Buying agents Property Vision have made an award for the most overpriced house of the year. For the sake of good relations with the selling agent, they are refusing to identify it.
In their blog, Tales from the Frontline, Edward Heaton writes: 'Suffice to say it is about as compromised a house as you can get. Think motorways, flight paths, mainline railways, pylons, flooding, pig farms, intensive chicken sheds and bad messy neighbours. This house has very significant issues with several of the above, yet the guide price is several million pounds.'
To win the award, the team had to reduce the price by nearly two thirds before just one of them in the office would have been willing to buy it.
'Sellers sometimes have unrealistic expectations of what their house is worth, but this is faintly ridiculous.'
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A light-filled waterside home for sale for the first time in over half a century, set in the idyllic spot where the New Forest meets the South CoastLittle Aston is a graceful, charming home with superb gardens and its own orchard, as well as some of the south coast's most beautiful areas right on its doorstep. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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101 gold rats, a 'self portrait as a horse' and a tribute to motherhood take home top prizes at this year's Royal Academy Summer ExhibitionThe Royal Academy has announced its 2025 prize winners, spanning talented sculptors, painters and print-makers, with works on display in London until August 19.
