Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)

[thegreenhell]

mattyn1 said:

Phooey said:

Them views will do.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147847406#/...

That's the way to do a view!

It's not terrible, is it?

[CivicDuties]

thegreenhell said:

mattyn1 said:

Phooey said:

Them views will do.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147847406#/...

That's the way to do a view!

It's not terrible, is it?

You'll never see it through the effing rain.

[abzmike]

CivicDuties said:

thegreenhell said:

mattyn1 said:

Phooey said:

Them views will do.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147847406#/...

That's the way to do a view!

It's not terrible, is it?

You'll never see it through the effing rain.

Very nice, but yes probably quite moist a lot of the time.
Which is perhaps the derivation of the name - Otherwise it's a bit cheesy.

[Wills2]

Phooey said:

Them views will do.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147847406#/...

That would more than do, just checked the weather and it's sunny and 20c there at the moment, so it can happen

[Roman Moroni]

Not sure if this one has been on here in the past

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145866056#/...

Photo #11. Is/was a Chelsea player?

[Caddyshack]

Roman Moroni said:

Not sure if this one has been on here in the past

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145866056#/...

Photo #11. Is/was a Chelsea player?

John Terry (I think it was) bought 2 there, 1 for him and 1 for mum, I went to see a client next door to him in a very similar house.

[GT9]

Wills2 said:

AdamV12V said:

rambo19 said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Came across this and it really appealed

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139930289#/...

Love that!
But grade 2 listed.

Deffo one of the best properties posted on this thread in a long while.... Lovely combo of old classic and new contemporary, done with style and quality furnishings. No idea how they managed this on a Grade II listed property, but regardless the result is lovely. I don't know the area to say if £6M is too much, but I see it's been reduced from the initial £7M price and still for sale a year later, so.... It's also a tad on the large side at >8000sqf but if you have that much money to spend on a property I guess you dont want anything too modestly sized!

It was derelict and rotten so they got special permission to rebuild it, bought for 900k as a wreck and went up for sale over two years ago originally for £8.5 million, it's very nice but clearly hasn't found favour with buyers.

https://propertylistings.ft.com/propertynews/londo...

There are a several Surrey Hills properties in the big money bracket that have been reduced by up to 50%.
I'd say the cost of maintaining these places has shot through the roof.
Combine that with 7 months of rain and flooding, a lovely spring and then 3 months of parching heat that kills the lawn, etc. and sees you buggering off to somewhere else for holiday, well, you have to ask, what exactly is the point of all these acres?
I think we are seeing a fairly new combination of changing weather patterns, an incoming government that wants to go after assets, higher interest rates and paying a whole heap of money to decorators, tree surgeons, landscapers and gardeners to keep on top of everything, with little prospect for any improvement in these things.
Buying a listed mill, below a fluvial lake, that is sitting in 8 acres of high flood risk land has got to be at the pointier end of risk/reward.

[Wills2]

GT9 said:

There are a several Surrey Hills properties in the big money bracket that have been reduced by up to 50%.
I'd say the cost of maintaining these places has shot through the roof.
Combine that with 7 months of rain and flooding, a lovely spring and then 3 months of parching heat that kills the lawn, etc. and sees you buggering off to somewhere else for holiday, well, you have to ask, what exactly is the point of all these acres?
I think we are seeing a fairly new combination of changing weather patterns, an incoming government that wants to go after assets, higher interest rates and paying a whole heap of money to decorators, tree surgeons, landscapers and gardeners to keep on top of everything, with little prospect for any improvement in these things.
Buying a listed mill, below a fluvial lake, that is sitting in 8 acres of high flood risk land has got to be at the pointier end of risk/reward.

Bit deep really we just like posting pictures of posh houses.

[FourWheelDrift]

Probably needs some modernising, but......

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147720158#/...

Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire - £15m

[riskyj]

FourWheelDrift said:

Probably needs some modernising, but......

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147720158#/...

Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire - £15m

Only 27 bedrooms? I’m out!

[FourWheelDrift]

riskyj said:

Only 27 bedrooms? I’m out!

Nun's bedrooms. And they all had lots of dirty habits.

[p1stonhead]

Roman Moroni said:

Not sure if this one has been on here in the past

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145866056#/...

Photo #11. Is/was a Chelsea player?

For my sins, I’ve built 5 or 7 of those type houses on SGH.

Other than a couple of features in specific houses, the whole estate belongs in the nightmares thread

[Doofus]

p1stonhead said:

For my sins, I’ve built 5 or 7 of those type houses on SGH.

Other than a couple of features in specific houses, the whole estate belongs in the nightmares thread

Why? Are you st at your job?

Genuine question asked in a tongue-in-cheek way.

[Roman Moroni]

p1stonhead said:

Roman Moroni said:

Not sure if this one has been on here in the past

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145866056#/...

Photo #11. Is/was a Chelsea player?

For my sins, I’ve built 5 or 7 of those type houses on SGH.

Other than a couple of features in specific houses, the whole estate belongs in the nightmares thread

It's not an area I know but I suppose the saying 'Money doesn't buy taste' sums it up quite well

[p1stonhead]

Doofus said:

p1stonhead said:

For my sins, I’ve built 5 or 7 of those type houses on SGH.

Other than a couple of features in specific houses, the whole estate belongs in the nightmares thread

Why? Are you st at your job?

Genuine question asked in a tongue-in-cheek way.

I was fine at the job (just the QS) but they’re generally just ghastly to me. My personal taste of course.

McMansions is a defining word for St George’s Hill.

[Doofus]

p1stonhead said:

I was fine at the job (just the QS) but they’re generally just ghastly to me. My personal taste of course.

McMansions is a defining word for St George’s Hill.

I'm no fan either, but you seemed to be suggesting your own work was bad, which I am sure isn't the case.

[ianrb]

Phooey said:

Them views will do.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147847406#/...

That's it, that's the one I want.

[Bonefish Blues]

Oh I say. Ding dong. Could almost afford, too (definitions of almost vary, of course, and I like to think I'm an optimist )

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145907855#/...

[abzmike]

Bonefish Blues said:

Oh I say. Ding dong. Could almost afford, too (definitions of almost vary, of course, and I like to think I'm an optimist )

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145907855#/...

Wonderful… what’s the catch?

[Bonefish Blues]

abzmike said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Oh I say. Ding dong. Could almost afford, too (definitions of almost vary, of course, and I like to think I'm an optimist )

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145907855#/...

Wonderful… what’s the catch?

Dunno, I looked but there may be keener eyes than ours out there?