But for grandest, you’ve just missed this bad boy
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85500339#/?channel=RES_BUY
And this is very close to me, is in the most ridiculously amazing spot, and I would buy it if I had the cash, but it needs at least £500k spending on it cos it’s f__dhttps://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137022959#/?channel=RES_BUY
That place has been on the market for a while. Also the access road to it is a total nightmare.
And, related to that, is Windybottom Farm, also needs a shedload of cash spending on it, also at the end of a complete pain of a gravel track
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/117558659#/?channel=RES_BUY
Also the access road to it is a total nightmare.
Not really, it's just a track, and a pretty decent one at that.
Windybottom Farm is worth buying just for the name 🙂
Not a great deal in Harrogate itself, but one of the villages just outside has this nice little place with some lovely views.
Same price as the one I posted in the other thread. Much nicer location too. Shock! Horror! Only has the one bathroom. I know which one I’d prefer.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141019853#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is what I found in Bristol . . .but is in quite a disadvantaged estate.
Daughter lives just around the corner from there. Kids play in the street, pump track across the road and Sourdough available less than 2 miles away. Well built ex-council houses*. I doubt you'll find better in Bristol for that sort of money.
Nearest to me (if I don't expand the search to include the Coleford) is a mere £1.100,000. 😲😲.
*Thank you Maggie, you absolutely ****ed up this country.
But for grandest, you’ve just missed this bad boy
Did sir miss the maximum budget of £315,000 requirement? That house is almost 2 million, lol!
Did sir miss the maximum budget of £315,000 requirement? That house is almost 2 million, lol!
no, but you missed this:
I’ll change the direction of this thread as £315,000 just seems to buy a bland box or nowt at all (unless in Scotland!).
THE GRANDEST/GROSSEST HOUSE WITHIN 5 MILES OF WHERE YOU LIVE… 🙂
Only a single property falls below £315,000, a single bedroom apartment. If a guest misbehaves you can tell them to go for a long walk north (straight into the sea). https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86609523#/?channel=RES_NEW
no, but you missed this:
Maybe that should be a new thread then as it's 'a bit off topic'.
I mean, anyone can look up a nice lookng 2 million quid house, lol!
It's not in the spirit of the competition.
The grandest - I believe all here will approve of the cloakroom facilities -
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140611121#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media8&ref=photoCollage
£315,000 shall we report back on what’s in our patch?
I mean, if the buget is unlimited...?
THE GRANDEST/GROSSEST HOUSE WITHIN 5 MILES OF WHERE YOU LIVE… 🙂
All of these expensive houses simply prove that money absolutely does not buy taste, most of them are horrific!
This place doesn't look to shabby for 45 million... it'a allegedly a freehold aswell!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142043615#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is what £315k buys you in Sunderland https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140879771
And this is currently the most expensive house in the area at only £2m. It has some interesting decor
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140022887
You can still by a flat in Barrow-in-furness for £17k, they’ve got a bit of a crack den aesthetic mind
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139208150#/?channel=RES_BUY
4 Bedroom and you can keep the change
Bet I can guess the affectionate name that place gets called.
I want a £4m flat 🙂
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85798089#/?channel=RES_BUY
Loving the fact that it's leasehold too.
Well if we are doing most expensive within 5 miles...
£8m castle anyone? https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/73054537#/?channel=RES_BUY
Back to the original theme.
Pleasantly surprised as been a while since I’ve looked
Nice bungalow with a garage in a decent village in leafy cheshire
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86671617#/?channel=RES_BUY
This place doesn’t look to shabby for 45 million… it’a allegedly a freehold aswell!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142043615#/?channel=RES_BUY/blockquote >
Part of me reacted "only £45milion?"
A lot of people must make the jump from a ~£50k terraced house up north to a ~£500k "nicer than average, but not by a massive amount" house down south. And then look at all the big £5million* houses and think "well it's another factor of 10x but I can comprehend that the boss' boss' boss probably lives in one", so it's only one order of magnitude removed from comprehendible reality to live next door to Charlie in London.
*especially in London where £5million can buy you a flat (Penthouse, in the City, overlooking the Thames, but it's still 1 floor and leasehold)
71 properties between £300 000 and £325 000 within 5 miles of me That encompasses most of the city of Edinburgh ( many offers over which means they will probably go for more). Not much I would live in.. Mainly tenement flats 2 or 3 bed in ok bits one or two bed in nice bits. A few ex council houses - all small and a few tiny modern flats pretending to have bedrooms ( one had a "bedroom" 3.8m x 2. m)
Nothing I would swap my flat in leith for which is worth a similar amount as nothing available would give me any advantages
Cash buyer only in leafy Staines UPON THAMES (and don't forget it) https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131690258#/?channel=RES_BUY "in need of modernisation", but still, three bedrooms! There are no properties in my location at that price. A few 1 and 2 bedroom flats in Sluff too.
Cash buyer only in leafy Staines UPON THAMES (and don’t forget it) https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131690258#/?channel=RES_BUY “in need of modernisation”, but still, three bedrooms! There are no properties in my location at that price. A few 1 and 2 bedroom flats in Sluff too.
I used to ride though there to get to work, it's not a bad street.
This ones (allegedly) mortgageable
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140739566#/?channel=RES_BUY
There is nothing within 5 miles of here within the 315K budget sorry. However, if you have a spare 1.5 million down the back of the sofa this place is literall just across the valley from me. Lots of "interesting" history too (Google Eric Gill if you don't know who he is)...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136843205#/?channel=RES_BUY
Also has great (really great) MTB from the door including what we call Monastary Steps (clue is in the location) as featured in all the UK MTB mags over the years, including STW.
EDIT: Worth watching the Youtube virtual tour to see what you can buy around here for the price of a 3 bed terrace in central London
I think Rightmove is broken. Chose the two highest price brackets within five miles of where I am. This includes Alderley Edge and Prestbury. It came up with nothing!
THE GRANDEST/GROSSEST HOUSE WITHIN 5 MILES OF WHERE YOU LIVE… 🙂
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141278021
An entry into the ludicrous category.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-studio-vic-mount+eliza-141699128
This Sulhampstead bungalow turned up.
I'd live there if I didn't have a family. It's a prime "knock it down and build a mansion" plot.
Seven years since I moved to the Area I still think Bridge of Allan / Stirling / Dunblane is the dogs.
Look past the old decor, and enjoy top draw riding from the door plus train to Edinburgh and Glasgow. And posh cafe's if that's your thing and a fantastic chippy.
Does it have to be UK?
Just for comparison purposes of course!
A bit strange, but what you get for the cash is spot on. Nice riding nearby, great area, good schools. It'd need outbuildings to be any good for me though.
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Orchard Avenue, Rowlands Gill, NE39 (rightmove.co.uk)
There's also this, should you wish to live in what appears to be a former CIU.
Does it have to be UK?
Just for comparison purposes of course!
Nope, we've already had some foreign properties, just to rub in how f___d the UK housing market is
Get's you a 60m2 2 bed apartment near us:
Ok, I'll cheat a bit and drop in what's within 10k of me mum and dad's.
FML
There's also this if you stretch the budget a teeny bit. I'd want a mica report though.
And for when you need to store n+1^n bikes.
£65,000,000 … in Basingstoke!!
Yea, you're paying for the postcode really.
Get’s you a 60m2 2 bed apartment near us
Stockholm is also pretty pricey housing wise then it would seem.
Its not the UK but check what you can get where i am in Denmark over Christmas, convert the price to Pounds and weep at UK prices
https://ejendroem.dk/ejendomme/gl-sognevej-15-st-darum-6740-bramming-ejd2802/
Nope, we’ve already had some foreign properties, just to rub in how f___d the UK housing market is
Stockholm is also pretty pricey housing wise then it would seem.
I'm well under an hour from the centre of Göteborg. And you'd weep if you could see what's within 10km of me...
Though did spot this gem, bathroom with an outside door.
Slim pickings out this way. I know a place just around the corner is for sale for 1.x MKr (about 100k UKP), but that only has summer water and is a tiny, freshly renovated summer cabin more than anything else.
This place ( https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-5rum-svista-uppsala-kommun-balinge-svista-17-20549051) is a little over budget (not much though) and seems nice, but it is literally the only other place for sale round here. Loads of apartments in Uppsala town, some small cabins in the country, not much else.
For the same money you could have this place ( https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/gard-4rum-huddunge-heby-kommun-okersbo-101-20789975). It's further north and about 30km west, but it's cheap, huge and has 11 ha of land. You could spend the money you saved on th other place on renovating the water and bathroom.
@mert You should see what there is for sale as you head more towards Dalarna and north. I saw a place with 35ha land, three bedrooms, a lake and hunting rights for 3.25Kr a couple of years ago. That was up near Luleå though, so not really within commuting distance of town.
"£65,000,000 … in Basingstoke!!
Yea, you’re paying for the postcode really."
and the expansive views (and noise) of the M3. I think If I had that much money to spend I would hang on for a nicer location
£900,000 will get you a 4 bed with 2ha of land, river frontage (house well above any non biblical flood) within easy reach (ride from door) of Bringewood.
I chose this house for three main reasons,
1. It's in a beautiful tiny little hamlet of houses (as seen in the Rightmove pics) that I often walk through with Bert.
2. It's in Rawtenstall (officially one of the best places to live in the NW.
3. The Pigeon (drinking) club is just round the corner
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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142297385
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Not much other than 3 bed ex council houses on estates for 315k or
This https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133989854#/?channel=RES_BUY
Which is handy for Ashton Court.
The Monastery posted by Welshfarmer is gorgeous. I can sadly see that being snapped up as a wedding venue.
The Capel y Ffin property is a lovely location but a touch remote for a wedding venue.
Hardly any <£315K properties near me in deepest Surrey, a few 1-2 bed flats in the nearby town centre.
Anyway going back to looking at properties around Brecon/Aber/Monmouth.... maybe we'll move back their sometime
Absolutely nothing in our "area" of Edinburgh at under £315k. If you stretch the area a bit you get this.... https://espc.com/property/135-1-lauriston-place-edinburgh-eh3-9jn/36213137?sid=754538
Within 5 miles.....
Fantastic if you like rugby (it's literally right next to the stadium)
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136789832#/?channel=RES_BUY
A gaff that used to belong to rock royalty! Good if you want to bang out laps of Richmond Park on your Pinarello! It even has its own pain cave and Wattbike!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137618906#/?channel=RES_BUY
Not much here for £315k, you can get a poky old "characterful" cottage with no garden or even parking, or maybe a very basic tired old 3-bed semi with nothing to recommend it.
I did spot a fairly decent bungalow a while back but it was snapped up very quickly. My wife had turned her nose up at it for being too small anyway. And a bungalow. We aren't really looking seriously, just keeping an eye open.
There are so many more decent houses in Peebles for sure!
It even has its own pain cave and Charlie Wattbike!
FTFARS
An absolutely lovely place in Ramsbottom for £270,000
Only one catch... you'll have me as a next door neighbour. Probably explains why the price seems so reasonable 😀
Round the corner from our gaffe in the Cantal. Bit of a dooer-upper but 5 bedrooms and 500 sqm of garden and a workshop - 35,000 euro
https://www.leboncoin.fr/offre/ventes_immobilieres/2374302937
For a bit of peace and quiet: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/138416957#/?channel=COM_BUY
No need to worry about your neighbours.
Probably the best location (quiet) your gonna get round here with reasonable access to riding. Easy access to M65 unless it snows and they Shut Grane road which isn’t fun in the snow. Nice view across Darwen, Dogburn, and views to Pendle hill. <br /> https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140328830#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY
you’ll have me as a next door neighbour.
Will you be plugging up the glory holes before the next lot move in or is that part of the purchase negotiation?
Nice looking house though.
No houses in that price range in 5 mile catchment here - not that it's an expensive area - just not many houses!
£65,000,000 … in Basingstoke!!
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblhchhys230011/blockquote >
What they failed to mention in the blurb is that there are a number of public footpaths that go through the estate, in fact the beginning of one footpath leading from a busy 'A' road has a security camera. It's certainly a fabulous looking house and there's a deer park with a good chance of seeing them, quite surprised I was never told to move on when I gawped with binoculars.
I know the estate well. 65m is crazy. The guy that owns it spent about a quarter of that buying it under 10 yrs ago...
Would require someone capable of doing their own renovations, but this is the nearest house to me within budget and would make a very nice property when finished.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142885358
Right on the edge of the Peak District, on a quiet side road and five minutes to nearest trails, there’s even a pump track 200m down the road. If I was younger/better at DIY/had more time on my hands I might consider it myself.
This is my "budget" option £325000 gets you what was our village pub....boo..
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/127149812#/?channel=RES_BUY
Interesting building, but needs a lot of work when i looked round.
When it comes to the luxury, one thing we are not missing in Norfolk, is big country piles with lots of land..
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137475533#/?channel=RES_BUY
A bit above your budget but certainly interesting!
I know the estate well. 65m is crazy. The guy that owns it spent about a quarter of that buying it under 10 yrs ago…
Am certain that the estate has changed hands a number of times over the last few decades that I've been aware of it. It does seem somewhat over-priced considering the glut of such properties within, say, a 50 mile radius.
cultdave - That's lovely...but definitely a project!
I'm always fascinated how houses like that get in that state.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142100978#/?channel=RES_BUY
Nice location, just wondering when the rest of it turns up???
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142100978#/?channel=RES_BUY < Nice location, just wondering when the rest of it turns up???
Good grief, furnished by Stevie Wonder!
You should see what there is for sale as you head more towards Dalarna and north. I saw a place with 35ha land, three bedrooms, a lake and hunting rights for 3.25Kr a couple of years ago. That was up near Luleå though, so not really within commuting distance of town.
There's a 4 bed place near me with 10ha (mixed forest and arable/meadow), lake side (not lake), a couple of barns plus a summer cottage. That's going for 4 million SEK (about £325000).
That's less than an hour from the centre of Göteborg. Unless it snows (it's 3 km into the forest on a dirt track with only a couple of other farms on the road!)
1 bedroom apartment for sale in The Square, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 (rightmove.co.uk)
And leasehold but seems to cover quite a lot, with no parking.
Like the Kinkardine O'neil one. I have friends in Aboyne. Its lovely. We once looked around a massive house on the Dee when we were up there as kids. I think my parents were a little tempted..
It would have been a great place to grow up. The house had no fishing rights so was much more affordable.
I was going to go look but @razorrazoo has done my work for me 🙂
There’s a few 1 bed houses within 5 miles, but nowhere you’d want to swap for a flat in Twickenham 😉