Real Estate nightmares

[p1stonhead]

FourWheelDrift said:

Smart offices...oh not wait, it's a house. - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Bizarre floorplan, fully glazed entrance hall/stairs, no popping down for brekkies in your birthday suit.

The inside looks like an office too which they have put beds into!

Awful.

[Hoofy]

p1stonhead said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Smart offices...oh not wait, it's a house. - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Bizarre floorplan, fully glazed entrance hall/stairs, no popping down for brekkies in your birthday suit.

The inside looks like an office too which they have put beds into!

Awful.

A couple of pictures look like it could well be an office - the one with the two desks and the seminar room upstairs!

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

This travesty is about 50 metres from my parents house -

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

You may look at the outside, and think 'that's ok', but bear with me.

The house is twice the size it should be for the plot.
It is on a traditional side road, made up largely of retirement style bungalows.
Rooms which are big just for the sake of being big. You could play football in that hallway!
Olive kitchen fronts with tiger granite worktops.
A gargantuan panoramic window to the front, to stare down on some bungalows.

It's a vanity project, built only to sell it. The irony is that he could have built a high specification bungalow for a fraction of the cost, and sold it for between £4-500K, making more in the process.

Looks like I called this one correctly. It's just been pulled off the market after 4 months, apparently without a shred of interest.

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Monday 12th March 14:40

[weeboot]

FourWheelDrift said:

Smart offices...oh not wait, it's a house. - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Bizarre floorplan, fully glazed entrance hall/stairs. Squeezed 5th bedroom in and a 2nd staircase into the kitchen just opposite the main stairs as someone clearly realised no one would be able to go down for brekkies in the semi-nude through all the glazing or maybe they do!

David Wilson homes, can't say I'm surprised... Viewed a couple of their properties recently, not a fan in the slightest, peculiar internal proportions and design decisions.

[littlebasher]

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

[yajeed]

littlebasher said:

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

Photo 28 gives the game away...

[p1stonhead]

littlebasher said:

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

Someone paid £250k for that! And its basically on the motorway! Unreal.

[FourWheelDrift]

littlebasher said:

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

Follow it down the road and there's another one as well - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9534129,-1.46743...

[littlebasher]

p1stonhead said:

Someone paid £250k for that! And its basically on the motorway! Unreal.

Apparently, my folks said they really liked it and offered them more!

Seller wanted more and ultimately ended up selling for less. Lucky escape if you ask me, i mean, who in their right mind would build a house there!

[Chris Type R]

littlebasher said:

Apparently, my folks said they really liked it and offered them more!

Seller wanted more and ultimately ended up selling for less. Lucky escape if you ask me, i mean, who in their right mind would build a house there!

Seller was clearly not a bright spark.

[Flibble]

p1stonhead said:

Someone paid £250k for that! And its basically on the motorway! Unreal.

People buy the oddest properties. I've looked at a few recently that are pretty much on the motorway (sub-200m) and they seem to command a premium!

[gobuddygo]

FourWheelDrift said:

littlebasher said:

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

Follow it down the road and there's another one as well - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9534129,-1.46743...

That's ok as the've hidden it behind the fence.

[Stewss4]

Hi my uncle has just brought a house on the same road. One of the neighbours brought the land for £25 years ago. He built the house and it has been sold many of times over the years. And the electric pilons are not in use. Still not a nice thing to look at.

[DonkeyApple]

littlebasher said:

p1stonhead said:

Someone paid £250k for that! And its basically on the motorway! Unreal.

Apparently, my folks said they really liked it and offered them more!

Seller wanted more and ultimately ended up selling for less. Lucky escape if you ask me, i mean, who in their right mind would build a house there!

Something for the grandchildren to play on.

[littlebasher]

Stewss4 said:

Hi my uncle has just brought a house on the same road. One of the neighbours brought the land for £25 years ago. He built the house and it has been sold many of times over the years. And the electric pilons are not in use. Still not a nice thing to look at.

The seller said the same to my mum & dad, that the line was only energised as peak times.

They saw it twice, both times it was raining. My dad's half deaf, but he could still hear them crackling away!

[Herbs]

Not to mention the M27 behind as well

[Doofus]

Herbs said:

Not to mention the M27 behind as well

Except when it was mentioned a few posts ago

[Herbs]

Doofus said:

Except when it was mentioned a few posts ago

Coffee hasn't kicked in yet!

[Laurel Green]

p1stonhead said:

Someone paid £250k for that! And its basically on the motorway! Unreal.

That'll be the president of the Eddie Stobart spotters asociation.

[HaroldBishop]

littlebasher said:

I was having a conversation with my parents yesterday, about a bungalow that they tried to buy a few years ago

Some carefully taken photos here

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatc...


See if you can spot my immediate reservations when looking at the same house on google streetview.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9540656,-1.46567...

I think this is my favourite one so far on this thread. I can just imagine people turning up to view it who haven't looked at that last picture...