Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[Harry H]

NickCQ said:

Harry H said:

Same here, £5m but overlooked by all the neighbours. No doubt surrounded by residents parking so when your 2 spaces are full no one can come and visit

Comments like this betray an ignorance of how people live in London.
Most of your chums will live locally and get an Uber to yours - for those that live further away and really must drive you get visitors permits / park your own car on the road and they use your spaces.

I've lived in Kensington, Clapham, Richmond, Twickenham, St Margarets. So would hardly consider myself ignorant as to how people live in these areas.
Never again would I live in an area with residents parking unless I had a drive for 10 cars. Life is just too short.

[Ranger 6]

Carbon Sasquatch said:

mattyn1 said:

Liking this. Interesting garage too!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

I'd be quite happy with 'The Lodge' and garage - you can keep the main house

It's very nice and the road isn't bad - the negative for me would be the noise from the scouts camp site next door.

[NickCQ]

Harry H said:

I've lived in Kensington, Clapham, Richmond, Twickenham, St Margarets. So would hardly consider myself ignorant as to how people live in these areas.
Never again would I live in an area with residents parking unless I had a drive for 10 cars. Life is just too short.

Each to their own, I suppose. Not sure what you are doing that requires parking for 10 cars but hey ho

[NickCQ]

NomduJour said:

“Biosolids”, from wastewater works. The treated stuff doesn’t smell as much, but I understand it’s a useful thing to stop the ignorant and entitled using your fields as somewhere to let their dogs crap with impunity.

Quite, there is a huge difference between what he is putting on the field and having dogst on you path (dogst being probably the most offensive form of animal st).

[TheJimi]

NickCQ said:

Harry H said:

Same here, £5m but overlooked by all the neighbours. No doubt surrounded by residents parking so when your 2 spaces are full no one can come and visit

Comments like this betray an ignorance of how people live in London.
Most of your chums will live locally and get an Uber to yours - for those that live further away and really must drive you get visitors permits / park your own car on the road and they use your spaces.

As if to say people in London live differently from anywhere else?

No ignorance here, it's simply the case for me that if I had 5M to spend, it wouldn't be on a terraced house in a city - any city.

[wastedyouth86]

I love this house, walk past it once a week when taking the dog on a long walk. The cellar is a bit of a let down though.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[NickCQ]

TheJimi said:

As if to say people in London live differently from anywhere else?

I think it's a fair point. Car ownership is much lower, density is much higher, public transport is better, most people don't drive to work etc etc.
I would suspect that the majority of £5+ mm houses transacting in the UK are London terraces / semis.

[NomduJour]

TheJimi said:

if I had 5M to spend, it wouldn't be on a terraced house in a city - any city.

Richmond feels very different from the middle of town.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

wastedyouth86 said:

I love this house, walk past it once a week when taking the dog on a long walk. The cellar is a bit of a let down though.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

That is bloody nice!

[Dan_1981]

This woul dprobably be better suited to the nightmares thread on second thoughts...

Oh and for those that hate lifestyle pictures - I'd stay away. (check image 15)

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...


I still can't work out how it works as a house?!

Oh... and it's £1.6m

[Louis Balfour]

NomduJour said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Louis Balfour said:

But on one occasion a farmer used human waste as fertiliser over a large area. That was especially pungent and resulted in him having some sort of a "cease and desist" order against him.

How is that even possible? Where did he get it from? (Well, I know where it comes from in small quantities, but how would he get enough to spray across fields?)

“Biosolids”, from wastewater works. The treated stuff doesn’t smell as much, but I understand it’s a useful thing to stop the ignorant and entitled using your fields as somewhere to let their dogs crap with impunity.

Oh it stinks, trust me. You could smell the village from miles away.

And the contretemps about the dog poo concerned a deposit that was to be bagged, the farmer's wife was being rather premature. But don't let that stop you jumping to half-baked judgements.

[NomduJour]

Louis Balfour said:

And the contretemps about the dog poo concerned a deposit that was to be bagged, the farmer's wife was being rather premature. But don't let that stop you jumping to half-baked judgements.

Not half-baked, from actual experience of the problem. If you don’t like countryside smells and noises, there’s an obvious alternative.

[Louis Balfour]

NomduJour said:

Louis Balfour said:

And the contretemps about the dog poo concerned a deposit that was to be bagged, the farmer's wife was being rather premature. But don't let that stop you jumping to half-baked judgements.

Not half-baked, from actual experience of the problem. .

I wasn't aware that we had met. Unless you're a fat farmer's wife of course.

[The Moose]

TheJimi said:

The Moose said:

tays27 said:

Don't know how to embed the picture, but a fully renovated ready to live in lochside castle for just over 800k...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Cool looking place. Bit small though.

A bit small? Seriously?

Or am I due a parrot?

Yes, seriously. For a Scottish ‘castellated Baronial house’, at 4,400sqft with that courtyard area is a bit small and consequently, a number of the rooms are awkwardly arranged for pawn. IMHO of course.

[RichB]

The Moose said:

TheJimi said:

The Moose said:

tays27 said:

Don't know how to embed the picture, but a fully renovated ready to live in lochside castle for just over 800k...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Cool looking place. Bit small though.

A bit small? Seriously? Or am I due a parrot?

Yes, seriously. For a Scottish ‘castellated Baronial house’, at 4,400sqft with that courtyard area is a bit small and consequently, a number of the rooms are awkwardly arranged for pawn. IMHO of course.

Certainly awkward layout, for example the principle bedroom (were not allowed to call it the master now) doesn't have an en-suite bathroom. Only a single garage but I have no idea what the boiler room is all about, perhaps that can be used as a garage too? I'm surprised that it's 4,440 sqft none of the rooms seem that large or have they counted the courtyard? Must confess I didn't do the maths.

[TheJimi]

Fair enough.

Personally, it would work brilliantly for me, and at £830k represents real VFM, from my perspective.

Edited by TheJimi on Monday 19th October 15:15

[RichB]

Anyway, midges...

[TheJimi]

Can be a right bh, I agree but like a lot of cliches, overegged, somewhat.

[Sway]

RichB said:

The Moose said:

TheJimi said:

The Moose said:

tays27 said:

Don't know how to embed the picture, but a fully renovated ready to live in lochside castle for just over 800k...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Cool looking place. Bit small though.

A bit small? Seriously? Or am I due a parrot?

Yes, seriously. For a Scottish ‘castellated Baronial house’, at 4,400sqft with that courtyard area is a bit small and consequently, a number of the rooms are awkwardly arranged for pawn. IMHO of course.

Certainly awkward layout, for example the principle bedroom (were not allowed to call it the master now) doesn't have an en-suite bathroom. Only a single garage but I have no idea what the boiler room is all about, perhaps that can be used as a garage too? I'm surprised that it's 4,440 sqft none of the rooms seem that large or have they counted the courtyard? Must confess I didn't do the maths.

That spiral staircase would be for the Master Principal suite for me. Bathroom, dressing room, bedroom. Then secluded reading room above.

It's how we have our current house, with a "parent's floor" the kids aren't allowed in. That bit of separation between bedroom and 'en suite' is nice.

[p1stonhead]

Sway said:

RichB said:

The Moose said:

TheJimi said:

The Moose said:

tays27 said:

Don't know how to embed the picture, but a fully renovated ready to live in lochside castle for just over 800k...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Cool looking place. Bit small though.

A bit small? Seriously? Or am I due a parrot?

Yes, seriously. For a Scottish ‘castellated Baronial house’, at 4,400sqft with that courtyard area is a bit small and consequently, a number of the rooms are awkwardly arranged for pawn. IMHO of course.

Certainly awkward layout, for example the principle bedroom (were not allowed to call it the master now) doesn't have an en-suite bathroom. Only a single garage but I have no idea what the boiler room is all about, perhaps that can be used as a garage too? I'm surprised that it's 4,440 sqft none of the rooms seem that large or have they counted the courtyard? Must confess I didn't do the maths.

That spiral staircase would be for the Master Principal suite for me. Bathroom, dressing room, bedroom. Then secluded reading room above.

It's how we have our current house, with a "parent's floor" the kids aren't allowed in. That bit of separation between bedroom and 'en suite' is nice.

Seriously?