Show us your real estate pawn (vol 3)

[DonkeyApple]

mattyn1 said:

Last year I posted a place in Florida up for nearly $30M. I saw a gradual asking price reduction over the year to about $27M. Apparently this has now sold for only $13.5M.

That is some drop..... at least 50%. Is that normal for these mega houses? Assuming the agent advised in the value I would be fairly annoyed!!

I suppose this is proof speculative offers sometimes work.... whatever the price!

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/...

Whether it is the case here but with a lot of the serious high end stuff the amount published as the sale price is just the amount of ‘onshore’ and therefore traceable, money used in the transaction

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

TomCI said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

I love pretty much love everything about this. In my home town of Southwell, Notts.

Until not that many years ago it was rendered, what moron would bury that beautiful brickwork?!

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

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Monday 18th June 21:15

Edited by Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah on Monday 18th June 21:23

Another one from The Well!

back at you! Can't say I recognise your name, not that I know everyone there.....

[Escort3500]

Jobbo said:

Zonergem said:

silentbrown said:

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5106618/

This just on today, not so far from us. Obviously in need of a serious freshen up internally, and the running costs could be pretty challenging.

We could block up the cellar and top floor and still rattle around in it.

By serious freshen-up do you mean "replace the blue carpet in the dining room and the wallpaper in the master bedroom"? Other than that I could live in that very happily just as it is.

Absolutely- I love that and wouldn’t change much at all.

Nor me, it’s nigh on perfect.

[Gameface]

louiebaby said:

I'd be fairly happy in the coach house if I got the garage / workshop, but I suspect the main house would be a better family home. Victorian Rectory anyone?

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

Staircase in main house is like a gallows...

[leglessAlex]

Escort3500 said:

Jobbo said:

Zonergem said:

silentbrown said:

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5106618/

This just on today, not so far from us. Obviously in need of a serious freshen up internally, and the running costs could be pretty challenging.

We could block up the cellar and top floor and still rattle around in it.

By serious freshen-up do you mean "replace the blue carpet in the dining room and the wallpaper in the master bedroom"? Other than that I could live in that very happily just as it is.

Absolutely- I love that and wouldn’t change much at all.

Nor me, it’s nigh on perfect.

I'd be in the freshening up camp, but it's a wonderful space. Those gardens are gorgeous, so is the Wisteria up the side of the house.

[mattyn1]

DonkeyApple said:

Whether it is the case here but with a lot of the serious high end stuff the amount published as the sale price is just the amount of ‘onshore’ and therefore traceable, money used in the transaction

Didn’t think of that!!

[mattyn1]

leglessAlex said:

Escort3500 said:

Jobbo said:

Zonergem said:

silentbrown said:

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5106618/

This just on today, not so far from us. Obviously in need of a serious freshen up internally, and the running costs could be pretty challenging.

We could block up the cellar and top floor and still rattle around in it.

By serious freshen-up do you mean "replace the blue carpet in the dining room and the wallpaper in the master bedroom"? Other than that I could live in that very happily just as it is.

Absolutely- I love that and wouldn’t change much at all.

Nor me, it’s nigh on perfect.

I'd be in the freshening up camp, but it's a wonderful space. Those gardens are gorgeous, so is the Wisteria up the side of the house.

It needs a little fettling but you could all be right..... almost perfect!

[bob-lad]

Harry Flashman said:

OK - you asked!



My kitchen may not be to your taste, but I didn't feel the need to take out cornicing and ceiling roses (I refitted the latter, actually) and make the place look like a new build. Contrast it with the clinical, cold way the developers have done that listed York house.

This. Excellent work there.

It's exactly this attention to detail, taste and style that's lacking in the ruined York house.

Well done sir.

[bob-lad]

louiebaby said:

I'd be fairly happy in the coach house if I got the garage / workshop, but I suspect the main house would be a better family home. Victorian Rectory anyone?

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

Very nice. Could do with a bit more in the way of grounds and a lot less in the way of proximity to a primary school.

[Jonesy23]

DonkeyApple said:

mattyn1 said:

Last year I posted a place in Florida up for nearly $30M. I saw a gradual asking price reduction over the year to about $27M. Apparently this has now sold for only $13.5M.

That is some drop..... at least 50%. Is that normal for these mega houses? Assuming the agent advised in the value I would be fairly annoyed!!

I suppose this is proof speculative offers sometimes work.... whatever the price!

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/...

Whether it is the case here but with a lot of the serious high end stuff the amount published as the sale price is just the amount of ‘onshore’ and therefore traceable, money used in the transaction

One I know of at the very top end of the market (non-US location) officially went for about a third less than asking (an 8 digit discount). Given there was zero pressure to sell, competition to buy and those involved on both sides aren't idiots I suspect there was some structure to the deal.

[ghost83]

i have a soft spot for this house atm

https://www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sal...

[DKL]

leglessAlex said:

Escort3500 said:

Jobbo said:

Zonergem said:

silentbrown said:

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5106618/

This just on today, not so far from us. Obviously in need of a serious freshen up internally, and the running costs could be pretty challenging.

We could block up the cellar and top floor and still rattle around in it.

By serious freshen-up do you mean "replace the blue carpet in the dining room and the wallpaper in the master bedroom"? Other than that I could live in that very happily just as it is.

Absolutely- I love that and wouldn’t change much at all.

Nor me, it’s nigh on perfect.

I'd be in the freshening up camp, but it's a wonderful space. Those gardens are gorgeous, so is the Wisteria up the side of the house.

It is beautiful but there isn't a garage. This is PH after all. There is a cider house that is some compensation.

[Anglade]

p1stonhead said:

Or we can recognise when a building has been utterly stripped of all of its original appealing features and left with a crappy new build interior.

To be fair to the developers; given the fact that the building is listed it’s almost certain that the “original appealing features” of the interior were stripped out long ago - as they wouldn’t have been allowed to remove anything of historical/ architectural importance as part of the renovation...

[Jonesy23]

The problem is they restored the exterior in a way that leaves it looking like a modern pastiche rather than original.

The interior is generic blandness. True rip and replace stuff that could be on any new build estate.

[Gameface]

ghost83 said:

i have a soft spot for this house atm

https://www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sal...

That is a very confused property IMO.

It looks like it's been decorated by each member of the family and they drew lots for who gets which room.

[louiebaby]

Meridius said:

Quite like this place in Bridgnorth, big garden as well considering its right in the town

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

Looks great...

[louiebaby]

bob-lad said:

Very nice. Could do with a bit more in the way of grounds and a lot less in the way of proximity to a primary school.

I think proximity to a school can be a bit of a mixed bag, and we're within a hundred yards of a large secondary school. (Primary schools will be slightly different, admittedly.)

You kind of trade off playtime noise and school-run traffic for being in a place that is likely to have traffic calming / 20 mph limits all the time. The type of person running the school and their attitude to the local residents can make a huge difference. At my kid's Primary school, when there is an event on which will cause a lot of parents to park near the school, they send staff out with walkie-talkies to look for inconsiderate parking, and then call it out over the PA System to get it sorted before the residents get a chance to complain.

I would class school proximity as a consideration, rather than a deal breaker. The proximity of a church and the bells would be more of a worry for me, for example.

[Andrew[MG]]

Interesting bit of artwork to wake up to each morning https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[Graemsay]

Tiny, mid-eighteenth century chapel conversion in Amsterdam.

https://www.funda.nl/koop/amsterdam/huis-86051322-...

[pidsy]

Graemsay said:

Tiny, mid-eighteenth century chapel conversion in Amsterdam.

https://www.funda.nl/koop/amsterdam/huis-86051322-...

€675k for something that small?

50sqm. Its cool but not that cool.