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I mean, it's a bit further than five miles from my house, but just as a demonstration that the UK property market is insane...
https://www.french-property.com/sale-property/1-IFPC42275?source=featured-search
Summary
Charming Detached House situated within its own grounds comprising of two fields, stable block, swimming pool, pond and a stream. The house also has a undeveloped Gite which could be used to extend the house or perhaps as a separate dwelling for family and friends etc The Gardens have numerous fruit trees such as cherry, apple, pears and hazle nuts etc There is a vegetable garden, borders with plants and large lawned gardens with Weeping willow trees
Me and the willow trees both...
but is in quite a disadvantaged estate.
Fishponds is hipster now! fancy bars and cafes now
That French one is fab!
A bit of a business already up and running...although it is about 8 miles from me (don't have the +/- 5 mile filter on 'forrin' property
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142963802?currencyCode=GBP#/?channel=OVERSEAS
Not much around me for much over €150k...... This ain't bad for €75k, needs 25k chucking at it but 🤷
https://www.njuskalo.hr/nekretnine/kuca-seosko-imanje-habjanovac-dubrava-oglas-41330864
Although we are looking to move to Zagreb, somewhere in the foothills of Sljeme. This is on my list.....
https://www.njuskalo.hr/nekretnine/stan-zagreb-medvescak-156-m2-prodaja-oglas-40731194
This is probably the best within 10km of me for something that is actually currently built (plots with brand new houses built to measure are also available) for an equivalent amount of €. https://www.leboncoin.fr/offre/ventes_immobilieres/2422639253
Can’t find anything round me that I would want to live in or would recommend. Just wall to wall blandness of estate houses of different eras with the newer ones being at the cheaper end of the spectrum
Threlkeld, 3 bed, 5 miles from Keswick but you’d have to gazump as currently SSTC.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139703528#/?channel=RES_BUY
House prices near near me are ridiculous.
Nearest 315k house is 6miles away, 2bed modern semi with tiny garden. Nearest house id consider is this, which needs some work
^^^ Probs needs another £100k spending on it too!
Nice retirement 'lodge', err sorry I mean glorified caravan. This developement finished just as interest rates rocketed, oops.
It seems like anything close to a motorway & train station & amenities, whilst also being far enough away to be peaceful, for reasonable money is a tall order.
Location, location, location, as they say.
Lots of recent new builds near me. Just over £300k gets you a good selection of 4 bed detached houses
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140567063#/?channel=RES_BUY
Do you like grey?
Do you like grey?
All these new builds with packed together indentikit houses remind me of factory farming for some reason, I see them being built around Dumfries and the thought of living on such an estate with your allocated 10m2 of fenced in garden is dystopian in nature.
Best? £315k doesn't get you a lot round here unless you want to live on a main road
This is right opposite the start ramp at Farmer Johns, but it's on a main road
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142284749#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is reasonable actually
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142835216#/?channel=RES_BUY
Would love this!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142448102#/?channel=RES_BUY
Bargain at 1.2 mil, the Southdown's way goes right past the house's front gate and then climbs up by the side of the house
Not far from QECP, Harting Down, Kingley Vale and surrounded by countryside and only a few nearby neighbours and a private school (Ditcham Park) at the very top of the hill
I could buy 3 of my houses for that!
Absolutely **** all near us which corresponds with the fact that it took us 14 months to find our place!
All these new builds with packed together indentikit houses remind me of factory farming for some reason
Some are better than others, a lot of it depends on the builder / developer. When I moved to the area I'm in now there was one new build estate and some fields. The two new build estates that followed were aiming for the higher end of the market. So the houses have bigger plots, have a good mix of different designs and materials. The street layouts are better and make better use of things like little wooded areas and streams and they left green space all around them.
Following that there was a house building orgy and the packed together, identikit, white roughcast homes are what went up. Complete with narrower roads and limited greenspace.
city centre - comes complete with ample opportunity for picking up junky poo
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142842956#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is across the road from me. Unfortunately its a retirement development so I'm not eligible yet!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141737846#/?channel=RES_BUY
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... 🙂
I'll start with...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86651301#/?channel=RES_BUY
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I could buy 3 of my houses for that!
I could buy 10 of mine!
This bland a F box comes in @ £4mill
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142900289#/?channel=RES_BUY
However, this underground one is much more interesting @ £3.5mil
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137795405#/?channel=RES_NEW
Must be quiet atm as those an nothing compared to some of the places I ride past.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86673555#/?channel=RES_BUY house and chinese takeaway! :sunglasses:
Ooooft, not for me: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86297106
I'd much rather have this for half the price: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/125637230
THE GRANDEST/GROSSEST HOUSE WITHIN 5 MILES OF WHERE YOU LIVE… 🙂
Right then...
This looks like a small bungalow from the road, but, well, isn't...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133522691#/?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__d
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137022959#/?channel=RES_BUY
And in a straight up "well, that's not too shabby is it" stylee
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140852591#/?channel=RES_BUY
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141234116#/?channel=RES_BUY
I'm going with this one, just a touch over-budget, but with plenty of bike storage.
THE GRANDEST/GROSSEST HOUSE WITHIN 5 MILES OF WHERE YOU LIVE
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141039722#/?channel=RES_BUY
I’m going with this one, just a touch over-budget, but with plenty of bike storage.
Only 8.6 miles to Oban station too 😉
Dechintzed this would be a winner
assuming you can knock 10k off but it’s been on a while
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132785684#/?channel=RES_BUY
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