Show us your real estate pawn (vol 3)

[akirk]

anonymous said:

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yup - Yoo development, very nice in comparison wih the other sets of garden shed sold around the Cotswold Water Puddles, but still a fake make-believe pretend environment... but as Dayesford and Soho farmhouse are both over-rated, location isn't too bad, and as I live in the next village, I can confirm that actually it is a great area if you get stuck in and don't lock yourself away in fairy-land...

As for celeb locals, Mr Wikipedia has just bought a house in our village, as has Mick Jagger (and daughter Jade); Emma Watson and Jason Donovan live nearby, Kate Moss in the next village, the whole place is stuffed full of well known people. When they get involved in the community, they are made welcome and treated like anyone else, othherwise they are generally ignored or told to get back in their box! No-one is particularly impressed by their being well known, and the few who try and throw their weight around are soon put in their place!

Loads of really nice old-school people locally / young families / normal people as well... it is a good community, where you can buy a lovely house for a lot less and live amongst interesting people...

[bob-lad]

CardinalFang said:

Have we had this?

https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/491...

Lacks a few nice to have's - multiple garaging for me & a field for Mrs Fang's wish list Alpacas, but with that location & those views, sits pretty much in the goldilocks category. A bit unadventurous/unassuming compared to some of the sandbanks-lite properties nearby, but not too big, not too small, not too new, not too old, manageable land, village has a good pub, good village shop, couple of lovely little coves 5 minutes away; a spa hotel thingy to save me having to build a swimming pool & a great walk (which we did a couple of weeks ago) over the coastal path to Bantham which has a brilliant beach & good little pub.

I'd extend a proper balcony from the main bedroom to make a covered dining/BBQ area on the front terrace; refresh the kitchen (can't be doing with an Aga, sorry) & bathrooms & that's probably about it.

£13mill on Saturday is it? CF

No field for alpacas only a small 0.5 acre garden.

It looks like a bungalow with a loft conversion and a plastic greenhouse nailed on the front.

[Escort3500]

CardinalFang said:

Have we had this?

https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/491...

Lacks a few nice to have's - multiple garaging for me & a field for Mrs Fang's wish list Alpacas, but with that location & those views, sits pretty much in the goldilocks category. A bit unadventurous/unassuming compared to some of the sandbanks-lite properties nearby, but not too big, not too small, not too new, not too old, manageable land, village has a good pub, good village shop, couple of lovely little coves 5 minutes away; a spa hotel thingy to save me having to build a swimming pool & a great walk (which we did a couple of weeks ago) over the coastal path to Bantham which has a brilliant beach & good little pub.

I'd extend a proper balcony from the main bedroom to make a covered dining/BBQ area on the front terrace; refresh the kitchen (can't be doing with an Aga, sorry) & bathrooms & that's probably about it.

£13mill on Saturday is it? CF

They must be charging £1.5m for the location. Characterless ‘60’s architecture with equally mundane attempt at modernisation. It’s a no from me I’m afraid.

[bob-lad]

JF87 said:

Probably too close to Sittingbourne for some tastes, but this has to be the grandest £1.5 million residence in the south-east.



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

I like this. Grand frontage but deceptively small interior.

Surely the dining room and the drawing room are the wrong way around.
Presumably the current owners don't entertain much, with that tiny 4 seat table in what should probably be the snug.

Probably far enough away from the M2 to not hear it.


I can imagine being given a bottle of red and told to go out on the mower and not come back until it's finished.

I like it.

[DonkeyApple]

Also, given that estate agents use magic cameras that make rooms appear twice as wide as they actually are, some of these rooms looks suspiciously like corridors.

You are also surrounded by nowhere you would ever want to step foot near. Every time you just want to nip to the shops it’s going to be like walking into a DSS office or STD clinic. And parking your car is going to feel very uncomfortable.

[JF87]

Yes, you know you're in trouble when Maidstone gets touted as the best-bet shopping option. Mind you, still think I'd prefer it to the twunt-magnet that is Chipping Norton (having been born there I'm allowed to say this).

[dmsims]

DonkeyApple said:

You are also surrounded by nowhere you would ever want to step foot near. Every time you just want to nip to the shops it’s going to be like walking into a DSS office or STD clinic. And parking your car is going to feel very uncomfortable.

You won't have to go far, trampoline alert at the bottom of the garden

[PositronicRay]

bob-lad said:

Probably far enough away from the M2 to not hear it.

It's only a mile so I wouldn't be so sure, still it'll mask the noise of the M20 and the A249. Imagine one fine day, you'll want to take the dogs for a run, and keep bumping into bloody motorways.

[ianrb]

Have we had this yet?

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

I think it used to belong to the Queen Mother.

[Fermit and Sarah]

ianrb said:

Have we had this yet?

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

I think it used to belong to the Queen Mother.

Having its own pub almost makes it worth the asking price alone!

You could make a serious living out of it being a wedding venue too, you'd easy be able to charge £5k a wedding before extras for such a setting.

[Doofus]

Fermit and Sarah said:

ianrb said:

Have we had this yet?

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

I think it used to belong to the Queen Mother.

Having its own pub almost makes it worth the asking price alone!

You could make a serious living out of it being a wedding venue too, you'd easy be able to charge £5k a wedding before extras for such a setting.

Knight Frank said:

Ackergill Tower is remote but easily accessible

[Bonefish Blues]

Doofus said:

Fermit and Sarah said:

ianrb said:

Have we had this yet?

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

I think it used to belong to the Queen Mother.

Having its own pub almost makes it worth the asking price alone!

You could make a serious living out of it being a wedding venue too, you'd easy be able to charge £5k a wedding before extras for such a setting.

Knight Frank said:

Ackergill Tower is remote but easily accessible

It's just up the road from Wick Airport and about an hour and a half from Inverness IIRC. Amazing place in a stunning location - stayed there for a long weekend a few years ago with a company, fished in the lochan behind the green hut, walked to the ruined castle up the coast, drank to ridiculous excess, had a beachside BBQ, killed some clays, got piped into dinner. Nothing memorable at all, really.

No expert, but everything looked to be immaculately maintained, too.

Oh, forgot, we visited the sthole that is John O Groats, too.

[C Lee Farquar]

CardinalFang said:

Strangled with Trev's own fair hands - at least that's what we told our London-ite godchildren. Best to be open with them when it comes to the realities of country life, I feel...

His pigs are long gone now he has planning permission.

Express kebabs are very good, and it's very clean. This doesn't appear to be detrimental to the taste.

[DonkeyApple]

Fermit and Sarah said:

ianrb said:

Have we had this yet?

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

I think it used to belong to the Queen Mother.

Having its own pub almost makes it worth the asking price alone!

You could make a serious living out of it being a wedding venue too, you'd easy be able to charge £5k a wedding before extras for such a setting.

My first thought was that it was up for sale precisely because it had failed to make any kind of living as a wedding venue.

Bought in 2009, fully kitted out for weddings, now the owners are bailing. You’d want to look at the 9 years of accounts to try and work out why it has been a failure.

My guess is that it costs a fortune to run as a venue, is highly seasonal and can only cater for a very particular size of wedding party and is operating in a very competitive market. And is located almost as far away from civilisation as is possible in the U.K. and the weather is near guaranteed to be crap.

I suspect that once most brides have realised just how much it is going to cost to fly in and transport 32 couples, cover the accommodation and then feed them some barely edible muck all in the wind and rain she will be informing the groom that he can wear his fancy little tutu at the villa in the Tuscan hills instead.

[mattyn1]

Stereotypically grey - but with a splash of colour this would be lovely!

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential...

[Bonefish Blues]

Looks like vacant possession.

[Doofus]

It's five million five hundred thousand pounds. Five.

[FourWheelDrift]

Doofus said:

It's five million five hundred thousand pounds. Five.

That's only for the black & white version, for colour it's more.

[Doofus]

FourWheelDrift said:

That's only for the black & white version, for colour it's more.

[E24man]

FourWheelDrift said:

Doofus said:

It's five million five hundred thousand pounds. Five.

That's only for the black & white version, for colour it's more.

A good throwing arm might reach the M25 from the garden...