Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

[FourWheelDrift]

BunkMoreland said:

4 bed house, double garage, On the banks of the Thames. Sounds terrific.

Fulham London 4.3M.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/68686625...


Barret Homes of course...

Classic Barratt builds, they forgot to fit the balconies on this one.

[Huzzah]

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

[CanAm]

Steve_W said:

Not sure this is a total nightmare as such, there's quite a lot to like with the overall place/location.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/156467825#/...

It does look a bit like someone stripped a local monastery for fittings, then you get to the bathrooms!
And the kitchen was a "I want something different from the rest of the house".

It doesn't look quite so attractive from this angle.

[abzmike]

Huzzah said:

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

More like a fallerdowner…

[Pit Pony]

Huzzah said:

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

fk that for a game of soldiers. That price should include planning, and the plot cleared. There's nothing worth saving apart from a couple of beams.

[Bonefish Blues]

Pit Pony said:

Huzzah said:

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

fk that for a game of soldiers. That price should include planning, and the plot cleared. There's nothing worth saving apart from a couple of beams.

It includes full planning

[Doofus]

Bonefish Blues said:

Pit Pony said:

Huzzah said:

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

fk that for a game of soldiers. That price should include planning, and the plot cleared. There's nothing worth saving apart from a couple of beams.

It includes full planning

For the world's tiniest house.

[Pit Pony]

Bonefish Blues said:

Pit Pony said:

Huzzah said:

A doerupper.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/155525783#/...

fk that for a game of soldiers. That price should include planning, and the plot cleared. There's nothing worth saving apart from a couple of beams.

It includes full planning

In which case the estate agent is a dick. Why wouldn't you should pictures of the plans?

[Doofus]

Pit Pony said:

In which case the estate agent is a dick. Why wouldn't you should pictures of the plans?

Because the PP is for a tiny, fairly stupid house.

Edited by Doofus on Saturday 11th January 18:52

[FourWheelDrift]

The upstairs ensuite isn't very ensuite is it.

[Doofus]

FourWheelDrift said:

The upstairs ensuite isn't very ensuite is it.

It is if the landing is actually a walk-in wardrobe.

[hidetheelephants]

tim0409 said:

Drawweight said:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142236602#/...

Up for sale for more than a year now. Stuck in the corner of a farm field which was convenient for the guys business but now he’s selling up so the house is a stand alone.

I’ve just sold my house in East Lothian and I’m always scouring Right Move and that house always pops up when I search oldest listed first. It got planning permission back in 2011 and was subject to a s75 agreement that tied it to the adjacent business (the family park) as the owners accommodation, which is why it was allowed to be built on open countryside (it’s very difficult to build a single house in East Lothian in open countryside unless you can prove an operational requirement), but the condition must have been removed at some point.

Someone asked how it got planning permission…..

This kind of st is exactly why there's so little respect for council planning. S75 exists for a reason.

[tim0409]

hidetheelephants said:

his kind of st is exactly why there's so little respect for council planning. S75 exists for a reason.

I agree with you in general terms regarding s75 agreements, but to be fair to ELC in this case, the Scottish Government changed its views on restricting use of rural properties a year after this permission was granted, which allowed the owner to come back 10 years later and successfully ask for it to be discharged.

[BunkMoreland]

I think on balance this fits "nightmare" over "pawn"

6 Ped Penthouse SW6
£4.5M
4 parking spaces



https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15998262/

Yes, it's enormous! 8000 square feet no less!

But it needs a full interior really to make it feel like a home. Feels like a film set!

Pic 5 contains a staircase to nowhere! And the view of the river in pic 25 doesn't exist anymore today due to other building work. And will probably be filled with another block in due course. I wonder how much asbestos in there too!


EDIT TO ADD

Same building. Albeit not the penthouse. Some full crazys live there in that block!

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15044929/

Edited by BunkMoreland on Sunday 12th January 16:19

[CanAm]

BunkMoreland said:

EDIT TO ADD

Same building. Albeit not the penthouse. Some full crazys live there in that block!

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15044929/

Not a word in the description of the unusual removal of chunks of the walls. Weird indeed.

[abzmike]

Interesting building, and an interesting proposition for someone with the vision and budget to realise it.
Hopefully it doesn’t just get chopped into apartment boxes.
Another risk is the development happening on the riverside - that could destroy the view and a chunk of the value.

[Sporky]

On the floor plans, all three staircases go somewhere.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

CanAm said:

BunkMoreland said:

EDIT TO ADD

Same building. Albeit not the penthouse. Some full crazys live there in that block!

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15044929/

Not a word in the description of the unusual removal of chunks of the walls. Weird indeed.

Rich drugs etc owner. Looking for evidence. Owner locked up?

[BunkMoreland]

Sporky said:

On the floor plans, all three staircases go somewhere.

This is the one that confused me. Is it a sermon platform?

[Sporky]

I believe it is. A pulpit, or perhaps a lecturn (noting that in a secular setting it would be a lectern).