Something not right about this 'news' story

[WallaceinAnderland]

70 year old woman claims to be unable to sell her house.

'I reluctantly dropped the price from £860,000 to £750,000 six months ago because I was desperate'

But if you look at the house on Rightmove, it's advertised at 850k. So she's only dropped it by 10k in all this time. Did the paper make the 'typo' on purpose do we think? Surely reducing your asking price by 10k in 18 months, is not news?

She's just asking too much for it.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/at-70-i-m-trapped-in-my-850-000-family-house-i-can-t-sell-it/ar-AA21m6md?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=69e8bdc7025d4e0ea96d196da0becc8b&ei=56

If they have the right house.

I think newspapers are very good at conjuring up ragebait stories from absolute non-events, and don't care who gets crushed/trolled/harangued/misunderstood in the process. You see it all the time - photos of people looking miserable, whore coming away with less credibility and more of a dodgy online presence that before they started.

Stunning? I thought it rather dull....

Make a lovely HMO. Loads of off-street parking.

It’s not the right house - the one linked to in the article hasn’t been reduced.

Thought we’d established that right house is the chalet bungalow that needs work?

Agreed! I thought the decor of house 1 was way too modern!

It might be to get us slowly ready for an avalanche of house prices going down
Perhaps we’re being mentally prepared like they did with hooray for the Brown shirts
On the off chance that we were invaded by the Nazis

Thought we’d established that right house is the chalet bungalow that needs work?

We don't know, we are assuming.

The first house was the one in the article. The chalet bungalow is just something that might tie in with the length of ownership.

It may of course be neither of them and a completely made up story.

I'm agreeing with you that it's the chalet bungalow, not the one that's been reduced by £10k.

MN seems to have worked that out even if the journalist didn't.

What is the relevance of her age in the OP? Could it be anything to do with the current nasty narrative on here about the ‘rich boomers’?

Only if they think that everyone telling them their house is waaaaay overpriced, and will never sell, is a benefit 😂

One of the journalist's previous stories was about how Barbie was a trend setter for child free women. So.............

If it is the chalet bungalow, I hope the owner gets in touch with the paper to tell them they're advertising the wrong house.

And the poor owner of house 1 has had their house advertised at 100k under their asking price!

The house shown in the article is the wrong price, hasn’t been reduced and hasn’t been lived in by the owner since 1992.

The chalet bungalow has been reduced from £860k to £750k and hasn’t been sold in the last 30 years.

Which do you think is most likely?

What kind of decor do 70 year olds have then?

Is it newsworthy? More to the point is it then threadworthy?

There are a million non-news stories in the news, just ignore them 🤷

Thank you!

Didn't you know that as soon as you reach retirement age you start yearning for magnolia paint, lacy antimacassars and swirly carpets?

It’s utterly boring and the garden is tiny and ugly🤷‍♂️

Yes of course, how silly of me not to realise that.

Don’t you mean a 90+ yo? I’m 69 and that looks like my parents stuff who would be over 100 if still here.

Obviously I think it's ridiculous to believe your house is "worth" a penny more than what someone will pay for it.

However I think the article was designed as rage bait at the would-be seller's expense. The ageism in the (extensive) ridiculing of her on (other) social media is really nasty :(

Personally I think the bungalow is more likely but the house is the one the paper linked to in the article they wrote about the house so you can see where the initial confusion comes from.

Even the people commenting on that article think it's the house in the article.

you are right, looks more like that one

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