Real Estate nightmares

[jakesmith]

Sticks. said:

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...

That place is utterly vile. Much older inside than out. Tiny cramped dark little rooms. Zero charm. Sorry that’s just a plot.

[Plate spinner]

jakesmith said:

That place is utterly vile. Much older inside than out. Tiny cramped dark little rooms. Zero charm. Sorry that’s just a plot.

Even the living room wall seems unhappy to be there...

[RadoVR6]

The price is over £1.1m.

I wonder why they chose the put the picture of the front last.

Street view is even better.

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

[AstonZagato]

I think we've had that before. I recall wondering why the bedroom in picture 18 was finished in breeze block before realising that it is a wallpaper that looks like breeze block.

[snake_oil]

m3jappa said:

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

It's just awful in every way. The whole street is an overbuilt bad taste disaster. But seriously, what's going on with the roof tiles? Never seen that before.

[Pdelamare]

I drive past these houses often, you can see right into them, they’re literally only a few feet from each other also.

[Johnny Raydome]

Plate spinner said:

jakesmith said:

That place is utterly vile. Much older inside than out. Tiny cramped dark little rooms. Zero charm. Sorry that’s just a plot.

Even the living room wall seems unhappy to be there...

[.:ian:.]

Pdelamare said:

I drive past these houses often, you can see right into them, they’re literally only a few feet from each other also.

On the orthogonal satellite view, it seems they built the three identical McMansions first, with a big chunk of space between, then infilled later. I hope no-one was duped into buying one before the infill houses sprouted.

[Zippee]

Pdelamare said:

I drive past these houses often, you can see right into them, they’re literally only a few feet from each other also.

Likewise. God only knows why they built them where they did as it's a lot nicer in the estate (not my ideal but a lot nicer than next to a busy road)

[kurt535]

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

This isn't too far from me; Id never live in a village ever again but the bunga could be utterly stunning - i love it!

[Ace-T]

Plate spinner said:

jakesmith said:

That place is utterly vile. Much older inside than out. Tiny cramped dark little rooms. Zero charm. Sorry that’s just a plot.

Even the living room wall seems unhappy to be there...

Looking at the outside, that doesn't look like a timber framed house to me. Or even one that had a brick skin around it. I may be wrong though but it looks like a later 1800's house that has been 'cottagey-fied' in the 1970s. Rip all that crap out along with the dark kitchen and you probably have the bones of a solid house.

Thread winner for me has to be the Milton Keynes prison. Well played sir!

[ClaphamGT3]

kurt535 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

This isn't too far from me; Id never live in a village ever again but the bunga could be utterly stunning - i love it!

It's got a helicopter pad

[silentbrown]

Just showed that one to Mrs SB. She's gone into 2019 traumatised.

"Tell people on Pistonheads not to post things like that!". So I'm telling you, for all the good it will do

Happy New Year!

[g3org3y]

bungz said:

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.

[CoolHands]

ClaphamGT3 said:

kurt535 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

This isn't too far from me; Id never live in a village ever again but the bunga could be utterly stunning - i love it!

It's got a helicopter pad

It makes me think of meet the fockers

[M3333]

seiben said:

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

I would actually happily move into that and live a very comfortable existence. Admittedly not to my taste but something very welcoming and appealing about it. I think i have had to much wine and mince pies.

[thebraketester]

Cool looking house. Dreadfully furnished.

[dmsims]

Back to the MK Colditz for a moment

Not content with the fabulous view of an elevated main road you have this delightful vista



whlist less than 20 miles away https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Edited by dmsims on Tuesday 1st January 16:58

[silentbrown]

Link fixed:-

dmsims said:

(whilst less than 20 miles away https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop... )

No balconies on that, though.

[Gareth79]

Sticks. said:

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...

The conservatory in photo 7 doesn't look very relaxing :/ Also I'd trip over and smash that pot in the middle within 5 minutes.