So if a Banksy painting appeared in your house you were about to sell would you cancel the sale?

[JacobReesMogadishu]

Because this is what a woman in Bristol has done! She was about to exchange but has now taken her house off the market as she’s been told the painting/house could now be worth £5million.

Would someone actually pay £5million for the house? It looks a significant size painting but is on the actual house wall. So not sure how or if the painting could be removed to put in a gallery, etc. And I don’t think the people who could afford £5million want to live in what was a £300,000 house in Bristol. 🤷‍♀️

Blimey-the cyclist is brave.

@GenderApostate19

It’s disgraceful to deface someone’s home without permission, I don’t care who does it, it’s wrong. I’d be furious.

Lol, you’d go viral with that fury 😂

And if they can remove it, it will sell for a few million. No way six figures.

There was a banksy on the side of an office building near us. The building was knocked down - and with it the mural (as far as I know).

I'd be very cross if someone graffitied my house, whether it was a group of lads or Banksy. Personally I dislike that we are all supposed to be thrilled by his work, why is he any better than any another illegal graffiti 'artist'. However, I would pull out because I know there are some mad people who'd pay me more money, not going to turn it down regardless of my feelings about graffiti!

@MrsMoastyToasty

Its going to be a difficult house to sell. It's on one of the steepest streets in England (about 1:4 or steeper) and parking is a nightmare. You need to use a brick to chock the wheels when you park up (I have a friend who lives around the corner).

Not now. You sell the painting and the house comes with it. The house is effectively the frame.

I liked his bathroom with all the rats at play. I wonder if he’d some and do my bathroom? I fancy squirrels though.

@GenderApostate19

It’s disgraceful to deface someone’s home without permission, I don’t care who does it, it’s wrong. I’d be furious.

Banksy is welcome to graffiti my house any day of the week!

@DelphineWalsh

I'd pull out to renegotiate the price but she wouldn't get 5million for it. Its still just a average terrace house in Totterdown.

She'd get a fuck of a lot more than £350k though.

I like a Banksy as much as anyone but this has given me the heebies.

We’re six months into the traumatic buying and selling process and due to exchange imminently. If something went wrong at this stage we’d lose thousands, plus our Dream House, and be stuck in a house with no garden and a crawling baby that we no longer fit in.

I get a cold sweat just thinking about it.

My parents lives in the street where it was painted and can see it clearly from there house 😂. I went to visit them today and had to park several streets away.
There are loads & loads of people there taking photos and selfies and my dad is bitching about the parking and crowds which is fucking terrible at the best of time

My father being the nosey gossip that he is 😂said that Banksy manager or whoever it is who deals with his painting lives nearby and there is a particular rather sad reason why they chose that house to do his painting on .
And although you can’t see it from the angle in most pictures it would actually be really easy to paint if undetected as it’s actually hidden by a wall .
That bastard of a hill is awful in the winter as a child we spent loads of time rolling stuff down it

Unicorn34
I don’t know about others but this particular one has a wall in front of it
You can’t see it from the photos
So it would be easy to do and duck down
Also where it is and the steepness of the hill that runs alongside it - Park St means you don’t get a lot of people walking up it 😂
If he did it late night / early morning it would he easy to do it

I don't like Banksy's art.
there, I said it.
But would be happy to profit from it, or give the sale proceeds to charity.

i don't understand the banksy thing, it's art but it's nothing special imo, certainly wouldn't want it on my property.
as for this woman, she might have covered it but it could still be damaged / vandalised. £5m in your dreams love.

@lljkk

I don't like Banksy's art. there, I said it. But would be happy to profit from it, or give the sale proceeds to charity.

I’m not a fan either. I think it is very overhyped.

I'm not a great fan of Monet,but if I had one in my possession you can be sure I would try and profit from it ,you don't have to personally like a Artists work from it 😂

Me too I’d defintely take the multiple millions and run. 😃

Wish something like this would happen to my house... would someone really pay 5 million though

I do hope it works out for her and she makes some money from it but yes, feel sorry for the buyers. Bet the estate agent has never heard a reason like it before. Hopefully if she makes a load of money she reimburses the buyers for any money they’ve lost.

people pull out of house sales at the last minute for all sorts of reasons- some good some purely selfish. It’s the risk of house buying though, and not uncommon

I would still move, after getting a professional photographer to take a photo for me to display in my new house (probably the downstairs loo).

I'm also an art lover and think Banksy art should be where he placed it - it shouldn't be removed and sold.

I thought someone tried to sell one off part of their wall once and it was almost worthless (can't remember where I read that!)

Knowing Banksy it will self-destruct in some way any time now.

I’d probably paint over it and be pissed off that someone vandalised my house

I bet Banksy is the son.

ragged my thoughts exactly. Plus I would never buy a house in Totterdown, wrong side of the tracks .