Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

So... you are going to watch the tv sitting on the stairs then?

inforfun wrote: »

So... you are going to watch the tv sitting on the stairs then?

This picture is a good example of what I was saying about the shrunken cgi furniture.

Compare the size of the couch with the steps of the stairs, the front door and the window. No way you'd actually fit a real couch in like that. It's like the furniture images were reduced to circa 60% of actual real life size, giving the impression of loads of room in that house.

some random drunk wrote: »

This picture is a good example of what I was saying about the shrunken cgi furniture.

Compare the size of the couch with the steps of the stairs, the front door and the window. No way you'd actually fit a real couch in like that. It's like the furniture images were reduced to circa 60% of actual real life size, giving the impression of loads of room in that house.

I don't think I've seen this CGI crap on a house sale before, very cute and it definitely shouldn't be allowed.
I'd class it exactly the same as false advertising and should be outlawed.

On the cgi furniture. It will backfire same as the fish eye lense will eventually. People go for a viewing and say, hang on, a bed would not fit there, and a sofa would be a tight fit there, no thank you. And the estate agent has wasted ah hour of his time. I agree it should be investigated though, think I will drop a line to https://www.ipav.ie/

I contacted them about the practise of rounding up site sizes - anything slightly over a half acre described as an acre etc. Now they put the actual size on the ad. (not suggesting that I had anything to do with it, but if enough people complain...)

Muahahaha wrote: »

Article on some of the converted churches for sale in the UK at the moment.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/gallery/2021/jun/25/homes-for-sale-in-former-churches-in-pictures

I always think that you’d need a fairly strong personality to be comfortable living in a converted church. Not because of any religious element, but they are buildings designed to be overwhelming, with very high ceilings, narrow (but ornate) windows, the opposite of cosy. Unless they’ve been completely converted with additional floors or false ceilings etc. to make them standard room-sized, which then kind of defeats the purpose. I think it would be cool to stay somewhere like that for a holiday, but as a permanent home I’d find it very tiring to live in.

Larsso30 wrote: »

https://clarkeauctioneers.com/property/25-castle-street-wicklow-town-co-wicklow/

180k for 4 walls. Nice location but house is small and gonna cost you fortune to get it liveable

It’s a lovely location, almost beside the Black Castle.

Meanwhile in Vancover $680 per month will get you a bed in a bathroom.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate/this-bathroom-with-a-bed-was-listed-as-a-micro-studio-for-680mo-in-vancouver-photos-3927000

100 odd decaying corpses in your back garden.

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Meanwhile in Vancover $680 per month will get you a bed in a bathroom.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate/this-bathroom-with-a-bed-was-listed-as-a-micro-studio-for-680mo-in-vancouver-photos-3927000

That’s a wind-up surely. No power points. :rolleyes:

I feel like you'd still be pulling needles out of the walls years after refurbishment.

KevRossi wrote: »

Anyone know what the story with this would be? It's been up for several months, possibly more than a year. I'm looking at houses in that price bracket. Turns out it was auctioned for €266,000, but must have fallen through and i's back up on Daft.ie.

This is the ad on Daft.ie, priced at €215,000 https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/house-290-galtymore-road-drimnagh-dublin-12/3437212

This is the ad on the auctioneers website, highest offer 6 months ago for €266,000. https://eddempsey.ie/Residential-Property/290-Galtymore-Road-Drimnagh-Dublin-12/44&ser=1

The add on Daft states that it is for auction on 4 Aug 2012. The advised minimum value is€215k, which means absolutely nothing.

That previous bid of €266k is dead. One party has decided to pull out. The buyer may have found something better or maybe the seller thought that the offer wasn't high enough.

Incidentally, 4 or 5 years ago, a house near where my parents lived came up for sale. It achieved an excellent price,and went sale agreed. Many months later I noticed it up for sale again. I made inquiries and found out that the buyers had simultaneously, had offers and gone sale agreed on 4 different properties, with 4 different estate agents because the poor things couldn't make up their mind which one they wanted the most.

Once they decided which one they wanted, in their own time, they went back into the estate agents and received all their deposits back on the three houses they were no longer interested in.

KevRossi wrote: »

Anyone know what the story with this would be? It's been up for several months, possibly more than a year. I'm looking at houses in that price bracket. Turns out it was auctioned for €266,000, but must have fallen through and i's back up on Daft.ie.

This is the ad on Daft.ie, priced at €215,000 https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/house-290-galtymore-road-drimnagh-dublin-12/3437212

This is the ad on the auctioneers website, highest offer 6 months ago for €266,000. https://eddempsey.ie/Residential-Property/290-Galtymore-Road-Drimnagh-Dublin-12/44&ser=1

neighbours house burned down. the 266k bid was before the madness started in the market so I expect it will go for at least 266 and require a lot of work.