Found a great house

[Lippyp]

Well garage, we're hoping to move house as soon as we can sell ours (which isn't going well, it having been for sale for over two years now and we've dropped the price by £100K)> The wife has been trawling the estate agents and has found a house we're gonna have a look at in the new year. The house itself needs some improvements and maybe extending BUT I already love it as it has several good sized brick outbuildings, on 29' x15', one 35' x 13' brick buildings, a 24 x 17' open car port and the piece de resistance......a 23' by 57'7" workshop, a steel portal framed building with block walls, big windows, two sliding doors, concrete floor, inspection pit, electricity and so on. I'd give my left nut for something like this! Oh and it also hase 5 acres of farmland with it.

Heres a picture, I just hope we can find a buyer for ours before this sells.

The house:

The brick outbuildings:

and last but defintely not least the car-port and workshop:

 

[Jononon]

Very nice Best of luck, it seems like the market's coming back to life

I'd love that kind of space, but you'd be talking £2m in my neck of the woods

 

[Shocker]

Fantastic! I wish you the best of luck in selling your place to get the new one. It looks great! Keep us posted!

 

[Shadowdog500]

Wow! I really hope you get that house. Outbuildings that size are every mans dream. What type of farm is it? crops, livestock, or both? Do you plan on working the farm?

Chris

 

[rsanter]

perhaps offer the owner a trade/part trade for the house you are currently looking to sell

bob

 

[ddawg16]

Looks like an old farm house....let me guess....surrounded by farm land?

My mother-in-law is from Blackburn....

Good luck on getting it....

 

[Lippyp]

Yep, its an old farmhouse. I currently live probably 20 minutes from Blackburn, near Burnley, small world! Its just pasture which we will probably turn partly to an orchard, a big veg garden and maybe rent the rest out.

 

[krooser]

I have a '54 TR2 for sale that would look great in that workshop...

 

[bazzateer]

This thread needs an update!

 

[Lippyp]

All gone t*ts up really, the one above has sold to someone else, we thought we had a buyer for ours a couple of weeks ago but after messing us around, three visits with ever increasing numbers of people, the last one for two hours they decided to withdraw their (low) offer that we'd ummed and arred over and finally decided to accept. So now we are back at square one. the estate agent (Realtor) is having a big open day in a months time before the World Cup kicks off as they are expecting sales to plummet during the tournament so want to try and drum up some more interest beforehand so we're gonna take part in that and we've decided to put ours in to auction at the end of June.

We went to view a couple of others a few weeks ago, if we could have had the garden from house 2 with the house and workshop from House one we'd have been happy, sadly house 2 was too small but the land etc great, house one was great, and head a great garage/workshop with loads of character but too small outside.

Ours bas been on the market for over 2 1/2 years now and counting, its a **** market what else can I say?

 

[DoTheMahoney]

Dont worry, you will find something great. I have had offers on three different houses since January and it seems like the last one is the best house of all i have seen. I was really angry when the first two didnt work out. My fiance thought we woudl never find a comfortable home, but at the last moment, we found a house.

This is only a minor set-back. you will find a great home. Dont lose hope!

 

[Daniel Dudley]

Things are going top work out for you. Hold out for the proper outcome. You only need one buyer for your home, so don't drop below what comparable houses are selling for. Things pretty much always turn out for the best if you stay with your vision.

 

[bazzateer]

Hope it all works out for you.

 

[Lippyp]

Just an update, we've had a few more viewings since this post, a big rash of about five or six at the beginning of august, one of whom I think would buy our house if they'd sold theirs, had another one today that looks promising too. Price has been dropped again now on ours, in three years (come november) down from a fairly speculative £400,000 to a more realistic £240,000.

We've also had the fallen down retaining wall in our garden rebuilt which should help, the guys doing it have just about finished and it looks much better than a heap of stones.

from this

to this

to this

final pictures to come when they've finished today.

All the houses we've seen that we liked have sold but we keep finding others, one today that has 10 acres, several barns and other outbuildings, another that has a 20 x 30 timber garage with three phase electricity already in place (thats 415V) so cheap industrial machinery beckons as once it gets a bit old most industrial users don't want it and the home market is very limited so often it ends up cheap on ebay.

 

[bazzateer]

Any updates?