Detached house but one room randomly belongs to the neighbours!

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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136626314#/?channel=RES_BUY

Taken from Reddit.

This property has an upstairs room that you don’t own.
It’s not a flying freehold room that joins onto next door, the property is detached!

I hadn’t even thought about insurance.

Just the solicitors bill alone will hugely increase the price.

As long as the seller isn't a Mr Bluebeard, it probably won't be that much of an issue...

Thank God it’s not an allotment!

The current owners use it as a second home so maybe during Covid, the neighbours asked if they could purchase the room as a home office and the owners said 'Sure', without thinking about what would happen if they ever tried to sell it!!

Does it have its own separate electricity supply?

😂Good one @MintyCedric !

Its Barbara isn't it?

This is horror film material. I'd totally watch it.

😂😂😂

How you would even go about legally buying a ROOM in someone else’s house though? No solicitor would deal with that would they?

Nor would they advise anyone to buy a detached house where someone else owns one of the rooms with all the aforementioned issues with maintenance of surrounding building and roof, council tax etc. Assume it’s a leasehold agreement. Surely the current owners must have made the agreement and will now find out how stupid that was that they are selling it.

Wonder if’s an informal shake hands kind of thing. The owner has completely fucked themselves over if so!

The property was purchased in December 2005 for £305,000 and is being marketed 18 years later at £350,000. It would likely be worth considerably more if it were not for the "Room in separate ownership" situation:

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/uprn/10003957211/

‘Bijou’ garden? It’s minuscule, no parking and bordered all round by roads, like a traffic island, let alone the business about not owning one room.
I really can’t see anything attractive about it!

It says this is a second home. So I wonder if the person who is selling it is actually a neighbour who is using it as a holiday let and using this random room as an office. So at the moment he owns the whole house but is planning on retaining the ownership of this one room.

@AutumnCrow said:

' It's all very well the agent banging on about 'you will feel like you are living in a Beatrix Potter book' but, if I'm Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, I don't want Squirrel Nutkin living in my upstairs parts making squirrelly noises while I'm trying to have a snooze. '

One of the funniest comments i have read on Mumsnet !

it made me go and look at the property details.

not enough garden for me :(

You can see on the floor plan it's not accessible from the for sale house. So it's just like being attached to you neighbours by a bedroom by the looks of it.

Well yes, but that room isn’t attached to anything else. It’s more like the house over the road having one bedroom in your garage.

Well yes, but that room isn’t attached to anything else. It’s more like the house over the road having one bedroom in your garage

Ahh sorry missed that bit 🫣yes that would weird.

That was exactly my thought @CosmosQueen

The roads being so close put me off and the separate room was the killer.

As a non-gardener, the minute garden was actually a plus!

I hope the bigger house owner has first right of refusal should the adjoining room owner wish to sell.

Hey there - I realise this is an old post but I came across it when I was googling this house now it’s been sold. I live a few doors down from it and have always wondered about the weird room that belongs to the neighbours!

We believe the forge (it was an actual forge back in the day) and the house next door were all one property. In fact they both probably belonged to the neighbouring farm which was broken up and turned into a small housing estate 30 yrs ago.

Heaven only knows how it got split up like that though! The next door neighbour isn’t too friendly either so I hope the new first time home owners don’t have to deal with him too often!!!!

I wonder if the previous owners had an adult son who refused to move out and stayed in his bedroom all the time.
So they sold the rest of the house and left him behind, playing Call of Duty 6

It's probably not anything else in Rightmoves tickbox listing form!

Id struggle to know what you'd call.it!