Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[p1stonhead]

FourWheelDrift said:

I can smell the water from here.

wouldn't want to live anywhere near that!

[Blown2CV]

Harry Flashman said:

ooid said:

4 bedrooms, newly built terrace houses in Victoria Park (East London, Bow) - Only one of the houses in the picture below-. No car parking, and quite crowded side of the river? Price tag 1 million GBP



http://www.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/43728708...

So any PH'ers would be willing to pay 1 million without a car-park?

What's bad about this is not so much the price (it is London, and canalside, and pretty central - people want that). It;s the utterly lazy design. These look like nasty 80's brick built stuff, not £1m, well-designed homes.

Council planners clearly chucked a bung by someone. Shameful that this is teh quality of new build in our capital, at those advertised prices.

an artist's impression, so i can get away with saying that if that woman genuinely lived there, her kid would be floating face down in that water within a matter of weeks. Open water and families don't traditionally mix, but then, London eh.

[RichB]

Blown2CV said:

Open water and families don't traditionally mix, but then, London eh.

I grew up in London and didn't wind up face down in the Grand Union? Don't get it...

[V8RX7]

ooid said:

Harry Flashman said:

It;s the utterly lazy design. These look like nasty 80's brick built stuff, not £1m, well-designed homes.

Yup, it's "delayed future" and brick-biscuit-ism in charge I'm afraid. I always give the examples of Grimshaw's houses (Canal Union Grand-walk) that being built in 80's around Camden. Such bold statements, back than.

Whilst I'm not defending the original design, your example is certainly an acquired taste which is generally the case with "modern" designs, most people don't like them and they rarely stand the test of time.

[FourWheelDrift]

That kind of architectural statement always remind me of any generic dystopian film of the future.

[BlueHave]

TheLordJohn said:

RRLover said:

Think it belongs to Paul Murray. Rangers FC MK2 Director

Aside from his dining room wall paper, Mr Paul Murray has good taste!
How do people end up as directors like that...? I need to sort my life out.

Usually by passing the buck, having the gift of the gabb, being expect manipulators and absolute chancers.

[mattyn1]

Must have been on here already in the 18 months it has been on the market, but:

http://paradisiodelmar.com/

Garaging for 30 and a tunnel!

It needs a bit of paint here and there admittedly.

Edited by mattyn1 on Sunday 14th May 08:32

[WilliamWoollard]

mattyn1 said:

http://paradisiodelmar.com/

Garaging for 30 and a tunnel!

That is quite something, it's a little too American for me but I could slum it there for a while.

[p1stonhead]

WilliamWoollard said:

mattyn1 said:

http://paradisiodelmar.com/

Garaging for 30 and a tunnel!

That is quite something, it's a little too American for me but I could slum it there for a while.

23k sqft is one of the top 26 largest houses in the US? Random fact to display but also surprising. I would have thought that was fairly modest considering the size of 'normal' houses out there and plot sizes.

[Doofus]

p1stonhead said:

23k sqft is one of the top 26 largest houses in the US? Random fact to display but also surprising. I would have thought that was fairly modest considering the size of 'normal' houses out there and plot sizes.

Nobody makes a list of the top 26 anything.

What they've done, is to emphasise that it comes bottom in a contrived list that they created!

[p1stonhead]

Doofus said:

p1stonhead said:

23k sqft is one of the top 26 largest houses in the US? Random fact to display but also surprising. I would have thought that was fairly modest considering the size of 'normal' houses out there and plot sizes.

Nobody makes a list of the top 26 anything.

What they've done, is to emphasise that it comes bottom in a contrived list that they created!

Yes of course it's a stupid fact but if it's true, the 26th largest house is only 23k sqft. Very surprising IMO.

[rsbmw]

Doesn't seem close to the top 100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hous...

[mattyn1]

rsbmw said:

Doesn't seem close to the top 100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hous...

I don't think it is far off - the ad states one of the largest "privately owned" houses - there are a lot of houses owned by corporations/universities etc on that list - I did not do the sums and I wonder if some (such as Trump's) is actually owned by a company. Who knows?

But what a list - there is some bonkers sized houses on there

[bob-lad]

beeej said:

Oysterwell House, on at £1.75m

5 acres
Woodland
Tennis court (grass)
And lots of parking for PHer cars!

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/3745277/

I bet that was lovely until someone broke in and stole all the character and period features.

[Shnozz]

ooid said:

4 bedrooms, newly built terrace houses in Victoria Park (East London, Bow) - Only one of the houses in the picture below-. No car parking, and quite crowded side of the river? Price tag 1 million GBP



http://www.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/43728708...

So any PH'ers would be willing to pay 1 million without a car-park?

Cracking Sri Lankan breakfast at the Pavilion Cafe just the other side of the road, mind.

[Doofus]

bob-lad said:

I bet that was lovely until someone broke in and stole all the character and period features.

What are you talking about? There's hurdles in the lounge, and you don't get more character than that!

[ooid]

Nice pad in the smoke



http://www.urbanspaces.co.uk/property-details/2-be...

[p1stonhead]

ooid said:

Nice pad in the smoke



http://www.urbanspaces.co.uk/property-details/2-be...

Lovely place. Not sure id want to live in the location though but lovely flat.

[p1stonhead]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/media/rightmove...

nails it again for you lot here on PH

Oh dear that's spot on for me and the missus

[Rostfritt]

ooid said:

4 bedrooms, newly built terrace houses in Victoria Park (East London, Bow) - Only one of the houses in the picture below-. No car parking, and quite crowded side of the river? Price tag 1 million GBP



http://www.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/43728708...

So any PH'ers would be willing to pay 1 million without a car-park?

That has to be the least interesting way of spending a million pounds. If you want to live by a canal, live in a boat. If you get bored of your neighbourhood, simply move somewhere else.

Saying that I recently stayed on a friends boat on the Paddington Arm near Portobello Road, the water is disgusting, full of crap floating in it and questionable things being discharged into it. Not as nice as the water if you take a trip down the Kennet and Avon.