omg...£1.2 million for this semi - are they deluded?

[Kitttty]

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43939112.html

It's vile, and I wouldn't pay that for it, but yy to the size of plot being important. We paid over the odds for ours because it had a massive back garden (into which we have extended) and because it had a rancid big garage, with established planning permission, meaning we would be able to extend to the side too. Of course that wasn't even a third of what they want for that monstrosity and I am less than a mile from a zone 4 tube station.

WHAT'S WITH THE SWING?

That is one ugly house!

Well, it looks like fantastic value compared to this soulless place with a miniscule garden on a busy main road nowhere near a tube station

imvho

I've found it on google maps.

If you search Coombe Close, Edgware and scroll to streetview, it's at the end, next to the park. It looks like a building site at the front.

It does NOT look like a nice area!

Or at least I think it's that one!

their garden pic seems to show they're next to that park. Or school. Or whatever it is.

As I always bang on about non these threads, in London (and elsewhere) it's pounds per square foot that matters. In this case it's £581per sq ft. Closer in, still NW London but zone 2 instead, it is more like £1000 to £1200 per sq ft, depending on land, decor, transport etc.

You have to assume these days that most people in London are going to renovate. You don't spend that kind of money on a home and not make it exactly how you want it. So decor isn't actually a big factor most of the time.

And Kensington is £1600 and Mayfair upwards of £2000 per sq ft.

Mintyy that garden looks as if it has been designed with the sole purpose of letting your dogs out to have a crap. Styled on the grounds of a detention centre for miscreant gnomes.

Well, yeah, true. And at the end of the day, nothing has an intrinsic value. Everything is only worth as much as people are willing (or able) to pay and this figure goes up and down and up (and up and up and up and then smashes down...) depending on what's going on in the world.

House prices are stupidly high though. imo. obviously.

it's got off road parking as well - that's another silly-money premium to add on in the London market

I did the same as Hec amd came to the same conclusion
Being next to green space will push the price up too

I am almost crying at the pool/dining table. Very tasteful breeze blocks in the garden too, and loving the patchwork exterior.

mintyy why do people put such awful kitchens and bathrooms in? When I see them, my first thought is that I would need to change them although they are clearly very expensive and new. Particularly rankles when it's a Victorian house.

This thread is reminding me why I want to move out of London. Ugly houses not too dissimilar to the first one on thread (albeit with only 3 beds) in not too great areas are around 600- 700k with horrible bathrooms and kitchens. A beautiful 5 bed Edwardian semi or detached in my home town up north with original features is half that amount.

in the garden, those are neglected orchard trees (pruned so you can pick the fruit without needing a ladder). have seen lots in Herefordshire.

The house in edgware is right next to an outstanding state secondary. Further explanation as to the inflated cost..l

Surely at that price tho it would be cheaper to privately educate and live somewhere nice!

the kids rooms look like prison cells! Particularly the small one.

Yuk, yuk and more yuk! It looks thrown together inside and out and not finished.....no style either!

Maybe there's a business opportunity there - rent the rooms out to sharp-elbowed but not terribly wealthy parents. £200 p/w each.

It would be essentially be a hostel but you might want to call it something more palatable like Edgware KS2 SATs Tutorial College or something.

It is horrendous. Needs major money spending on it inside and out. Not a great area either.....

Loving the wet washing on the radiators, does no-one clear up before photos anymore?

Those photos are either very stttrrreeeetched or that is the longest, thinnest microwave I have ever seen!

I can't believe the naivity (sp?) that some people have about the cost of housing in the south east. It is hideously expensive.

They've just tacked on bits here and there. What a shit hole. Guess there's a reason they don't show the front.

I'm not a London person but was not at all surprised by the price for 6 bedrooms in the South East.

Obviously, I don't know the area though - I can't ever imagine parting with that kind of money to live in a crappy area. It appears some people will, however!

foul.