What would you offer for this house?

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www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49523536.html

Just been to see it - very nicely done but tiny garden and maybe a bit overdeveloped for the size and neighbourhood. What would you offer?

Is it an ex LA house on an estate?

Yes - 1920s cottage estate

What's it like? No street view available.

Also not much to go on re. Market info on that listing, either.

It looks lovely, from what I can see of it. Is it really only a mile to the station though?

Can't open link on ipad. Could you post a clicky link please.

It looks lovely but at the price! (Am in NE where £800k would buy a street of ex council houses)

Can you really call a room 2m square a bedroom? Is that allowed?

London prices

Ok so they paid £450,000 in 2012 and have presumably spent an arm and a leg on it? I note it's isn't actually four beds. It's 3 plus a box. Everything sold nearby is for considerably less which is I think your point about over development. Is that a railway line at the bottom of the garden or just some electric wires? This one is three beds too really. That's a study not a bedroom on the ground floor! And it's £50 grand less with a lovely garden.....This is on for £95 grand less with a similar though possibly not quite as good layout and a bit bigger garden. Obviously I don't know the area so there may be things I'm not noting but I reckon the 795,000 house is OVER-priced. What do you think the work cost them? Perhaps £150,000? I think I would be offering below £700,000 to start.

Of course you could move North and comfortably buy this my current fave

you can see it from a distance across the green (through the trees)

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49523536.html

the people who first lived in it would die at the price

(you have to go down Dover House Rd a bit & turn right)

The first house linked to by northern is in a very nice location. Quiet, leafy.

Jesus! I was just moaning to DH about nice 4 bed detached houses with decent gardens costing £700k around here. They look like a complete bargain in comparison.

SE house prices...

ok back home now. Thanks for posting the full link

It's an overgrown school field behind - the agent said the school only mow it once a year and never use it. The garden is astroturf

I am trying to move very close to my elderly parents - this is a 5 min walk from them and so I know the area quite well. The story is that it's an overseas family who got posted to London, did the house up thinking they were staying a long time and have now been recalled unexpectedly. On Zoopla it describes this price as the owner's estimate

Agent was pretty uninterested so I didn't get anything useful out of her

oh just noticed Northernlurker's other link - yes I viewed that one this evening as well - it's on a modern outcrop of the original estate and doesn't have the same character. Nice enough though

I think you're right, it's overdone for the area. It sounds as though you know what's what here and know what to offer!

Does the overgrown school field have planning permission to build? I'd be worried even if they didn't? An unused field owned by a cash strapped local authority?

Yes I need to understand the issue with that field. My parents back onto it as well and I know it's correct that the school never use it. There's an electricity sub station on one corner and the whole estate is a conservation area and subject to an article 4 direction suspending permitted development rights

Which school owns the field?

So it turns out the field belonged to Huntingfield School, which was demolished about 20 years ago. And the land is leased on a peppercorn rent to the council and a private individual for 999 years.

I guess that makes it safe enough from development perspective - though I take OliviaBenson's point.

Sounds ideal.

£680,000. They make their money back on the refurb and a small amount of equity.