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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...
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.
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.
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