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TBF it has 1,000sq ft of space so (considering London prices) it isn't that shocking really. It is also a really nice internal space with a great roof terrace.
Looks like a shit hole
It's actually not too bad inside and has two decent (for central London) outside spaces.
It's not for me but if you did want to be that central its much better than many flats. Just don't sleepwalk if you are in the master bedroom
https://www.winkworth.co.uk/properties/sales/goldhawk-road-shepherds-bush-w12/SHE121014
It has a trapdoor in the bedroom. Every one of those million pounds is worth it just for that.
Its also quite a nice house inside looking at the Zoopla pics.
Well at least if you fall through the trap door you don't have far to go to get help.
FTW That trapdoor needs fitted with a fireman's pole and a trampoline below.
Very impressive use of space!
The Zoopla pics make it look much wider than it is. If I rocked up for a house viewing based on those pics I'd be sorely disappointed.
London prices make me giggle however that doesn't look as bad value as others
If those trapdoors are placed correctly, you could get from top to bottom very quickly 🙂
yeah agreed, photographer has really gone to town with his wide-angled lens! Plus all their furniture is extra shallow to make the space appear bigger - my sofa is over 4' deep but they've got some kind of bench thing in one of those pics which can't be any deeper than 18" if the 6' overall width is accurate!The Zoopla pics make it look much wider than it is. If I rocked up for a house viewing based on those pics I’d be sorely disappointed.
I don't think it looks terrible, no idea if the price is realistic, tbh wouldn't want to live in London if you [I]paid[/I] me a million quid!! 😂
The bathroom's a bit crap, and it needs an oven - but apart from that I'd be happy to live there.
If I rocked up for a house viewing based on those pics I’d be sorely disappointed.
I assume there’s an expectation that ‘Englands Thinnest house’ in the description would filter out anyone likely to be disappointed.
5 floors yet still under 100m2 😂
Not that I could afford it even if I liked it 😐
bit unusual, I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere though about the baker who kneaded a poo 💩 😂The bathroom’s a bit crap, and it needs an oven
yeah agreed, photographer has really gone to town with his wide-angled lens! Plus all their furniture is extra shallow to make the space appear bigger – my sofa is over 4′ deep but they’ve got some kind of bench thing in one of those pics which can’t be any deeper than 18″ if the 6′ overall width is accurate!
It's wedge shaped, looks like the majority of the main spaces are at the back and the bathroom, single bedroom, storage, bathroom are at the front.
Kinda feel that for £1million you'd get a nicer area than sandwiched between a recruitment agent and a burger bar.
bit unusual, I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere though about the baker who kneaded a poo
😀
Ah, "it" being the house, not the bathroom. An oven in the bathroom would be a bit weird.
Can't see a washing machine in there anywhere, either. That'd be a pain.
And check out this one nearby. Needs refurbishing apparently:
https://www.winkworth.co.uk/properties/sales/macfarlane-road-london-w12/SHE190214
I thought we were all moving out of that London to the countryside 'cos of Covid and nobody needing to be in an office anymore...
I like to swing cats so I’m out
I thought we were all moving out of that London to the countryside ‘cos of Covid and nobody needing to be in an office anymore…
This is for when you've sold your £5million townhouse in Notting Hill because you're moving to Manchester/Harrogate. But still, need somewhere to stay when coming in for face-to-face meetings and don't fancy hotels.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/57505586
I doubt many buyers actually have any intention of living in it.
Exactly, people stay in a house like that, they rarely live there. Looks nice, like the outside space.
Questions for the firemen of the forum: Does anyone occasionally 'misjudge' the pole and and fly head first down the shaft? It must have happened, but how frequently? Just thinking aloud the practicalities of having one installed in your house that you could potentially be using multiple times an hour. I had a go on them myself years ago in a derelict station. There was a one story pole, and a two story pole. Are there any higher-story poles? Does it ever get boring? Do some people join up just to have a go on the pole?
Didn't elfinsafety take them all out for exactly that reason?
If you are that into poles, take up pole dancing.
The Goldhawk Road isn't central London. It wasn't that long ago that the Westfield at Shepherds Bush was called an out of town shopping centre.
The Zoopla pics make it look much wider than it is. If I rocked up for a house viewing based on those pics I’d be sorely disappointed.
Are you new to this game? 🤨
I like to swing cats so I’m out
Perhaps [url= https://secretldn.com/vauxhall-house-sale-sex-dungeon/ ] this[/url] would tickle sir's fancy instead?
Looking at the state of the parquet flooring in the dining room, I would question the quality of every bit of renovation in that place and that's before I asked where the functional kitchen was.
Wonder if you can get a set of 800mm bars through the front door?
Looking at the state of the parquet flooring in the dining room, I would question the quality of every bit of renovation in that place and that’s before I asked where the functional kitchen was.
I took that flooring as sympathetic to the age of the house and most likely deliberate - I like it.
The Goldhawk Road isn’t central London
No, but estate agents have started to refer to anything inner London as central London for quite some time.
*checks internet for current purchase price of shitey flat above a shop where I live.*
You could buy 28 flats above shops for that where I live.
Not really a comparison unless you live in New York or Hong Kong or anther top 5 international city. Got to look at it in that company, good or bad is a opinion, but London is a top international city so needs to be considered within that context rather than the context of the rest of the UK. Same for all of the big international cities they all seem crazy within their greater local. Its a looking glass into the international world of trade and business.
My Aunt lives in a 5 bedroomed victorian house just off the Goldhawk Road, overlooking Ravenscourt Park. Bought it in 1980 for £40k when nobody wanted to live there as it was a 'Polish area'! That was precisely what she loved about it as she loved the vibrancy and the range of different restaurants etc.
Then it got gentrified.
FT no like cheapskates.
I think my sister in law worked on refurbish his house, it whim or one of the Mittals, either way money was not an issue surprisingly
If you are that into poles, take up pole dancing.
Or visit Warsaw.
Its a looking glass into the international world of trade and business.
and in the case of the Uk... money laundering
That skinny place still has more square footage than many new build flats in many 'redevelopment' areas, London or not. A place like that is ideal for an AirBnB, or for an 'investment' on land that is only rising in value. You'll be paying 3x that for a flat with similar area in say, Mayfair, Knightsbridge or Westminster, as it's a bit further out.
What people forget/ignore with London property prices, is that even if you are lucky enough to own a property in London, it's 'value' is only as much as a similar type property in a similarly desirable area of London. Yes, you could buy half of Barnsley if you sold a house in London, but until quite recently, not many people wanted to, obviously. If your work, family and social life is here, you're not going to uproot and move to the sticks. I'm not talking about the middle class incomers, I'm talking about ordinary Londoners, who, through no fault of their own, are often 'trapped' and unable to move, because doing so would cost more than they can afford. So if you live in a 3/4 bed family house in say Edmonton, you're not going to be able to move to a similar type property in Islington, or Clapham, or Shepherds Bush. And such people, who make up a far larger proportion of London's residents than the über rich, can't or don't want to move, because that's their home, their life, their community. No point selling up and buying a big pile in Cornwall, if you've got no job to go to. It's only really the rich and very lucky, that have such mobility.
Maybe Coronavirus has kickstarted the middle class exodus. It's now obvious there isn't the need for so much work to be centred in London, with WFH, Zoom etc. London really, really won't miss people like this. Self entitled ****ers coming to a village near you:
It's not worth a million squid but it's great use of space.
Don't know where you'd hang your bike though?
The lady in that article sounds like a right lazy arse. Bit of research would’ve told you all of that before moving out into the arse-end of the cotswolds.
And London has pockets of extreme wealth with property locations to match. But it also has abject poverty next door in a lot of cases. If you were in Chiswick when Grenfell was ablaze you would’ve known about it. Still the average house price for every property is going to be higher but it’s all relative. If you are maxing your affordability in a less desirable property in a less desirable area, it will be hard to size up or get into the next desirable tier; everywhere is the same.
If anything it shows is London is still able to be one of the most popular cities in a very changing world.
Must be having the Royal Family there 😕
Bit of research would’ve told you all of that before moving out into the arse-end of the cotswolds.
Which bit, exactly, is the “ arse-end of the cotswolds”? I live at the very southern edge of the Cotswolds, close to Castle Combe and Biddestone, and Bath, and it covers a huge area, extending up almost as far as Stow-on-the Wold, and east well into Oxfordshire, and I can’t think which bit is the “arse-end” ‘cos none of it’s cheap.
"I live at the very southern edge of the Cotswolds"
Do you have enemies in Bourton-on-the-Water?
Maybe Coronavirus has kickstarted the middle class exodus. It’s now obvious there isn’t the need for so much work to be centred in London, with WFH, Zoom etc. London really, really won’t miss people like this. Self entitled **** coming to a village near you:
Tip top tip, don't read that article. It will make you swear at your screen.
The London property market has always been mental, so not much has really changed in the past 30 years. I bought a small 1 bed flat in Haggerston 15 years ago, when Haggerston was an up and coming place. Sold it 10 years later and made a £500k profit.
@Countzero “arse-end” as in not near large conurbation areas with a Hospital within a few min drive etc., not as in scuzzy and not desirable.
London has been behind Cornwall as the most searched for area for properties for sale on Rightmove, recently, but this will soon revert back to type as the country moves back to normality, international movement etc, I expect.
Tip top tip, don’t read that article. It will make you swear at your screen.
I agree, the entitled bullshit from that author is staggering, zero understanding of life outside her privileged bubble. They think everyone is earning 300k a year and has a trust fund.
Tip top tip, don’t read that article. It will make you swear at your screen.
Did we read the same article?
Main thing I recall was her neighbour's oil tank leaked under their house and they had to move out for 6 months - which would be pretty crap regardless.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/57691038/
Converted garage - beautifully done - but just 28 Square meters (300ft) for £450k.
In a back alley in Hackney, just one row of houses from a dual carriageway....
Converted garage – beautifully done – but just 28 Square meters (300ft) for £450k.
Nicely done.
There are loads of those near us in Cambridge, lots of ends of gardens / garages get turned into tiny houses which then sell for a small fortune.
I have avoided looking at this thread. Sold 20 years ago a large flat fronted early victorian 4 bed end of terrace with decent walled gardens in Hackney's glamorous London Fields (not even entirely ironic aty the time), 3 stories plus cellar, big rooms (20 x 12ft living room, bedrooms on each floor same size. Bought, did up and sold in a hurry for too little). Had I sold it ten years later I'd have the house I'm in now, plus £1m in the bank (according to zoopla - someone at work asked me what road and what house number, then made me cry). Christ knows what it'd be now. And in the bargain I slow tracked my 'career' and pissed off my kids, all for a bit of climbing, surfing, mountain biking, and not having a mortgage in my 30s. Swings and...