Amazing £3m East Dulwich house

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If I had infinite money I’d definitely buy this:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150522644#/?channel=RES_BUY

Pity the advert doesn’t have more photos but the floor plan clinches it for me!

I'd want a much bigger footprint for £3m. Stunning garden, but the house is all bedroom.

Agreed, the combined kitchen / dining room does seem wrong. But you could always use one of the reception rooms on the raised ground floor for your dinner parties.

Also it’s close enough to being a semi-detached. You wouldn’t be worried about the neighbours to the right as just their hallway and basement are adjoining.

Traffic noise would definitely be a nuisance. I think you’d be permitted to get double glazing in a listed building though, so long as it mimics the original windows.

I assumed they probably would if both of a couple earned £150-250k, and it wasn’t their first house purchase so they had a reasonable amount of equity already, or had inherited and sold a parental home, or they worked in finance and got big bonuses, so only needed to cover 60% of the purchase price with the mortgage.

I agree nobody has a £3m mortgage on £250k household income, but you might well have a £1.5m mortgage on £400k household income (£150 + £250). And more people earn that than you might imagine (to be clear, I don’t! But a surprising number of nursery parents did).

If I had infinite money I’d definitely buy this
If I had infinite money I wouldn't be looking at a semi-detatched townhouse!

I was born around there, went to schools in West and East Dulwich - SINCE WHEN is Peckham Rye in 'East Dulwich'? I knew a snooty person who lived in Penge but she tried to make out it was 'Sydenham'. Snobbery has no limits, does it?

OMG!! I bet we were in the same group....

I do think it can legitimately be described as being in East Dulwich, because it’s south of East Dulwich Road.

Though in practice I agree it won’t feel that way.

Good commuter links to the Tube increases the value of a house.

Though if you don't have £3million, and aren't bothered about commuter links, but do love a period house, have a look at this beauty: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143829863?utmcampaign=property-details&utmmcontent=buying&utmmedium=sharing&utmmsource=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

@MalePoster9000

I do think it can legitimately be described as being in East Dulwich, because it’s south of East Dulwich Road

Are you an estate agent? East Dulwich Road links the East Dulwich area at Lordship Lane to the Peckham area at Peckham Rye (the road) near where that house is. Just because the road name has East Dulwich at the beginning doesn't necessarily mean that an address is in East (or any part) of Dulwich. I grew up in Norwood Road, but at the end that is in Herne Hill. Our house wasn't in 'Norwood'. That house is more Del Boy than Alleyn's, despite the price tag.

Hah no, I’m not, and I’ll bow to your superior knowledge.

I rented nearby on Telegraph Hill for many years. Incidentally here’s a terraced house over that way which looks overpriced by about £400k!:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150418520#/?channel=RES_BUY

I think you’d be permitted to get double glazing in a listed building though, so long as it mimics the original windows.

I think it depends on your local heritage officer. In K&C we weren't allowed to, but later, were allowed in a different borough. Both Grade II houses.

As long as we're posting random property porn, had a nice browse through David Gandy's house this morning.

www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/interiors/gavid-gandy-london-house/image-gallery/da3ac6bb3209f8bebdb8fbc76b40dc53?utm_campaign=VLOrganic&utm_content=www.instagram.com/reel/C9y92xds29g/&utm_medium=postOrganic&utm_source=Instagram

OK so here's another 1.5mil with swimming pool, umpteen bedrooms... and as near as Surrey?!

Anyone spot the catch? [This was a puzzle sent to me by DH. Youll know when you've spotted it]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149638196

@Mumoftwo1316 right under the Gatwick flight path?!

Gosh that would be noisy!

I can recommend the Inigo website for period homes to drool over. I quite fancy this one https://inigo.com/sales-list/catherington-lane

That Inigo site is amusing.
I'd want to buy something I could stamp my own style onto.

One of the most expensive houses on there sells regularly and is refurbished regularly because its actually in the wrong place for that price !

I think right next to the runway, even!

I love Inigo's photography. Surely you can put your own stamp on any house?

Half tempted to sell in London, buy this, and bank the profit.
What's Maidenhead like to live in?

• although I'd undo some of the more 'interior designer' touches.

https://inigo.com/sales-list/castle-hill-terrace

THis would be a fun project
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/150103418#/?channel=RES_BUY

What a wonderful family home that would make!

That house will be absolutely freezing in the winter. Single glazing and high ceilings.
No mention of its Energy Performance Certificate.

Haha - I was just going to type exactly that!!

If I had £3m to spend I'd go a LOT closer to central London!

Also not that amazing a house I think. You could do so much better for the money.

I went to school in Camberwell Grove - and used to live off Peckham Rye. Some beautiful houses round there, still wouldn't want to live in that area, though. Constant aggro.