thatguyhex
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It didn't have a price on the sign, maybe I'll pop into La Foxtons and ask next time I'm passing... shall we start a pool? I reckon £300k.
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
As far as I can see on Foxtons website there is a development of a 1 bed flat, 1 bed house and 2 bed "duplex" in Astoria Walk. Prices are £450,000, £479,950 and £599,950 respectively.
Looks like you were under-ambitious!
thatguyhex
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You just beat me to it. It's the "one bedroom house", at £479,950. F u u u c k . 
Notice that entry is via the first floor. What do you do if you're downstairs and there's a fire? Jump out of the window, I guess.
It looked pretty charming before the conversion, too!
Notice that entry is via the first floor. What do you do if you're downstairs and there's a fire? Jump out of the window, I guess.
It looked pretty charming before the conversion, too!
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Fucking half a fucking million fucking pounds.
PS: Here's the listing: http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=32&property_id=888952
PS: Here's the listing: http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=32&property_id=888952
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To live next to a queue. Whoever buys or rents that is a twit.
How long before they complain to Lambeth about the noisy queue etc.
thatguyhex
Well-Known Member
Downstairs: 31.84 square metres
Upstairs: 28.95 square metres
So £479,950 / (31.84 + 28.95) gives us a price of... a mere £7,895 per square metre. What a bargain.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
You think that's a bargain try this:
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...=map&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search
NB: you're obviously good at maths - what is the price per sq metre here (assuming that the floors actually exist!)
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thatguyhex
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Oh my God, the recluse's house. (Sorry, that's how I've always thought of it every time I pass it.) Maybe he passed away. "Opportunity for refurbishment/conversion"... it must be in a right state inside.
They don't provide an accurate figure for floor space there so we can't calculate it yet. But that said, £1,150,000 for six bedrooms means £191,667 a bedroom, or perhaps three two-bedroom flats at £383,333... and this is the pre-refurb price.
They don't provide an accurate figure for floor space there so we can't calculate it yet. But that said, £1,150,000 for six bedrooms means £191,667 a bedroom, or perhaps three two-bedroom flats at £383,333... and this is the pre-refurb price.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The person "minding" the property is hale and hearty - I saw him chatting to 2 Mormon missionaries only 2 days ago.
He is apparently not the owner - it is some sort of family thing, and Lambeth have been pressing them to bring it into use - otherwise compulsory purchase.
Hence it being on the market.
thatguyhex
Well-Known Member
Thanks for clearing up that minor mystery!
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
That Astoria Walk conversion is such a massive pisstake it's untrue. Half a million for a bizarre house.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Can it really be called a house when its obviously behind/ over a shop?
Not most people idea of a half million pound house.
Not most people idea of a half million pound house.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
It should be called an annexe I feel. Until recently Lambeth Planning would not have permitted anything like this. I could dig out refusals on such back-garage type development from the Brixton Society archives only a couple of years ago.
Recently Lambeth Planning seem to have become so much more relaxed.
I think this is due to several reasons:
1. some developers are keen to appeal refusals - and the council can be ordered to pay costs if they lose.
2. the council get paid a grant for every EXTRA unit of housing they allow to be created - even disgracefully small flats and off-beat developments like this.
3. the developers themselves are piling in whist the market is so high, getting away with whatever they can sell.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The details actually begin: "Enviably located [sic] in the heart of vibrant Brixton...."
George Orwell is alive and well and working for Foxtons.
Manter
Lunch Mob
There was a similarly bizarre conversion in Stockwell. It is on the market about 50% of the time but I can't currently find a listing for it. On stockwell lane IIRC.... Basically a garage that had been dug out so it was a sort of upside down house, with one door and a window by some bins behind furnival press. We looked at it for shits and giggles but were actually left speechless that it was being sold as a house.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
This looks a better bet. Posh side of Coldharbour Lane (and in Loughborough Park conservation area). Top floor of an 1844 villa - but no rights to garden mentioned, although might have off street parking (unless ruled out by the lease). £599,950.
Almost opposite the £1,150,000 wreck incidentally.
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?cen...word&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search
Almost opposite the £1,150,000 wreck incidentally.
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?cen...word&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search
MAD-T-REX
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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46871495.html
£200,000 for a medium sized room (sorry, studio) on the Norwood Road. The floorplan is just ridiculous.
£200,000 for a medium sized room (sorry, studio) on the Norwood Road. The floorplan is just ridiculous.
£1142/square foot. Bargain.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Christ, that is just a room, isn't it?
buscador
culturally dominant
Good job it's so small because you could never have anyone round for dinner in case they needed to go to the loo.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
boohoo
No.
Huge piss take. It's smaller than my living room.
editor
hiraethified
boohoo
No.
And someone has carefully hung up a garment bag on the shower rail to show how the bathroom could double as a wardrobe
I'd go nuts if I had to eat, sleep and shit in the same room full-time.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'd gladly live there for £150 a week.
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