely views, oops, someone built the neighbours houses 2 inches away!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144519734#/...
And an agricultural shed over the road , pic 77 & street view

[RC1807]

DonkeyApple said:

dxg said:

Here's my latest:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146203652#/...

I actually quite like it. Can't explain why.

But, man, the layout. The layout!

(Clearly there's a self-contained airbnb extension to the left, but that doesn't fully explain it...)

I guess the fundamental shape has been set by the landscape. The living room bit was probably the original garage and workshop/stores and given they've put a front door on it I suspect they were planning to eventually turn it into holiday let space once they got permission or no one was looking. The holiday let on the other side was probably so form of outhouse originally.

I imagine the internal walls of the original part are probably all stud and have been moved around to create as many rooms as possible.

It's a great part of the world if you happen to like that sort of lifestyle and I imagine even though it's on the wrong side of the water the holiday rental side is pretty robust. Would be tempting to just remodel the core for nice sized spaces for just two people and run the limbs either side as holiday lets although the lack of cooking space implies it's been a B&B originally?

Judging by the 'warning' stickers in the bathroom, is this an Air BnB place?
The ground floor rooms are all corridors to the next.... impractical for day to day life, IMO.

[InformationSuperHighway]

RC1807 said:

DonkeyApple said:

dxg said:

Here's my latest:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146203652#/...

I actually quite like it. Can't explain why.

But, man, the layout. The layout!

(Clearly there's a self-contained airbnb extension to the left, but that doesn't fully explain it...)

I guess the fundamental shape has been set by the landscape. The living room bit was probably the original garage and workshop/stores and given they've put a front door on it I suspect they were planning to eventually turn it into holiday let space once they got permission or no one was looking. The holiday let on the other side was probably so form of outhouse originally.

I imagine the internal walls of the original part are probably all stud and have been moved around to create as many rooms as possible.

It's a great part of the world if you happen to like that sort of lifestyle and I imagine even though it's on the wrong side of the water the holiday rental side is pretty robust. Would be tempting to just remodel the core for nice sized spaces for just two people and run the limbs either side as holiday lets although the lack of cooking space implies it's been a B&B originally?

Judging by the 'warning' stickers in the bathroom, is this an Air BnB place?
The ground floor rooms are all corridors to the next.... impractical for day to day life, IMO.

I also have a fundamental fear / dislike for properties that sit right on the road like that. Would only take someone trying to squeeze past another car or someone a bit pissed from the pub to end up clipping the property.

[Baroque attacks]

A least you have something to put the towels over.

[jfdi]

Baroque attacks said:

A least you have something to put the towels over.

Flicking through the pictures thinking what's he talking about?

Ahhh, that'll be it. It is somewhat on the low side.

[james6546]

jfdi said:

Baroque attacks said:

A least you have something to put the towels over.

Flicking through the pictures thinking what's he talking about?

Ahhh, that'll be it. It is somewhat on the low side.

Went to see this one the other day for my mum.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146142131

Isn’t a nightmare, other than the horrendously overlooked garden (which they play down in the pics), but the beam in the one bedroom is something special. I think I’d have struggled with it and I’m not partic tall. The photos also play it down

[Mr Penguin]

jfdi said:

Flicking through the pictures thinking what's he talking about?

Ahhh, that'll be it. It is somewhat on the low side.

Limbo bar.

You get used to them, my parent's house has a low beam (3-4 inches lower than me) but over the years I've learned to duck at that point, even in the dark. This probably doesn't apply when you have to crawl underneath.

Edited by Mr Penguin on Thursday 4th April 00:49

[DodgyGeezer]

james6546 said:

jfdi said:

Baroque attacks said:

A least you have something to put the towels over.

Flicking through the pictures thinking what's he talking about?

Ahhh, that'll be it. It is somewhat on the low side.

Went to see this one the other day for my mum.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146142131

Isn’t a nightmare, other than the horrendously overlooked garden (which they play down in the pics), but the beam in the one bedroom is something special. I think I’d have struggled with it and I’m not partic tall. The photos also play it down

"...what's he talking about 'beam in the bedroom, that's loo... (gets to pic 16) oh..."

[Om]

Low beams are the norm for a lot of old houses - the door into our study comes up to about my nose, but eventually you get attuned to ducking as you go through doorways. However, having to tuck and roll when you are desparate for a dump is a beam too far I'm afraid.