Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

[Doofus]

The word or the desk?

[Tango13]

Sporky said:

The office desk is downright brobdignagian.

Say it three times fast...

[littlebasher]

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

[outnumbered]

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Mum and Dad redecorated when they moved in, in 1983. The garden is impressively barren. It'd be nice enough house with some updating. Let's see: Bifolds, knock through into 1 room downstairs, oversized extension on the back. Then PH can have a laugh at it again in 40 years time.

[MiniMan64]

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

[Matt Cup]

FourWheelDrift said:

Car related garage nightmare - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154014878#/...

Have you ever seen a garage that narrow? It's going to be the same width as the utility room, 5ft 8 (172cm).



It's not as if it's recent, the garage has always been there at least as far back as street view goes before the first floor extension above it was built.

Yes here. Well it’s considerably narrower but they had naff all space to put a proper garage there.

[FilH]

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Another dream property, only nightmare is its nowhere near where I want to live.

Boxes ticked tho are,
Large garage for the daily.
Rear garden access for a decnt sized garage / workshop

And iceing on the cake, oldskool outside loo, soo handy for bbq garden partys.


Just needs the interior gutting and the bathroom carpets incinerated!

[abzmike]

MiniMan64 said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

Indeed… decor selected 30 odd years ago, and been maintained meticulously, by proud homeowners.
Will make a great home for the next occupants, after a little updating.

[BunkMoreland]

https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbbsrsb...

Interior is OK, if not a style I think works. But it just cant shift its commercial property past to my eyes

[Hugo Stiglitz]

At some point a Amazon delivery driver is going to reverse Uturn into that.

They've hit my garden wall and my old Abarth 595. Idiots.

[Gareth79]

MiniMan64 said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

It looks pretty clean and tidy though! Usually places with that sort of decor look very tired.

[TVR Sagaris]

Gareth79 said:

MiniMan64 said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

It looks pretty clean and tidy though! Usually places with that sort of decor look very tired.

Agreed, in fact I'd say it's remarkable quite how clean and tidy it all is given how long ago it must last have been decorated. The bath is a masterpiece and it wouldn't take much for that to be a nice place.

[rodericb]

TVR Sagaris said:

Gareth79 said:

MiniMan64 said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

It looks pretty clean and tidy though! Usually places with that sort of decor look very tired.

Agreed, in fact I'd say it's remarkable quite how clean and tidy it all is given how long ago it must last have been decorated. The bath is a masterpiece and it wouldn't take much for that to be a nice place.

Yep, It looks pretty well maintained. As another poster said, these sales look often to be due to a phase of life coming to a close but I would guess this one is a more proactive move going by the well-kept nature of the place.

[rodericb]

BunkMoreland said:

https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbbsrsb...

Interior is OK, if not a style I think works. But it just cant shift its commercial property past to my eyes

Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with the vehicle, ahem, "storage" out the front. Even a smaller-gen Honda Civic can't get its butt inside the roller door if you check out the streetview. Maybe the people who designed it allowed enough room for a couple of those dutch cargo bicycles.

[Riley Blue]

abzmike said:

MiniMan64 said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Houses with that age/generation of decor up for sale always makes me think someone must have died there recently..

Indeed… decor selected 30 odd years ago, and been maintained meticulously, by proud homeowners.
Will make a great home for the next occupants, after a little updating.

Unmolested by decades of bodged D-I-Y; the best way to buy a doer-upper.

[Steve H]

rodericb said:

BunkMoreland said:

https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbbsrsb...

Interior is OK, if not a style I think works. But it just cant shift its commercial property past to my eyes

Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with the vehicle, ahem, "storage" out the front. Even a smaller-gen Honda Civic can't get its butt inside the roller door if you check out the streetview. Maybe the people who designed it allowed enough room for a couple of those dutch cargo bicycles.

I rather like the way the building has been reused and while you couldn’t pay me £4.5m to live in London the option to close those shutters would reduce the pain slightly.

[rodericb]

Steve H said:

I rather like the way the building has been reused and while you couldn’t pay me £4.5m to live in London the option to close those shutters would reduce the pain slightly.

It's not too bad. I like looking at those types of rebuilds as some of them are quite amazing.

[KAgantua]

FilH said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Another dream property, only nightmare is its nowhere near where I want to live.

Boxes ticked tho are,
Large garage for the daily.
Rear garden access for a decnt sized garage / workshop

And iceing on the cake, oldskool outside loo, soo handy for bbq garden partys.


Just needs the interior gutting and the bathroom carpets incinerated!

Really stretching the definition of 'nightmare' here... its a nice big house with a couple of garages that could benefit from some updating internally?

[andy43]

KAgantua said:

FilH said:

littlebasher said:

By no means a nightmare, but your day wouldn't be complete without first admiring the bath

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157001057#/...

Another dream property, only nightmare is its nowhere near where I want to live.

Boxes ticked tho are,
Large garage for the daily.
Rear garden access for a decnt sized garage / workshop

And iceing on the cake, oldskool outside loo, soo handy for bbq garden partys.


Just needs the interior gutting and the bathroom carpets incinerated!

Really stretching the definition of 'nightmare' here... its a nice big house with a couple of garages that could benefit from some updating internally?

I like that. As already said, it’s not been ‘got at’ by clueless tradesmen or diyers for decades.
Crying out for a six car garage!

[Pro Bono]

Bonefish Blues said:

Talking about joke pricing...

£3M for 3 ordinary estate houses near Bicester. After all 'With current operations averaging just two rental days per week, the portfolio has the potential to triple its income.' Hahahahahahahaha

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151465541#/...

Most properties like that have restrictive covenants that would prohibit Airbnb type lettings, so just out of interest I had a look at the title.

Sure enough, the houses are subject to the following covenant:

Not to use the property or any part for the purposes of any trade or business (other than office work at home which is not inconsistent with residential occupation) but only to use the same as a single private dwelling.

It's well established in law that holiday lettings is a breach of such a covenant, so letting the properties via Airbnb is definitely a breach of this covenant - perhaps not surprising that they're up for sale, but how surprising that the covenant isn't mentioned in the sale particulars!

And at £1m each they seem to be about twice the price of any of the neighbouring properties. At that absurd price I suspect they'll be on the market a very long time, and will probably end up being repossessed.