The ridiculously expensive flat thread.

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Would you look at what £1.25 million can get you! www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51813158.html

Why so many chairs in a small flat? www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50981363.html

A snip at £50 shy of one million. www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49048666.html

(yes I know that for many people trying to afford anything in London is a real problem)

Sorted!

Payment in cash made tomorrow

mousmous - that couch is for your appreciative bedtime audience.

Pipbin, I think it's the spa, but I'm not entirely certain. Whatever it is it's narrow.

Perspic, I'd say it's definetly a waiting couch, you'd need a quick turn over to pay the mortgage. Least I would, prefer to get them over and out before Casualty is on.

That space with a bed has been recently refurbished though to be fair. And comes fully furnished can't ask for more than that. .. How do you "refurbish" 4 walls by the way?

And who the hell is Candy & Candy because that's 2 "flats" dosshouse bedsits that them decorating has added ££££££ to.

www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-46283269.html

forget the cage, I'll get this for the children and cat.

What is with the putty grey colour schemes in so many of these flats. Does it show up the blingy bits better?

NEO Bankside, 60 Holland Street, London
www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-34061631.html

I love a bit of putty gray, but oh lord these places are dingy bling. So dark, so soulless, so life-sucked-out-of-me-by-Kelly-Hoppen, so hotellish.

You can't imagine ever being in a good mood in there, can you?

More on those One Hyde Park flats, from Wikipedia:

"In November 2011 it was reported that only nine out of the 62 apartments that had been sold at One Hyde Park were registered with Westminster City Council for Council Tax. Despite prices ranging from £3.6 million for a one-bedroom flat to £136 million for a penthouse, only four properties were paying the full £755.60 a year Council Tax plus the £619.64 Greater London Authority charge (collectively below the national average), while five were paying the Council Tax at the 50% reduction for a second home. Westminster North MP Karen Buck stated: "When council spending is under unprecedented pressure, it is scandalous that residents in luxury apartments can avoid their share of council tax liability. It sometimes seems as if the more money you have the less you are required to pay."[15] Nicholas Shaxson from Vanity Fair discovered that 60 apartments are owned by companies registered in tax havens as foreign companies and therefore don't have to pay taxes on the apartments. The owners of the companies remain anonymous.[16]"

Bloody hell, Devora. I wish I could be surprised, but I'm not.

Can you imagine being so tight that you'd pay £136 million for a flat and yet fill out the paperwork to avoid less than £800 council tax?

I think the council should stop collecting their rubbish. That might concentrate their minds.

It reminds me of a party I went to in Barbados, many years ago, where I got stuck in a corner with a lot of squillionaires who were comparing notes on how to avoid paying any tax on their holiday homes there. The sheer bare-faced shamelessness of their boasting about how they avoided paying a penny for the infrastructure they used for their party lifestyles nearly choked me - I had to leave the room.

Agree with the comment about them looking like hotel rooms - in fact it might be preferable to stay in a nice hotel than buy one of these overpriced shoe boxes.

Candy & Candy - isn't that Holly Vallance's husband and his brother?

ArcheyAnnie that's £136 million for a lateral apartment not a flat!!!

I'm actually going to go as far as saying it's amoral, to have so much as to be able to buy at that price and then not pay a few hundred in taxes. In that financial league surely £1,375.24 is peanuts.

You are right, Moln, especially when you consider how many thousands they will be paying to the building's management company in service charges every year.

I lived off Queens Gate Gardens once as well (rented not bought, obvs). The rent was comparatively cheap because the flat had no central heating (we bought plug in radiators).

But I hated living there and exBF and I split up when we were living there. Nothing but miracle memories of living there. I lived in housing association flats before that and was much happier then.

www.propertypal.com/2-britches-close-downpatrick/105518/photo-2

I'm gonna go for this one and keep the change!

Miserable memories, not miracle!

Devora you've summed up exactly why I hated Kensington. I did like the street with all the French shops - that felt like a genuine French expat area with long term residents rather than a transient community. And I knew lots of students as my ex was a mature student at Imperial. Apart from that I never knew anyone around there.

Kensington Gardens is still lovely though - having it as a back garden was lush.

I rather like that one, nottheOP

www.myhome.ie/rentals/brochure/serpentine-avenue-ballsbridge-dublin-4/1976958

feeling let down by the city I live in, this is the silliest I can find

www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/40-shrewsbury-square-sandymount-avenue-ballsbridge/3070149

Pissst, pathetic cheap as chips

There is going to be little in the UK and Ireland to rival the stupid prices on London flats, Moin.

I have to say that the kitchen in my last house was the same size as the kitchen in this flat www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48372658.html
But then I did pay £85k for a whole house.

This is quite a sweet flat, but not for the money. www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34449540.html

How did they take picture 3? www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49710574.html
May be that is why it's worth £450k, it can make estate agents disappear.