Show us your local real estate prawn

[Andrew[MG]]

Spotted this one yesterday. Ideal if you want to be a Bond Villain http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120616064...

[mercfunder]

Rosscow said:

And these are nice, built in traditional materials:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/prop...

That is lovely. It's huge!

One major problem for me - absolutely ste garden. Zero character. Plus I think you'd need a full time light bulb changer!!

fk me, two and half million quid for a tiny garden and being overlooked at the back and sides....no thanks.

[Davey S2]

Andrew[MG] said:

Spotted this one yesterday. Ideal if you want to be a Bond Villain http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120616064...

McBlofeld?

[Manks]

Andrew[MG] said:

Spotted this one yesterday. Ideal if you want to be a Bond Villain http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120616064...

If I were a Bond villain I would be living somewhere warmer.

[duckers26]

Rosscow said:

And these are nice, built in traditional materials:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/prop...

That is lovely. It's huge!

One major problem for me - absolutely ste garden. Zero character. Plus I think you'd need a full time light bulb changer!!

Garden not massive but where there were two houses there are now four! I think with a bit of work it could be nice.

[Blown2CV]

Andrew[MG] said:

Spotted this one yesterday. Ideal if you want to be a Bond Villain http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120616064...

meh no parking

[furtive]

Rosscow said:

And these are nice, built in traditional materials:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/prop...

That is lovely. It's huge!

One major problem for me - absolutely ste garden. Zero character. Plus I think you'd need a full time light bulb changer!!

I like the use of "man cave" in the details. It's almost as if it was written for PH!

[furtive]

Andrew[MG] said:

Spotted this one yesterday. Ideal if you want to be a Bond Villain http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120616064...

"Also available" linked on the right is this, which lowers the tone somewhat:

http://www.s1homes.com/Houses-for-sale/20120627162...

[Andrew[MG]]

Blown2CV said:

meh no parking

"Helicopter hanger of approx 500 square meters."

[Davey S2]

This one near me is quite nice for just under £2M. Great views

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

This on the other hand I cant work out. Its not that big, the rooms seem to be tiny and its has no wow factor at all yet its on for nearly a million. The only thing it seems to have going for it is its in a nice little gated development of a few houses.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Davey S2]

Great view

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[duckers26]

furtive said:

I like the use of "man cave" in the details. It's almost as if it was written for PH!

Man cave is a very commonly used term on TOWIE. In an episode the other week it showed Mick's new cigar club in Brentwood and decor was amazing, very luxurious. Although I don't smoke so can't go!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Davey S2 said:

Great view

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I know that this is in Wales, so my expectations of taste should be re-calibrated, and I don't want to go all Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen on you, and nor are they likely to be in the sale, but what on earth is going on with those curtains? 80s throwback or what?

[Du1point8]

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/north-coco-plu...

hows about a nice little island?

Wonder if you can use it as a home instead of a resort?

[FourWheelDrift]

Nice to see a ruinous historic house brought back to life.

Gothic styled Oxney Court, Kent - £4,500,000 - http://search.struttandparker.com/residential/oxne...

Requisitioned during WWI and caught fire, gutted and left.


Bought in 1997 and now fully restored.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I'm currently wanting this.

50 acres of Somerset, with a farmhouse that needs lots of work. 600k.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I fancy a change of lifestyle: property developer and then a farmer just might suit.

[RichB]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

...50 acres of Somerset, with a farmhouse that needs lots of work. 600k.

My in-laws live in Chard and (with all due respect to anyone who lives in Somerset) I assure you that you really wouldn't want to live there. You'd go mad from boredom with the only excitement discussing the price of cauliflowers in the local Lidls.

[Manks]

FourWheelDrift said:

Requisitioned during WWI and caught fire, gutted and left.

There was some horrible damage caused to great houses during WWII. The owners gave them over to the MOD in the belief that if they didn't the Germans would probably seize them anyway. Then the military occupants treated them with absolutely no respect whatsoever. Which is why so many were never lived in again by the owners and why so many were flattened between the end of the war and the seventies.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

RichB said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

...50 acres of Somerset, with a farmhouse that needs lots of work. 600k.

My in-laws live in Chard and (with all due respect to anyone who lives in Somerset) I assure you that you really wouldn't want to live there. You'd go mad from boredom with the only excitement discussing the price of cauliflowers in the local Lidls.

I'd planned to wander the grounds, with a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. All day. In my pants.

Sounds like I'd fit right in.

[DS3R]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I'd planned to wander the grounds, with a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. All day. In my pants.