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Join me in my Belgravia fantasy! Restrained property porn

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FollyFaunts · 27/08/2015 11:33

So I live in Herts in a family house which would sell for around £750K give or take. No mortgage. In my dreams the DCs have all left home and are self-sufficient Hmm and DH has magically disappeared Hmm Hmm

I now have the chance to fulfil my dream of returning to single life in London, last experienced in Zone 2 in the 90's, pre-DCs.

This time however as a somewhat more mature lady, obviously with delusions of grandeur and also leaning towards the eccentric, I have set my sights on Zone 1.

What do you make of this property? only 3 years left on the lease but don't they always get renegotiated?

[www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52235213.html]

What would you do and where would you go?

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DoubleDeClutchMuch · 27/08/2015 11:35

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52235213.html

LondonHuffyPuffy · 27/08/2015 11:42

Blimey. The cost of renewing the lease on that place would be well in excess of £750k.

I would have to buy somewhere near the river. Or a boat on the river in Chelsea Harbour

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FollyFaunts · 27/08/2015 12:44

I didnt know lease renewal was that pricey!

This one has shared freehold:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49056956.html

I don't mind being near the river but not in it Wink

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JuanPotatoTwo · 27/08/2015 16:24

I have a similar fantasy folly of living on my own somewhere, love dh and the dc though I do. But I can't decide if I want a nice pied-a-terre behind Harrods or a little cottage on a cliff with uninterrupted sea views.

blueteapot · 27/08/2015 22:43

Sea views, definitely! Ignoring the fact that the first one is hideous, what bad value for money for both... :/

wickedwaterwitch · 28/08/2015 01:03

Eww at the Belgravia one, so overdone Imo

This is a house!

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35254251.html

wickedwaterwitch · 28/08/2015 01:08

Here's a nice sea view cottage

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49467274.html?premiumA=true

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FollyFaunts · 28/08/2015 13:40

Re. the Belgravia one (first link) -goes without saying that present owners can take away all their furniture and the whole place would be redecorated. The kitchen and patio are very nice IMO - and I would be paying for the area through the nose I'm not interested in getting something huge in the suburbs IYSWIM.
It would be a dream come true to live in Central London-I don'tcare about lack of space.
Shepherd Market one is nice waterwitch and as for the St Ives cottage WOW that is fantastic. Love the doggie in the sitting room! I just think I would crave anonymous crowds after a month of rural Cornwall living....

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JuanPotatoTwo · 28/08/2015 18:48

I like the London flat wicked. The cottage isn't bad but it looks a bit, I don't know - cold?

Mydearchild · 29/08/2015 14:51

Hate the ridiculous priced London shoeboxes flats but ADORE the cottage in St Ives. Can i keep the dog?!

wickedwaterwitch · 29/08/2015 14:56

The St Ives one is gorgeous, swoon!

whattheseithakasmean · 29/08/2015 15:06

I'd love the Belgravia one - I actually adore its overdone naffness.

St Ives cottage looks sooo chilly & remote. I live in the country, so a flat in a city centre is a lovely alternative fantasy life.

kickassangel · 29/08/2015 15:49

The St Ives one has a mistake on the plans and doesn't show the entrance into bedroom 3. I have just spent ages working out how to get into it. That really bugged me for a while.

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FollyFaunts · 30/08/2015 11:24

imagine the lack of things to do around the St Ives cottage, compared with the wealth of social/cultural activities plus transport links to anywhere you like which are walking distance from the soon to be redecorated Belgravia shoebox? lovely dog notwithstanding?

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wickedwaterwitch · 30/08/2015 11:28

The St Ives one would just ge a holiday house for me. At other times I'd go back to my Kensington place, maybe this one

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53601590.html

Do you think that's an actual maid or a cardboard cut out?

HermioneWeasley · 30/08/2015 11:29

The St Ives one makes me shudder - waaaay too isolated. OP, I'm loving your fantasy

NoArmaniNoPunani · 30/08/2015 11:33

That second one, an 800k flat with cheap flat packed furniture.

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FollyFaunts · 30/08/2015 11:39

The point of my fantasy, is that it is almost, almost doable.

waterwitch thank you for that link. It makes my heart ache with longing. Cardboard cutout maid trumps cute St Ives doggie IMO.

However, I will never have £25 million to spend. (not wanting to be negative but I think I can be fairly certain about that, though of course you never know, hahaha)!

Plus, I can't have a holiday house AND a central London shoebox. It really is either/or........... and for £800K max (note the sneaky £50K extra in the budget that has magically appeared since my OP Hmm)
So that's what makes it sort of tantalizing. I could just about scrape it together for a shoebox, going purely for the benefits brought by a central location.

I've done the big house in a backwater lifestyle - quite frankly I'm bored with that now....
Shoebox would mean no one could come and stay and annoy me ... and I could have a cardboard cutout for company and a stuffed scottie dog

sorry, rambling now...

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FollyFaunts · 30/08/2015 11:43

Armani no worries, I have my own furniture and wouldn't expect to be buying theirs Wink

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Mintyy · 30/08/2015 11:48

It is my ultimate fantasy to live alone in a central London flat. Have you looked at Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury or Pimlico? You could certainly do that with your budget op.

I'd hate to live in Belgravia - no community at all! All your neighbours would be excessively wealthy foreign investors, many of those flats will be second or third homes.

wickedwaterwitch · 30/08/2015 11:52

(I realise this is my fantasy now!)

Jackie0 · 30/08/2015 12:02

The London kitchens are all awful.
Do people eat out all the time?

Jackie0 · 30/08/2015 12:03

I enjoy the Manhattan Park Avenue property porn Wink