What is going on with this house?

[sarahb083]

Any ideas?? Something is very bizarre but not sure what - strangely messy, and the kitchen photo is a bit WTF

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83378255.html

Doesn't look like anyone is living there.The photo's look like they've been taken mid packing and on a phone or crap camera. Very odd but lovely from the outside.

I’ve seen nicer crime scene photos.
Seems like they’re moving out anyway and are in a hurry to market it and are complacent that it will sell without any effort.

They look like rubbish camera phone photos. Maybe the agent went to value and is posting without permission? Hence no floorplans either.

One of two options

Owner was disabled - in add (Recently refurbished for owner occupier needs.)

Its a repossession, owner had to leave quickly and bank now have ownership

Took one look at the first photo and immediately thought: it's haunted.

Been enter out to multi occupancy tenants? Some have gone, others not quite, no one has cleared up.

Terrible photos.

Could be a really nice house, garden could be transformed and beautiful!

The blurb states it's been recently refurbished for owner occupier so I suspect the photos were taken before that.

It looks like an overcrowded rental. Great potential though.

Maybe it was sublet. It looks like a whole family was living in the big bedroom with two double beds and a cot.
The photos are rubbish.

I suppose subletting to lots of people would also explain the poor state of the garden and the weeds at the front.

I don't like the outside or the style and unless it's in a v posh area of Croydon can't believe it could really be worth almost a mil!

I’d be sacking my estate agent if I was the seller of this

I know London/Surrey are expensive but that takes the biscuit trying to market the house looking like that! Almost a million quid!! Shocking!

Does look like an ex HMO. It could be bloody lovely with some tlc.

I'm thinking some sort of sub-let too, the refurbished comment is a bit strange as well.

Quick sale needed

It was once a nice house now used as an HMO.
Haunted... my arse...

Sublet/HMO where the many, many occupants have disappeared following a spate of supernatural occurrences never to be heard from again.

The bathrooms do look modern, I guess that might pass for refurbished in estate agent lingo.

There’s something very odd about the agents, if you look at their website.

What's that then @Orchardgreen?

Dodgy by the looks of it.
www.getagent.co.uk/branch/aa-homes-and-housing-croydon-cr0/63941

Yes, I found that review site. I assume the 5* reviews are written by staff, as they have not been verified.

So I wonder if the agents own the property themselves?

On Companies House they’ve changed names a couple of times.

Can of worms.....
insidecroydon.com/2018/10/30/croydon-council-hits-labour-party-donor-with-32000-fine/

I had a landlord like that in London 30 years ago.I was ever so glad to get out of the house

The other properties listed by them have similarly dodgy photos, including on one of a traffic jam outside the property. Lovely!

Clearly badly taken phone camera pictures. First time I've seen an actual person in them too (photo 2).

I think the owners must have got a buy two get one free deal on those beds too! At least it shows the bedroom is large!

Overall the estate agents clearly don't look very professional and the reviews match up with that too. Totally out of their depth I would say!