Show us your real estate pawn (Vol 4)

[MDMA .]

likesachange said:

MDMA . said:

Or maybe a castle if that's your thing. Needs more cars in the underground garage.

https://www.sothebysrealty.be/en/castle-manor-for-...

Spectacular.. Wonder if its worth what it cost to refurbish it!!

Garage contents are on the video.

https://youtu.be/cNoLLLhBd6c

[anonymous-user]

It is rare for a £2.5m semi to come on the market in York, so for that alone it earns a place here

Tadcaster Road, York
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

[Doofus]

MDMA . said:

likesachange said:

MDMA . said:

Or maybe a castle if that's your thing. Needs more cars in the underground garage.

https://www.sothebysrealty.be/en/castle-manor-for-...

Spectacular.. Wonder if its worth what it cost to refurbish it!!

Garage contents are on the video.

https://youtu.be/cNoLLLhBd6c

It is, to repeat, spectacular. Too big for just me and the wife, though...

[Escort3500]

JPJPJP said:

It is rare for a £2.5m semi to come on the market in York, so for that alone it earns a place here

Tadcaster Road, York
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Pricey but nice. Only drawbacks I can see are traffic noise and drunks on race day.

[Your Dad]

Escort3500 said:

JPJPJP said:

It is rare for a £2.5m semi to come on the market in York, so for that alone it earns a place here

Tadcaster Road, York
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Pricey but nice. Only drawbacks I can see are traffic noise and drunks on race day.

And a healthcare clinic next door, but useful if you fancy a colonic.

[TTmonkey]

Doofus said:

MDMA . said:

likesachange said:

MDMA . said:

Or maybe a castle if that's your thing. Needs more cars in the underground garage.

https://www.sothebysrealty.be/en/castle-manor-for-...

Spectacular.. Wonder if its worth what it cost to refurbish it!!

Garage contents are on the video.

https://youtu.be/cNoLLLhBd6c

It is, to repeat, spectacular. Too big for just me and the wife, though...

Too big for everyone surely. Have to be used as or for a business...

Utterly gorgeous though. Who actually lives there?

[Doofus]

TTmonkey said:

Too big for everyone surely. Have to be used as or for a business...

Utterly gorgeous though. Who actually lives there?

They're presumably Belgian, so unless it's Poirot, we won't have heard of them.

[pidsy]

Doofus said:

TTmonkey said:

Too big for everyone surely. Have to be used as or for a business...

Utterly gorgeous though. Who actually lives there?

They're presumably Belgian, so unless it's Poirot, we won't have heard of them.

What does this part of the description mean?:

[Doofus]

pidsy said:

What does this part of the description mean?:

You're buying the company that owns the castle, and that sounds to me like a caveat to say that even if the company is worthless, because it can't make any money from the castle, you still have to pay the value of the castle, which is arbitrary.

ETA, it may have something to do with foreigners being able to buy real estate in Belgium, so you have to buy through a company. I don't know, but that certainly applies elsewhere in the world.

Edited by Doofus on Thursday 29th October 20:26

[Your Dad]

pidsy said:

What does this part of the description mean?:

I'm guessing the property is owned in a company, and the house sale will be made by you buying the company and the value of the company is determined by the balance sheet.

Slightly different wording in this one:

https://www.sothebysrealty.be/en/castle-manor-for-...

Edit: what Doofus said

[pidsy]

Thanks.

Not seen that before.

[anonymous-user]

Views from this one will be good I reckon

https://www.blenkinandco.com/properties-for-sale/p...



I thought it had been sold fairly recently and it seems my memory is still working ok

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/low-grange/westo...

Looks like some substantive remodelling has taken place since: half a mill's worth?

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 1st November 08:35

[Escort3500]

Local to us. As you say, it’s in a fabulous location. Nice period property and the outbuildings are great. I’d have to get rid of some of the internal fixtures and fittings (wardrobes etc) but otherwise quite happy to give it a punt were I in the market. But not at £1.5m.

[TheJimi]

Why not at 1.5m? Area?

In the context of this thread, that's brilliant vfm, in my opinion.

[Escort3500]

I’d say £1.2m tops given what broadly comparable properties are selling locally. That said, Ryedale has seen the largest increase in enquiries from house-hunters since lockdown in the whole country according to Zoopla (“New Zoopla data revealed that house sales in the North Yorkshire district - home to the 'foodie capital' market town Malton and close to the North York Moors National Park - have risen 53 per cent between May and July compared to the same period in 2019”).

So I suspect the vendor/agents for this one are simply trying to cash in.

[anonymous-user]

According to zoopla (link in my post above), it was for sale with Carter Jonas from Jul 14 at £1.2m until it was bought in Jan 18 at £1m

Looking at the photos then and now, the internal remodelling is extensive (seemingly moving the kitchen from one end of the house to the other). The game changer is the bringing back into use of ~3,200 sq ft of outbuildings - they look great.

If it was worth £1.2m in Jul 14 as it was, then it is worth £1.5m as it is all day now. However, that Jul 14 valuation was shown to be optimistic.

Let's see

[The Moose]

MDMA . said:

likesachange said:

MDMA . said:

Or maybe a castle if that's your thing. Needs more cars in the underground garage.

https://www.sothebysrealty.be/en/castle-manor-for-...

Spectacular.. Wonder if its worth what it cost to refurbish it!!

Garage contents are on the video.

https://youtu.be/cNoLLLhBd6c

That is absolutely stunning. What’s the asking price please? (The Sotheby’s listing isn’t opening for some reason)

[RichB]

Does anyone need a room 10'x9' for a printer? Must be a bloody big printer And I get that it's 'dressed' for photography but why would you have a comfy leather club chair staring at a sheet of corrugated iron. Most of the outbuildings are small, 12' deep is no good for cars and the stables are only 15' deep. That would need a hell of a lot of reconfiguring to make it a nice place for a car collection and what with that slope on the drive area "Ah'm oot."

[DeltonaS]

Doofus said:

TTmonkey said:

Too big for everyone surely. Have to be used as or for a business...

Utterly gorgeous though. Who actually lives there?

They're presumably Belgian, so unless it's Poirot, we won't have heard of them.

The internet says Jos Vaessen, former chariman of Belgian football club RC Genk and owner of Vasco, a radiator manufacturer. Net worth in 2015 of 129m. So I guess he doens't have to sell

[Escort3500]

JPJPJP said:

According to zoopla (link in my post above), it was for sale with Carter Jonas from Jul 14 at £1.2m until it was bought in Jan 18 at £1m

Looking at the photos then and now, the internal remodelling is extensive (seemingly moving the kitchen from one end of the house to the other). The game changer is the bringing back into use of ~3,200 sq ft of outbuildings - they look great.

If it was worth £1.2m in Jul 14 as it was, then it is worth £1.5m as it is all day now. However, that Jul 14 valuation was shown to be optimistic.

Let's see

It’ll be interesting. Unfortunately, I shan’t quite be in a position to make an offer