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sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:19 pm Post subject: If you've got 900k spare...
https://www.bopproperty.com/pages/searchdetails.asp?ID=4557 Looks quite nice...

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:21 pm Post subject:
very nice

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:26 pm Post subject:
you know I was wondering what to do with that 900K I found under the sofa, now I know

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:29 pm Post subject:
I suppose that it might serve for a community or a co-op? Actually, I've got no idea whether that's good or bad value...I don't normally look at properties at that price Peter.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:31 pm Post subject:
I've no idea about value. You'd be buying a business as well as a house. It's handy for Waitrose in Okehampton which probably pushes the price up.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 12:34 pm Post subject:
As I've found during my own property hunt stables are quite a big business and can make a fair return for no effort on the owners part.

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 1:07 pm Post subject:
�700K (GBP470K) www.immovillages.be/a_vendre/desc156.htm 5 hA (12 acres), 4-bed restore 17th century manor house. �480K (GBP320K) www.immovillages.be/a_vendre/desc138.htm 2.3 hA (6 acres) needs some work �220K (GBP150K) www.immoregion.be/pages/detailvente.php?OxySeleCode=00001597705 2.4 hA (6 acres) needs work

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 1:10 pm Post subject:
For that sort of money I'd be looking for something more Baronial, turrets and stuff, but nothing over the top.

Guest

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 2:55 pm Post subject:
Nah wheres the fun in having it all done for you? We all love renovating a falling down 17thC farmhouse, running a chimney business, working outside the holding and trying to get a pork business off the ground dont we?!!

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 4:30 pm Post subject:

No swimming pool?

I did set me thinking though, about more than one family in a house. Very often these big places have at least some kind of annexe, or even seperate properties, but if you bought, say a big farmhouse, would it be economical to notionally split it into two semis? Does one big house with land cost less than two smaller houses with land? You'd need to get on - or would you? If you did the legal stuff and did divide it into two semis, people who live in them get on OK (mostly, anyway), as long as you did agree the splitting properly, and everyone had their own bit?

Sounds like an idea anyway!

Deedee

Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 250
Location: Surrey

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 8:02 pm Post subject:
https://www.bopproperty.com/pages/searchdetails.asp?ID=3180 are these prices for real round here you can't get a studio flat for this??I always fancied something double fronted....

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 8:59 pm Post subject:
Tis true - we just put a flat on the market for 119K No parking, no garden, fronts on to a very noisy and unsavoury high st. Perhaps I'll move South, then!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 6:54 am Post subject:

Deedee wrote:

https://www.bopproperty.com/pages/searchdetails.asp?ID=3180
are these prices for real round here you can't get a studio flat for this??I always fancied something double fronted....

The prices are real. The other side of this is that most jobs pay the national minimum wage and/or are casual/part-time. The sums worked for us, but you need to do them first.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 8:11 am Post subject:
It must be fate - there is one (singular!) job I am qualified to do in this weeks press, and its in north devon! I'll live without London weighting! How far is north devon away from the sea?! Oh - and is it hard to get plumbers down there?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Fri May 20, 05 9:03 am Post subject:

Well, if you are planning to move to Devon remember TD and I are excellent and committed dog sitters...as long as we can bring the chickens.

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I did set me thinking though, about more than one family in a house. Very often these big places have at least some kind of annexe, or even seperate properties, but if you bought, say a big farmhouse, would it be economical to notionally split it into two semis?

I think one of the programmes like Location x3 did this once, the families bought an ENORMOUS house which I think was already split in to a flat or something but being sold as one property. If you could share a property with people you get on with it must be fantastic.

Doesn't Alison live with her parents (sort of..in a separate house on the same land?)

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