Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[Colonial]

Butter Face said:

Does £200k really buy that? Bonkers.

Nah. I reckon at least 1.5mill AUD. But houses are expensive here.

Auctions and EOIs are pretty common for prestige properties here.

[Amateurish]

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

Only 40 minutes from Euston when HS2 opens...

[Harry Flashman]

The problem with these High Speed lines is actually, they don't really help. A season ticket is still millions of pounds, and you there aren't enough trains for it to be a pleasant or convenient commute.

Witness Ashford, that oasis of lovely homes and amenities within 40 minutes of King's Cross. Not.

I'd love to live in the midlands near nice countryside yet be able to commute to my job in an hour. Completely never going to happen, which is why I am staying in South London.

[Andrew[MG]]

There are a few figures in here that might give an idea how expensive these large country houses are to maintain http://www.thenational.scot/news/14923753.Claim_ma...__lost____Argyll_and_Bute_Council_250k/

[TheLordJohn]

Colonial said:

Stunning. 30 minutes from me.

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-m...

I was sold at the library and Chesterfields...

[FourWheelDrift]

TheLordJohn said:

Colonial said:

Stunning. 30 minutes from me.

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-m...

I was sold at the library and Chesterfields...

Before it was rebuilt, 2010 - https://www.google.com/maps/@-32.7295256,151.54604...

[Amateurish]

Harry Flashman said:

The problem with these High Speed lines is actually, they don't really help. A season ticket is still millions of pounds, and you there aren't enough trains for it to be a pleasant or convenient commute.

Witness Ashford, that oasis of lovely homes and amenities within 40 minutes of King's Cross. Not.

I'd love to live in the midlands near nice countryside yet be able to commute to my job in an hour. Completely never going to happen, which is why I am staying in South London.

If you're spending £1.85m on a house, then I'm guessing the season ticket will be affordable!

I don't see why commuting shouldn't be possible, plenty do longer journeys, both in time and distance.

South London may work for you, but if you work near Euston, commuting from Northants / Warks is perfectly possible.

[Shnozz]

Amateurish said:

If you're spending £1.85m on a house, then I'm guessing the season ticket will be affordable!

I don't see why commuting shouldn't be possible, plenty do longer journeys, both in time and distance.

South London may work for you, but if you work near Euston, commuting from Northants / Warks is perfectly possible.

I took a punt on a house in Northants. Train is about an hour to Kings X.

I grew up in Hampshire and huge swathes of people (me included) would do the one hour to Waterloo every morning. Looked in an arc around London and Northants seemed to be one of few rural areas within an hours train that still had no London weighting on the prices despite what seemed a reasonable train connection (and far cheaper than the 1 hour train South to boot).

Still seems an uncommon commute, despite what seems slim pickings of high-end jobs in that neck of the woods compared to other counties with some home-grown big business centres or cities.

Ergo the house I have there hasn't gone up in value as I would like.

[anonymous-user]

p1stonhead said:

louiebaby said:

I think I could get on board with this. I think the house could be a proper family home. The garage and stable block/workshop would give me more than enough "sanctuary" from the family too. Not bad for £1.5m...





Behold, the stripey-ness of the lawn:



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

Not a lot to complain about on that one. Lovely.

About the same price as my house, but with 26 acres and outbuildings - Surrey is really overpriced damn it

[Amateurish]

Shnozz said:

Amateurish said:

If you're spending £1.85m on a house, then I'm guessing the season ticket will be affordable!

I don't see why commuting shouldn't be possible, plenty do longer journeys, both in time and distance.

South London may work for you, but if you work near Euston, commuting from Northants / Warks is perfectly possible.

I took a punt on a house in Northants. Train is about an hour to Kings X.

I grew up in Hampshire and huge swathes of people (me included) would do the one hour to Waterloo every morning. Looked in an arc around London and Northants seemed to be one of few rural areas within an hours train that still had no London weighting on the prices despite what seemed a reasonable train connection (and far cheaper than the 1 hour train South to boot).

Still seems an uncommon commute, despite what seems slim pickings of high-end jobs in that neck of the woods compared to other counties with some home-grown big business centres or cities.

Ergo the house I have there hasn't gone up in value as I would like.

I know the area around MK and loads of people do the London commute from there, either from MKC or from other nearby stations on the West Coast Mainline.

[Todd Bonzalez]

http://www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sale...

I absolutely love this interior and the building itself. Just such a shame it's looked into by a load of manky flats and has no garden/garages!

[TheLordJohn]

FourWheelDrift said:

Before it was rebuilt, 2010 - https://www.google.com/maps/@-32.7295256,151.54604...

Not done too bad a job...!

[louiebaby]

TheLordJohn said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Before it was rebuilt, 2010 - https://www.google.com/maps/@-32.7295256,151.54604...

Not done too bad a job...!

Would this now make it the most expensive house on the street by a country mile? As nice as it is (or isn't depending on your taste) it looks to be relatively ordinary street, in the suburbs. Surrounded by relatively well packed in low - middle class housing. I might be wrong, I might be a snob, I'm not sure. But I'm not sure about the location.

[Colonial]

louiebaby said:

Would this now make it the most expensive house on the street by a country mile? As nice as it is (or isn't depending on your taste) it looks to be relatively ordinary street, in the suburbs. Surrounded by relatively well packed in low - middle class housing. I might be wrong, I might be a snob, I'm not sure. But I'm not sure about the location.

Maitland is not the best area. But it is improving.

[Adam B]

Todd Bonzalez said:

http://www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sale...

I absolutely love this interior and the building itself. Just such a shame it's looked into by a load of manky flats and has no garden/garages!

Love that, although the wooden sideboard jars

[dobly]

Todd Bonzalez said:

http://www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sale...

I absolutely love this interior and the building itself. Just such a shame it's looked into by a load of manky flats and has no garden/garages!

If only the developer had been able to add a garage next to the basement room, putting an underground car lift accessed via where the bus stop is, that would have been a near-perfect town house. Add Tesla solar tiles to the roofs around the central dome and you could power much of the house (including the car lift.)
The flats are far enough away to not be a problem IMHO.

Edited by dobly on Wednesday 11th October 04:09

Edited by dobly on Wednesday 11th October 04:47

[Mark Benson]

This is in a nearby village - clearly needs damp sorting (roof and ?) and an interior refurb but priced accordingly. Add the optional paddock and it's all the house I'd ever need.

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

[768]

Mark Benson said:

Add the optional paddock and it's all the house I'd ever need.

I keep looking at houses where they've split the plot up to sell it for more. For some reason it annoys me, I don't want to buy a huge house with a relatively small garden and a potential building plot next to it.

[ben5575]

768 said:

Mark Benson said:

Add the optional paddock and it's all the house I'd ever need.

I keep looking at houses where they've split the plot up to sell it for more. For some reason it annoys me, I don't want to buy a huge house with a relatively small garden and a potential building plot next to it.

I agree. There's a particular agent around these parts that does exactly that. Extracts every possible piece of value from a property then adds 10%. If you buy new you expect to pay top dollar. If you're buying ramshackle then part of the reward for the effort of fixing it, is the value you can add. Just means I don't look at anything they are involved with.

But Aldbrough is a very nice little village though. Apart from the murders. Or was that Melsonby?

[TheLordJohn]

No matter how much I tell myself it'd be 10 times more work for 1/10 of the money, I can't help but look for a nice Scottish farm to ruin my health with after watching This Farming Life.