[Brighton] £1.75m for 2500 sq ft house in Roedean . Estate agents been drinking !

[Chicken Run]

What about Hill Drive, corner of Hill Brow as much as 1m over priced imho [emoji23]

Hill Drive, Brighton And Hove, East Sussex
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76988453.html

 

[drew]

2500 is good size but it's not massive. Roedean is just before Rottingdean way out of town. Surely it should be much cheaper to live that far out ?

I think the agent is just trying it on

You seem to have a serious bee in your bonnet about this property. Are you the estate agent they didn't give the instruction to?

 

[Weststander]

What about Hill Drive, corner of Hill Brow as much as 1m over priced imho [emoji23]

Hill Drive, Brighton And Hove, East Sussex
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76988453.html

I’m not justifying that, but ad hoc houses (not lookalike rows) always carry a huge premium in that part of Brighton and Hove. There’s no direct comparison for buyers to benchmark against, and wealthy incomers from London and Surrey think it value. In addition, many wealthy Russians have bought homes in that area this decade. All driving prices up.

 

[jessiejames]

Roedean is very close to Whitehawk

So why does that matter?

 

[Acker79]

I suspect he means this bad boy...

http://www.brandvaughan.co.uk/properties/s13064262/

That hallway carpet probably brought the price down a fair bit.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

£1.75m seems about right to me. Big house, well looked after, big garden, and (most importantly) a cracking sea view.

 

[Live by the sea]

No I'm not an estate agent. Just find it amusing that an estate agent can over value property by so much. All the houses sold in Roedean at that price are much bigger. So I think the agents breen Vaughn have got the price hopelessly wrong. You only have to look at the sold prices on rightmove to see that

 

[jessiejames]

I've got lots of friends living in Whitehawk. Most of them have bought their own houses.

I was just curious as to why Whitehawk was mentioned, it seems to be in a dorogatory way.

 

[Live by the sea]

I Agree the hill drive house is another way off any of the comparables on rightmove sold prices . About £1m out !

 

[Live by the sea]

Not derogatory but being realistic who wants to spend that sort of money and live next to social housing if you have the choice of living anywhere in Brighton and hove

 

[The Large One]

Not derogatory but...

Of course not. Not in the slightest...

 

[Stat Brother]

£1.75m seems about right to me. Big house, well looked after, big garden, and (most importantly) a cracking sea view.

and that explains why the OP didn't provide a link.


Although I will say, 'what's the point of that swimming 'pool'.

That slide is really taking the pi$$ as well, Lil Miss Stat had a Playmobile set the pool was exactly the same and quite probably the same size.


If you can't afford a proper Olympic sized pool with at least 3 flumes don't bother and build a snooker room.

#Mugs.


Edit -

Yep thought so - minutes of fun

 

[jessiejames]

Not derogatory but being realistic who wants to spend that sort of money and live next to social housing if you have the choice of living anywhere in Brighton and hove

Wilson's avenue is in Whitehawk, but those homes are not social housing. If you don't want to live anywhere near a council estate, why would you look at properties in a city anyway.

 

[Weststander]

I Agree the hill drive house is another way off any of the comparables on rightmove sold prices . About £1m out !

They only need to get lucky once with a Londoner or Russian willing to cough up say £2.75m. Who go away elated in driving a hard bargain and ‘saving’ a quarter of a million.

 

[Live by the sea]

Good point. I just meant there are much nicer areas of the city to live in than Roedean. Anyway I don't have any axe to grind, I just thought the price v the size was ludicrous but we shall see. Close thread please . I don't want to bore everyone. Nervous for Saturday! I think Leicester will see a lot of the ball, let's hope they don't do much with it !

 

[BN9 BHA]

I used to live in Whitehawk, told people I lived in West Roedean
Moved up in the world now of course

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I was just curious as to why Whitehawk was mentioned, it seems to be in a dorogatory way.

Which was why I answered as I did. A lot of people think of Whitehawk in a derogatory way.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Wilson's avenue is in Whitehawk, but those homes are not social housing. If you don't want to live anywhere near a council estate, why would you look at properties in a city anyway.

There are houses in Wilson Avenue costing £500K.
There are also some lovely families living in social housing. It just goes to show who the snobs are on here.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

The particulars have Varndean/Stringer listed as the nearest secondary schools. That’s not right, is it?

 

[jessiejames]

The particulars have Varndean/Stringer listed as the nearest secondary schools. That’s not right, is it?

Had my house valued a few years back, it was listed as a sea view in the broacher, when I asked about it I was told that if you looked out of the front bedroom window just between the houses opposite you can see the sea, about the size of a postage stamp. Yes in Whitehawk houses do have sea views.