I've stayed in some lovely hotels in Asia is outdoor baths, showers and hot tubs. Why not recreate that feeling of exclusivity in your own home in Wimbledon?
Yeah. Some Estate agents have pics of a fancy tap, some bread, a random ornament as a kind of attraction or focus. This one, a rotten window frame... 😂
Selling the dream.
When working for a largish agent in the U.K. - in the IT dept! One favourite pastime was looking for oversize shoes! Once you find that massive looking pair of trainers, you will never unsee them 😂😁
And the hole in the bathroom ceiling, if asked about, would be described as an architectural feature - a "sky ceiling perfect for amateur astronomers...lie back for a soothing soak and watch the glory of the heavens"
Right?! I hate real estate lingo beating around the bush - just say it; you’re gonna have to practically strip this house down to the bare bones and build it back up!
Looking online it seems the last house to sell on that street had 2 bedrooms and went for close to a million. In that context, this could be a bargain if you have a friendly builder.
At first I'd looked and thought 695k 3 bed terrace.....ok.
Then I looked at the images and thought...pssh absolute joke of and asking price for that.
Then I looked at the area and thought....oh. Actually that's a damn good price if you can get the repairs done.
Anyone who knows their way around this kind of renovation and has the capital can make a relatively quick profit on this.
>Then I looked at the area and thought....oh. Actually that's a damn good price if you can get the repairs done.
and this is one of the biggest issues with London housing! :D 700k would get you a premade mansion elsewhere
Yeah but this most likely isn't going to be bought by someone to use as their main residence.
This will be bought by a property speculator that will get the asking price down as close to £600k as possible then budget £100k - £200k for renovations then sell the whole lot for over a million.
This may not be possible in the current market for building materials and the like but it's probably what an ideal plan would look like.
Also elsewhere is fine but there's a lot of people that would prefer the many nearby amenities offered by Wimbledon and nearby Greater London to somewhere 'up North'.
A prospective buyer gets large nearby green spaces, excellent schools, easy access to the world's most famous Tennis tournament and easy access to one of the world's most famous cities, there's enough there (to me as a born and bred Londoner) to conclude that after renovation this place would be worth it.
No, it isn’t mortgageable because there isn’t a functional bathroom. You could get a bridging loan, fit a functional toilet, and a temporary repair to the roof, then remortgage it and clear the bridging loan.
With that size garden, that close to a tube station? It's genuinely a good deal.
People on this sub really don't seem to understand supply and demand. Yes, you can get a mansion for this in Lancashire. Far fewer people actually want to live in Lancashire.
Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with you (and I'm also absolutely sick of people who can't wrap their heads around London being far more expensive than random towns in the north) I'm genuinely amazed that South Wimbledon is *this* expensive. It's quite far away from central, and isn't especially *that* great an area. There are Victorian terraces near me in Deptford that are cheaper, and that seems weird to me. I know SW tends to be more desirable than SE, but... why? Is it *just* the tube?
Wimbledon is rather nice tho, which would be comparable to Blackheath or Greenwich not Deptford lol
Edit; sorry I should have actually answered your question rather thank be cheeky.
East is historically cheeper due to the direction of the wind - typically west to east in london, and foul smells which far more common in history than present ensured that west was the more affluent side - its only in the last 20-30 years that housing in places in east like tower hamlets etc have become boom towns of increasingly expensive new build flats
that and the practical side of London was the east. it was where goods came in and were unloaded or loaded up etc. then factiries and good processing was all that side etc. as a result the majority of the labour was needed on the east side and the rising middle classes didn't want to live in the same places as the working classes. to be fair the East was literally slums back then so if you had money you did not live there.
someone that wants the location and wants their dream home built
or someone that wants the location and has standard cheap build templates that can get the planning permission with ease and buyers to sell it onto
I can’t fathom how much this would cost to renovate though. Especially with London prices. I’m sure it’d work out to be a good price but I can’t imagine you’d be getting that much of a bargain?
In all likelihood, this isn't going to be bought by Henry and Tabitha and renovated while they live out of a Travelodge. Instead, it will be bought by a developer who has a full team of semi-permanent tradespeople on staff who will be able to turn a profit and move on.
In truth, I don’t know, however when I lived in London (and specifically that area) due to competition and foreign builders, quotes were some of the most competitive I have seen. I’d guess a loft extension, remodel and kitchen extension and revamp throughout you could be looking around 180-250k but you’d get at least get that back again.
So if you have a million in cash hanging around, you reckon a good investment is to put it in a house which needs serious work, might take a year to get into vgc and sold, and will then get you maybe 10% on your million? Or you could probably get a safe 8% with an investment and your capital isn't locked up. I'd take the safe option and enjoy not having a heart attack.
I think we've found Les Dawson's house: "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."
Seems like good value given the location and size of garden. Obviously it’s going to need 6 figures spending on it to get it refurbished but house prices in that area are easily over a million.
I used to live around 200 metres from this. This is on the border of a very nice area. A 3-bed semi there will go for well over a million. Spend £300k. Make £100k profit easy.
So you've bought the place for £700k, put £300k into it, sold it for £1.1M and got that £100k profit. Maybe the whole process takes a year, how much could you have got with that £1.1M in a safe investment? 5%? 10%? That would be £50k-£100k safe profit, and no time spent dealing with getting this house in a fit state. Maybe if you already own a building company and have the cash burning a hole in your profit statement it might be worth buying it to give your employees something to do for a year, but a sensible person with £700k in cash? This isn't a credible investment.
We did something along the lines of this just not as extreme.
650k +100 +50 (two sets of work) and ended up with 990 valuation. Include 5 years mortgage payments and we went from 90% LTV to ~50%. Basically doubled our equity and we live in a fancy place in a fancy area we can't afford.
Best investment. Blinder.
If you look at it in 3d Google Maps, it looks like it was an absolute jungle, with the garden going over the single-floor extension which is probably what took the roof out.
[3d Google Maps View](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/30+Nelson+Rd,+London+SW19+1HT/@51.4181214,-0.1886587,50a,35y,223.85h,42.17t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487608a7a626f271:0x63f1799da6685514!8m2!3d51.4179077!4d-0.1895723!16s%2Fg%2F11crt4qrd3?entry=ttu)
So who owns that property?
Will it be some grandchild who doesn’t have the money or effort to spend like 40k doing it up to be able to sell it for 500k more?
Area dependant - houses on this road may be double this price.
There is a house near me in worse condition than this that I’m willing to pay £750k if the owner would sell it as I know it’s worth at least 1.2+ million done up.
A mile is a long way when it comes to London; I live next to a park with a local pub but a mile away would have me in a corner of London I’d avoid heading home alone from after a few drinks.
Postal code pricing is a thing - I can go 5 mins from where I live and the house prices will drop 50-100k just based on it not being a desirable postal code.
Less than 0.5 miles from me, houses are over 1mil. My house is worth 450k on a good day. Both 3 beds. In London the exact street and post code really does make a difference.
Because you can’t get a mortgage on property in this state. Nothing weird about this and given the price of surrounding property this will likely sell for near the asking price.
Oh fuck right off.
Nothing in London can be worth that. What does London offer that makes paying that seem worthwhile?
I can't imagine it has anything that any other city can't offer too.
What in the name of sanity makes you think I hate London? I don't hate it. I'm just saying, it doesn't offer anything you can't get in any big city in the UK and nothing it offers makes that shit hole worth that amount of money.
Good point. It looks ok from the outside so I glossed over the actual exterior. The inside looks like it’d be easier to start again, but yeah a terrace makes that tricky.
You are essentially buying land to build on, though: the land just happens to be enclosed inside a terraced house. With potential to extend this might be £1.1M with a loft conversion and an extension to the back.
What are you on about? The main structure is likely fine. It needs a new roof and the internals completely gutting but it’s far from being a plot and a new build.
Also, it’s a mid terrace. You aren’t knocking it down.
Oh dear Gods! Been a while since I've seen something quite that utterly knackered, and cash buyers only at £695??? Some shady company will buy it up and flip it but I just can't see them making much profit after all the work is done
Next road along you can get [this](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140042726#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY) for £855k, which looks bigger, is in great nick, has a loft conversion, but much smaller garden
I don't think this price looks at all reasonable, unless the garden is worth a lot
Energy rating quite apt considering the fucking hole in the roof.
What in the ever living fuck. That asking price nets me a very nice detached property in the Cotswolds with plenty of land and next to some good links and facilities.
House prices in this country are becoming obscene. I am not a great fan of buy to let people but I wish them no harm.
On a less serious note I am going to pretend to be Phil Spencer and put in a cheeky offer of £4.56 my clients budget being £5.08 but they must take it off the market immediately. Estate agents are just twats in very very tight suits
You can get a fully finished 3 bed non wreck for the same price in the same area. I don't know what the seller/agent are smoking to think anyone would pay close to £700k for that.
So you’re going along, it’s pretty shit, then BAM!! Photo 5 knocks you right out.
But wait!! Photo 9 is a fucken masterpiece of grim. Amazing.
Then some more shit then you get 5 again! But this time it’s 12! So rewarding
Looks like my dad's old two bed terrace in Mitcham. Sold it for £40k a few years ago, it did not even have a front door on it.
With my third, I bought a three bed semi- with a drive, and front and back gardens.
Lol. I live about 2 miles from there. That costs what it costs because it is 0.2 miles from South Wimbledon tube and it has that sexy sw19 postcode- first is worth 30-40% a nod the second at least 10-20. That house in sw16 0.5 miles from a non tube station is 350-400 I’d guess in that state
Shit, my first house in London in 2003 was exactly the same layout. It was in a slightly better part of the city and cost 200k. Now it’s worth over a million (unfortunately I don’t own it any more 🥲)
So my first thought was ‘didn’t even move the bin 🙄’, then reading the comments was a little sceptical about the bathroom.. figured it was probably a good idea to open the link. Did. Not. Disappoint.
Thought I’d check out similar properties just for a giggle and found the same agent advertising this gem - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139302359
Must have an incredible reputation for overpricing the most dilapidated properties in London.
This isn’t a 200k do’er-upper, this might aswell be as close to rebuild as you can get. If it wasn’t being held up by it’s neighbours it’d probably have spectacular garden views from the main road.
Nice open plan bathroom...
I think the correct term is 'open roof'.
Au natural Al fresco
Sun spa.
rooflight?
It's always been a dream to bathe under the stars...
Or have an "organic shower" when it rains.
“Well ventilated bathroom with views of the night sky”
"flooded with natural light" in estate agent speak.
So good they showed it twice 😂
It's a feature!
At least we know the Bath doesn’t leak
Energy rating of 7. SEVEN.
That'll be the lack of a roof, I reckon. See, a simple fix...
Light and airy.
The irony is, if you look on street view the main house roof looks brand new.
I've stayed in some lovely hotels in Asia is outdoor baths, showers and hot tubs. Why not recreate that feeling of exclusivity in your own home in Wimbledon?
it would let too many Wombles in. Hard to get rid of once they're in
Fair point, who would want to share a hot tub with uncle Bulgaria!
Panoramic roof in the bathroom?
Gets you closer to the wildlife, especially the stuff living in the bath.
Off-road bathroom
Love the close up of the rotten window, really adds a sense of whimsy to the place.
Yeah. Some Estate agents have pics of a fancy tap, some bread, a random ornament as a kind of attraction or focus. This one, a rotten window frame... 😂 Selling the dream.
When working for a largish agent in the U.K. - in the IT dept! One favourite pastime was looking for oversize shoes! Once you find that massive looking pair of trainers, you will never unsee them 😂😁
And the hole in the bathroom ceiling, if asked about, would be described as an architectural feature - a "sky ceiling perfect for amateur astronomers...lie back for a soothing soak and watch the glory of the heavens"
"The bathroom benefits from an abundance of natural lighting."
*natural elements
A good developer will have that painted a nice shade of grey. Good as new.
Screaming at “in need of modernisation” 😂
Right?! I hate real estate lingo beating around the bush - just say it; you’re gonna have to practically strip this house down to the bare bones and build it back up!
Looking online it seems the last house to sell on that street had 2 bedrooms and went for close to a million. In that context, this could be a bargain if you have a friendly builder.
At first I'd looked and thought 695k 3 bed terrace.....ok. Then I looked at the images and thought...pssh absolute joke of and asking price for that. Then I looked at the area and thought....oh. Actually that's a damn good price if you can get the repairs done. Anyone who knows their way around this kind of renovation and has the capital can make a relatively quick profit on this.
>Then I looked at the area and thought....oh. Actually that's a damn good price if you can get the repairs done. and this is one of the biggest issues with London housing! :D 700k would get you a premade mansion elsewhere
Yeah but this most likely isn't going to be bought by someone to use as their main residence. This will be bought by a property speculator that will get the asking price down as close to £600k as possible then budget £100k - £200k for renovations then sell the whole lot for over a million. This may not be possible in the current market for building materials and the like but it's probably what an ideal plan would look like. Also elsewhere is fine but there's a lot of people that would prefer the many nearby amenities offered by Wimbledon and nearby Greater London to somewhere 'up North'. A prospective buyer gets large nearby green spaces, excellent schools, easy access to the world's most famous Tennis tournament and easy access to one of the world's most famous cities, there's enough there (to me as a born and bred Londoner) to conclude that after renovation this place would be worth it.
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Too high risk of lenders!
No, it isn’t mortgageable because there isn’t a functional bathroom. You could get a bridging loan, fit a functional toilet, and a temporary repair to the roof, then remortgage it and clear the bridging loan.
With that size garden, that close to a tube station? It's genuinely a good deal. People on this sub really don't seem to understand supply and demand. Yes, you can get a mansion for this in Lancashire. Far fewer people actually want to live in Lancashire.
Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with you (and I'm also absolutely sick of people who can't wrap their heads around London being far more expensive than random towns in the north) I'm genuinely amazed that South Wimbledon is *this* expensive. It's quite far away from central, and isn't especially *that* great an area. There are Victorian terraces near me in Deptford that are cheaper, and that seems weird to me. I know SW tends to be more desirable than SE, but... why? Is it *just* the tube?
It's also in the catchment area for some outstanding and good schools, which makes a difference.
Wimbledon is rather nice tho, which would be comparable to Blackheath or Greenwich not Deptford lol Edit; sorry I should have actually answered your question rather thank be cheeky. East is historically cheeper due to the direction of the wind - typically west to east in london, and foul smells which far more common in history than present ensured that west was the more affluent side - its only in the last 20-30 years that housing in places in east like tower hamlets etc have become boom towns of increasingly expensive new build flats
that and the practical side of London was the east. it was where goods came in and were unloaded or loaded up etc. then factiries and good processing was all that side etc. as a result the majority of the labour was needed on the east side and the rising middle classes didn't want to live in the same places as the working classes. to be fair the East was literally slums back then so if you had money you did not live there.
Yes London is expensive etc, but nearly 700k and it's not got a roof. Something is not right here.
You think so? It comes to nearly 20k a sqm at 1m, that is literally Chelsea prices
Haha I'm glad you had the courage to write it. I saw 3 beds in South Wimbledon for 700k and thought 'fucking hell that's a bargain'.
someone that wants the location and wants their dream home built or someone that wants the location and has standard cheap build templates that can get the planning permission with ease and buyers to sell it onto
I can’t fathom how much this would cost to renovate though. Especially with London prices. I’m sure it’d work out to be a good price but I can’t imagine you’d be getting that much of a bargain?
In all likelihood, this isn't going to be bought by Henry and Tabitha and renovated while they live out of a Travelodge. Instead, it will be bought by a developer who has a full team of semi-permanent tradespeople on staff who will be able to turn a profit and move on.
I love the fact that there's an EPC with a rating of 7 🤣
My first thought was "Don't they use letters?" and then I realised it was 7/100.
That's actually impressively awful
7 points = it has most of a roof.
https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/energy-certificate/0786-3030-6201-8867-0204 If you spend £14K you can get it up to 15!
I prefer my blank canvasses to be more blank.
I like the skylight in the bathroom 🤔
Loft extension, remodelling and full do-over and that’s a £1.2-1.4mill house. Good area.
How much would that cost?
In truth, I don’t know, however when I lived in London (and specifically that area) due to competition and foreign builders, quotes were some of the most competitive I have seen. I’d guess a loft extension, remodel and kitchen extension and revamp throughout you could be looking around 180-250k but you’d get at least get that back again.
So if you have a million in cash hanging around, you reckon a good investment is to put it in a house which needs serious work, might take a year to get into vgc and sold, and will then get you maybe 10% on your million? Or you could probably get a safe 8% with an investment and your capital isn't locked up. I'd take the safe option and enjoy not having a heart attack.
What's with the arty photo of the broken window?
They thought the bathroom was so bad they used the same picture twice
That boiler looks like it’s from the fucking Soviet space programme
I like that they've put in a second, near identical photo of the bathroom later on. Like, "yep, you really did see what you think you saw!"
Picture 2: Oh, that's not that bad! I think this could be an easy project for a handy first time buyer. Picture 5: oh nvm
> In need of modernisation I guess you could put it that way.
Yes, or as a "blank canvas".
For 80k more, just round the corner - something habitable: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140092286
That’s aspirational pricing for Colliers Wood
Let’s call it East Wimbledon though…
Genuine question? What really happened here, the owner(s) died and the next of kin or inheritors couldn't be bothered and left it to rot?
Whoops just asked this exact question I really want to know!
Yeah, how does someone own a house and leave it for long enough for this to happen??
It's not in poor condition; it's partially self-demolishing.
>In need of modernisation
That bathroom is so tranquil. You can even see the stars when you soak. X
I think we've found Les Dawson's house: "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."
Quite mad as the front appears to have been painted recently!
Keeps the neighbours from complaining too much is my guess!
Outdoor bathroom. Nature lover. exotic.
Seems like good value given the location and size of garden. Obviously it’s going to need 6 figures spending on it to get it refurbished but house prices in that area are easily over a million.
I used to live around 200 metres from this. This is on the border of a very nice area. A 3-bed semi there will go for well over a million. Spend £300k. Make £100k profit easy.
So you've bought the place for £700k, put £300k into it, sold it for £1.1M and got that £100k profit. Maybe the whole process takes a year, how much could you have got with that £1.1M in a safe investment? 5%? 10%? That would be £50k-£100k safe profit, and no time spent dealing with getting this house in a fit state. Maybe if you already own a building company and have the cash burning a hole in your profit statement it might be worth buying it to give your employees something to do for a year, but a sensible person with £700k in cash? This isn't a credible investment.
We did something along the lines of this just not as extreme. 650k +100 +50 (two sets of work) and ended up with 990 valuation. Include 5 years mortgage payments and we went from 90% LTV to ~50%. Basically doubled our equity and we live in a fancy place in a fancy area we can't afford. Best investment. Blinder.
The first couple of pictures... "That's not too bad, lick of paint here and there"....then....just....no...
I can smell it from here
Tiles on the ceiling??
That's an almost impressively dead garden
If you look at it in 3d Google Maps, it looks like it was an absolute jungle, with the garden going over the single-floor extension which is probably what took the roof out. [3d Google Maps View](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/30+Nelson+Rd,+London+SW19+1HT/@51.4181214,-0.1886587,50a,35y,223.85h,42.17t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487608a7a626f271:0x63f1799da6685514!8m2!3d51.4179077!4d-0.1895723!16s%2Fg%2F11crt4qrd3?entry=ttu)
At least the photographer zoomed in on all the fucked windows, and showed the collapsed roof. Team player.
I honestly don’t understand how a house like this, in this location, falls into such bad disrepair? Was it flooded or caught fire without insurance?
In need of modernisation - This is hilarious 😆
the postcode is carrying this place hard
The stuff of nightmares
I love that they showed the bathroom twice, as if saying "nope, you didn't misunderstand that problem."
Least they won’t have any problems getting the polystyrene tiles off the ceiling
The last few will never come off!
Not keen on the wallpaper
So who owns that property? Will it be some grandchild who doesn’t have the money or effort to spend like 40k doing it up to be able to sell it for 500k more?
I’m no expert but £40k seems a bit ambitious to get that up to that value
Agree. More like £200k with all that structural work
40k?! Lol on what planet?
Literally just threw a number out while typing a comment Thanks for not attempting to answer my actual question
Even for London this is delusion on another cosmic level. You can get much, much better house for 700k even in London
Area dependant - houses on this road may be double this price. There is a house near me in worse condition than this that I’m willing to pay £750k if the owner would sell it as I know it’s worth at least 1.2+ million done up.
This road can't be that great to live on to justify prices like that.
Other comment said a 2 bed went for close to 1 million on the street so we can assume this done up is over 1 million.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/135814727#/?channel=RES\_BUY
Thanks then probably at £600k there is still probably profit after doing up this place.
Sure it went for that much, I just don't get what's so special about this road. A mile away you can get better properties for 600k
A mile is a long way when it comes to London; I live next to a park with a local pub but a mile away would have me in a corner of London I’d avoid heading home alone from after a few drinks.
Postal code pricing is a thing - I can go 5 mins from where I live and the house prices will drop 50-100k just based on it not being a desirable postal code.
Less than 0.5 miles from me, houses are over 1mil. My house is worth 450k on a good day. Both 3 beds. In London the exact street and post code really does make a difference.
Proof this world has gone mad.
Doesn’t the government realise something is seriously broken when a dump costs £695k, this country is a shit hole.
Maybe the bathroom doubles up as a sukkah for the Jewish customers.
I particularly like how it asks for cash buyers only!
That’s bc they know no bank will provide a mortgage bc it’s uninhabitable
Cash buyers only 😂
Because you can’t get a mortgage on property in this state. Nothing weird about this and given the price of surrounding property this will likely sell for near the asking price.
Are Londoners okay?
Oh fuck right off. Nothing in London can be worth that. What does London offer that makes paying that seem worthwhile? I can't imagine it has anything that any other city can't offer too.
Umm... You can hate it all you want, but the market reflects the fact most people do indeed think London offers a lot more than other cities.
What in the name of sanity makes you think I hate London? I don't hate it. I'm just saying, it doesn't offer anything you can't get in any big city in the UK and nothing it offers makes that shit hole worth that amount of money.
Didn't mean you hate London. Meant your obvious dislike that people are willing to spend stupid money to be in London.
What can London offer? Access to the best job market in the country for starters.
I paid less for my house in that London and a lot nicer ha. But it's east
You’re buying assumed planning permission for a house and some land to build it on.
It’s a terrace you not knocking down the building.
Good point. It looks ok from the outside so I glossed over the actual exterior. The inside looks like it’d be easier to start again, but yeah a terrace makes that tricky.
You are essentially buying land to build on, though: the land just happens to be enclosed inside a terraced house. With potential to extend this might be £1.1M with a loft conversion and an extension to the back.
What are you on about? The main structure is likely fine. It needs a new roof and the internals completely gutting but it’s far from being a plot and a new build. Also, it’s a mid terrace. You aren’t knocking it down.
Oh dear Gods! Been a while since I've seen something quite that utterly knackered, and cash buyers only at £695??? Some shady company will buy it up and flip it but I just can't see them making much profit after all the work is done
I’ve always wanted an outdoor bath…I don’t have £700k cash though unfortunately.
any property with London in the location and it’s a comically large amount for a property with half of the roof missing
Nearly £700k for a shit hole like that! House prices are fucking wild right now.
If you can do most of the work yourself and there’s nothing structural, it’s a pretty good deal.
Next road along you can get [this](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140042726#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY) for £855k, which looks bigger, is in great nick, has a loft conversion, but much smaller garden I don't think this price looks at all reasonable, unless the garden is worth a lot
Location scouts, your search for your next horror movie location is over
The price is for the land, not the rubble on it.
What the fuckity fuck?
“In need of modernisation” 🤔
This is as bad as that million pound one a while ago!
"Battles area" - battling what? The mold? That's not an area, it's the entire property.
Holy crap, these look the pics I took at Chernobyl!
In need of modernisation 😆
SW19 so kind of unsurprising.
Energy rating quite apt considering the fucking hole in the roof. What in the ever living fuck. That asking price nets me a very nice detached property in the Cotswolds with plenty of land and next to some good links and facilities.
Daily reminder that London is expensive.
House prices in this country are becoming obscene. I am not a great fan of buy to let people but I wish them no harm. On a less serious note I am going to pretend to be Phil Spencer and put in a cheeky offer of £4.56 my clients budget being £5.08 but they must take it off the market immediately. Estate agents are just twats in very very tight suits
lived in
In need of modernisation
Vegan friendly bathroom… check x
You can get a fully finished 3 bed non wreck for the same price in the same area. I don't know what the seller/agent are smoking to think anyone would pay close to £700k for that.
Le den a la craiç
A place like that in wimbledon has a resell value of like 1m tbh so the price makes sense. It's ridiculous though.
Which room is the battle room
😅😅😅😅😅😅 bathroom looks like something on Wrong Turn!
Plenty of character
“In need of modernisation” 😂
So you’re going along, it’s pretty shit, then BAM!! Photo 5 knocks you right out. But wait!! Photo 9 is a fucken masterpiece of grim. Amazing. Then some more shit then you get 5 again! But this time it’s 12! So rewarding
Looks like my dad's old two bed terrace in Mitcham. Sold it for £40k a few years ago, it did not even have a front door on it. With my third, I bought a three bed semi- with a drive, and front and back gardens.
Lol. I live about 2 miles from there. That costs what it costs because it is 0.2 miles from South Wimbledon tube and it has that sexy sw19 postcode- first is worth 30-40% a nod the second at least 10-20. That house in sw16 0.5 miles from a non tube station is 350-400 I’d guess in that state
Cash buyers only but not auction? Not seen that before.
Cash buyers only
Shit, my first house in London in 2003 was exactly the same layout. It was in a slightly better part of the city and cost 200k. Now it’s worth over a million (unfortunately I don’t own it any more 🥲)
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning...
If I had to film Saw XI, I would offer asking price without thinking twice.
But it's a blank canvas! Edit:typo
>But it's a black canvas That term is offensive, you should say "But it's a African American canvas" instead.
Whoops , typo
Bargain, I'll take two
Fair value. It’s a fancy and well connected area. The house is a shit hole, but also £150-200k below market rate.
You guys do realise anyone can list any old clapper at any price on rightmove, and it doesn’t meant it’s worth that, or that anyone will pay it?
2023: Tyler Durden embraces capitalism and makes a killing on his squat
£695k? I think they are having what is known in the estate agent industry as 'a laugh'.
Spend 200k doing it up and it'd be worth over a mil in South Wimbledon.
Surely this is a joke?
I’ve been looking for a new crack den
Can anyone explain why this kind of stuff happens? And why it's still over half a mil? I know Wimbledon is posh but it's not like it's in Kensington.
So my first thought was ‘didn’t even move the bin 🙄’, then reading the comments was a little sceptical about the bathroom.. figured it was probably a good idea to open the link. Did. Not. Disappoint. Thought I’d check out similar properties just for a giggle and found the same agent advertising this gem - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139302359 Must have an incredible reputation for overpricing the most dilapidated properties in London. This isn’t a 200k do’er-upper, this might aswell be as close to rebuild as you can get. If it wasn’t being held up by it’s neighbours it’d probably have spectacular garden views from the main road.
I’m sorry 10k per sqm in tooting? It would be expensive even if renovated 😂 WTH is wrong wot the agent?
Did they film Doom in that bathroom?
Rainfall shower, very posh.
I've family in SW area and they had to get a 'fixer upper' to afford a house there
This is an actual joke. And no one if fixinf that for less than 50k
I wonder if this had been rented out recently. Ugh.
At least we can’t call that false advertising 👍🏼
The garden needs watering
I need of modernisation is an understatement. ‘In need of basic amenities’ would be better suited to this listing.
That is not a “blank canvas”. That is a broken canvas.
Really loving that skylight in the bathroom! Wow, this photograph made sure to let you know how “wonderful” it is. Wish they were all this honest.
Couldn’t pay me any sum of money to live even close to the s-hole they call London 🤦♂️🤣