To think this house will never sell...

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Currently searching for a new property in West Sussex as we are re-locating for DH's job and came across this gem on RightMove...

Wait until the last aerial photo...

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146279003?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

cheekyfuckery par excellence

There's surely no way that loft room has regs to enable it to be classed as a proper bedroom?!
Especially as all previous listings for the state it's a 4 bed, not 5 bed.

I hope no one buys it for anywhere near that. Property sites estimate it's current value to be quite a bit lower than 1 million and surely no one parts with that sort of money without doing a lot of research into what something is worth

The whole thing is weird. They bought in March 2023 for £875k and put it on the market in March 2024 for £1.1m. It doesn’t seem to be that modernised to have had such a huge uplift in the space of a year. It also looks well lived in for just a year. Very strange.

Garden Grabbing isnt permitted in our area. There is someone who is trying to do this with gardens behind us but planning permission keeps getting refused.

Happening in a neighbouring village, trying to sell a bungalow for £1 million due to the land, but it floods regularly, cannot be built on due to issues of the flooding, but they are saying there is potential to build!!!! Also no access! Fear this is where planning will open up the gates to infill development.

I think it's a lovely house but needs completely redecorated and a new kitchen. The garden will also need to be landscaped once the new house is built.

Nobody is going to buy it until the new house(s?) is/are built. £1 mill to live for 2 years next to a building site? I don't think so, especially since you won't know exactly how intrusive the new buildings will be until they're finished

Not only will you potentially be living next to a building site and be overlooked, but you also have to exit your shower onto the stairs of a carpeted bathroom?? It’s a no from me

It currently has a double width plot. It will be left with exactly the same sized garden as the other houses in the road. It's not as bad as it looks (apart from the building disruption, obviously)

Hmm yeah, that would put me off. Till I got to that I was thinking I really liked the quirkiness of parts of the house! (though not the decor) I've no idea of price norms in the area but I can't imagine it selling for a million in those circumstances.

A few people in my town have done that sort of stuff, sell off part of the garden for another house. The consequence is that the size of the garden is no longer commensurate with the house size. And price. One has been for sale nearly a year and a half now, it is going nowhere, as barely a garden left and house hella expensive for this town.

When I was house hunting three years ago I saw two properties with a similar set up. One was upfront, you could see the plans when viewing. The other they were keeping some of the land along with access 'for the grandchildren to play on...'

Link is working for me now. Even without the planning problem they’re having a laugh with “beautifully presented” aren’t they? Seems dated to me, tiny kitchen, carpet in the bathroom.

The new building is on the side so this house still retains a decent back garden and presumably will have fencing. Not ideal for the conservatory but still a decent plot. They're mad if they think they can get £1m for it though 😂

Are they even allowed to only sell part of the property though?

I thought when you sold you were selling everything included in the plan on the title deeds.

so unless they bought the garden/land area separately they can’t just decide to keep it but sell the bit they don’t want.

Part of me thinks if it's a massive garden big enough to build a house on, longs as it's not built too close to the existing ones then at least it's not building on green belt. People have always bought up properties on big plots with an eye to develop them. Huge gardens are great for some but too much work for others. A lot of old bungalows used to have huge gardens around them with elderly residents who couldn't cope with the maintenance anymore.

Having said all that I think they're being greedy and short sighted. Urban environments are increasingly cheek by jowl but what do we do about the need for more housing?

We went to see a house recently, we were looking for a large garden. As we were walking round the garden the agent said, oh, of course the owner has already sold off the garden from here to the end.
They hadn't changed the photos or added that on the details! A complete waste of time.

I just struggle to understand the thought process of the vendors... "Let's retain most of the garden and see if we can get someone to give us more than we paid for the property a year ago"!

It's called pure greed, and sadly there's a lot of it about

I don't know the area so just was going by the photos. I was thinking that the house was quirky, and could look great after some renovation work....then I saw the red marked area of the garden and thought, "no way". The "stairs" to the loft room were odd too. I've never seen a set up like that before!

A beautiful house in my village is for sale,well it was beautiful,the owners sold land either side from their garden and built two houses on both bits.They have been trying to sell their house for a year now,reduced the price but still not selling.The original house looks ridiculous in the centre of the new builds.They even filled a big pond in,it had loads on wild life around it.

At least in that property OP has posted it only looks to be one side they are building on,still massively overpriced.

I bet that'll still be on the market in a year for a hundred grand (at least) less.

The way the estate agent has said: '... please note that the area in red is not part of the sale....'. It should read: 'Please note that the major part of the garden is not included with the sale'. It's the fucking garden, not simply an 'area' or a 'bit of land'. Absolute piss-takers, these sellers.

My neighbour just did it. He had a house and seven acres. Sold the house and three and kept four. Sold that to a developer as 4 building plots. It was quick and clearly wasn’t difficult. They say yes to anything here.

I don’t know, maybe you just pay the the land registry and they’ll carve it up however you want. Its happening all over my village now, with varying rates of success for the vendors. We have the farmhouse and three acres of what was once a 270 acre farm and is now a village. Its been going on forever if you think about it.

If you look at the photos from when they bought it for 875k, it looked so much nicer as well. And you can clearly see they have done absolutely nothing to it to warrant an increase in value, even ignoring the issue of them trying to keep hold of half of the land

If I had a million pounds to spend, I'd have opted out of that particular house LONG before getting to the chopped in half garden!

The whole thing needs redecorating throughout, not to mention new kitchen and bathroom.

And as someone who has spent a LOT of time lately looking at roofs, I'd not be satisfied by that particular roof. A roof with a lot of moss on it is never a good sign.

I don't know how anyone thinks that that house has risen that much in value given current housing market conditions, and that's before you've carved away one of it's best features. Utterly delusional.

I know that area and I just can't imagine they would get permission . Surrounding Worthing are 1000's of new build estates. I also can't quite believe people will spend 1 million on a house in Worthing, it's so manky .

You would also buy it and immediately object to the planning. I mean what moron would buy it at all though, I am not sure a lender would mortgage it either.