I need to sabotage a bid.
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Harry Flashman said:
indoor skydiving facility. Yes!
Would take the pressure off your knee!Imagine how much of a fighting fund you could have if you actually did some work....
Both houses look great, loving what you have done with your current one.
If you guys are in the North come and see us.
951TSE said:
Couple on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Maker-Decoration-Ca...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LARGE-Animal-Construction...
there seems to be a whole range on there.
Cool, they are a bit like the dinosaur ones I got my brothers kids for Christmas. Cheap too but no need to tell the mrs that!https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Maker-Decoration-Ca...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LARGE-Animal-Construction...
there seems to be a whole range on there.
Harry Flashman said:
Won't get permission on our street - been tried. They are turning it into one of those zones where you cannot convert houses to flats, only the other way around. There are a few of those around here. Quite a few of the bigger houses on our street have been reconverted to family homes from flats.
Seems to be a lot of areas- recall something about a London wide rule as they have deemed there to be a shortage of family houses.hyphen said:
Harry Flashman said:
Won't get permission on our street - been tried. They are turning it into one of those zones where you cannot convert houses to flats, only the other way around. There are a few of those around here. Quite a few of the bigger houses on our street have been reconverted to family homes from flats.
Seems to be a lot of areas- recall something about a London wide rule as they have deemed there to be a shortage of family houses.
lolHarry Flashman said:
Good idea for the future, perhaps. The problem is they have half done it - completing involves a lot of expense and knocking the back of the house out, more steelwork and the lift itself. And then changing the internal layout of the house a bit, which has not yet been done.
So either you live with that ugly structure, throw six figures at finishing it, or throw money at removing it.
To be honest with you, EA called and people have begun bidding over asking on it. Developers have dropped out as I'm guessing they now see no profit, so a mix of people in chains needing a mortgage, and people chain free but still needing a mortgage - no cash offers any more. I suspect that we'll be out soon too.
I could put you in touch with (PH) people that do lifts So either you live with that ugly structure, throw six figures at finishing it, or throw money at removing it.
To be honest with you, EA called and people have begun bidding over asking on it. Developers have dropped out as I'm guessing they now see no profit, so a mix of people in chains needing a mortgage, and people chain free but still needing a mortgage - no cash offers any more. I suspect that we'll be out soon too.
Wishing you every success
MR2 Steve said:
How about putting an option on it to buy in 12 months at the price it needs to be to secure it. Do the work and sell your existing house then place a mortgage on it at the higher done up value to exercise the option and buy it.
The cost of the option would be huge, you're depriving them of £1.4m for 12 months, so call it 10% (£140k)for that, the house might be worth more in 12 months (£100k) and if the buyer doesn't exercise the option you have the time and costs of selling it again. You'd be mad to go for that as a seller and I would want at least a £250k fee in their shoes.So ours went on sale on Monday. EAs valued it at between £1.3 and £1.4m (latter the usual suspects for high valuations, so I don't trust that number!).
I put it on at £1.25m for a fast sale, and have had viewings pretty much every day. No firm offers yet but one guy has said he wants to offer asking but needs his wife to see it. Sadly I'll have to reject him as he is in a chain - we need chain free...
It is a good asking price for the locale - a very similar house is on sale on our road at the same price. It's an older renovation, 2000 square feet instead of our 2933 square feet, one less bedroom and overlooks a block of flats (we overlook a park).
Fingers crossed...the saga continues.
I put it on at £1.25m for a fast sale, and have had viewings pretty much every day. No firm offers yet but one guy has said he wants to offer asking but needs his wife to see it. Sadly I'll have to reject him as he is in a chain - we need chain free...
It is a good asking price for the locale - a very similar house is on sale on our road at the same price. It's an older renovation, 2000 square feet instead of our 2933 square feet, one less bedroom and overlooks a block of flats (we overlook a park).
Fingers crossed...the saga continues.
Edited by Harry Flashman on Thursday 15th June 12:07
Harry Flashman said:
Won't get permission on our street - been tried. They are turning it into one of those zones where you cannot convert houses to flats, only the other way around. There are a few of those around here. Quite a few of the bigger houses on our street have been reconverted to family homes from flats.
When I lived in Camden (up until two years ago) it was the opposite...you couldn't convert flats back into houses. When I first moved to the area in the early 90's flats and houses were pretty much identically priced in £ per sq ft. Houses now sell for much more per sq ft than flats.Some people tried to get round it by converting the top two floors into a maisonette and then having the bottom story as a separate flat. Once all the work done and Building Control and Planning signed off they'd take out the dividing walls and the IKEA kitchen that had been put in the downstairs flat.
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