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To think this house is over-priced?

51 replies

LuluJakey1 · 04/06/2019 22:07

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-81991169.html

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TheRealShatParp · 04/06/2019 22:46

I’ll take it

PatoPotato · 04/06/2019 22:46

£2 mil is a steal... Buried treasure in the garden most definitely.

myDHhasahobbyanditsnotcycling · 04/06/2019 22:47

Typo, or fake mistake the way to attract attention and get publicity for the property.

There were a few examples of such "mistakes" from Estate Agents on various properties, some too obvious to be even funny.

Drogosnextwife · 04/06/2019 22:51

That's one creepy abode (loving the staircase though)

Really? I had visions of myself running up that stair case in terror. Even looking up it made me feel like there was something behind me.

justasking111 · 04/06/2019 22:54

God thats grim...

shushymcshush · 04/06/2019 23:02

Even at 200K Confused unless Whitley Bay has a geography premium?

UselessTrees · 04/06/2019 23:02

Did someone take the pictures with a disposable camera that expired in 1991?

LuluJakey1 · 04/06/2019 23:04

Must be £200,000 Grin . Photos are terrible. What do you think it would cost to do it up. Looks like it needs floors replacing, central heating, re-plastering, electrics, kitchen, bathroom, fireplace, windows, garage demolishing, possibly roof?

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Sciurus83 · 04/06/2019 23:05

200k is overpriced for that in Whitley Bay I reckon

Paraballa · 04/06/2019 23:06

Typo. Here it is in the agent's website www.benjaminstevens.co.uk/property-for-sale/whitley-bay/ne26-1qf/1427194

MereDintofPandiculation · 04/06/2019 23:07

I think the ceilings have come down in the bedrooms and that's why there's no pictures of them. If you look on google maps, the only garden is about 2m square behind the garage, and the back wall has no windows. So the kitchen has only that side window that you see in the picture, and the box room upstairs has no window at all. There are many houses in the surrounding streets of the same overall style and with a garden. £200,000 is ambitious.

TheRedBarrows · 04/06/2019 23:13

I Think the inclusion of Picture number 2 , and at number two, just as you are thinking ‘pretty, double fronted, bow Windows’ demonstrates that the EA might not have got their Cubs House Selling Badge yet.

Also no Photographers Badge, as every single picture had a black shadow line across the top L side.

LuluJakey1 · 04/06/2019 23:20

They could not be making a worse job of selling it. DH says it went on at £300,000 a week ago. He sent it to his sister who is thinking of doing something up to sell on. She thought it was way over at £300,000 even if it had been immaculate. A week later it is £2,000,000!

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TheRedBarrows · 04/06/2019 23:23

Looking at the ‘similar properties’ list on Benjamin Stevens own website I would say they almost certainly deal exclusively in houses where a murder has taken place.

All are empty, except one which just has a picture of a washing line in the snow with a few ragged and frozen clothes hanging. All the pictures are taken in the dark. Despair in every shot.

howrudeforme · 04/06/2019 23:25

Um - odd - property in the north and agent in Edgware N London.

That wouldn’t sell for that price in Edgware either.

Prtf1345 · 04/06/2019 23:28

Nope seems about right

user1473878824 · 04/06/2019 23:29

TheRedBarrows Grin

ZippyBungleandGeorge · 04/06/2019 23:43

Having visited I think you could buy most of Whitley bay for that price....

resisterpersister · 04/06/2019 23:59

I can see using Property Tracker, that it was listed only a few weeks ago at £300. So, they've just tried to drop the price by £100K and increased it to £2m instead!

I wonder if the £300k was a mistake also. A bit odd to drop £100K off the price of a £300K house only weeks after going on the market, isn't it?

Property Tracker is a Chrome extension that works with Right Move, in case anyone's interested. Pretty useful IMO:

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/property-tracker/abgkpdjomdmemeefdefalbeogkmlmand?hl=en-GB

BlackCatSleeping · 05/06/2019 00:05

I actually thought you meant literally 300 pounds for a minute then.

It's a bit like a hoarder's house.

cheesenpickles · 05/06/2019 00:29

Looks like a murder house.

DuMondeB · 05/06/2019 00:34

Some nice original features...

Possibly some original owner DNA stains too.

Redannie118 · 05/06/2019 00:45

This reply has been withdrawn

The OP has privacy concerns, and so we've agreed to take this down now.

fancynancyclancy · 05/06/2019 00:47

Light, airy & modern. What more do you want for 2m?!

fancynancyclancy · 05/06/2019 00:50

Seriously how shit are the pictures,

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