Real Estate nightmares

[dmsims]

FourWheelDrift said:

Horrible for so many reasons, before you even see the price.

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

Ugly new build rear is unsurprisingly worse than the gopping front, on the end of a row with a dodgy looking underpass to the main road that runs right along the rear giving road users a nice look into the first floor windows and garden. Interior design by bedlam lunatic asylum's shiny floor department. A burglar's paradise with multiple exit routes to all areas.

The view from the main road - https://goo.gl/maps/GPnRV71idJy


Ps. £1.6m all those big glass windows at the front and they go cheap on the door - https://goo.gl/maps/YBjrrsrsPbm

A modern day Colditz

Weeds all round the front, peeling stain

Nice matching of materials with neighbours massive fence

Miniscule garden

Thread winner ?

[castex]

No. I find myself charmed by the rear balcony hideaway. Why wouldn't they take photos?

[anonymous-user]

sooo new money.

[Flibble]

Genuinely one of the most charmless heaps to grace this thread. A strong contender.
I wouldn't pay £1.65 let alone £1.65 million.

[dmsims]

I"ll bet there is very high concentration of Evoque's and RRS's

[ThorB]

There’s no garage !!!!

[ClaphamGT3]

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

[Escort3500]

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Dear God, that interior

[PositronicRay]

Escort3500 said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Dear God, that interior

I can see that kitchen back in vogue.

[Escort3500]

PositronicRay said:

Escort3500 said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Dear God, that interior

I can see that kitchen back in vogue.

They do say everything goes full circle

[seiben]

PositronicRay said:

Escort3500 said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Dear God, that interior

I can see that kitchen back in vogue.

I actually sort of like that, in a "I'd never actually buy it" kind of way

[bungz]

castex said:

No. I find myself charmed by the rear balcony hideaway. Why wouldn't they take photos?

A nice table for two, couple of G and T's watching the HGV thunder pass at eye level. Whats not to like.

Whole development looks absolutely soulless.

Thread winner for me.

[m3jappa]

bungz said:

A nice table for two, couple of G and T's watching the HGV thunder pass at eye level. Whats not to like.

Whole development looks absolutely soulless.

Thread winner for me.

And me too.
It is simply shocking, i am amazed that someone designed it, someone signed off the whole development, someone built it and someone actually bought it, i am even more amazed it is up for sale for 1.6m and that i am sure someone will buy it.

IF the house had a few design changes im sure it could be made ok, its a lump of a house. However the tiny tiny garden which backs onto a rapists ally which takes you on a journey beneath what looks like an A road is something else, why has no one planted any trees to shield it a bit? Without looking at maps but looking at the roof id assume the back is north facing too.

The street itself looks totally st as well, baron verges covered in weeds, just to entice you in

Totally totally grim for a price which would buy a very nice place almost anywhere else in the country.

I also like some of the agents notes, describing how the cctv can be accessed- via the internet!!! yes it really is the future in there!

but my favourite note i haven't see before on a house listing:

1. MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS - Intending purchasers will be asked to produce identification documentation at a later stage and we would ask for your co-operation in order that there will be no delay in agreeing the sale.

Does that say the type of people they are expecting to view it

Edited by m3jappa on Monday 31st December 10:06

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

I suspect the person who buys the £1.6m pad will be someone who actually likes that there is such a busy road behind his house. He'll drive a chaved up Continental, and his Mrs a likewise Range of some sort. The fact that thousands every day will 'adore' their success will be a draw, not the negative it would be to anyone else. With taste.

[jakesmith]

seiben said:

I actually sort of like that, in a "I'd never actually buy it" kind of way

The irony is that style of kitchen is very similar to the current look with an island, plain fronted cabinets. Make that a grey colour and change the wallpaper and it could be the kitchen from the £1.6m Milton Keynes prison

That’s one hell of a lot of property for the money too. Lick of paint, curtains / blinds, carpets, would make a lovely home

[Sticks.]

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

I saw a place with a kitchen that colour but probably a decade older. It did look cool, so in time.....

I'm not sure this counts as a nightmare but I wouldn't like to wake up in the purple bedroom and the whole place gives me the creeps - partly due to the furniture.

You'd have to enjoy the noise of planes too.

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

[FourWheelDrift]

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Apart from the obvious, whenever an advert starts "An architect designed family house..." it seems to be the estate agents go to phrase now to try and cover up something hideous.

[PorkInsider]

seiben said:

I actually sort of like that, in a "I'd never actually buy it" kind of way

Yep. Me too.

It's utterly bonkers but I like the bar in particular. Again, in a "if it was someone else's I'd quite like visiting", kind of way.

[ClaphamGT3]

FourWheelDrift said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

I give you this beauty;

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/forest-h...

Admittedly sold a few years ago now but it belonged to the parents of an old school friend of mine. The brochure shots are just how I remember it in the early 80s

The owner had a Suffolk red Lagonda

Apart from the obvious, whenever an advert starts "An architect designed family house..." seems to be the estate agents go to phrase now to try and cover up something hideous.

The couple who had it built and whose son went to school with me were lovely, genuine people and he was unbelievably hard working and successful but they were very new money in a very 80s way. The house was rather disparagingly known by the school mummies as "Brockley Corner Leisure Centre"

[the tribester]

dmsims said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Horrible for so many reasons, before you even see the price.

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

Ugly new build rear is unsurprisingly worse than the gopping front, on the end of a row with a dodgy looking underpass to the main road that runs right along the rear giving road users a nice look into the first floor windows and garden. Interior design by bedlam lunatic asylum's shiny floor department. A burglar's paradise with multiple exit routes to all areas.

The view from the main road - https://goo.gl/maps/GPnRV71idJy


Ps. £1.6m all those big glass windows at the front and they go cheap on the door - https://goo.gl/maps/YBjrrsrsPbm

A modern day Colditz

Weeds all round the front, peeling stain

Nice matching of materials with neighbours massive fence

Miniscule garden

Thread winner ?

And Zoopla say last sold in Aug 2017 for £1,000,000, but their valuation today £965,000.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/48-queensbury-la...

does it look like it's improved that much?