Real Estate nightmares (Vol 2)

[GT03ROB]

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

800k for that! madness

[dundarach]

GT03ROB said:

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

800k for that! madness

Absolutely shocking!

This was a large semi plot by the looks of it, that some crook has jammed 3, 3 story houses on, with terrible room layouts.

Terrible!

[b14]

GT03ROB said:

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

800k for that! madness

I live not too far from there. It's close to the best parts of town but it isn't the best part of town. It's not really near the train station, which is your life blood when you live in St A and want to actually pay a £££ mortgage of course. Criminally small - the market is slow round here at the mo and people move out to this part of the world to get more outside space so it won't sell.

But it is v close to a prestige car dealer that always has some lovely things on the lot, so there is that.

[Richard-390a0]

dundarach said:

GT03ROB said:

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

800k for that! madness

Absolutely shocking!

This was a large semi plot by the looks of it, that some crook has jammed 3, 3 story houses on, with terrible room layouts.

Terrible!

It's £825k for all three isn't it?. Or at least that's how it reads to me.

[outnumbered]

Interesting that you can knock down half of a semi and turn it into a terrace. So does that mean the original house on the right now also needs to describe itself as "end of terrace"?

[outnumbered]

Richard-390a0 said:

It's £825k for all three isn't it?. Or at least that's how it reads to me.

No, just that one.

[DaveyBoyWonder]

"Containing a trilogy of brand new and refurbished modern houses"

yuk

[blue_haddock]

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

And its actually been reduced to that price recently too!

[FourWheelDrift]

Photo 25, what exactly is that, it looks nothing like the 3 houses on the small plot.

[Quhet]

FourWheelDrift said:

Photo 25, what exactly is that, it looks nothing like the 3 houses on the small plot.

Looks like a plan of the car parking area out front to me

[DS129]

Err, how did that get past planning, it's totally out of character with the remaining semi, to the right.
It's bloody ugly and either St Albans is ridiculously expensive or it is vastly overpriced ( just my opinion of course)

[dxg]

The prices for each of the three plots are:

895k (sold)
850k (sold)
825k

https://cassidyandtate.co.uk/folly-fields/

So, that's 2.57million for a single house plot. What, maybe £1.5m profit?

[b14]

In a similar vein, and a very similar area, I give you £4m asking price for this "executive home" on a pretty busy road out of town:



https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147153983#/...

[gotoPzero]

Jesus. The bathrooms are not even decent. Round here that would be £300k.
I appreciate "south tax" but ffs. Also I have *never* seen new builds attached to an old semi.

[hidetheelephants]

What a rancid pile of st, all involved should be tarred and feathered.

[Indecision]

gotoPzero said:

Jesus. The bathrooms are not even decent. Round here that would be £300k.
I appreciate "south tax" but ffs. Also I have *never* seen new builds attached to an old semi.

These have been going up for the last 3 years round here - the left house is attached to the Victorian/edwardian house next door, bizarrely. https://rah.co.uk/property/trumpington-road-cambri...

[Puzzles]

“Folly”

[Greshamst]

dxg said:

The prices for each of the three plots are:

895k (sold)
850k (sold)
825k

https://cassidyandtate.co.uk/folly-fields/

So, that's 2.57million for a single house plot. What, maybe £1.5m profit?

This is what it looked like before

[FourWheelDrift]

Quhet said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Photo 25, what exactly is that, it looks nothing like the 3 houses on the small plot.

Looks like a plan of the car parking area out front to me

Ok, 7 spaces for 3 houses. two each and fight over the 7th?

[Danielson73]

Greshamst said:

If that was the garden I ended up with after paying £825k, I’d be pretty pissed off.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146395622

I know St Albans very well, got married there, and lived there most recently for four years pre pandemic, commuting into London. It’s become full of coffee shops and pretentious types. I thought Oysterfields (adjoing road) and that area had a bit of a reputation and considered one of the worst parts of the City. Folly lane is a very busy road, noisy. It’s a good half hour walk to the station. You’re not too far from Batchwood for a night out though lol.

There are considerably better roads to choose, with more spacious properties available for the same budget in the area. I just don’t see the value at £800k ish.