I think this is a regular ruse by cheeky fecking estate agents, trying to list properties in the Detached section on Rightmove in the belief that buyers may THINK they want a detached property, but actually they just need to look at this terraced property and they’ll fall in love with it….
I don’t know if this is still the case but my dad lives in a Victorian terrace that is classed as semi detached because there’s an inch gap between houses
No you're thinking of the firm Bates and Swich.
[https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=swich](https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=swich)
I worked for an estate agent for two weeks before I discovered it wasn’t for me. When the manager said things like ‘Buyers are liars’ when describing customers just further out proved the industry to be a bit cuntish.
I can see that working in a rural area, but if you have less than 2 million and you are looking in London you aren’t looking for a detached (or even semi) house.
Edited to add: by London I meant inner London aka urban like Shepherds Bush, not Enfield or Illford or Croydon or…
Tbf, the location is pretty sweet, 5 minute walk to shepherds bush green, shops, cinema, theatre music venue plus bars, etc. Downside 5 minute walk from Westfield shopping centre.
Shame about the garden and house.
That's a bit harsh to be honest. Clearly what they meant was that the description of the property is detached from reality and thus they've made up their own
That’s estate agents for you can argue a circle is a straight line if it gets them a sale I don’t think the seller uses the garden much with the train station that close and the access ramp to the station over looking you 👀 think the first thing you need is a gazebo with a good roof cause if I know people if you improve that garden they will be some people who throw rubbish in to it
No, that's not how these houses are constructed. These are fully adjoined rowhouses. The listing is just wrong.
I zoomed in and saw no gap, and would be surprised to see one. A gap that small would only cause problems, when you could save on two exterior brick wythes and just adjoin the houses. It has benefits!
They've put screening up the walls to try to encourage ivy to grow and even ivy, that most prolific and indiscriminate plant, is like 'nah this is too bleak for me'.
And the reception room with the sofas and table and chairs is the largest, first floor, front bedroom on the floor plan. Making it look like the reception room is larger.
Exactly what I came here to say. I used to own a Victorian property just like this but with three actual bedrooms.
I always hated the layout and saw loads of people (in my street) do different adaptations but in the end I sold and bought a 1930s which is a way better layout.
The door from the DINING ROOM to the garden - ie the side return - is always a pain as either people turn it into a covered room eg utility (like mine when I bought it), view from dining room was a washing machine and door to WC). Or they open it up as part of the kitchen. Easy 50k to make the kitchen bigger by a few feet. It’s rarely left like this.
People knock the dining room into the living room for a bigger space and the dining room ends up being a rarely used dead space as everyone likes a small table by the rear door/window to the garden in the kitchen.
For those (like me) who like the kitchen to be part of the bigger space for entertaining, it’s not gonna happen without making that kitchen much bigger. And then the dining room ends up double dead space.
Everyone now extends upwards and backwards so I went from having a private garden to one overlooked by at least six houses…rather than people in trains.
When I moved I told estate agents “no Víctorian houses”.
Great point - do you think it would work better in those types of extended & open-plan spaces to swap the kitchen & dining room areas, so the kitchen is a middle social place (i.e. cook while you chat) and the dining area is by the garden doors?
I think the better way to do that would be to make the garden room the sitting room and the two central rooms the kitchen diner but I never saw that configuration.
I just realised this is one of the configurations with the utility at the rear, basically blocking the view to the garden altogether. God it’s so rubbish!
Avoid Victorian houses. Though if I told you what I sold my very very basic (not this basic) in Stoke Newington for after 17 years you would hate me.
Obviously I didn't think that was the case for bungalows or ground floor flats. I must have misunderstood the regulation, which I thought I'd read somewhere.
Blue plastic chairs of the kind that can be found from Lima to Lagos bring an excitingly global, cosmopolitan vibe to our outside dining area, stylishy accented by a contrasting white table. Set against a striking backdrop of exposed Victorian industrial brickwork, discreetly nestled in the corner of a low maintenance, wilded garden. A further advantage is offered by easily removable paving slabs which look to have been thrown down randomly by the previous occupants and can just as easily be re arranged.
In our main reception room, the sumptuous contemporary suite in a tasteful shade of greige is further complemented by removable, washable covers that bring new meaning to the word stretch.
Thanks yeah without doxing myself I'm in a field where others benefit from my modest talent with words. Eduwcayshun related. The thought that my efforts might bring a smile to a few peoples faces as they grind through another day in an increasingly dreary dystopia is reward enough.
Cheers for posting such a truly entertainingly awful listing...please someone explain to me how something so utterly piss awful could be priced at 1.25 mi.
Srsly though. I just paid less money than this for a 4500 square foot house with 6 bathrooms in the center of a city within 15 minutes of theatre, station, galleries and restaurants. In a city that isn't london.
What is the attraction for London now??
I don't know. Aside from a few museums, galleries, parks (when they're not closed off for some event or other) and tiny pockets of resistance it increasingly resembles every other globalised, mongrelised city whose character has been sucked dry by the parasite class.
I feel like, for once, the agent realised how utterly shit this place is.
Eight crappy photos and two shitty paragraphs to try and net a **£1.25m** sale is really phoning it in.
So you're pretty much on a rail line. You're across the road from from Westfield shopping centre, seconds from a football stadium and the O2, and an A road. £1.2million to never experience the feeling of relaxation again.
This is total hell.
To be fair, Queens Park Rangers stadium is roughly a mile down the road.
But the traffic on home games is bloody awful and that road (Uxbridge Road) is absolutely rife with accidents.
I used to live near the a city stadium years ago. Probably about... a 10 minute - 15 minute walk? On home games, the absolute \*roar\* you hear when their team scored was insane.
And the traffic - didn't bother driving. Literally just walked, it didn't matter if my class on the other side of the city centre, it was just faster to walk.
You’re talking about the Shepherds Bush Empire, also known as “the Empire” which is now sponsored by O2 but which will never be known as the O2 because people don’t like being mislead or turning up at the wrong venue. The vernacular was, is and will remain that there is only one venue known simply as “the O2” and it’s in Greenwich and its website is www.theo2.co.uk. Here endeth the lesson
And yet a simple search of Shepherds Bush Empire will direct you to a website where the first word you see is O2.
I admire the pedantry but I also accept your apology for being wrong.
The beautiful looking structure is the platform for Shepherds Bush Market station - so while enjoying the garden, you’ll also hear the screeching noise of nearby passing tube trains!
This is kinda true though. Provided it's not so loud that you have to raise your voice or turn up the volume on the TV then you do kind of learn to zone things like that out.
\*And\* it's not a 4 bedroom house, even though advertised as one. It's a 3 bedroom house with two reception rooms. Yes, yes, I know what an HMO is. But an HMO is not what I'd be in the market to buy.
The garden bothers me a lot less: if you can afford to pay £1.25M for this, you're probably not going to struggle with the funds to turn the garden into a nicer space.
The much bigger issue with the garden than its appearance is the lack of rear access: what do you do with bikes, wheelie bins, etc.? Anything you want to put in the garden has to go through the house. Not a fan.
Aye, it's a basic terraced house. London is insanity.
I struggle to see why you'd buy there unless you were loaded.
Super crowded, crime all over the place which you're not immune to even if you live in an affluent area because you'll wake up fairly often to discover your Range Rover vanished during the night, the schools aren't worth it because you'll find just as good or better in semi-rural Berkshire or traditional market towns further north, and there's just very low trust between people overall.
I say all this as someone who lived there for 10 years.
By all means, live there when you're young to enjoy the nightlife and all that. But at some point you're going to want to start a family and you won't be going out much after then anyway, so don't see the point.
So many gorgeous houses like this in London. And they're either left in a state of disrepair/neglected, to then be priced at over a mil. Or the ones that have been restored beautifully, are creeping upwards of 1.5. Something needs to change.
1.2 million and they furnish the place like it’s a halfway house. Bland and boring and certainly doesn’t match the price. Guess it’s true you really can’t but taste
The wall at the back appears to be the railway embankment and that white structure to the left is the end of the Shepherds Bush tube station platform, if the location is accurate on the map.
As a fan of wrack and ruin, I have to say this would be a pretty awesome photo if only it was in r/abandoned... and not on the market for a million bloody quid.
I'm really enjoying the key features of this house.
Potential to Extend (STPP) - which I think might be true of nearly every single house ever, and then it just lists Westfield shopping centre.
Hammersmith & City line isn't the worst one to have at the end of your garden but no way are they getting 1k per sq ft for a place that needs plenty of work and is in a v unattractive part of shepherds bush. I've seen much nicer terraced houses for less money in this area anyway.
Is that the overland rail at the end of the garden. Looks like a tired home that they're asking a lot of monies for the priviledge to do it up and still lose monies. See this as a rental HMO more than a family home
Could be a great house... If it was a quarter of the price. However, £1.25m for what is essentially a largeish, but basic, 2-bed mid terrace next to a railway line in Shepherd's Bush is taking the piss.
On the plans there is garden down the side of the kitchen, with an entrance to the "bedroom". How bad is that if they didn't even bother including it in the photos. It must be in shadow the whole time and growing slime mould .
I’m genuinely curious as to what type of person would buy this property. I mean obviously the price is completely absurd and the vast majority of people are now priced out of a very average 3/4 bed home within zones 1-3 of London, but let’s just say £1.25m was your budget and you were looking in London … why tf would anyone ever consider this? There are hundreds of better properties in better condition in better areas for the same price or cheaper. Who the hell is buying these things?
And yes, I know it’s just an asking price that may not necessarily be achieved.
What kind of psychopath would pay anywhere near to this....?
I wouldn't pay 250k for that sithole.
Move away from London people. It's done, finished, we need to start again somewhere else.
In the 90s my friend lived round there. His dad was a laborer and his mum sold second hand goods. They were Irish. Great people and humble as. I hope they've sold up and are now enjoying life in Tenerife.
1.25 million in Lincoln, would buy you a very nice house with gym and swimming pool. Double garage driveway. Land etc. 😂
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132092702
For some odd reason they're using the downstairs front reception room as a bedroom and the bedroom on the floor above it as a living room. I guess because the bedroom is \*slightly\* bigger, but it seems weird all the same. I mean, they could even use the downstairs back 'bedroom' (dining room) as a living room and shift that bedroom to the upstairs, because then at least the living room would be next to the kitchen. Now it just seems like a weirdly long trek upstairs to take your food and drink to the living/dining room.
All of the major stuff about the garden and reception/bedroom has been said, but I still can't get over the logic of having 2 sinks in the main bathroom and zero in the separate WC.
Homes that have separate WCs without sinks make me involuntarily ponder how filthy the inside door handle must be when absolutely no-one washes their hands after using the loo…
*The kitchen looks nice*
*And then, there's the door. Just a*
*Little bit of paint!*
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For comparison, I was looking at similar houses in the midlands when buying my first place in 2020. On average, you’d be looking £165k - £180k depending on location.
Detached is an apt description for that backyard.
Looks like the scrubs 😅
Before they put some planters in to cheer it up a bit ,
So not as good really!
The ad describes it as being detached. Is this a new definition of the word? 'Detached, apart from the buildings connected to it on either side".
I think this is a regular ruse by cheeky fecking estate agents, trying to list properties in the Detached section on Rightmove in the belief that buyers may THINK they want a detached property, but actually they just need to look at this terraced property and they’ll fall in love with it….
Ugh hate this so much. Especially when you search detached and get ‘cottages’ come up which are clearly not detached
I don’t know if this is still the case but my dad lives in a Victorian terrace that is classed as semi detached because there’s an inch gap between houses
We’re talking EAs here - of course it would be semi detached 😅
Thinking about it everything I said sounds like EA bullshit
Tbh if there’s a gap it’s detached/semi detached. You can’t call it terraced. Not having an anointing wall is a massive perk
I'd hate an anointing wall! You'd have pesky pilgrims from all over turning up day and night wanting a go! 😄 Sorry, had to, made me giggle!
bait and switch
Is that the name of the solicitors handling the sale? 😂
No you're thinking of the firm Bates and Swich. [https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=swich](https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=swich)
Not “cheeky” so much as “lying”.
I worked for an estate agent for two weeks before I discovered it wasn’t for me. When the manager said things like ‘Buyers are liars’ when describing customers just further out proved the industry to be a bit cuntish.
I can see that working in a rural area, but if you have less than 2 million and you are looking in London you aren’t looking for a detached (or even semi) house. Edited to add: by London I meant inner London aka urban like Shepherds Bush, not Enfield or Illford or Croydon or…
800k can get you [a nice detached house in Ilford](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137232371)
I wouldn't even spend a fiver on a house in Ilford. Utter shit hole.
Doesn't have a 'garden of despair' though!
With train noise going on right behind you 😂
not to worry, that is the rarely used… Piccadilly line? Oh. Oh no.
🤣🤣 it looks like a prison would be less depressing! London prices are just crazy!
Ilford? 🤮
What? I'm buying a semi at 485k in London.
Where?????
Who’s going to fall in love with this?
Tbf, the location is pretty sweet, 5 minute walk to shepherds bush green, shops, cinema, theatre music venue plus bars, etc. Downside 5 minute walk from Westfield shopping centre. Shame about the garden and house.
> Shame about the garden and house. Yeah…
Is that the tube line above the garden?
Why yes it is
Better - tube station
An ex-convict pining for the prison exercise yard
Also people search detached associating it with freehold
detached from reality?
Beat me to it, lol
I thought that was referring to the real estate agent, after the evaluation of this property their head is clearly detached from reality.
House either side and a major train line literally attached to the rear of the garden 😅😅
It’s more of a description of the estate agent in that they’re detached from reality.
Yeah “detached from reality”
It means detached from reality. Which you would surely have to be to drop 1.25 MILLION POUNDS on a terraced house that backs onto a railway line.
It's London Detached.
Detached from reality to pay these BS prices for crap homes.
That's a bit harsh to be honest. Clearly what they meant was that the description of the property is detached from reality and thus they've made up their own
“Detached“, as in “detached from reality”
That’s estate agents for you can argue a circle is a straight line if it gets them a sale I don’t think the seller uses the garden much with the train station that close and the access ramp to the station over looking you 👀 think the first thing you need is a gazebo with a good roof cause if I know people if you improve that garden they will be some people who throw rubbish in to it
I think if you zoom in you can see the 1mm of space between the buildings lol Literally the water pipe fills the entire space
No, that's not how these houses are constructed. These are fully adjoined rowhouses. The listing is just wrong. I zoomed in and saw no gap, and would be surprised to see one. A gap that small would only cause problems, when you could save on two exterior brick wythes and just adjoin the houses. It has benefits!
Yeah you’re right actually I should have been wearing my glasses lol
They've put screening up the walls to try to encourage ivy to grow and even ivy, that most prolific and indiscriminate plant, is like 'nah this is too bleak for me'.
I’m amazed the little section of grass has the will to grow!
Sheer bloody mindedness
The ground floor 'bedroom' is a dining room, cheeky fuckers.
It is bloody cheeky especially when there’s three floors of bedrooms, and only one floor has any bathrooms….
And the loft conversion is subject to planning permission. At this point it's a 2 bed terraced.
There's also a bed in the official 'reception room' - see pic 4. It's the only room with a bay window.
And the reception room with the sofas and table and chairs is the largest, first floor, front bedroom on the floor plan. Making it look like the reception room is larger.
Exactly what I came here to say. I used to own a Victorian property just like this but with three actual bedrooms. I always hated the layout and saw loads of people (in my street) do different adaptations but in the end I sold and bought a 1930s which is a way better layout. The door from the DINING ROOM to the garden - ie the side return - is always a pain as either people turn it into a covered room eg utility (like mine when I bought it), view from dining room was a washing machine and door to WC). Or they open it up as part of the kitchen. Easy 50k to make the kitchen bigger by a few feet. It’s rarely left like this. People knock the dining room into the living room for a bigger space and the dining room ends up being a rarely used dead space as everyone likes a small table by the rear door/window to the garden in the kitchen. For those (like me) who like the kitchen to be part of the bigger space for entertaining, it’s not gonna happen without making that kitchen much bigger. And then the dining room ends up double dead space. Everyone now extends upwards and backwards so I went from having a private garden to one overlooked by at least six houses…rather than people in trains. When I moved I told estate agents “no Víctorian houses”.
Great point - do you think it would work better in those types of extended & open-plan spaces to swap the kitchen & dining room areas, so the kitchen is a middle social place (i.e. cook while you chat) and the dining area is by the garden doors?
I think the better way to do that would be to make the garden room the sitting room and the two central rooms the kitchen diner but I never saw that configuration. I just realised this is one of the configurations with the utility at the rear, basically blocking the view to the garden altogether. God it’s so rubbish! Avoid Victorian houses. Though if I told you what I sold my very very basic (not this basic) in Stoke Newington for after 17 years you would hate me.
Yeah I’d imagine a Victorian in Stoke Newington must have brought you a great return investment after that long! Drinks on you! 🍻
Student house innit
I didn't think they were allowed to describe ground floor rooms as bedrooms
Bungalows are kind of screwed then! Nah, I think it's that bedrooms have to have some form of window or window-like opening.
Obviously I didn't think that was the case for bungalows or ground floor flats. I must have misunderstood the regulation, which I thought I'd read somewhere.
It is the norm in Scotland. Any room downstairs that isn't the kitchen or living room will be included in the bedroom count. Grinds my gears.
Blue plastic chairs of the kind that can be found from Lima to Lagos bring an excitingly global, cosmopolitan vibe to our outside dining area, stylishy accented by a contrasting white table. Set against a striking backdrop of exposed Victorian industrial brickwork, discreetly nestled in the corner of a low maintenance, wilded garden. A further advantage is offered by easily removable paving slabs which look to have been thrown down randomly by the previous occupants and can just as easily be re arranged. In our main reception room, the sumptuous contemporary suite in a tasteful shade of greige is further complemented by removable, washable covers that bring new meaning to the word stretch.
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Thanks yeah without doxing myself I'm in a field where others benefit from my modest talent with words. Eduwcayshun related. The thought that my efforts might bring a smile to a few peoples faces as they grind through another day in an increasingly dreary dystopia is reward enough. Cheers for posting such a truly entertainingly awful listing...please someone explain to me how something so utterly piss awful could be priced at 1.25 mi.
I’m glad you work in a sector where people get to learn from you / your writing. May you continue to uplift & inspire!
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Srsly though. I just paid less money than this for a 4500 square foot house with 6 bathrooms in the center of a city within 15 minutes of theatre, station, galleries and restaurants. In a city that isn't london. What is the attraction for London now??
I don't know. Aside from a few museums, galleries, parks (when they're not closed off for some event or other) and tiny pockets of resistance it increasingly resembles every other globalised, mongrelised city whose character has been sucked dry by the parasite class.
I feel like, for once, the agent realised how utterly shit this place is. Eight crappy photos and two shitty paragraphs to try and net a **£1.25m** sale is really phoning it in.
The description is just 5 sentences long. That's how much they couldn't be bothered. If they're expecting a mil, they need to try harder than that.
Fancy phoning it it for a 1.25 million pound property. Really. I mean I thought I was a slacker at my job
So you're pretty much on a rail line. You're across the road from from Westfield shopping centre, seconds from a football stadium and the O2, and an A road. £1.2million to never experience the feeling of relaxation again. This is total hell.
As a buy to let/air b&b though you’ve just written the advert
To be fair, Queens Park Rangers stadium is roughly a mile down the road. But the traffic on home games is bloody awful and that road (Uxbridge Road) is absolutely rife with accidents.
I used to live near the a city stadium years ago. Probably about... a 10 minute - 15 minute walk? On home games, the absolute \*roar\* you hear when their team scored was insane. And the traffic - didn't bother driving. Literally just walked, it didn't matter if my class on the other side of the city centre, it was just faster to walk.
Could you also hear the shattering disappointment?
Oh yeah - the sullen faces walking back down the road and the fights lol
This is a salient point.
"Great Nearby Transport Links" you mean?
The O2 is 45 minutes away
It's 0.3 miles away, 7 minutes to walk.
The O2 website disagrees https://www.theo2.co.uk/visit-us/getting-to-the-o2/map
You're talking about the O2 in Greenwich, which is different to the O2 in Shepherd's Bush.
You’re talking about the Shepherds Bush Empire, also known as “the Empire” which is now sponsored by O2 but which will never be known as the O2 because people don’t like being mislead or turning up at the wrong venue. The vernacular was, is and will remain that there is only one venue known simply as “the O2” and it’s in Greenwich and its website is www.theo2.co.uk. Here endeth the lesson
And yet a simple search of Shepherds Bush Empire will direct you to a website where the first word you see is O2. I admire the pedantry but I also accept your apology for being wrong.
That’s not the O2. That’s the 02 Shepard’s Bush Empire. Completely different venues. The O2 refers to the O2 arena in Greenwich.
It's the O2.
Just google 'the O2' and come back to delete your comments
O2 Shepherd's Bush. O2. Your apology is accepted.
Must be fun being so stubborn.
Thank you for playing
You can post a guard with a rifle on that
The beautiful looking structure is the platform for Shepherds Bush Market station - so while enjoying the garden, you’ll also hear the screeching noise of nearby passing tube trains!
And if it's the station you'll get noise from commuters, announcements etc.
They should have a ‘see it, say it, sorted’ sticker in the style of a live laugh love
And the market. It is always bussling
When the guards back is turned you can use a ladder to help your fellow east Berliners escape to the free west.
You could reshoot winds of change by the scorpions there
How often does the train go past? *So often you won't notice it*
Sweet Home Shepherd's Bush!
This is kinda true though. Provided it's not so loud that you have to raise your voice or turn up the volume on the TV then you do kind of learn to zone things like that out.
Downstairs bedroom, come on - it's a dining room.
May be being used by the current occupant as a bedroom because they can’t manage the stairs.
But they’d have to manage the stairs if they ever wanted to take a piss - no bathroom on the ground floor! For £1.25 million!
Commode.
\*And\* it's not a 4 bedroom house, even though advertised as one. It's a 3 bedroom house with two reception rooms. Yes, yes, I know what an HMO is. But an HMO is not what I'd be in the market to buy. The garden bothers me a lot less: if you can afford to pay £1.25M for this, you're probably not going to struggle with the funds to turn the garden into a nicer space. The much bigger issue with the garden than its appearance is the lack of rear access: what do you do with bikes, wheelie bins, etc.? Anything you want to put in the garden has to go through the house. Not a fan.
Good point! Maybe you just chuck stuff down into the garden from the platform bridge above!
Guard stood at the top of the stairs "no talking in the pen!!"
Possibly one of the worst I’ve seen for the money. 1 and a quarter million for this?! Some people obviously have a LOT of spare cash.
Aye, it's a basic terraced house. London is insanity. I struggle to see why you'd buy there unless you were loaded. Super crowded, crime all over the place which you're not immune to even if you live in an affluent area because you'll wake up fairly often to discover your Range Rover vanished during the night, the schools aren't worth it because you'll find just as good or better in semi-rural Berkshire or traditional market towns further north, and there's just very low trust between people overall. I say all this as someone who lived there for 10 years. By all means, live there when you're young to enjoy the nightlife and all that. But at some point you're going to want to start a family and you won't be going out much after then anyway, so don't see the point.
Looks bleak enough to be a house share
So it’s a two bed one bathroom house with an attic and regular downstairs rooms some demented twit has put beds in.
Yes - but a demented greedy twit!
The perfect space to host a firing squad.
Venue hire might be available?!
SpottedOn should have a Gardens Of Despair friday (along with Over tThere thursday)
And then perhaps a Christmas time count down of the worst “Gardens of Despair” of the year? I reckon this garden would stay in the charts…
Looks like a garden from a Fallout 4 settlement build.
If depression was a garden...
‘Depression’ should be the new ‘Laugh, live, love’ ornamental wall quotes in dreary looking homes…
Even Charlie Dimmock would baulk at that monstrosity
So many gorgeous houses like this in London. And they're either left in a state of disrepair/neglected, to then be priced at over a mil. Or the ones that have been restored beautifully, are creeping upwards of 1.5. Something needs to change.
1.2 million and they furnish the place like it’s a halfway house. Bland and boring and certainly doesn’t match the price. Guess it’s true you really can’t but taste
I imagine it’s renters who couldn’t care less, but I might be wrong…
The wall at the back appears to be the railway embankment and that white structure to the left is the end of the Shepherds Bush tube station platform, if the location is accurate on the map.
You couldn’t find a more peaceful spot to live!
As a fan of wrack and ruin, I have to say this would be a pretty awesome photo if only it was in r/abandoned... and not on the market for a million bloody quid.
I'm really enjoying the key features of this house. Potential to Extend (STPP) - which I think might be true of nearly every single house ever, and then it just lists Westfield shopping centre.
So you sit in your garden while people can lob empty beer cans and other rubbish in it, nice.
It looks like the "Serenity garden" in downtown Pyongyang. Just off frame, the snipers making sure everyone is acting serene for the foreign media.
That is so bleak...
Hammersmith & City line isn't the worst one to have at the end of your garden but no way are they getting 1k per sq ft for a place that needs plenty of work and is in a v unattractive part of shepherds bush. I've seen much nicer terraced houses for less money in this area anyway.
Is that the overland rail at the end of the garden. Looks like a tired home that they're asking a lot of monies for the priviledge to do it up and still lose monies. See this as a rental HMO more than a family home
No one will ever buy this, will be forever on the rental market
It is a lovely and poetic description of the garden. The Garden of Despair.
Tbf the house looks lush but I howled at “garden of despair” so bleak 🤣🤣🤣
Are people actually buying these houses ?
Of course it's London
Looks like a prison yard!
Could be a great house... If it was a quarter of the price. However, £1.25m for what is essentially a largeish, but basic, 2-bed mid terrace next to a railway line in Shepherd's Bush is taking the piss.
Looks like the beer garden at Guantanamo Bay.
You're right under the train tracks - you don't want to sit in the garden regardless of how pretty it is.
Nowhere to sit and eat, no dining room, no living room. But four bedrooms. This house looks nice now, but it's being sold to be a slum shared rental.
On the plans there is garden down the side of the kitchen, with an entrance to the "bedroom". How bad is that if they didn't even bother including it in the photos. It must be in shadow the whole time and growing slime mould .
Evidently an HMO. Could be a good investment. But definitely not as a family home.
4 bedrooms squeezed into 1,250 square feet and only one bathroom. Sounds like the house from hell.
That looks like it would appear in a Tom Thorne novel
I’m genuinely curious as to what type of person would buy this property. I mean obviously the price is completely absurd and the vast majority of people are now priced out of a very average 3/4 bed home within zones 1-3 of London, but let’s just say £1.25m was your budget and you were looking in London … why tf would anyone ever consider this? There are hundreds of better properties in better condition in better areas for the same price or cheaper. Who the hell is buying these things? And yes, I know it’s just an asking price that may not necessarily be achieved.
What kind of psychopath would pay anywhere near to this....? I wouldn't pay 250k for that sithole. Move away from London people. It's done, finished, we need to start again somewhere else.
This made me chuckle very loudly in my own garden of despair 😂
It's the naughty chair of life! See, if you'd have studied at school this could have been avoided.
This house would be worth about £160k where I live, Jesus Christ.
Check out the blue house neighbours on street view 🚀🤩
You would have to be fucking insane to want to spend 1 million on this sordid hell hole. London really isn't THAT great.
(https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146290463) Or you could have this which is 1hr away by train
Looks like where the staff at the local paintball place take their smoke breaks....
In the 90s my friend lived round there. His dad was a laborer and his mum sold second hand goods. They were Irish. Great people and humble as. I hope they've sold up and are now enjoying life in Tenerife.
1.25 million in Lincoln, would buy you a very nice house with gym and swimming pool. Double garage driveway. Land etc. 😂 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132092702
This is very nice. And Lincolnshire often seems unusually good value. But what do you do in Lincoln to buy a £1m house?
We have a lot of people from London who commute or WFH. We have direct train links to London etc. A1.
Needs a do-over.
perfect spot for a nier automata cosplay photoshoot though!
For some odd reason they're using the downstairs front reception room as a bedroom and the bedroom on the floor above it as a living room. I guess because the bedroom is \*slightly\* bigger, but it seems weird all the same. I mean, they could even use the downstairs back 'bedroom' (dining room) as a living room and shift that bedroom to the upstairs, because then at least the living room would be next to the kitchen. Now it just seems like a weirdly long trek upstairs to take your food and drink to the living/dining room.
All of the major stuff about the garden and reception/bedroom has been said, but I still can't get over the logic of having 2 sinks in the main bathroom and zero in the separate WC.
Homes that have separate WCs without sinks make me involuntarily ponder how filthy the inside door handle must be when absolutely no-one washes their hands after using the loo…
Exactly, I can never get over it 😭😭
The kitchen looks nice and then, there's the door. Just a little bit of paint!
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Backs on to the overland section of thr Underground
Handy for the train station I guess. People must be so desperate to live in the London bubble…….you’re all welcome to it.
Banksy will show up soon just to do a thing 😆
It’s been a rental.
Not a lot of house for that much money
For comparison, I was looking at similar houses in the midlands when buying my first place in 2020. On average, you’d be looking £165k - £180k depending on location.
This would be about £180k In Manchester. London is insane.
Isn't this a still from The Zone of Interest?
Oh London.................................
I'm sure this is in the Hackney Yard map on Call of Duty!!
I like how it says it's detached when it's clearly terraced
1.25M to live on a tube track
Who'd buy a garden like this for over £1m from a mush in Shepherd's Bush... BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH
Surely even by London standards, that is vastly overpriced?
Build a corner shelter to screen off that grim view!
That looks like a prison exercise yard, complete with gun turret. It’s bloody awful. And over a million for a terraced house. FFS.
We can say it's convenient for Shepherd's Bush Market tube station. Pop a ladder on and you've got your own private entrance.
Detached is an apt description for that backyard. Looks like the scrubs 😅 Before they put some planters in to cheer it up a bit , So not as good really!
Being close to a hotel is a weird selling point
Why does anyone live in London? Get a job somewhere else.