Monday, 27 October 2025

White elephant houses [still] for sale

The amusing and long-running tale continues of the luxury 7-bedroom Croydon houses being offered with no garages and profoundly awkward vehicular access - at, errr, £1.65m apiece.

Well, they still haven't sold - despite the steeply-inclined driveway being nicely paved now, and one or two other cosmetic finishing touches being added (saplings, gates, handrails on the steep concrete steps, see these recent pics).

Steep prices, steep driveways  -  & no garages 

But they are now also being promoted by yet another estate agent - which specialises in marketing properties intended for buy-to-let.  

Can multiple occupancy and asylum-seekers be far behind?  They wouldn't have seven cars to go with the seven bedrooms ... (at least, not until they've "joined the labour market") and would be glad of the five bus routes that pass the front door, some of them 24/7, on the busy A232 'Red Route'.

ND

2 comments:

dearieme said...

When we bought our present house we assumed we'd make good use of the local buses. But we can't: the bloody things are unreliable. So if we want to travel by bus we drive to a park-and-ride site where at least you get to wait for a bus's departure by sitting inside it rather than than standing out in the wind, or cold, or rain, or heat.

Clive said...

I’m continually surprised, even though I shouldn’t be, at the amount of overpriced tat that sellers keep proffering to an unconvinced market round my way (north Hampshire).

Appalling decor, couldn’t-give-a-stuff student digs level presentation, hideous cheap extensions and front gardens given over entirely to parking.

People simply won’t buy rubbish, not in the current economic climate.