Nice view but £575,000 seems a bit much?

[PurpleGorilla]

This one is an the fringes of our search area. We are more Chippenham corsham way. And the £450k - £550k range.

[malvolio]

I think you'll find prices have moved in your area. That's not a bad price. If you move closer to Chippenham prices are dropping but Bradford and bath is expensive. I saw a place in Box last month for 875k needing 200k worth of work and same in Wraxall last week.

Hot market at the moment.

We've been chasing a new house for the last six months (we have a very specific wish list...) so are pretty well up to speed on all of the market in a 30-mile radius of Bath. There is a lot of demand for stuff under about £350k and the expensive stuff from about £800k but the middle ground - representing elective 3rd or 4th purchases - is not moving; I've seen houses on the market for over a year in that price band. That seems to be because a lot of agencies are believing that the bottom end sales rush - driven by low interest rates, help-to-buy and much easier access to mortgages - also applies to the middle market and are setting the price higher than people are willing to pay. A view shared, incidentally, by the two well-established local estate agents I know well and who are unimpressed by the big chain agencies.

Houses are worth what people are willing to pay. The one we're now buying is costing us £65k under it's original asking price.

[MarillionFan]

About right for the area - possibly £50k too high but the local agents are over-pricing everything. There's a nice contractor-friendly 5 story town house in the Royal Crescent, btw; £4.5 m to you.

Then again, move 5 miles outside Bath and a better house would be under £500k; buy mine and you get 13miles of countryside views, about double the floor space, no traffic and no crime...

I think you'll find prices have moved in your area. That's not a bad price. If you move closer to Chippenham prices are dropping but Bradford and bath is expensive. I saw a place in Box last month for 875k needing 200k worth of work and same in Wraxall last week.

Hot market at the moment.

[greenlake]

Kingsdown , Bath
3 bedroom detached house for sale in Kingsdown , Bath, SN13

Looks like half a house....

[vetran]

bedrooms are a bit pokey, titchy kitchen.

garden is small for up there.

this is what you get for that round my way

2 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Melville Cottages, King Stable Street, Eton, SL4, SL4

4 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Elizabeth Way, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, SL2, SL2

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Shaw Gardens, Langley, SL3, SL3

this does at least have a nice view

3 bedroom detached bungalow for sale in Denham, Buckinghamshire, UB9

needs a bit of work though.

Move to Sluff and live it large!

[malvolio]

About right for the area - possibly £50k too high but the local agents are over-pricing everything. There's a nice contractor-friendly 5 story town house in the Royal Crescent, btw; £4.5 m to you.

Then again, move 5 miles outside Bath and a better house would be under £500k; buy mine and you get 13miles of countryside views, about double the floor space, no traffic and no crime...

[DimPrawn]

2x contractor annual income. Bargain.

Fill yer boots!

[mudskipper]

Kingsdown , Bath
3 bedroom detached house for sale in Kingsdown , Bath, SN13

Looks nice. Well stocked wine rack does it for me.

Dunno about Bath, but £575K wouldn't buy anything near that nice round here - so looks like a bargain to me! You'd need to lose the lilac though.

[PurpleGorilla]

Kingsdown , Bath
3 bedroom detached house for sale in Kingsdown , Bath, SN13