Surely they've mispriced this house?? Any Estate Agents or Property Experts able to comment?

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I've namechanged for this - this house is on my road and I don't want this post linked to my others.

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/55501879?search_identifier=160c182890cd195c887072dc94ba80e4

I am just flabbergasted. How do the prices get set?

I was actually looking on Zoopla because I am thinking about extending or moving and I wanted to see what asking prices are doing.

This seems to be at least £250k more than anything similar locally.

It is a nice road with a good primary school, good transport links and green space nearby but it's not an especilaly nice bit of London and no similar properties have sold for even nearly this price.

Does the Estate Agent decide the price? Or can the vendor say 'put it on for £1m - I don't care what you say'?

The decor is not at all to my taste but it's obviously been finished well - however it's so 'characterful it's unlikely to appeal to lots of people.

Or maybe IABU and this is actually what my house is also worth. Woohoo!

The funniest thing on this thread is not the fact it's overpriced for its location but all the other posters saying it's a bargain 🤣. I need to get my zone 2/3 SW London property revalued, it must have gone up another 300k!!

prices going up & up is not a good thing. It's fine if your at the top of the ladder or bought 20 yrs ago but for everyone else it makes moving up harder.

Its listed with Hamptons, they have a notorious reputation around here (Hampshire) for overpricing properties and then having to drop the price to something realistic. Have no knowledge of the area around there though.

That cookers worth about 10 grand!

If my house had such appalling interior decor I think I'd have to pay someone to take it off my hands!!

Wow, I quite like it. Either way you can tell they'd spent some serious wonga on it. Bespoke kitchen etc and refurbished by a 'proper' company. Perhaps they renovated to their own tastes thinking it would be their long term home. Circumstances change. They may want to get a bit of their investment back but, equally, the price is not completely off the radar for London and subs.

Anyone who thinks that Kingston is a shithole, has led a very sheltered life.

The thing I find hilarous is thats how a Footballer and his Cheshire Housewife would decorate their house. Of course they'd be living in an 8 bed mansion with a swimming pool and several acres of land so having taste like that, whilst I might not share it, kind of works with the scale of rooms and the house.

However to see the effect on a 4 bed semi is just plain funny. Its not a cheap decorating job. That wallpaper costs a small fortune.

The problem is those prints will make the house feel a lot smaller and claustrophobic than it is. The photos with the wideangle lens will be flattering, but if you set foot in the house its not going to do it anywhere near as much justice. Its a design job for a magazine, not a house to live in.

@RedToothBrush

The thing I find hilarous is thats how a Footballer and his Cheshire Housewife would decorate their house. Of course they'd be living in an 8 bed mansion with a swimming pool and several acres of land so having taste like that, whilst I might not share it, kind of works with the scale of rooms and the house.

However to see the effect on a 4 bed semi is just plain funny. Its not a cheap decorating job. That wallpaper costs a small fortune.

The problem is those prints will make the house feel a lot smaller and claustrophobic than it is. The photos with the wideangle lens will be flattering, but if you set foot in the house its not going to do it anywhere near as much justice. Its a design job for a magazine, not a house to live in.

You obviously don’t watch Real Housewives of Cheshire! They really are nothing like the decor this house at all, their houses are glitzy and bling with lots of shiny surfaces, they really don’t go for the English heritage look.

Wow I'm.not surprised it's that price

@RedToothBrush I live in an old, Victorian cottage in the north and have £200/roll wallpaper on the walls in my house. You don't need a mansion for expensive wallpaper! It's because my house is small and cheap that I can afford it.

Fascinating thread for a non London person. I have no idea about prices in various localities but it strikes me that it’s probably overkill to put a Smallbone kitchen in that type of semi as you’d never recoup the cost. I don’t like the decor or the style of the kitchen but I’ve really enjoyed looking at the pictures. I love the cooker, it’s made me wish I’d gone for a bright colour when I got my Aga instead of being sensible.

I’m a 15 minute train ride from several central London stations, zone three, and no way would I get anything like that for my 5-bed property with massive garden that’s been recently refurbished.

As we say in London, they’re having a laaaaarrrrrrfffff

4 beds far more valuable than 3 beds. In an even closer commuter area to London, the house behind ours has just sold, was up for £540K, 3 beds, very boring lawned garden. In the same road, there’s one for £100K less, also 3 beds. It makes no sense to me at all.

Imagine how long it would take to strip all that wallpaper off and re-paint. The house would look bigger (and better) if they hadn't OD'd on florals.

Yes the wallpaper is waayy too busy!! Migraine inducing! Kitchen is really nice but that ‘hunt’ wallpaper in the bathroom would be off as soon as I could get my hands on it

This is 50k less, closer to the tube and the rail, and in a better area and postcode (though still a cut-through!)

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-94560446.html

You obviously don’t watch Real Housewives of Cheshire! They really are nothing like the decor this house at all, their houses are glitzy and bling with lots of shiny surfaces, they really don’t go for the English heritage look.

Agree

I can see they spent a lot of money on the decor but it’s way over the top and the theme I think they were going got has been missed completely because they’ve overdone the wallpaper and mismatched flooring- overpowers the rooms- even though you should just be looking at the rooms and not the decor- we all know first impressions do count.😂

This is 50k less, closer to the tube and the rail, and in a better area and postcode (though still a cut-through!)

That house backs onto the railway, galley kitchen, no utility, badly extended. Interesting it’s only 50k less.

That house has had a lot of money spent on it. The yellow /gold wallpaper in one of the bedrooms and bathroom (and the same paper in duck egg in the dressing room ) I have and it’s little greene and over a hundred quid a roll.

www.littlegreene.com/wallpaper/collection/archive-trails/lg-wallpaper-sakura-yellow-lustre-roll

Personally I don’t think thr expensive decor And fittings always justifies a high price tag because much of that is about taste, but no doubt that house has had some serious cash spent on it which will be adding to the price tag,

Yes, I know where it is. It's in a better, better connected, area, as I said, hence the similar price for not much different floor space. If you improved the kitchen & bathrooms it would be far more than the Lower Morden Lane house.

The railway line behind it only has about 4 passenger trains an hour btw.

And by improved, I mean Smallboned the kitchen. The area that the house is in will absorb the price of a fancier kitchen.

‘Only’ 4 trains an hour! Backing onto a railway always knocks a big chunk off the price.

It would be100k’s work to fix the bad extension and ground floor layout and fix the attic.

But it's closer to the tube, that makes a difference