Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

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Pesty

42,655 posts

262 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Wasn't that Geoffrey archers at one point?

numtumfutunch

4,852 posts

144 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Moominho said:
This apartment is a stones throw from Tower Bridge - the views are amazing. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Not the first time its been on here and not sold in almost 18 months in the stupidest property market I can remember
(Although Brexit may make it a bit harder to shift)

Whats wrong with it?

AstonZagato

12,976 posts

216 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Pesty said:
Wasn't that Geoffrey archers at one point?
He has one in Battersea. Looks over the Houses of Parliament.

cossy400

3,253 posts

190 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/prop...


Just up the road from me, drove past it a few times being built.

And in walking distance of the local race track.


Edited by cossy400 on Sunday 31st July 16:21

Sheets Tabuer

19,604 posts

221 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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How the hell did this get planning permission?

cossy400

3,253 posts

190 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Sheets Tabuer said:
How the hell did this get planning permission?
????


Sheets Tabuer

19,604 posts

221 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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cossy400 said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
How the hell did this get planning permission?
????
It would help if I include it.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Pics 2 and 3 look so out of place I wonder who's palm they had to grease.

SilverSpur

20,911 posts

253 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Inkyfingers said:
SilverSpur said:
5potTurbo said:
...and it's next to a Chuch that will wake you every day at 7a.m.*, whether you like it or not!


(*our local Church bells start at 7a.m., then every 15 mins until 10p.m.)
There's really no need for this. Its not a religious thing - the bells were used to tell people the time before everyone owned a clock/watch of their own. Its no longer required for them to do this, and most churches no longer do - apart from Sunday morning call to prayer.

Perhaps having a word with the bell ringers would be a good idea, or if its automated, having a word with the local council as its quite frankly anti-social.
Or just don't buy a house near a church.

I agree that it would be annoying, and I wouldn't want to hear them at 7am, but buying the house and then complaining is like people who buy a house next to an airport or a racing circuit and then complain about the noise.
All I'm saying is it's not being done for religious reasons. Its origin is to let people know the time, so that farm workers etc turn up on time for work and don't get flogged by the land owners. Of course, this belongs to the early 1900s at the latest.

I wouldn't dream of buying such a place even if I could. Just stating facts about the practice.

There's a reason why you can buy 400 year old grand father clocks for peanuts these days. They're not wanted, not needed, bloody annoying and should be consigned to another time. People that have them usually have the chimes disabled or don't bother fixing them once they conveniently break. Most people have moved on from having a clock chime away during the day....

Bit like churches too. No one goes anymore do they? Births deaths and marriages, and the later is becoming quite unfashionable.

But of course people have got to get upset when someone states the obvious....

SilverSpur

20,911 posts

253 months

Sunday 31st July 2016
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Moominho said:
This apartment is a stones throw from Tower Bridge - the views are amazing. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Any ideas what it's asking price is?

TheLordJohn

5,746 posts

152 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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Sheets Tabuer said:
It would help if I include it.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Pics 2 and 3 look so out of place I wonder who's palm they had to grease.
It's not TOO bad. Not exactly to my taste, but at the same time, you'd have to really want that house to pay £3mil+ for that, even with 100+ acres.

Zoon

6,837 posts

127 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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Moominho said:
This apartment is a stones throw from Tower Bridge - the views are amazing. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Fantastic!

Sheets Tabuer

19,604 posts

221 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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Zoon said:
Moominho said:
This apartment is a stones throw from Tower Bridge - the views are amazing. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Fantastic!
Indeed, I stayed at the hotel opposite for a week, hotel was crap but I'd live in the area in a heartbeat.

Sheets Tabuer

19,604 posts

221 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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TheLordJohn said:
It's not TOO bad. Not exactly to my taste, but at the same time, you'd have to really want that house to pay £3mil+ for that, even with 100+ acres.
I dunno about Dorset but you'd not be allowed to plonk that in rural Warwickshire, a mate had a rebuild turned down because you could see it from the next field, you could see that from Cornwall.


Moominho

896 posts

146 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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SilverSpur said:
Any ideas what it's asking price is?
It is POS - I believe it's 12.5 million, I think I have worked it out by using the filters. But could be wrong...

GWC

4,430 posts

201 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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Pesty said:
Wasn't that Geoffrey archers at one point?
Robin Gibb owned it at one point, my Dad had a place there during the 90s.

TheLordJohn

5,746 posts

152 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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Sheets Tabuer said:
I dunno about Dorset but you'd not be allowed to plonk that in rural Warwickshire, a mate had a rebuild turned down because you could see it from the next field, you could see that from Cornwall.

Yeah, subtle, it isn't!

DKL

4,597 posts

228 months

Monday 1st August 2016
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TheLordJohn said:
Yeah, subtle, it isn't!
To be fair it is brand new and is going to need a bit (lot) of weathering to blend into its environment. Maybe we forget that old houses are old so they look like they belong but they were all new once. Actually I'd love to see my house when it was new and its surroundings as it would look very very different to now.

Pesty

42,655 posts

262 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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I like it. A few trees and some other bits and bobs it will be fine. Added to lottery list.

furtive

4,501 posts

285 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Is there an anti-pawn thread? I couldn't find one.

I drove past this house the other day. It's garden is underneath the M40. What a depressing place to live it must be:

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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...

AstonZagato

12,976 posts

216 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Keeps the kids' swing dry though...
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