Real Estate nightmares

[FourWheelDrift]

dmsims said:

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

It is a nice place and a good location if anyone has driven through, it's a road going through a massive village green with big houses set back a long way from the road. But it has been on the market for a long time, longer than the listed date as it get relisted. Not sure if it's because of the price, the nearby zoo (escaping Rhinos or Wallabys), tourist visitors, or proximity to Luton but something is stopping it from selling.

[Chris Type R]

FourWheelDrift said:

It is a nice place and a good location if anyone has driven through, it's a road going through a massive village green with big houses set back a long way from the road. But it has been on the market for a long time, longer than the listed date as it get relisted. Not sure if it's because of the price, the nearby zoo (escaping Rhinos or Wallabys), tourist visitors, or proximity to Luton but something is stopping it from selling.

No idea, but might it be impacted by HS2 ?

[FourWheelDrift]

Nope, it's a long way from HS2.

[Camoradi]

RadoVR6 said:

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...

Truly awful. The Milton Keynes house with the added disadvantage of being closer to the arctic circle.

I'd have recurring nightmares about being trapped in the "Breakout" arcade game if I slept in that bedroom

[ElectricSoup]

Camoradi said:

RadoVR6 said:

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...

Truly awful. The Milton Keynes house with the added disadvantage of being closer to the arctic circle.

I'd have recurring nightmares about being trapped in the "Breakout" arcade game if I slept in that bedroom

Just waiting for Middlesbrough FC (or, less likely, Sunderland ) to get promotion to the Premier League. Then it'll sell.

[Sticks.]

Gareth79 said:

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.

True. Probably noisy from the planes going to the airfield too.

[Flibble]

Sticks. said:

Gareth79 said:

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.

True. Probably noisy from the planes going to the airfield too.

Is the airfield that noisy? Looks like a tiny place.

[CPWilliams]

RadoVR6 said:

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...

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

[Sticks.]

Flibble said:

Is the airfield that noisy? Looks like a tiny place.

It can be, particularly in Summer and when there's parachuting.

[FourWheelDrift]

Sticks. said:

Flibble said:

Is the airfield that noisy? Looks like a tiny place.

It can be, particularly in Summer and when there's parachuting.

Yeah all those skydivers with parachutes that haven't opened screaming all the way down before thudding into the petunias I suppose could get tiresome.

[dmsims]

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

[FourWheelDrift]

dmsims said:

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

This makes me laugh, big strong electric gates for security and a little fence a child can jump over - https://goo.gl/maps/r4iVq4W4o2q

[m3jappa]

FourWheelDrift said:

dmsims said:

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

This makes me laugh, big strong electric gates for security and a little fence a child can jump over - https://goo.gl/maps/r4iVq4W4o2q

Whilst i get why people may mock the place i don't actually mind it I am sure once all the newly planted hedges have established around perimeters and the bright red tarmac dulls down a bit i reckon it will look alright.

[Escort3500]

dmsims said:

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

Tawdry mock-Georgian architecture lacking any design finesse or quality. It’s a shame that good British architects and clients with imagination are so thin on the ground.

[M3333]

m3jappa said:

FourWheelDrift said:

dmsims said:

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

This makes me laugh, big strong electric gates for security and a little fence a child can jump over - https://goo.gl/maps/r4iVq4W4o2q

Whilst i get why people may mock the place i don't actually mind it I am sure once all the newly planted hedges have established around perimeters and the bright red tarmac dulls down a bit i reckon it will look alright.

I know this estate quite well, a mate of mine does a lot of contract electrical work. It is part of Wynyard Hall, owned by Sir John Hall who built the Metro Centre and owned Newcastle united. Quite a few footballers lived here and Duncan Bannatyne before his Mrs cleaned him out

I agree with a lot of the comments here, around this way many aspire to live here, its full of new money Richer than you snobbery types, its my worst nightmare. For the same money i would love somewhere a lot nicer.

[Flibble]

FourWheelDrift said:

Sticks. said:

Flibble said:

Is the airfield that noisy? Looks like a tiny place.

It can be, particularly in Summer and when there's parachuting.

Yeah all those skydivers with parachutes that haven't opened screaming all the way down before thudding into the petunias I suppose could get tiresome.

Seems overstated. It's a couple of miles away and a tiny regional airport. I live about that distance from a major airport and its not that big a deal.

[bazza white]

m3jappa said:

FourWheelDrift said:

dmsims said:

CPWilliams said:

I'd encourage everyone to take a look around the northern part of the estate on Street View, what a bizarre place! Looks like a bad American movie set

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6422385,-1.35875,3...

God that's grim Dallas meets the North of England

This makes me laugh, big strong electric gates for security and a little fence a child can jump over - https://goo.gl/maps/r4iVq4W4o2q

Whilst i get why people may mock the place i don't actually mind it I am sure once all the newly planted hedges have established around perimeters and the bright red tarmac dulls down a bit i reckon it will look alright.

Keep going and you get to the village end.


That cctv camera

[FourWheelDrift]

Combination of the Village of the Damned and the Stepford Wives.

[Otispunkmeyer]

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 like that! Well, not to live in, but as a bit of a curiosity to look around and admire some bygone decades style...sure!

[Sticks.]

Flibble said:

Seems overstated. It's a couple of miles away and a tiny regional airport. I live about that distance from a major airport and its not that big a deal.

It's in the circuit, so Summer days can mean frequent flying overhead @1k ft. Not as bad as Heathrow, but enough to affect sitting outside, or on a conservatory.