A 20 k renovation project in a coastal village in Northumberland !!! - One for Patf

[alittlebitfrench]

Looks like a typical French Renovation to me. It fact it looks half decent in comparison.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5329947/16th-century-cottage-market-just-20-000.html

What is the problem here ? I would take it on without hesitation.

Never been to Northumberland. Sounds nice.

P.S Has Leven opened a UK branch ? ALBOUK Ltd. LOL.

[idun]

Northumberland........... like every where there are awful bits, but a LOT of it is splendid. Absolutely splendid...... and house prices can be high.

This cottage, well, money thrown at it and it could be lovely. The good thing is that artisans are a LOT cheaper than in France, and that IS working legally.

[Chancer]

My roots are from there and I have a strange feeling that draws me to there, almost a calling, if ever I returned to the UK I have a feeling in my waters that it would be to there.

 

I did a double take once watching "homes under the hammer" as the tiny terraced cottage looked so familiar, it was an identical house in the same remote mining village where my father was born, they have featured at least one other auction sale there, irs probably one of the cheapest places in the UK.

[nomoss]

Looks less challenging than this house we looked at in N Spain

Asking 252,000 €!

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[idun]

Chancer, there are expensive parts of Northumberland.

We went up to the north of Northumberland with a view to living up there, but for all we loved some of the places, it was just too remote really and we may have well have stayed in our french village. And we needed more than being remote.

We loved Hexham, but that is too far from the coast, and the sea is what I missed most when in the Alpes.

People in general, are very very friendly and that is lovely too.

[Gardengirl]

It sounds lovely and not so expensive to renovate it really, according to the estate agent. Belford would be a lovely place to live.

[richard51]

Agreed it could be a bargain in a beautiful place.

However it could also leave one living next to a row of further derelict "cottages" - the back view is not a pretty sight.

[nomoss]

The fact that people are even interested in the place is a sad indication of the housing situation in Britain.

[woolybanana]

Not at all, Nomoss, it just shows that the spirit of initiative and get up and go is stilll alive, ass opposed to the whiners who expect it all om a plate.

[Gardengirl]

I didn’t think of it as being sad either - I thought of it as being in the same spirit as those who buy a bit of a wreck in France to do it up so that they can live in a village in a lovely area.

The surrounding houses might not look much either, but none of us has any idea what they are like inside. For all we know, they might be like old terraces in many towns, prosperous or not, but I’ve seen a lot in Berkshire that have been updated beautifully and have every mod-con imagineable.

[woolybanana]

If the other houses there are wrecks or just uninhabited, they will be snapped up pdq after all this publicity, and whoopsie, regeneration of a neighbourhood begins, without the help of too many socialist principles. (That bit is for poor Dick.)

[nomoss]

The sad bit for me is not that people might be willing to do the work, but that someone wishing to get themselves a house has to pay so much money for a wreck.

It doesn't seem long ago that I paid £600 for a terraced house in much better condition, in arguably a much more desirable area.

I bought it with part of the proceeds of a car I sold.

[woolybanana]

How many years ago was that?

[nomoss]

In the days when you could buy a habitable terraced house for a lot less than a newish family car.

(EDIT) Before houses were considered to be just a commodity.

Can you figure it out?

[woolybanana]

Great Bobo in a Bucket, Nomoss, are you that old?

[Chancer]

All of my propertys have cost less than the value of some of the cars parked in the street especially the one that now makes my living for me.

 

When I was younger all my energy and skills went into moving up the motoring ladder and not the housing ladder, shame that I did not have an old head on young shoulders but I am making up for it now.