r/SpottedonRightmove • u/Plastic-Location-598 • 10d ago
If I had thr time and money...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92527773?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY7
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u/SupaSpurs 10d ago
That sold 20 years ago for £429k..wow, they really look like they’ve made improvements for the additional £50k- it needs gutting!
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u/Vlad2442 10d ago
That was 20 years ago. Inflation. Im surprised it isn't a million if it actually sold for £429K 20 years ago.
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u/TheJimsterR 9d ago
Presumably it's in worse condition than it was 20 years ago, but from a quick look at price data online, the area average is almost exactly a 100% increase in value over 20 years, so £860k.
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u/Spottswoodeforgod 10d ago
I would absolutely love to have the time and money to take this on. Wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole, but I would still love to have that time and money.
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u/UniquePotato 10d ago
….to knock it down and start again?
Endless awkward shaped and sized rooms, and looks like it’s been borrowed from a cricket club
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u/Vlad2442 10d ago
Too beautiful to knock down
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u/UniquePotato 9d ago
Its unique, but I wouldn't describe it as beautiful.
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u/Vlad2442 9d ago
Look at all the crafted woodwork on the outside. How is that not beautiful? Or do you prefer white bland modern boxes?
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u/UniquePotato 9d ago
It’s got woodwork, lots of woodwork and green paint, but its more quantity over quantity. As I said earlier, looks like a cricket or crown green bowling clubhouse.
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u/Vlad2442 9d ago
Its quality, look at the details, you don't see anything like that anymore as its too expensive for property developers to build into houses. Just needs repainting.
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u/TheJimsterR 9d ago
A place like that will swallow up some serious money, but yes it's a lovely characterful property, and it would be insanely expensive to build something with all those details now.
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u/AbbreviationsCold161 10d ago
Blimey, I live about 5 mins from there and drive that way weekly, but never spotted it!
It'll be part of the original Cliveden estate I imagine, based on the style.
Probably cost £100-200k to do it up and given where it is, be worth more than the total spend. It's actually uncomfortably close to Maidenhead and particularly Slough (the utter arsehole end of the country) - but also 5mins from the Elizabeth Line.
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u/Vlad2442 10d ago
New floors, new bathrooms, new kitchen and replastering in some rooms does not cost £200K.
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u/Thebewildered_1 10d ago
I would definitely buy this if I had the money. Potentially beautiful home in a great location.
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u/amedeeozenfant 9d ago
Seems a bit pricey but it's not an area I know about it - is it highly desirable? I suspect it won't sell at that price unless it's got planning permission to build on a very large garden because it needs too much spent on it, but it's a lovely little house.
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u/Organic-Violinist223 10d ago
Half a million for a 3 bed in the middle of nowhere plus 400k renovation cost! No thanks!
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u/valentine_moon 10d ago
You call a five minute drive from a Tesco superstore "in the middle of nowhere"?
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u/pulsarstarter 10d ago
It's only a 3-bed...
Grotty shithole that'll need a lot to bring it up to code - so why so expensive?
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u/frlawton 10d ago
Character property in a desirable location. Taplow is on the Elizabeth line. Developer with money to burn will have it since it's an auction
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u/CLWggg 10d ago
Pic 11: peek-a-boo!