A property one: would you describe this house as a “blank canvas”?

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It’s the bathroom that sold it to me.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139827323#/?channel=RES_BUY

It didn't have a bathroom did it?

That house is absolutely gorgeous

@Ecnerual no. Or central heating, or a front door that would survive a firm shove, or wiring that would pass any kind of safety inspection 😀

Am I the only one that can see Pennywise the clown looking down from the hole in the ceiling in photo 11???

Bloody hell, you’re right.

It’s made it on to the BBC. (Clearly not just the daily fail journos who are on here looking for a quick story!!).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67369595

@MontyBooooojangles it was doing the rounds on FB/X well before the thread was started here. I presumed the OP copied it across after seeing it posted elsewhere.

A doer upper ;)

£695,000? For that? It would be much cheaper to demolish it altogether. I live in a leafy part of the East Midlands and you could buy a large detached house in move in condition with a big garden. London prices are ridiculous.

How could you demolish it? It’s a terrace, the houses either side would fall down.

The BBC article says that that is not a green lounge carpet... it's actually a layer of moss! In the lounge!

You'd really have to regard this as a building plot, because only the barest bones are reusable.

I live around the corner and noticed a house on my road that was not quite as bad and in a better spot was sold for £700k a couple months ago. On the road on the other side is a house that has been empty for about ten years and fire damaged that has just been sold - they were looking for £650 I think. Standard pricing for this area and they will likely get it too.

I had to supress a scream when I saw that bathroom photo.

JESUS.

I have to admire the gall of estate agents sometimes, "blank canvas" 😂

Bijou!

I'd only go in there in full hazmat attire.

You'd really have to regard this as a building plot, because only the barest bones are reusable.

Surely even less than the plot value, because you’ll have to pay for a demolition which takes into account the attached neighbours? (Genuine question, no idea if that’s how it works!)

I just feel sorry for the poor sods living next to them.

To be fair there are lots of perfectly normal-looking roads in London where a small bog standard terrace house like this one (if it was fixed and perhaps extended) will set you back around a million quid. I'm not sure that this road is one of them though.

Definitely not Wimbledon but to be fair, the expensive side of CW High St!

The house in the OP is not really Wimbledon either is it? It's too near Haydons Rd and Merton High St. You're not getting Wimbledonish until you get past HP Rec and into the South Park area

Yes, i would agree with you. We have friends moving to Haydons Road who keep trying to convince us its actually Wimbledon 🤷🏻‍♀️🧐

Even having lived here a while now, I still cant actually believe how much CW is now!

If describe it as a money pit with potential!

@Sunnyshoeshine your friends are trying to convince themselves!

It very much is Wimbledon. And the prices reflect that.

No, it really isn't. It's South Wimbledon. On the Northern Line. Virtually Colliers Wood, which also isn't Wimbledon. Not Wimbledon on the District Line.

South Wimbledon IS Wimbledon. It’s literally the south part of Wimbledon. This road is about a 5 min walk from South Wimbledon station so will have a location premium.

That house fully renovated would probably fetch £800/900K

The flat another PP posted as ‘in the same area’ is NOT Wimbledon, it’s Colliers Wood.