'Ouses, Greenbelt and stuff
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From onto market to offer accepted can be very fast. After that, not so much.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Possibly, but some places we were looking at went sight unseen, or within a couple of days. Others were on for months. Location or remoteness doesn't necessarily correlate to how fast things move.
We aren't all that remote anyway. 15 min walk to a village with two pubs. Similar to before, except for the two pubs, I suppose.
On another point (not yours) the issue with using comparative costs of recent sales for negotiation is there has to be something. Yes you can do general area and square footage, but there's a lot of value in things that are unique to each property. Such as, with the screen shots above, the view.
We found some vendors or agents would just hand wave about the specifics of the property to justify hysterical asking prices.
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Some colleagues have been in instances where either you make an offer on the day of viewing or it’ll be gone by the next day.
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Feels like it has been priced too low in those cases.
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Having an offer accepted doesn't even guarantee having it taken off the market. It can easily be 3-6 months before the contracts are exchanged.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Bristol City Council seem to be getting somewhere although reading some of the comments from objectors to an ugly 1950s, disused building in a city centre being demolished to make way for housing really does get frustrating. It's going to spoil the view apparently - I can't say on my years of travelling around that roundabout or working in a nearby street for a while I spent time gazing at the marvellous vista. I'd like to have seen more of the units being social rent though.
Also, nother approval by the same committee own in the harbour. This one attracted objections from people that don't understand how mitigation works.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/major-housing-plan-baltic-wharf-9244460
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What objections do anti-Nimbys think are reasonable?
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Non-compliance with the NPPF. Anything else should be acceptable in principle with suitable mitigation as required.
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I'd be ok if a very residential area with no existing nightlife objected to someone building a nightclub in the middle of it without a good reason for being there.
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I think the opposite seems to happen more often now i.e. night club becomes housing.
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Failure to comply with the adopted local and national planning policies.
The centre of Bristol is characterised by a wide variety of different building heights arranged over the steeply sloping topography, A natural bowl filled with tall buildings *is* the view and has been ever since the Middle Ages.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Well that's because people buy houses next to nightclubs or pubs and then complain about the noise, which I really really hate.
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We only made to offer contingent on it being taken off the market. A lot of estate agents dangled this option as well. We are also asked this as sellers, before going to closing in Scotland.
On the flip side, they are all sharks and the listing stays accessible if you know how to look, and I don't doubt you can still get gazumped.
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Yeah, very easy to find and few will turn down a genuine better offer.
We see quite a few people with only an accepted offer. One went all the way to tendering a fully detailed design before they went back to the vendor to negotiate a further discount had exchanged which is some fairly high stakes poker.
More commonly people realise they can't get planning permission for what they want and back out or any one of innumerable problems crops up during searches.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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You get these massive solar parks, why not combine them with housing?
Like, solar house parks. We need more renewables too. Also, sky scraper wind generators.
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Didn't expect this in the telegraph.
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Leftie rag
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Some vendors just want to get it over the line mind you. Means the higher offer has to be quite a lot higher.
We found out a structural issue that will cost about £5k, but we're far enough in to not want to risk it and try to renegotiate, so it works both ways.
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Of course some people are reasonable, but large amounts of money tend to bring out people's more mercenary instincts.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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The reason I asked about what is acceptable nimbyism is that I have been reading through some objections recently to something local. Some of them I find more reasonable than others e.g. loss of light vs it's ugly, but both of those factors are legitimate considerations for planning; however, disturbance during construction is not a legitimate concern.
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"It's ugly" is an odd one - I know there's been debate on here previously about brutalist architecture, I'd hate to have something like that built in view of my house but then others love it. It's so subjective it definitely shouldn't something people can object on (I can understand it with an individual building that is completely out of character with existing buildings though). Loss of light seems pretty reasonable. Disturbance during construction I suppose is a temporary issue but there will often be planning conditions to limit this e.g. site working hours, a construction management plan which may include details of permissible delivery routes, limit hours of deliveries etc.
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Loss of light will definitely be considered by planning officers anyway. The objection process is a bit of an odd one. If it's not a planning matter it will be dismissed. If it is a planning matter the officer will almost certainly have already considered the point. The difference it makes is pushing the application to committee decision where it politics rather than bureaucracy.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I think construction disturbance is explicitly excluded from being a planning consideration. Given that some construction projects even for fairly modest apartment blocks seem to last 3 or 4 years I so somewhat sympathise.
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They don't explicitly say it's ugly. They say it is not in keeping with the surroundings, too bulky, changes the facade etc. I shortened that to ugly.
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In the case of loss of light, the objectors say the calculations have been done incorrectly. In any case, unless something has changed, they can always claim afterwards for loss of light
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Yes, BB or install floodlights or mirrors.
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There's an argument that there is no point building upwards.
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You can deprive people of some light. Or you can pay them.
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