I did have enough cash to afford a small 2-bed in ‘outer-central’ London.
My big mistake was not going for a NINJA on a 2 1/2 bed flat in Tavistock Cresc, 150m from Portobello Road. It included a parking space and later a garage on ‘dead man’s shoes’ basis.
The NINJA would have been about £40k on top of my £130k, easily covered by renting out the small single bedroom … But I’d been so freaked by my time as a ‘victim’ of the scalp hunters of the Ry Bank of Scotland [later to go bust and get bailed out by the UK taxpayer] that I chickened out …
That, however, was by no means the biggest mistake I made on London property - as my friends keep reminding me, 35 years later.
We have now brought in a new agent and redone photos so am posting new link since there seem to have been a good number of views.
We have had a few visits, and everyone was charmed by the house and thought the price was correct. The problem was that it was not the house for them so the ad/agent was not appealing to the right people. One person specifically wanted a river - so stupid for agent to pretend a small source woukd do!
Anyway we felt these photos represent the house better (also on GreenAcres)
They’re not bad, but fireplaces always look better when lit. Setting light to a couple of rolls of scrunched up newspaper hidden amongst a few logs is all it takes.
When I was looking for property, one thing I liked was a plan drawing of the various floors. It gave you an idea of how all the different parts of the house you see in the pictures fit together. From the pictures it looks like you may have a seperate self contained gite ? If so, there’s no indication of the relationship between that and the house … Adjoined or not etc.
Lovely house though
I totally agree and think it should be standard. But Agents haven’t bought the software to do this. People who are interested get the floor plan that comes with the DPE, plus lots of other info like room sizes. We would prefer it to be up front, but are just the clients paying their fee!
In the UK they expect the photographers to do floor plans.
Every so often I get approached by a firm that subcontracts the photography for estate agents, telling me how I can “make good money” photographing properties for sale.
They wanted me to take 10 or more photos of each property, inside and out - OK not too hard.
AND measure every room and draw up a floor plan. Much more time consuming.
The fee offered for this work, which would have also had to cover my petrol costs to get there and back?
When we were selling our flat in Wimbledon with our bolshy tenant in situ who refused to cooperate with viewings, the people who bought it made their offer based solely on an outside photograph and the floor plan that the estate agent did manage to get.
The new estate agent took most of the house ones, and a local pro photographer did the gîte ones last year. The snow one is ours since no snow here right now .
And we think it a lovely house too, so thank you! Loved living here, but time to move on.
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