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[HermioneWeasley]

I love Fournier St in London, but £3m for something off Brick Lane???

www.jackson-stops.co.uk/cgi-bin/properties/summary-details.pl?propID=36166

The fact that it's off Brick lane is maybe why you get so much for your money?

"A property of historic importance with panelled reception rooms and fine staircase. Hall, first floor drawing room, 5 additional reception rooms, master bedroom with en suite bathroom, 5 further bedrooms, further bathrooms, large kitchen/breakfast room. Former carriage-house and secluded garden."

As opposed, to say, a one bedroom flat:
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47127994.html

It is wonderful and £3m seems like a total bargain.

It is really stunning! There are some complete monstrocities for sale in London for 10 times that. And im up North so have only just got an indoor loo and running water.

Not being facetious. Four and half thousand square feet in a central location in a stunning period building with gorgeous period features for £3m seems insanely cheap.

I love the area round Brick Lane but i'd rather have this

I love it Ginger!

Ginger, it is stunning but rather a different target market

I stand corrected on the £3m point!

A couple of the house photos are a bit stretched. It won't be as spacious as it looks.

Three gorgeous houses, but the Fournier St one is my favourite.

Rural isolation is lovely to visit, but that looks like a house where you'd get visited by vampires.

It's gorgeous and I agree it seems cheap to me. Why only 4 pics I wonder.

That 1 bed in soho has got the wrong floor plan!!!

The Fournier Street house wins hands down for me......

That Glenmoristan house - absolutely stunning, I agree - but what is going on in photo 18? And 19? Is that the huntin' shootin' fishin' processing plant?

I always find it fascinating, comparing the properties you can get for the same budget. 8 bed mansion in stunning Countryside vs 1 bed poky flat overlooked by everyone. Same budget...nuts. People life choices are what fascinate me I suppose.

And also life opportunities, Annie. There can't be many decent-paying jobs near the Glenmoristan house; guess it's for the independently wealthy or earned-a-packet-now-retiring-early.

This is what £3m buys you in Zone 4, where I grew up:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46208887.html

I used to walk past this house on my way to school. I lived in a council flat with no inside toilet; this house seemed to me like a mysterious palace. It still does! The decor is not to my taste, but what a fantastic place.

The big cream coloured building you can see in photo 18 is the Queen's Hotel, notorious in the media for housing 600 immigrants in only 98 bedrooms.

It irrationally annoys me when they take pictures of the bathroom and leave the toilet lid up.

I've just withdrawn my imaginary offer of 3 million pounds of my imaginary fortune, to the estate agent.

Can't believe it's got a spaceship! That wins hands down for me :)

Forget Scotland, I so want that London house with the space ship - packing my bags and heading west right now to camp on the estate agents doorstep to persuade them to sell it to match my budget.
I suppose I could stay put and buy this instead.

We all need a spaceship, don't we?

But I love that square room right at the top of the house - the views must be amazing. Bear in mind it's in Upper Norwood, right at the top of the highest hill in London.

Oh, Ginger, that one's right near my in-laws. And much nicer.

£3m in my neck of the woods.

Love, love, love the house in the OP.

Pete, that is lovely. Bit of cosmetic work to do but the location and the bones of it are gorgeous.