House prices, "value" for money
 

Here are two links to two properties
There is £15,000 different in purchase price. The second needs a shed load of money spent on it but look at what you get.
The second one would have my heart if it were not a Grade II listed building. The first is in an area for to populated for me.

I would expect you could easily spend £100,000 doing up the second but that would only make it £85,000 more expensive but still, look what you get.


https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/53967321?search_identifier=9eb13d73974d701bcf4b47a b14ace04a

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-77299786.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=e mailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates1day&utm_term =buying&sc_id=31442146&onetime_FromEmail=true&cid= 1e1862cc-bd9d-4cb6-8156-ec7841542998&csg=7ab50cef198624265a54bf332f77c005b 5cb1e40d74520323fc415115cbbbfc3

macafee2

What puts you off a Grade 2 listed building?

As you say, look what you get for your money :}.

Andy.

restrictions on internal and external modifications, planning permission is more difficult.

I'd not want to buy a grade 2 then find I cant do what I want and I cant submit a full planning application if I don't own the property. council planner could give me an idea but that's all, he could say it would be passed and it get turned down.... not thanks. Bad enough with planning permission on a none listed

macafee2

Hi we bought a five bedroom bungalow just outside Nottingham, three toilets, two wet rooms and enough parking off road for half those prices.

Rev.

Don't think I would want all that agricultural land to look after - have enough of a problem just keeping up with my present garden !

That large barn looks useful though.

I know what you mean. May be a local farmer would be interested in using the land.

macafee2

I used to own a property years ago with a field. I had only been in a few days when I had a knock at the door from a lady who wanted to graze here horses. She was offering £25 a week and that was 20 years ago.

Her and her husband sorted the fencing, she was there every day and paid up every month in cash. Between them they kept the grass at a good height.

I love that place, as you say it needs some cash spending on it. I suspect unless you want to change it unrecognisably the planning would not be a problem. Most councils would rather have a place lived in that empty. Those outbuilding would make some great man caves ;).

Posh get! :eek::D:p: I've owned/lived in this house for 38 years & they still don't reach £100k in my part of deepest darkest Lancashire lol.

few years ago my daughter bought a 4 bed house in Clifton.
Paid £126,000 and less then £10,000 to do it up. She only lived in it for a short while before meeting someone and moving in with him, now married and on their second house move.
Clifton, not a posh area but she managed to rent it out in the blink of an eye.

It is "my house is worth" v "my house has this much land and views."

I'll go for land and views. Also location pays a part in the price of a house.
If you have a job with a national wage you may well be better off up North.

macafee2

There are a couple of people who have moved here from the London area who have bought really nice houses for not a lot of money. I have a friendly joke with them saying you guys sekll a council house down there & buy the lord of the manor house up here & still have change lol.


The last house (my neighbour) that was sold in my street went for £97k, the same as mine a three bedroom end semi, big gardens, drive with room for 4 cars & double garage and that had a £55K kitchen extension on it :eek::D