Buying Property in Cornwall

[OwlHoot]

You're looking to buy a place in Cornwall and you've only been there once?

That apart, there's a reason a lot of it is so cheap.

The remoteness?

That could be less of a problem in coming years if more people work from home.

[d000hg]

I lived in Cornwall for ~10 years but the far end. Roughly speaking anything on the coast is nice and I don't remember seeing any poor chavvy villages. However the towns are pretty much all poor so I'd go for a village. Apart from Truro and Penzance maybe.

If you want expensive, try to buy on Scilly!

[Troll]

If you want expensive, try to buy on Scilly!

This looks reasonable + a plan B to keep the pennies rolling in

[SupremeSpod]

This looks reasonable + a plan B to keep the pennies rolling in

SERVICES: Private water supply from rain water catchment and share in Duchy of Cornwall borehole.

Sewage is to septic tank & soak-away on adjoining land.

Mains electricity is connected to the property. Cooking is part electric, part bottled propane gas.


ASSESSMENTS: For the purposes of Council Property Tax, the living accommodation is designated in Band ‘E’ in the Valuation List, producing a charge of £1450.46 for the year 2010/2011.


Business Rates for Guest house and premises: Rateable Value: £4,700 Amount payable for current year: £2072.70


VIEWING Strictly by appointment with Island Properties as above or with joint agents Sibley Island Homes telephone 01720 422431


TENURE: We understand the property is held under a lease dated 25.3.03 from the Duchy of Cornwall, for a sixty-year term, with five yearly rent reviews. The passing rent is £8,000 per annum.

Do your own "DD" but...

[OwlHoot]

This looks reasonable + a plan B to keep the pennies rolling in

Talk about remote - It isn't even on the main island of the Scillies.

What a great place to survive World War 3 though, or some global plague, assuming the supplies held out.

[insur]

However the towns are pretty much all poor so I'd go for a village. Apart from Truro and Penzance maybe.

Is this place town or village? It's appears to be renovated to a good standard, who would this place appeal to?

4 Bed house for sale, The Old School, Liskeard - Ref: 8547049

[d000hg]

St. Agnes is a lovely spot, after 3-4pm all the tourists leave and there's just a few people left camping or anchored off the sand-bar. The Turk's Head is a nice pub from what I remember, can't recall visiting that guest house but I imagine I have been past it.

[d000hg]

Is this place town or village? It's appears to be renovated to a good standard, who would this place appeal to?

4 Bed house for sale, The Old School, Liskeard - Ref: 8547049

Sorry I don't know that part of Cornwall, but Liskeard is from memory a small town (all the towns in Cornwall are small).

[OwlHoot]

Is this place town or village? It's appears to be renovated to a good standard, who would this place appeal to?

4 Bed house for sale, The Old School, Liskeard - Ref: 8547049

It would appeal to me for a start, especially if the back garden is fairly large and private

[Old Hack]

I think with Cornwall, it's not the remoteness per se, but the lack of infrastructure that causes the issues. It's nigh on impossible to move in Summer, same as most of Devon.

You can buy cheap in either place, but it will not be in a great place or will be a shed. We're looking in the Dart estuary in Devon and a 3 bed bunglow which is a shed will cost £300k, but a plot of land, with DPP would cost most of that anyway. We looked at a larger house, which needed completely remodelling which was up for £550k.

As for Liskeard: as someone has said, it's just like A.N. Other market town in the West Country. Good parts and bad. However, Liskeard is near some nice places, a mere 30 mins will get you somewhere nice, like Looe. Nice place.