A lot of house for little money?

[88v8]

Near Cheltenham.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52294574.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates3day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=4990530&onetime_FromEmail=true

Wonder if there's a 1 or a 0 missing from the price. Or some invisible problem.

Needs modernisation, says the agent. Looks to me as if it needs leaving just as it is.

Ivor

 

[Penners]

There are lots of enormous old - mostly Georgian - buildings in and around Cheltenham that have been divided up into apartments, and reading the estate agent's blurb I reckon this is one of those. Nevertheless, it's obviously a very large apartment, and looks very beautiful.

I'm just counting my loose change now....

 

[kreyszig]

The floorplan sets it all out. Amazing that one apartment can "squeeze" in 4 bathrooms and 3 receptions along with 5 bedrooms!
Not to mention a couple of courtyards..

 

[Penners]

Amazing that one apartment can "squeeze" in 4 bathrooms and 3 receptions along with 5 bedrooms!

To quote an old joke, "One had no idea that such poverty existed!"

 

[Keith Bowman]

The floorplan sets it all out. Amazing that one apartment can "squeeze" in 4 bathrooms and 3 receptions along with 5 bedrooms!
Not to mention a couple of courtyards..

Precisely. You don't get the house for that money, you don't even get a whole wing. To be fair to the agents, they are only following standard shyster practice of 'if it doesn't say detached, it's not detached'

 

[kreyszig]

dont get me wrong, I think it's beautiful, if I had the money I'd be very keen. I'm just marvelling that a home that large can be considered an apartment! From the looks of it, it's an "end terrace", as it were. So what if the lake is shared!?
I'm with Ivor though, I don't think it wants touching. Maybe a slight freshening up, but it's lovely.

 

[Flyfisher]

If the property has been divided into separate dwellings, check the situation with the grounds carefully. They may be shared with all apartments and there might be an annual service charge for their upkeep.

 

[88v8]

If the property has been divided into separate dwellings, check the situation with the grounds carefully. They may be shared with all apartments and there might be an annual service charge for their upkeep.

Good point.
That could be a wonderful source of neighbour dispute. Where we lived previously, we and both neighbours were surrounded by a long-established privet hedge {insert invisible picture ]



which as you can hopefully see, I liked to cut in 'cloud' fashion. The neighbour to the left, a lovely chap, was a retired engineer (you see his diamond-tiled bungalow roof) and liked things straight, to the extent that not only did he cut the sides with a plumb-bob, but he made a cutting gauge on wheels that he trundled along the pavement to ensure the top of his hedge was level. The 7ft-high hedge between us caused aggravation, as the top was cut flat or rounded depending which of us got there first. The front join between our hedges was also a source of 'discussion'.
The neighbour to the right was not a gardener at all, and mangled his hedge once a year, so that eventually I took over most of its maintenance.
I imagine a shared garden space would only work if none of those sharing it were gardeners.

Ivor

 

[Penners]

a long-established privet hedge

As it runs along a public road, it wasn't very privet, was it?

 

[Feltwell]

The 7ft-high hedge between us caused aggravation, as the top was cut flat or rounded depending which of us got there first.

Feltwell ponders - Does that make you both Hedgehogs ?

P.S. Clouds are better!