Surely no one will fall for this!

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www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=98137073&sale=91986915&country=england

Sold in Dec 2020 for 460000

Now being remarketed after a paint job for 995000

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/109368608#/

It looks grim. Who would throw away almost a million on that dark and dingy place.

Oh I know that village! That is one busy road. Horrible position

Why are there so many chairs?

I think it is odd that a couple based in California would buy a Grade 1 listed property at Auction, given how much upkeep and ongoing costs Grade 1 listed properties entail, and then relist a few months later at more than double the price.

And yes it is in a flood area! Grade 1 listed properties are quite often hard to shift because of the potential huge costs of maintaining them

That's a very trendy estate agent they've chosen. Might have something to do with the price.

[quote hollieberrie]Ooh there's one near me like this. i saw it yest and was a bit

Jan 2021 - £456k
www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=83408311&sale=12166237&country=england

Now - £650k
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/109353632#/[/quote]
That is insane! New kitchen and bathroom plus a redecoration does not equal 200000!

I think they are selling because it is haunted. See how the bike in the strange vaulted storage area has been replaced by a crucifix

That sale not so long ago could be a remortgage of some description - I've seen that before when someone was living in a house their parents had bought then after a few years took on the mortgage themselves, well got a mortgage and bought it from the parents. Anyway the current photos are terrible.

In fairness there could have been a lot of hidden work done on both houses - structural, electrical, etc.

@WowStarsWow

That's a very trendy estate agent they've chosen. Might have something to do with the price.

Generally though, Inigo and The Modern House are toppy in their pricing but not insanely so!

Pretentious is the word your looking for for that EA - I remember a pp saying they wouldn't list their house as it didn't fit their design criteria on a past thread!

@WeAreTheHeroes

In fairness there could have been a lot of hidden work done on both houses - structural, electrical, etc.

But there hasn't been because there is no listed building consents for the property so they can't have done anything substantial.

I live on a normal housing estate. One house sold in Jan 2020 for £175k. A carbon copy of that went on sale May 2021 and was on for £315k.
Apparently it’s sold for “about that” to people from a different county.

I can’t believe people don’t look at how much other houses in the area sold for recently.

@WeAreTheHeroes

That sale not so long ago could be a remortgage of some description - I've seen that before when someone was living in a house their parents had bought then after a few years took on the mortgage themselves, well got a mortgage and bought it from the parents. Anyway the current photos are terrible.

It was a sale at Auction

Gorgeous house, but what's with the Instagram pictures? Stand back and take a wide photo of the whole room so I can see the space! Arty photographs of the kitchen units are nice but they could just as easily have been taken in a photo studio. Show me the house!

Grade 1 listed so they wouldn't likely have had time to get permissions and undertake anything substantial

They wouldn’t need permissions for remedial work. I’d put money on it having had a shedload of work done that you can’t see.

You can list for whatever you like. Doesn't mean it'll sell. Some people are deluded. The photos are awful too. I'll place a bet it's still on the market in 6 months, at a 25% reduction.

I do not think it is too far off the mark

Whereas the lower price was way off

@Blossomtoes

Grade 1 listed so they wouldn't likely have had time to get permissions and undertake anything substantial

They wouldn’t need permissions for remedial work. I’d put money on it having had a shedload of work done that you can’t see.

Seems weird that it wouldn't be mentioned in the details, I am at a loss to imagine what works that you could do on a G1 listed building that wouldn't require LB consent that would justify that price uplift

@SmallGreenStripes

I think they are selling because it is haunted. See how the bike in the strange vaulted storage area has been replaced by a crucifix

It's haunted by the girl in the portrait in picture 38

I noticed that the new pictures very carefully exclude the road outside! Maybe a brief glimpse in the one where the water is shown (flood risk?)

Highly possible it was structurally unsound, whether damp or subsidence
And that’s been rectified

It’s been beautifully styled and presented for sale this time. Like something out of an interiors magazine. They might be hoping for a London buyer who is wanting a post-Covid country bolthole and won’t baulk at the price.

Rewiring, central heating replacement, damp proofing, new roof, specialist plastering? No permissions needed for any of those and they cost a fortune in listed properties - as we discovered to our cost!

You don’t want to mention remedial works in the particulars
You don’t want to say - it suffered from terrible damp but that’s been rectified etc

Particulars are ALL about the unequivocal positive

I know where this is, drove past it last week and it’s right on really busy road, I don’t think there is even much of a pavement between it and the cars. Amazing house though.