Right who wants to buy this property
Grouville St. Mary 06 Aug 20 10:33
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I've never understood sun loungers by indoor pools.

Looks good for perving on the neighbours given that the bedroom in the next door house is about three feet away.

There is quite clearly a much less ridiculous house very close by which you can see from many of the pictures. Sails is right, which are three words I never thought I would type.

Ebit look at the photo of the front and they've built right up to the boundary so the neighbour is virtually in your bedroom.  I see this all the time in St. George's Hill and similar estates where they build a house that's too big for the plot so you have a large plot with a master bathroom window six feet from your neighbour.

I laughed out loud at Superman and Batman hanging out in the home cinema/bar/restaurant/entertaining area. This has to be a footballer, right? It's like what some child movie star would do without any parental restraint.

It's not exactly my taste but it's far from awful.

Just jealousy.  Most on here could only dream of a gaff like that despite being so incredibly cleverer than everyone else.

It's decent.  The chav could be toned down a bit - but overall. it's nice. 

Awful. Hideous. Shows money cannot buy style or taste and it looks like all the furniture and refurb has been done from an eastern european TK Maxx outlet. 

More shelves for booze than books and what's with small clothing and shoe cupboard with no room for shoes? 

The floors look like a death trap too. 

Looks like a set up for a docudrama like  "my big fat gypsy mansion acquired from illegal proceeds".   

WW it is interesting that you cannot conceive that many people would have no wish to live in a vast house like that.   There is a sweet spot where I might be envious but that is way way beyond it.

Phoebe I was looking at it and thinking for a house that size all the rooms seem strangely small and the dining room is particularly long and narrow.  All the storage is strangely limited and the wine cupboard in the dining room wouldn't last long if you have a big dinner party.  I think it tells you something that the two big rooms are the night club and gym.

It's a strange house in lots of ways, including that some of the rooms and sofa layouts and designs suggest that it is used as an Arabian style 'majlis', but on the other hand there is a very visible wine cabinet!

Sails, of the wine goes there is all that champagne in the living room bar.

 

why would the estate agent take a photo of the driveway but leave their average car in view?

“The Essex cost really is another country.”

Coast?

How very dare you! That’s the posh bit of Rayleigh, with access to the metropolitan delights of Southend and a coveted SS postcode, I’ll have you know.

In any event, it’s Thames estuary there, really. 

This is Essex coast 

https://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/properties/12918395/sales/chelmsford

the one thing from this that is an absolute “must have”, for me, is the faux samurai warrior armour on a stand (weird pool sausage float thing tied round the waist aside)

i want

couple of minor points:

- the photos make the bedroom ceiling heights look reaaaaally low. that’s an absolute dealbreaker

- after shelling all that money, ytf have they only got shitty wooden fencing round the garden? i want to see massive brick walls with iron spikes and security gates, like i am living in a swanky part of cape town

Or this in Thorpe Le Soken

https://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/properties/12932882/sales/ipswich

Commute’s a bit of an arse from there or the previous one in Maldon, but who cares about that in these days of WFH

 

unless you surrounded yourself with hangers on, which would in itself be annoying the bar and nightclub set up would be mostly empty which I think would be a bit depressing - who wants to sit in an empty club?   It would all be a bit The Shining.

  • There is only one poster I want to hear from on this topic
  • he has not blessed us with a declaration
  • He must be 2 biz-e bossin dolla or garnering lean muscle tissue

Been doing some Lloyd Grossman-style detective work.  

The trophies contain champagne bottles - I think they are man of the match bottles, so a team sport.

The framed football shirts are mostly Arsenal, but there are a couple of Man Utd shirts in there.  Unlikely that a player of another sport would have both clubs' shirts framed.  So footballer looking likely.

Recent players for both teams include Alexis Sanchez and Robin van Persie.  

There are framed Nike and Adidas boots.  Van Persie has used Nike for most of his career.  Sanchez too.  There are boots from other sports - basketball, so my guess is that the owner's spouse or kids like a Man U player and have added to the collection.

Sanchez is about to complete his move to Inter Milan so wouldn't need family home in the UK.  Rof, I give you the owner, Alexis Sanchez (in the nightclub, with a candlestick).

Vijay Patel

Chairman and CEO, Waymade PLC

After coming to the UK from Kenya at the age of 15, Vijay qualified as a pharmacist and set up his own high-street pharmacy, Chemy’s, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He grew this into a chain of over 20 branches before selling to Boots (now Walgreen Alliance Boots). He set up Waymade PLC as a short-line wholesaler and distributor and grew it to a £300m turnover business at its peak.

Doubt it's van Persie.  I used to be neighbours with Eboue when i lived in Enfield.  At that time he was at Arsenal, van Persie had a massive pad near Cuffley not far from the training ground.

Looking at the age of the shirts it could be Mikael Silvestre, but could he afford that gaff? Also he left Arsenal ages ago so why sell now?

There are more trophies and a load of hats on pic 50 in the gym. The hats look more motor racing than football.

Land registry says

"(10.12.2010) PROPRIETOR: BELISCO ESTATES LIMITED (incorporated in The British Virgin Islands) of Atrium Centre, Suite 409 Khalid Bin Walid Street, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and care of 49 Queen Square, Bristol BS1 4LW. 

(10.12.2010) The price stated to have been paid on 30 November 2010 was £3,000,000.

There is a charge in favour of:

(01.09.2014) Proprietor: GROUP METALS BUSINESS LIMITED (incorporated in Dubai) care of 199a Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2SB. 

 

3 to 9.5 in ten years is a good return if they get it. 

I love it btw. Needs toning down in some areas, and the front steps lack imagination. But in 20 years the gardens could be truly special.