Show us your real estate pawn (vol 3)
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Something lovely on the coast of Wales near Harlech.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/73181195
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/73181195
Edited by Zonergem on Tuesday 26th June 19:39
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DonkeyApple said:
Our place in London had a pretty well used and cheap kitchen in it when I bought it. It took a few years of living there to really know what we wanted and then I decided to splash out on a Poggenpohl kitchen. We really enjoyed it and I justified it that given the location I would easily see my money back as a buyer couldn’t chip me £50k for needing a new kitchen.
I sold the flat last year and learned that while the new owner really liked the kitchen, liked the layout, liked the colour, liked everything she really wanted a Poggenpohl kitchen so the chap that fitted ours came along, ripped it out and fitted a Poggenpohl as requested for another £40k.
Our old neighbour is convinced that it’s the same kitchen as nothing looks different apparently.
Out here we could have a really nice bespoke kitchen fitted, there are good firms locally but our plan is to be here about 10/15 years before downsizing and frankly I’d hate to sell knowing that a bespoke kitchen was just going to be binned. My current thinking is to fit Howdens units and then spend on the stone tops.
A friend of my wife’s oversaw the installation of the kitchens into 1 Hyde Park. £250k a pop appararently and every single one got ripped out and skipped by the buyers. The chaps doing the work all have some of the most expensive kitchens on the planet in their nice little South London homes.
I just struggle with this kind of waste and feel too many people are drunk on cheap debt and simply not thinking straight.
Its weird what goes on in prime London, a few years back I bought a Bulthaup kitchen with most appliances for about £9K it was £50k+ when fitted 2 years before.I sold the flat last year and learned that while the new owner really liked the kitchen, liked the layout, liked the colour, liked everything she really wanted a Poggenpohl kitchen so the chap that fitted ours came along, ripped it out and fitted a Poggenpohl as requested for another £40k.
Our old neighbour is convinced that it’s the same kitchen as nothing looks different apparently.
Out here we could have a really nice bespoke kitchen fitted, there are good firms locally but our plan is to be here about 10/15 years before downsizing and frankly I’d hate to sell knowing that a bespoke kitchen was just going to be binned. My current thinking is to fit Howdens units and then spend on the stone tops.
A friend of my wife’s oversaw the installation of the kitchens into 1 Hyde Park. £250k a pop appararently and every single one got ripped out and skipped by the buyers. The chaps doing the work all have some of the most expensive kitchens on the planet in their nice little South London homes.
I just struggle with this kind of waste and feel too many people are drunk on cheap debt and simply not thinking straight.
There was enough units, with a bit of thought and use of an odd Ikea bit here and there to do 3 BTL flats, my garage and I recon another 2 flats with mix and matching in storage.
Bloody brilliant it is,
Edited by nikaiyo2 on Wednesday 27th June 11:52
Current interiors could go into the nightmares thread.
Boycott Manor, Stowe. £5,750,000 (sold for £3m in 2013).
Current decor on here - https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5138943/ looks like someone used a Candy & Candy brochure to do it. Check out the Turkish "entertainment" room.
Used to look like this.
Boycott Manor, Stowe. £5,750,000 (sold for £3m in 2013).
Current decor on here - https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5138943/ looks like someone used a Candy & Candy brochure to do it. Check out the Turkish "entertainment" room.
Used to look like this.
FourWheelDrift said:
Current decor on here - https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5138943/ looks like someone used a Candy & Candy brochure to do it. Check out the Turkish "entertainment" room.
OMG! Mind you, there are several rooms that could be used for "entertaining". They could do with signs up to tell you where you are - as in some of the other rooms.Not pawn yet, but a doer upper with considerable potential just down the road from me
Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Zonergem said:
Something lovely on the coast of Wales near Harlech.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/73181195
properly brilliant househttp://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/73181195
Edited by Zonergem on Tuesday 26th June 19:39
JPJPJP said:
Not pawn yet, but a doer upper with considerable potential just down the road from me
Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Visited it a few years ago (work related). It really is magnificent, if very neglected now. Hope it goes to someone with enough money and, crucially, taste to give it the love it deserves. Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
JPJPJP said:
Not pawn yet, but a doer upper with considerable potential just down the road from me
Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Sat on a sofa in St Malo looking at that with the Mrs. Only has 6.5 acres so they're keeping the parkland. What's it worth without any land to speak of and the onus on you to make major repairs to a Grade II listed building? £700k? You could dump a million into fixing it and I don't see who'd want to buy it, not that Langton/Westow/Garrowby isn't a lovely part of the world/Wolds. Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, YO17
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
Zonergem said:
Sat on a sofa in St Malo looking at that with the Mrs. Only has 6.5 acres so they're keeping the parkland. What's it worth without any land to speak of and the onus on you to make major repairs to a Grade II listed building? £700k? You could dump a million into fixing it and I don't see who'd want to buy it, not that Langton/Westow/Garrowby isn't a lovely part of the world/Wolds.
6 1/2 acres is still a lot of land but as you say it needs a hell of a lot of work and demolition of some of the less desirable outbuildings. Zonergem said:
Sat on a sofa in St Malo looking at that with the Mrs. Only has 6.5 acres so they're keeping the parkland. What's it worth without any land to speak of and the onus on you to make major repairs to a Grade II listed building? £700k? You could dump a million into fixing it and I don't see who'd want to buy it, not that Langton/Westow/Garrowby isn't a lovely part of the world/Wolds.
I agree. I do think there will be a lot of interest. After all, it has never been for sale before.However, I think that interest will fade very quickly on viewing. It is in a right state. I peered through the fence the other day when I cycled past.
FourWheelDrift said:
Current interiors could go into the nightmares thread.
Boycott Manor, Stowe. £5,750,000 (sold for £3m in 2013).
Current decor on here - https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5138943/ looks like someone used a Candy & Candy brochure to do it. Check out the Turkish "entertainment" room.
It's like school in summer. No class. Boycott Manor, Stowe. £5,750,000 (sold for £3m in 2013).
Current decor on here - https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5138943/ looks like someone used a Candy & Candy brochure to do it. Check out the Turkish "entertainment" room.
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