Lemon Eddy
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I reckon you missed an opportunity for one hell of a fish tank there.
Water Tower for sale...
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I reckon you missed an opportunity for one hell of a fish tank there.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Don't suppose anyone can remember what the price in the original (long gone) ad back in the OP was, so we can calculate the capital gain and weep?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I like it but it was pretty inconveniently laid out if I recall correctly, and I'm fucked if I'd pay 6.5 million quid to live in Kennington. The lack of privacy would be an issue too, it must be within close sight of at least 2000 other properties. Like living in a goldfish bowl in the sky.
Incredible views though, and the interior is very cool. Good luck to the blokes.
Incredible views though, and the interior is very cool. Good luck to the blokes.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
If I remember they bought it for £300k and spent well over £2m renovating it
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If it were 300 metres to the left I'd snap the fucker up. But where it is, no thanks.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Oh look, here's some nice brickwork, lets put a glass box around it and fill it with stuff from Habitat.
Yuck.
Yuck.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Ugh, it's in south London.
I think it was on the market for a bit over £400k so they bought it for under. Can't remember exactly.
It's a crazy selling price though. It's an odd part of Kennington, a bit of a no man's land between Kennington and Elephant and Castle and in the middle of of a bland new development.
Nothing round here sells for that kind of price. The next most expensive house on the market seems to be this
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/26563170?search_identifier=596b88b0f01dae97f0c9b205434afa1d
Which although a very different types of property has loads more land and is in a much better location. It's been on the market for ages too.
It's a crazy selling price though. It's an odd part of Kennington, a bit of a no man's land between Kennington and Elephant and Castle and in the middle of of a bland new development.
Nothing round here sells for that kind of price. The next most expensive house on the market seems to be this
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/26563170?search_identifier=596b88b0f01dae97f0c9b205434afa1d
Which although a very different types of property has loads more land and is in a much better location. It's been on the market for ages too.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
£6.5million sounds a tad hopeful. Bet they'll take 3-4 for it.
HI
I dont get why people think we are over looked. So many people say this and it makes no sense.NO body can see in to the tower , due to the height of the windows and the angel. The tank has tinted reflected glass. And as for the cube 3 flats to the left could see in if they lean there heads out the window. Out last house was on a normal road , with another road behind of normal house all converted in to flats.I would say 30 dwellings could see in . Thanks for you good wishes
HI
Where is 300 meters to the left ?
Thanks for your interest in my home. What in my home came from Habitat ?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's worth whatever someone will pay for it.
Hopefully someone with loads of money will love it and pay the asking price. But in that area nothing goes for anything like your asking price, so someone will really have to yearn to live there to pay it. The same money can still get something very lovely in Mayfair, Holland Park etc.
Good luck and please do tell us what you do get for it. May well inspire some of us to have a go at doing something so ambitious.
BTW, what's the most number of people you've had in that bath?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
he he, oh, hello there.
The Habitat thing was an off the hand quip that I was never honestly happy with. It's a matter of taste, obviously, but the point I was snidely and clumsily making was that I like the more old-school and traditional brickwork, I'm just not a fan of all the modern glass and homeware. Just looks a bit uncomfortable and more like a show home than a real home.
But, each to their own. I'm the kind of guy who thinks Jonathan Creek's windmill house is something to aspire to
HI
Indeed nothing like my house in Kennington goes for this sort of money - as there are no others !!!!!!
Ofcourse you could pay 6 milllion for a 3 bedroom flast in Mayfair . I wouldnt - each to there own
I am still trying to fill the bath tub !!
So it seems no one was prepared to pay that price:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38497183.html?premiumA=true
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38497183.html?premiumA=true
free spirit
more tea vicar?
they want to get their spark back to sort that wiring out...
Black Halo
Well-Known Member
Bump as they now want just £4.5Million. So that's:
Bought - £300K
Renovations - £2M
Asking price April 2013 - £6.5M
Asking price June 2013 - £4.75M
Asking price July 2014 - £4.5M
I live around the corner and I wouldn't say no to living there but a little outside my price range even with £2M off
Bought - £300K
Renovations - £2M
Asking price April 2013 - £6.5M
Asking price June 2013 - £4.75M
Asking price July 2014 - £4.5M
I live around the corner and I wouldn't say no to living there but a little outside my price range even with £2M off
It's not selling simply because it's overpriced.
They've been asking between £4.5 and £6.5m but it has the following problems that mean it is very unlikely to sell at that level.
- no land/garden
- wrong area - I've lived nearby and it's fine, but if you're spending multi-millions you don't want to be living in the middle of a barrets style housing estate next to Elephant and Castle
- potential for huge maintenance bills - old listed building with access issues which are now much worse then they were when they did the conversion
- not all to well laid out
Something I noticed about it up front is that it does feel very conspicuous and vulnerable. I think that's quite a personal thing as I'm not the kind of guy who likes leaving curtains open for the world to look in either but the building stands out for miles but you can walk right up to it and touch it. The big glass windows at the bottom are quite open to the outside world.
IIRC that green and path isn't a garden or anything that's for the public to walk around. I'm sure the sight-lines have been considered but it just looked vulnerable in a way that I wouldn't feel comfortable with and the kind of people who pay millions for a London pad are often quite security conscious too.
Don't get me wrong it's a great project and I'm sure at £2m they'd sell it no problem. However I suspect they aren't too worried about selling it and just have it on the market on the off chance someone falls in love with it and gives them a couple of million profit. When it's listed at that price they live in a £6.5m house rather then just a £300k one!
They've been asking between £4.5 and £6.5m but it has the following problems that mean it is very unlikely to sell at that level.
- no land/garden
- wrong area - I've lived nearby and it's fine, but if you're spending multi-millions you don't want to be living in the middle of a barrets style housing estate next to Elephant and Castle
- potential for huge maintenance bills - old listed building with access issues which are now much worse then they were when they did the conversion
- not all to well laid out
Something I noticed about it up front is that it does feel very conspicuous and vulnerable. I think that's quite a personal thing as I'm not the kind of guy who likes leaving curtains open for the world to look in either but the building stands out for miles but you can walk right up to it and touch it. The big glass windows at the bottom are quite open to the outside world.
IIRC that green and path isn't a garden or anything that's for the public to walk around. I'm sure the sight-lines have been considered but it just looked vulnerable in a way that I wouldn't feel comfortable with and the kind of people who pay millions for a London pad are often quite security conscious too.
Don't get me wrong it's a great project and I'm sure at £2m they'd sell it no problem. However I suspect they aren't too worried about selling it and just have it on the market on the off chance someone falls in love with it and gives them a couple of million profit. When it's listed at that price they live in a £6.5m house rather then just a £300k one!
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