House buying, selling, viewing and the housing market.
The village of Hale is getting another footballer according to this story in the Daily Mail
He’s buying a house for a tad under £4M. His flat in Beetham Tower hasn’t sold yet.
Beetham Tower in in the middle of Manchester with the postcode m3 4lq. We assume that Phil’s flat is the one listed for £3.75M
Their new house has 6 bedrooms and a cinema, gym, sauna, steam room and large garage.
Lamb Banana free with this house in Liverpool!
An interesting selling point!
Picture 2 and others show this indoor outdoor pond.
How bizarre! I’m sure if you love fish you’ll find it intriguing.
Picture 9 too – could you swim in to the house?
Mapnificent
A really interesting site that shows travel distances – if you commute by bus or tram, and not car or train.
Drag the pin around.
You can slide the time option too although it is a little slow to respond to the changes.
It has other cities too.
The London one is here
I don’t think you wanted to do that. Looks like the estate agent went public with some information that buyers would have been very interested in.
It does show however the price optimism going on!
I’ve hidden the bits that might show which estate agent did this.
I quite like some aspects of this house.
Picture 7 is a Teddy bear hospital though isn’t it?
Sadly picture 8 shows the clutter under the beds! That’s a big no-no!
I like the round windows and I think the bathroom’s go faster stripes are interesting! I’ve been eyeing up those strips of colour tiles (albeit the pink and purple ones) and have wondered how they’d look in a real bathroom.
I was asked to take down a post I’d made about a pretty property in Devon. I’d not given away any information that wasn’t freely available online but apparently the owner was upset about the info being available.
I did take the posting down because I’m a nice person and don’t want to cause anyone upset.
Should I have done? Well the information was all available on the original estate agent advert which is still available to see if you have the right browser plug in.
However there’s a bigger question here. If you want to sell a business (as it was actually a business not just a house for sale) then you will have to at some point tell the person how much money you’re making, what your occupancy rating is, and let them visit you.
If I was serious about spending acouple of million pounds then I’d make sure I was doing lots of online research first. Buying a holiday business would involve lots of research to read reviews about the place, and this would require knowing the name of the place.
A quick look at the owner’s website got me data for their income for the current year and some spreadsheet magic got me a total and that’d be enough to put me off their price tag!
Maybe they’ve not realised what selling a business means – that someone will want to make sure it’s a sound financial business before they set foot in the place.
Or maybe people just rush headlong into buying beautiful holiday parks because they can afford to spend the money. I did say in my post I’d love to own it but wouldn’t want to share it!
What did they expect when they advertised their house? That someone would just buy it without asking any questions? Or perhaps they weren’t prepared for how public that information is when using a general estate agent. There are specialist estate agents who don’t advertise on the main property websites. I’d never thought of it as a negative before, always a positive. But perhaps if you’re looking for a serious buyer only and not a ‘tyre kicker’ like me then you’d be best sticking to a business only agent.
Someone’s fallen in love and put an offer in on this wonderful 10 bedroom detached house for sale. Pynes is described as one of the finest Grade II* William and Mary houses in the South West of England
Really amazing house with so much space and history.
Magnificent entrance hall, reception hall, drawing room, morning room, dining room
Library, billiard room, office, gallery, kitchen/breakfast room
10 bedrooms, dressing room, 5 bathrooms
Lower ground floor with former kitchen, laundry room, utility rooms, playrooms and store rooms
Second floor with 10 attic rooms
William and Mary architecture dates from 1690s-1715. They themselves commission many buildings such as Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, and Greenwich Hospital.
The style has dutch Gables, shaped with ogee parapets crowned with semi-circular or triangular pediments.
A Dutch gable is a gable with sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and has a pediment at the top. An ogee parapet is one that (going from low to high) is a concave arc flowing into a convex arc, with vertical ends.
Series 2 epeisode 10.
This is one I remember seeing before. Extension not built on deep enough foundations with a swampy mud base. Leaky loo leaking sewage into the underfloor space and rats.
Well they’re not huge problems to solve when they get the insurance company to monitor to cracks in the wall. But it does make me wonder if there will be movement in the future from it as they didn’t notice cracks until some time after they moved in. The condensation was down to not enough insulation and not ventilatiing the house enough.
Rats just need the rat man – and as they said the problem was ongoing still I’d assume they need to speak to their neighbours and get them to ratproof their own homes.
This couple had no budget as they wanted to spend the money on their new kitchen.
It does horrify me slightly that these people discover a problem like the sewage under the floor and don’t just get a plumber in to price up sort it out!
Watch it on 4onD
The Channel 4 description is
Sarah Beeny revisits Paul and Clare Baker, whose house in Essex was cracking apart and infested with rats.
Paul and Clare Baker bought their house in Essex as the perfect home for their four children, but peeling back the wallpaper revealed a terrifying crack all along the back of the property. It turned out their dream home was sitting on six metres of sludge and splitting in half.
Sarah and her team discovered that the problems literally ran very deep, and they also tackled a rat infestation, sewage seeping into the ground floor, and black mould that made the children ill.
A year on, Sarah revisits the family to see if they are finally free of their problems.
I think this is a horrible idea – not only do you take away any need to save for people but you’re also putting your parents house at risk.
Saving to buy a house is essential. A house is the biggest purchase you ever make and it’s important to take it seriously. By saving you show you’re committed and financially responsible to buy a house.
New mortgages offer you the chance to buy without a deposit. It’s only available in Northern Ireland the Telegraph reports
These “guarantor” mortgages, mean that the home loan is effectively underwritten by the parents. Which means if you lose your job and can’t pay then they have to.
I don’t think this is something parents should sign up to. You probably could only offer it to one child anyway so it’d mean any others are immediately left out. And there is no security in the job market these days! There is no such thing as a job for life. They say it’s aimed at professionals who’ll earn more in the future, but there are no guarantees in life – apart from this one your parents have to sign up to.
It’d be bad enough taking out a 100% mortgage that was just your own responsibility if you lost you job, but this puts a huge amount of pressure on family relationships.
Steer well clear is my advice! House prices are unaffordable still! This scheme won’t make them more affordable at all.