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artisinal • today at 1:27 PM • 7 replies • view on HN

Freestanding house with a pool for 300k? That is incredibly cheap. Perhaps I should move there.


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bluGill • today at 1:37 PM

UK money. Still that works out to about $400k in us dollars. You can find better deals in the US, but probably none with tunnels - and unlikely to be places you want to live though not bad places (bad places in the US that would be around $120k)

manarth • today at 1:40 PM

Auction pricing.

It'll start out at £300k (to market it attractively) and end up selling for £500k+.

aeyes • today at 1:59 PM

Check the pictures, this doesn't look like a house to me. 2 levels of workshop areas and an office area. Also the swimming pool is in the front yard, thats a weird one.

yourusername • today at 2:01 PM

There's a bunch of potentially unpermitted tunnels under the property. Quite the liability.

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hermitcrab • today at 1:39 PM

It does seem cheap for a house in Reading, even factoring in that it is a bungalow. Maybe they factored in increased subsidence risk?

gib444 • today at 1:33 PM

Suspiciously cheap. There are no detached (what we call 'freestanding') properties on Right Move in the area under £400k. The cheapest is £450k

EDIT: oops, forgot to select the 'Bungalow' filter too (ugh). 2 properties: £375k and £350k (very small, 60m2). Still...nothing detached around £300k

EDIT2: ohh auction...230m2...yeh won't go for £300k, way more