House buying, selling, viewing and the housing market.
Clacks Farm was featured regularly on Gardener’s World. It was Arthur Billitt’s home in Ombersley in Worcestershire. It featured from 1976 to 1979.
If you’re after buying a property in the Worcester area and have £1.5M to spend then it could just what you’re looking for!
With some houses there are little quirks that can make you smile. I love the steps in this property that they have to enable them to see out of the window.
This reminds me a little of some strange concrete house that was on Grand Designs Abroad – in Spain they had a mezzanine floor with a window out, but only if you were very very tall.
Still at least in this house in Somerset you get plenty of headroom!
How to rate a property and compare it with others you have viewed.
When you do several viewings you might find it hard to weigh them all up and compare them properly.
A simple way of doing this is to write down their score out of 10 for each of the following points. Add up the totals and see how you feel about your reaction. Sometimes the property you didn’t think you liked that much actually makes most sense.
1. Location – how perfect a location is it for schools, shops, peace and quiet,
2. Parking – is there the parking or garage you require.
3. Size of property – is it big enough so you don’t outgrow it in a matter of months?
4. Potential for expansion – just in case you ever feel the urge.
5. Outdoor space – is there enough outdoor space
6. State of property – will it need redecorating or completely renovating. How do you feel about picking
up a paint brush or getting major works done?
7. Feel of house – how did it make you feel looking at it and going in.
8. Neighbours – what are they like?
9. The price – is it a good price or overpriced?
10. The must have factor – does it make you go WOW!
When you’ve added the scores up you’ll be able to rank properties. Sometimes your results are quite surprising and will make you look again at properties you weren’t sure about before.
Bing maps is different from Google maps – so should show a different date of the photo. Well worth a look!
Victoria Road in Kensington, west London, has been named as the most expensive for property in England and Wales by website Mouseprice.com.
Want to google view it? This is the top of the road by Kensington Gardens
8 bedroom house for sale on Victoria Road, Kensington
For only £13,000,000
The street has an average price of £6.4m
see house prices data for this road
Of course it’s not the most expensive property in the UK as this £70M mansion is still for sale but above that in a search comes this place that’s Price on application
The Environment search can cover:
Land Contamination
Neighbourhood Nuisance, e.g. proposed erection of mobile masts or effluent plants Common Land Ownership and Rights of Commoners Village Green and Grass Verge Ownership
Town & Country Planning applications and history
Civil Aviation activity in the area
London Underground routes & Tunnels affecting the property
Flood sites, Potential Flood Areas and Potential Subsidence Areas
Coal Mining
Limestone or Gypsum Quarrying and risk of Subsidence
Brine Works
Existing and Proposed Overhead and Underground Electricity Cables
Radon data
Existing and Proposed Mobile Mast Sites and Information
Council Tax Bands, Local Secondary Schools, Hospitals and Public Footpaths
Aerial Photography
The council’s Local Plan and Planning Policies
Local Crime Statistics and Local Police Forces
The impact on the value of the property of Environmental factors
Hazardous and Regulated Installations
Proximity to Landfill Sites, Waste Sites and Scrap yards
Petroleum and Fuel Sites
Pollution Incidents
Flood risk areas
Subsidence risks
Landslip risks
Mining & Mineral Extraction
Radon & Radon Protection Measures
Air Quality
Radio Masts
Landfill and Waste sites
Storage of Dangerous, Hazardous & Radioactive Substances
Past & Current Industrial Land use
Amazing bathroom in this wonderful house in Edinburgh!
I’ve never seen a bathroom like this before – no more arguing about who gets the tap end!
Amazing house in Merchiston which has been renovated very nicely. Huge kitchen and dining area suitable for big families! The house has 6 – 7 bedrooms and is on for £2,850,000!
Have a look at the EPC for a property, at the top right hand corner of the full EPC it gives the habitable area of the property in sq metres (not including garages etc.)
That way you can determine the price per sq m / sq foot of the property!
Make notes to compare prices between properties!
All propertys have to have an EPC when they are for sale (or rent) and the estate agent should show it you free of charge.
Useful website – http://www.upmystreet.com/
They give you Neighbourhood snapshot for the area, photos nearby, events and activities, property for sale, help finding your nearest school and shop etc, and forums.
I’m going to collate all the housing jokes I can find… Might even get my sketchbook out and draw some cartoons if I feel inspired enough!
If you buy a house with a 125% mortgage, you own less of the house than when you first looked at it!