3BM's new crash pad, a snip at £18 mill

[SpokeyDokey]

I loved this bit of the sales blurb:

"(with views of)...the wide open spaces of Hyde Park".

All 350 acres of it.

 

[rich p]

Three bedrooms!?

Where are the staff supposed to sleep?

I think some of them sleep in cupboards...
...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7598210.stm

 

[marcusjb]

Three bedrooms!?

Where are the staff supposed to sleep?

One of the attractions of OHP is that you do not, necessarily, need a large staff, particularly if you do not use the property very often. It is also well designed for getting in and out of apartments without entering any front of house areas.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I had a chuckle at the blurb which accompanied a £5.75 million one-bedroom flat at the same address:
"We are pleased to be able to offer a very realistically priced one bedroom apartment for a quick sale..."

 

[marcusjb]

[QUOTE 4038416, member: 259"]Hopefully the thread can get back to normal now that we have one of the owners on board.[/QUOTE]

No, I just spend my working life in properties at the highest end of the market.

(Art thief, before you ask).

 

[perplexed]

At that kind of money, I want my own country, never mind a separate front door.

 

[marcusjb]

At that kind of money, I want my own country, never mind a separate front door.

I did some work in a property last year. Having it's own front door (highly unusual in this particular location) was estimated to add £5 million onto it's value. It certainly sold in a flash when it went on the market at £45 million.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I did some work in a property last year. Having it's own front door (highly unusual in this particular location) was estimated to add £5 million onto it's value. It certainly sold in a flash when it went on the market at £45 million.

Not a jibe at you but what a stupid frigging world we live in.

A pensioner in the UK gets £111pw to live on and yet someone pays £5m to have a front door.

I've been watching those Eamon & Wife shows about the super rich and they are obscene - I'm all for aspiration but, a bit like the front access there, to pay £8888 for the world's most expensive cocktail is ludicrous. Same with the £8000, or was it £9000 gold leaf face treatment.

Bragging rights fodder for those with way more money than they need.

 

[ianrauk]

Not a jibe at you but what a stupid frigging world we live in.

A pensioner in the UK gets £111pw to live on and yet someone pays £5m to have a front door.

I've been watching those Eamon & Wife shows about the super rich and they are obscene - I'm all for aspiration but, a bit like the front access there, to pay £8888 for the world's most expensive cocktail is ludicrous. Same with the £8000, or was it £9000 gold leaf face treatment.

Bragging rights fodder for those with way more money than they need.

was estimated to add £5 million onto it's value

Add.. not cost...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Add.. not cost...

Well, as £5m was added to the price tag and it then sold for £45m that's a cost to someone.

 

[Cuchilo]

I did some work in a property last year. Having it's own front door (highly unusual in this particular location) was estimated to add £5 million onto it's value. It certainly sold in a flash when it went on the market at £45 million.

Must have been one of my doors then