Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 5)

[TheJimi]

Can someone tell me what's up with Lewisham?

[wrencho]

£11.5m to live on that road. No thanks...

The mind boggles why someone with that kind of dough would want to actually live in London. You could buy an enormous country pile somewhere more desirable and then rent a pokey flat for work purposes for less cost....

[TownIdiot]

wrencho said:

£11.5m to live on that road. No thanks...

The mind boggles why someone with that kind of dough would want to actually live in London. You could buy an enormous country pile somewhere more desirable and then rent a pokey flat for work purposes for less cost....

I'd have thought someone with that sort of money probably has both, or at least a second option if they don't want a country pile.

I used to live up on blackheath way back in the 90s and there are some absolutely stunning houses round there and the new connections must make it an easy commute into the city and I suppose in London you are rarely far from an area that's a bit rough and ready.

I lived in one pretty similar to that (an HMO at the time)and the landlord lived in the one next door, I often wonder at what stage he cashed out.

[gregch]

TheJimi said:

Can someone tell me what's up with Lewisham?

Nothing up with it, just unfashionable with certain folks I guess. In any case, that house is in Blackheath, which is lovely, and its proximity to unfashionable Lewisham keeps the proportion of entitled braying berks manageable.

Personally, even if I had the £11m to spend on a house in Blackheath, I'd rather spend a bit less and have one on North Several.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/north-se...

[lauda]

gregch said:

Nothing up with it, just unfashionable with certain folks I guess. In any case, that house is in Blackheath, which is lovely, and its proximity to unfashionable Lewisham keeps the proportion of entitled braying berks manageable.

Personally, even if I had the £11m to spend on a house in Blackheath, I'd rather spend a bit less and have one on North Several.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/north-se...

That looks like a 1970s school. And don't even get me started on the state of the tiling in that bathroom.

[okgo]

Lewisham is not a nice part of London. That is IMO something that is totally unarguable. My son was born in the hospital there (no room in our local on the day!) and it was a fking grim drive down the south circ from the west basically the moment you left Dulwich behind. I've actually just been this morning to collect something from Forrest Hill, its st.

Blackheath is nice, but for that money I'd want to be ON the heath itself, not down a road off it. I'm surprised someone has poured so much money into a house in that sort of area to be fair. I'd get it many other directions of London but SE and E you're always within very close proximity to some utter utter stholes. You can get quite far away from that in most of the other directions. Still, I'll find a buyer at some level as it looks to be done very very nicely.

[TownIdiot]

lauda said:

gregch said:

Nothing up with it, just unfashionable with certain folks I guess. In any case, that house is in Blackheath, which is lovely, and its proximity to unfashionable Lewisham keeps the proportion of entitled braying berks manageable.

Personally, even if I had the £11m to spend on a house in Blackheath, I'd rather spend a bit less and have one on North Several.

That looks like a 1970s school. And don't even get me started on the state of the tiling in that bathroom.

When my wife finally kicks me out I'd be buying a turtle neck jumper and a place like that. Absolutely love that style of house.

[Shnozz]

Apologies if we’ve had this one before. I can’t ever keep up.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141274928

[CountyAFC]

gregch said:

Nothing up with it, just unfashionable with certain folks I guess. In any case, that house is in Blackheath, which is lovely, and its proximity to unfashionable Lewisham keeps the proportion of entitled braying berks manageable.

Personally, even if I had the £11m to spend on a house in Blackheath, I'd rather spend a bit less and have one on North Several.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/north-se...

Don't take this personally, but regardless of where it is, that's st.

[dirty boy]

£1.7m

Nice plot, nice place...owner is a 'car' person.


https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbnordn...

[NomduJour]

CountyAFC said:

Don't take this personally, but regardless of where it is, that's st

You may not like it, but it certainly isn’t “st”.

[NomduJour]

Seems to be a lot of multi-agency expensive stuff in Blackheath.

Flat in the Paragon?

https://www.hamptons.co.uk/properties/17734474/sal...

[CountyAFC]

NomduJour said:

CountyAFC said:

Don't take this personally, but regardless of where it is, that's st

You may not like it, but it certainly isn’t “st”.

There's nothing I like about it.

I think it's st.

You don't.

Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

[Caddyshack]

CountyAFC said:

gregch said:

Nothing up with it, just unfashionable with certain folks I guess. In any case, that house is in Blackheath, which is lovely, and its proximity to unfashionable Lewisham keeps the proportion of entitled braying berks manageable.

Personally, even if I had the £11m to spend on a house in Blackheath, I'd rather spend a bit less and have one on North Several.
https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/north-se...

Don't take this personally, but regardless of where it is, that's st.

You can imagine the meeting with the Architect "I really like 1960/70's council built schools" - Architect: "no problem"

[NomduJour]

CountyAFC said:

There's nothing I like about it.

I think it's st

Suspect you’re not cut out to be a critic.

[CountyAFC]

NomduJour said:

CountyAFC said:

There's nothing I like about it.

I think it's st

Suspect you’re not cut out to be a critic.

Or maybe I speak my mind.

I'm confident more people on this thread would dislike it, than love it.

[TownIdiot]

Caddyshack said:

You can imagine the meeting with the Architect "I really like 1960/70's council built schools" - Architect: "no problem"

I wanted to buy a house designed in the same style when we moved a couple of years ago.

It was a well preserved 60s timewarp, complete with school style bricks and even that green/grey paint that was in schools of that era.

My wife christened it "the crack den" and as usual the discussion went in her favour and we didn't buy.

[NomduJour]

CountyAFC said:

Or maybe I speak my mind.

I'm confident more people on this thread would dislike it, than love it

I think you’re missing the point. Anyway.

[TIGA84]

okgo said:

Lewisham is not a nice part of London. That is IMO something that is totally unarguable. My son was born in the hospital there (no room in our local on the day!) and it was a fking grim drive down the south circ from the west basically the moment you left Dulwich behind. I've actually just been this morning to collect something from Forrest Hill, its st.

Blackheath is nice, but for that money I'd want to be ON the heath itself, not down a road off it. I'm surprised someone has poured so much money into a house in that sort of area to be fair. I'd get it many other directions of London but SE and E you're always within very close proximity to some utter utter stholes. You can get quite far away from that in most of the other directions. Still, I'll find a buyer at some level as it looks to be done very very nicely.

If you look at Streetview, the top of the road finishes actually on the Heath, and this is effectively on it, give or take, so its not actually on the road itself.

[Timbo_S2]

dirty boy said:

£1.7m

Nice plot, nice place...owner is a 'car' person.


https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbnordn...

I saw that yesterday, its near me and the bike was in the local ducati dealer...