When Streetview does you no favours...

[Chocolatedeficitdisorder]

A unique little conversion, very modern and stylish.

See if you can spot the difference from the sales photo and what the Streetview car caught!
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/50413529?search_identifier=7871a7ef0662125cc7d27c38bea9d007

Am I missing something? Obviously I am, but placemarking.

Do you know how to find the Streetview link in the description?

If you don't, go down to the 'Maps and nearby' and then click on 'Streetview'. The house concerned is down the street on the left.

Compare it to the sales picture of the outside of the property and you should see the problem.

The graffiti? Or something else?

No idea.

Can't see much difference, still looks quite cute to me.

The graffiti? Or something else?
Yes, the grafitti both on the front door and the side of the building. It's sitting under a dark railway bridge junction and covered in gang 'tags'.

I grew up in the area and I'm always looking to see what it would cost to move back. Unfortunately that would be about double the cost for a home similar to my own. I just could just about afford this little house, but I guess there's a reason why it's that price. Sigh.

The railway track? It's a little close...

Graffiti, traffic, and right next to a rail line. A lovely triple whammy from Streetview there

They’ve taken that photo from a very careful angle haven’t they!

I like it, but no I wouldn't like the thought of my front door being a graffiti canvas.

I grew up near there too! Waves
That's a busy railway line to be hiding too!

£250k for that!
Wow. Edinburgh is expensive.

I think the 'would make excellent short term let' would set off alarm bells! I assume this means, don't expect anyone to hang around longer than necessary!

Sigh. It is a lovely wee flat tho. Just shared it with my pal and she was like ooh lovely terrace looking over the trains!

Can't actually see the front for the traffic

I think the busy road and the trains going by would bother me more than the graffiti and I used to live in a house that had a rail line at the end of the garden. However, It was a long garden and it was a very unbusy branch line but the fact the street view has caught a train going over indicates they are very frequent.

Not sure if you’d hear the trains. Probably depends on the trains and the tracks. But the graffiti would put me right off.

That weird platform for a dining table would put me off for a start. But you are right the graffiti is a real no go.

The railway would put me off a lot more than the graffiti.

Um are you missing the part where your neighbour is the queen?
That’s Edinburgh all over, the palace cheek by jowl with the rough.

Though I like to see Edinburgh getting acknowledged as crazy expensive.

God, DH and I nearly bought a flat in abbey hill when we were students, you could get one for around £30K!

the fact the street view has caught a train going over indicates they are very frequent.

It's the East Coast mainline, Edinburgh to London.
And yes, this is ball-chucking distance from Holyrood House, the Queen's Edinburgh gaff.

As for Edinburgh being expensive now, here's an example.
My DF grew up in a terraced council house on a council estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh within a very working class family (The Inch for Edinburgh folk).

Dh and I earn a joint income of just short of of 60K per annum and we could just about afford that house now, whereas we live 20 miles away in a decent 3-bed detached with a garage and big garden.

My parents sold their Edinburgh bungalow in 2001 for £180k and it sold again a couple of years ago for £500k.

I grew up near there too! Waves
That's a busy railway line to be hiding too!

Waves back to #Spongeface

My grandparents had a flat in Royal Park Terrace and I spent about half my childhood with them. The area has changed so much, except that corner with the railway bridge, that's definitely not changed!

Edinburgh prices are crazy, I’m looking to go for shared ownership as I’ll never get on the ladder here otherwise. Even on the outskirts, Dalkeith etc used to be really cheap are now just as bad price wise.

I thought from the thread title that you had looked up your house on Street View and you were there putting out the bins in your PJs or something.