1880's cottage Clifton in Bristol, horrific interior, would you bid on it?

[WonkyStripes]

Outside is so cute and I love the area!

How much do you reckon to fix it up?

Would you get involved with it?

Also note the helpful bonus Sold with vacant possession

I have seen similar properties that people were still living in.

has no-one noticed this bit in the description? :)

For Sale By Live Online Auction - SOLD PRIOR TO AUCTION

GUIDE £250,000
SOLD @ £250,000

so, no longer for sale... - who on here bought it?!

NOT ME!

I'd say that's in Hotwells not Clifton. And Jacob Wells Road? No way. Not even if it was perfect would I move there.

I’d call that location Clifton. It’s not Clifton Village but the Clifton area is far bigger than just the village. The Triangle is definitely Clifton and the QEH opposite is in Clifton. No way is it Cliftonwood or Hotwells.

The road is busy but the location is excellent and people always want to live in Clifton.

Was this a stealth ad? It’s sold.

@akkakk

has no-one noticed this bit in the description? :)

For Sale By Live Online Auction - SOLD PRIOR TO AUCTION

GUIDE £250,000
SOLD @ £250,000

so, no longer for sale... - who on here bought it?!

I just came in here too to say that it’s showing as Under Offer on Rightmove - blimey!

Not a very good one if so! Everyone calling it for the money pit it is 😂

Handsoff, I do have experience. Not that it should need to be pointed out really, in a chat thread. There are different ways to look at things you know. And ways to offer ones’ thoughts without it turning into a competition. As I did when I acknowledged that yes, you could be right, in my post above. There’s no black and white in property development- you should know that, I’d imagine.

And my comment just above wasn’t related to the house, but the thread... and was pointing out that if the thread was some strange way of getting interest in the house, it’s not a very effective one, when most of the (uninformed) comments are negative.

And as you’ll know, there’s no way that the house has silk prior to auction to someone here - it’ll have gone to someone already right on the ball with upcoming properties in the area who was ready to go straight away.

*sold

So many people on this thread need to look at a map. 15 minutes from Clifton?! Very funny KihoBebiluPute.

@MustWe

I’d call that location Clifton. It’s not Clifton Village but the Clifton area is far bigger than just the village. The Triangle is definitely Clifton and the QEH opposite is in Clifton. No way is it Cliftonwood or Hotwells.

The road is busy but the location is excellent and people always want to live in Clifton.

Are you an estate agent??!? The location is dire! I drove by yesterday and it’s crap. The road at the front is terrible. It’s dark. The road at the back isn’t great. To be honest perhaps I’m a location nazi. Half the houses in ‘Redland’ are really in Bishopston IMHO!

I thought when you said interior horrific that it was something that needed a bit of modernisation. But horrific is a bit of an understatement! Lovely from the outside, and I guess there is a lot of potential. Not sure it’s necessarily a money pit. I’ve seen worse on Houses Under The Hammer where they’ve had a pretty small budget and got it looking okay.

Well the auction wasn't supposed to be till 18th November but today it has a 'sold by auction' sign up, so someone must have put in an acceptable offer.

Oh that’s interesting

I wonder how much it went for?

Was house part of a school or what?
Listed?
Conservation Area?
Fix rain water goods, if need new, specify cast iron
Windows need to match the historic style
Get it dried out first
No it does not have subsidence or anything like that

I checked out what happened at the auction.

www.hollismorgan.co.uk/auctions/auction-list/

Sold for £250,000!

It's had huge water ingress so I think total money pit. All the roof timbers would likely need replacing in the areas where the ingress has occurred. Plus everything else.

How can you love the area OP? It’s on a horrible busy road!

@clary You cycled UP JWells Road?! Respect!!

It actually says "please bring a torch" on the auction page.

My friend sold a house there for 700K 4 years ago and it sold last year for 1.4M but she is so relieved as it was the biggest money pit ever. £200K doesn't even cover what you would need more like double that. That's madness.

[quote WineIsMyCarb]@clary You cycled UP JWells Road?! Respect!![/quote]
haha it was a long time ago and I was both younger and probably fitter! Certainly after two years in Bristol I was used to cycling up hills.