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sean
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Posted: Tue May 06, 14 9:10 am Post subject: Fancy owning your own mountain?
Yours for ï¿½1.75 million. I wonder if you could get a mortgage on it?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue May 06, 14 9:35 am Post subject:
Why not? It's only land, and it's going up in value. I got a mortgage (my first ever!) on a bit of land recently. What makes you think it might be difficult?

dpack

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Posted: Tue May 06, 14 9:36 am Post subject:
for that sort of cash i think i might want a small mountain poking out of the sea somewhere a bit warmer without sheep on it

sean
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Posted: Tue May 06, 14 10:01 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Why not? It's only land, and it's going up in value. I got a mortgage (my first ever!) on a bit of land recently. What makes you think it might be difficult?

Well in my case it represents a fairly gigantic multiplier of my annual earnings.
For other people I don't know, it just seemed a bit non-standard as a thing to borrow against.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue May 06, 14 10:02 am Post subject:
Damn and I just went and spent this month's pocket money Just about any part of the Lakes would be worth it (maybe I'll get a lottery ticket this week). I reckon its the most beautiful part of England.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue May 06, 14 10:47 am Post subject:

sean wrote:

Nick wrote:

Why not? It's only land, and it's going up in value. I got a mortgage (my first ever!) on a bit of land recently. What makes you think it might be difficult?

Well in my case it represents a fairly gigantic multiplier of my annual earnings.
For other people I don't know, it just seemed a bit non-standard as a thing to borrow against.

Only because it's being billed as a mountain. It's just land, when viewed financially. It would be a stretch for me, too.

Want to go halves?

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
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Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Tue May 06, 14 10:49 am Post subject:
Blimey - wouldn't mind! Cracking scramble to the top via Sharp Edge - bit like Crib Goch but without the utter fear and tears. EV

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue May 06, 14 11:57 am Post subject:
It was on Countryfile this week. As the chap selling it said: what's it matter who owns it? We've all still got the right to climb all over it. If it is important who owns it, then maybe crowdsource the money?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed May 07, 14 6:15 pm Post subject:
That's a nice idea. Bit of a big fundraising effort, though.

Rob R

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Posted: Wed May 07, 14 6:37 pm Post subject:
Good on the chap selling it, not the usual aristo/money story.

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 09, 14 4:04 pm Post subject:
I hear the locals are clubbing together to buy it, to stop a Russian oligarch from doing so.

Hairyloon

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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri May 09, 14 5:34 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

I hear the locals are clubbing together to buy it, to stop a Russian oligarch from doing so.

Good luck to them. How wide are they casting "local"?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 09, 14 5:43 pm Post subject:
No idea, was just chatter on 6music as I drove home. Not sure how much it matters, as you can walk on it, whoever owns it.

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 23, 14 8:08 pm Post subject:
To be honest, mountains are last week. Villages. On the other hand... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-27521470

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri May 23, 14 8:59 pm Post subject:
Sounds like a bargain.

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