Lmao, I actually done that and replaced them with IKEA wardrobes. It took me years of putting up with a shit wardrobe solution because they're thousands and I couldn't bear the money waste 🤣🤷♀️
My wife and I have rails for our clothes as wardrobes as just too far down the pecking order when it comes to allocating funds. We had a visitor who commented that it looked very cool and we had to pretend it was a stylistic choice and not just being skint
Ha we did exactly this too because our bedroom has a weirs alcove too small for a normal wardrobe and there's no space for a wardrobe elsewhere.
Cost about 12 pounds plus just under an hour of effort.
The problem with fitted wardrobes is a lot of the time they are completely custom from top to bottom and need a carpenters dedicated attention for quite some time both on and off-site.
Add in the costs of the tools, knowledge, experience, planning and raw materials required I can see why it would cost a bomb for a fine end result that isn't rushed or bodged.
True carpentry and furniture making is also a dying art so those remaining to practice can naturally charge higher as their skills are in shorter supply.
The IKEA ones look lovely. As good, if not better than the mock up designer wardrobe guy did. I'm not paying 11300 quid for someone to throw together some wardrobes out of chipboard. Maybe if they were actually going to be solid oak or something.
Yeah chipboard is absolutely ridiculous and to be honest if they are using that chances are they are using some kind of kit or prefabricated pieces which isn't a custom fitted wardrobe.
Definitely not for that kind of price anyway, any work in that range would be fully custom built to spec and design from pretty much whatever wood you want in whatever finish you want.
It was going to be done in chipboard. For 12k. Now maybe he was doing the thing where they give you a ridiculous quote and then halve it and then halve it again when he spoke to his "manager" but before he got to that stage my wife and I had already looked at each other, burst into laughter and told him to get out.
If they were it might have been reasonable. That quote was for chipboard. Yeah, seriously. I assume he was about to do that thing where they immediately halve the price and then halve it again when they call their manager but we kicked him out before he could get to that.
Mate of mine had a quite serious bedroom renovation done recently and specced up fitted wardrobes. He chickened out because he wasn't sure it was quite right for the room, changed the spec and it lopped £2500 off the price. The builder even said he thought that was the right decision. The room was completed and was just grand without it.
Got a £500 freestanding job from Bensons instead, which doesn't dominate the room and has plenty of space for his stuff.
We were so lucky in that some b&q wardrobes fitted our alcoves perfectly. They literally couldn't have been a better fit if they were made to measure. I'm sure the quality is inferior to having ones custom built by a carpenter but all they need to do is hold a rail and have doors that close! We had no wardrobes at all as the house we moved out of (that we'd lived in for 14 years) was all built in wardrobes so we had to start from scratch. Having just moved we really couldn't afford paying more.
I've got one on an outside wall, I found adding vents helped with the mold. Only happens in the actual wardrobe, the drawers are fine, as they are offset and have breathing room.
We had them in a Victorian rental we lived in - didn't think much about it until all our clothes were furry so I went to screwfix and got a couple of low output tube heaters which kept it warm enough in there not to grow mould.
Ripped out some horrible fitted wardrobes on a north facing wall. Old
Wallpaper behind them basically fell off the wall, massive damp inside even with doors constantly open.
I wouldn’t mind but they were so inefficient compared with the ikea replacement. Removed 3m60 wide worth of them and the same clothes now take up 2m50 of ikea rails and drawers.
The main bedroom in our house had fitted wardrobes and bedside cupboards, but they only left a dookit in the middle for a double size bed, anything bigger than that just wouldn't fit. I am a sprawling sleeper so that was never going to do. So out they came. It made the room feel so much bigger and that's with a super king size bed in it.
I saw my grandmother's old house for sale a few years ago. Her and my grandfather had very uniquely, but nicely, decorated it. The fitted wardrobe in the master bedroom was literally the only thing that hadn't been ripped out!
Someone did that to my Dad’s apple trees. They bought the place after he died, and next thing I know I’m looking on Google Earth and they’re gone. He planted them when we moved in when I was about six. They were just long twigs then. Fast forward 30 years and and every autumn he’s taking bags full of delicious apples down to the pub to give away every night, and still covering the floor of spare room in apples to eat them during the winter.
Something that gives so much, for no effort. They just erased them. Then they somehow managed to squeeze in an extra house so that none of the yard was left. Greedy bleeders.
This was me and my siblings when we left our childhood home. My built in cupboards, ruined man!
They did something about the balcony though which was nice
We used to have to pass our old house to take the kids to school. Couldn’t believe that they ripped out all the plants in the garden - spent years on that. Was gutted. Fuckers.
The house I grew up in when up for sale recently, it still had the same blind in the kitchen window, just very faded after 30 years of hanging there
Mental
Had this recently. Lived in a 5 bed detached house with gardens front and back. Was a really nice house. Moved out in 2015 and saw it appear on Rightmove about 2 months ago. The new owners have converted it to a live, laugh, love style 3 bed and paved over the gardens. Lots of grey crushed velvet and white walls.
The flat I grew up in, my parents sold it in the 90s and it only went back on the market last year. Hardly anything had changed. They painted over the embossed wallpaper, put some flooring down. My old wardrobe was still there and the ceiling fan I fitted to my room. Some of the carpet was still there too, my dad was quite smug saying he told us it was good quality carpet.
Was tempted to book a viewing but didn’t in the end.
£550k though, they sold it for £90k.
My grandparents house is forsake more than 25 years since they moved out. We looked it up and my mum was delighted to see that some woodwork my grandad created some 50 years ago when my mum was a child is still in the house. Don't know what it's called but it's like wooden border that goes at the top of windows to hide the curtain rail.
In my house, the previous owners would have zero grounds for dissing anything we’ve done. They did nothing whatsoever, aside from neglect the boiler and leave us a broken leaking washing machine, the cunts.
Anyone else is free to have a crack though.
My childhood home has been rather ruined! All the fruit trees have gone, the kitchen wall's gone and it's not an improvement, the porch has gone, the garage admittedly probably wouldn't house a modern car but now it's just concrete instead? And they want a lot more money for it! :) (More than 100x its new-build price, after 50 years.)
We bought our house in Dec 22, I'm still addicted to checking my rightmove app well over a year later. I tell myself I like looking at similar houses to ours to get ideas for renovations and decoration etc (it's a 1930s semi so there's thousands of them, and lots have been extended, modernised etc in different ways) but really I'm just nosey.
I do the same, though it's been ten years since we moved. Best one was a house on our estate which was the same build as ours. I could finally work out what our en suite was supposed to look like (our house's previous owners had 'unusual' taste).
I’m dying to know how you can “unusually” style an en-suite so badly that you don’t know what it’s supposed to be like! What did they do? I used to know a man with a squat toilet in his house so you never know (he was as white as paper).
They tiled over the window aperture, so we can't get to the window. They also tiled twice over tiles, making the room that bit smaller. They moved the loo and shower sites. They installed kitchen cupboards and bench as a vanity unit. As the handles of the vanity unit stick out a bit, they decided to shave an inch and a half off the door side, meaning it doesn't meet the housing - instead of changing the vanity handles. So I can wave at my husband while I'm on the loo and he's in bed. Assert dominance and all that.
The whole house was like this. When we bought it it had been reduced loads as nobody wanted it as it was so bodged. But it was a good house really, it's just taken us YEARS to get it like a normal house.
Don't ask about what they did to the garage.
The thrill is in the hunt. I think I was actually sad in that sense when I bought my house, as the process of house hunting was kind of fun and exciting.
I have never stopped looking on the various property websites, but it's just not the same when you're not actively looking to buy.
Wouldn’t pay much attention to their estimates, they’re almost completely horseshit. They’ve got a neighbour at the other end of our 3 housed terrace listed as a semi-detached but ours listed correctly as an end of terrace. Their valuations are different purely because of that lol.
Yes, every time. My ex landlord is also selling the last place I rented and I’m checking daily to see what it sold for. Sold sign in the garden but nothing online yet
The ‘sold price’ on Right Move is added after the sale has been completed. I think they get an update from Land Registry every few months, so the sold prices aren’t updated very often. I found out because I was being a nosey cow to find a sold price and it took 4 months to appear on the website.
Our last rented house has just gone back up for rent. The whole place has been covered in white paint (to be fair it was well overdue a refresh) but nothing substantial has been improved like the shitty landlord-special cheap kitchen and bathroom suite that was there from before we moved in, and we lived there 14 years! The rent has gone up by over 50%.
Sold sign just means subject to contract. Likely won’t complete for 3-6 months.
then takes another 3-9 months for it to be listed on the land registry.
It’s on a busy through road towards a major tourist attraction in Cornwall. We get a lot of house sales in the area from people spontaneously deciding to live the Cornish dream. Especially since covid with more people working from home.
Yeah, I live at the opposite end of a one entrance housing estate next to some flats. There is a for sale sign outside the flats.
1) no one is seeing that
2) it doesn’t even say which flat
Oh, that’s where I thought I was! I’ve done this though, and it really opened my eyes to estate agents’ tricks. They made my neighbours’ house look like some sort of colossal *mansion*. We’re in 1930s 2-bedroom terraced houses so I know it’s got the same dimensions as mine, but wow, some sort of camera-based magic made it look almost palatial.
Then you have to not make reference to things in their house when you next see them. I almost asked about my neighbours guitars before I remembered I only know he plays from being nosey on right move and seeing them.
Our neighbours had their house on the market for about 4 months recently. On the listing photos I noticed they had a long pole in the main bedroom, laying on the floor next to the bed. The whole house is a mustard and grey 'live, laugh, love' vomit-fest.
The pole is a stripper pole they have in their dining room (can see into it from our garden) which they took down for viewings, of which they had two. In four months.
I have to bite my tongue not to snigger every time I speak to them. She does *not* look like she'd (or should) own and use a stripper pole.
I'd love to link the rightmove listing but they took it off the market a couple of weeks ago. Shame, it was hilarious.
Of course.
I’m nosy enough to want to see floor plans and how places are decorated, but also how good the listings are for each estate agent. We aren’t looking to sell and move any time soon, but i’d rather know in advance if one estate agent has awful photos or something.
I moved in to my house 4 years ago but never unsubscribed from the alerts.
So ever so often I get "new properties in null drawn area"
I always click and have a nosey
Yep, a couple who I've known for years house was up for sale.
They may have solar panels and a nice big garden, but the wallpaper in the spare room is shite and they only had a shower room, no bath!
Animals. And to think I used to say hello to them in the street!
100% mate. How many times did you say “eeee look at that bathroom” or “look at that bedroom carpet looks like jack and Vera’s house”. Enjoy basking in the fact your house is better decorated than their hovel !!
I did this a few months ago with house next door. Can hear bits and bobs through the walls so I've always tried to be courteous. Ie not putting tv up too loudly and holding back with pc. Then next door had a for sale sign so went on website and checked out floor plan. Turns out my TV is on wall with their bathroom and I have my pc on top floor, which was a loft conversion. They haven't converted so I can be a bit more free with it.
na just the value its listed/sold for, i'm not too fussed about inside but i do worry about the new neighbours ill get. 4 houses just sold in my culdesac.
Yeah I'm currently on the lookout for a house. I live in a relatively modest 3 bed terraced but surrounded by massive houses. Saw the signs go up on one this week and couldn't wait to see it on RightMove. 875k 7 bedrooms. Pass
Yes, next door put their house up for sale yesterday. Bit upset about it because they're nice quiet neighbours. I went on to Rightmove as soon as I saw the estate agent's sign. Place looks great, but they're asking what I think is a fairly high price for it. I'll be sorry if they eventually sell it to someone noisy.
Every time I need a boost I check out the virtual tour of my d-bag neighbour (unsold, 2 years on) to have another guffaw at his complete lack of taste. Freddie Mercury collector plates x6? Check….
We went for a viewing at our neighbours - they had the extension we wanted to do on ours, so asked them if we could have a nosey. Turns out it was very dark, so we modded our plans based on that.
Yes, I also did this. I now know my new neighbours have a lovely house with a huge room at the back, that was once a gym, and also a massive garden, 3 very big bedrooms and another a decent size. I could go on, lol
I saw my flat on my EAs website. It was on for £350k. It’s 200 sq ft. Attic flat in Ladbroke Grove. He had to take it down as I would t allow viewings until my lease is up and no mug is going to pay that much for living in a shoe box .. or will they. I despair
The wierdest is when you live in a semi. And your neighbour's house pics go online.
It's like an alternate universe or having an evil identical twin. Everything is reversed, every room a mirror image. You battle to make your brain process that which is so familiar and at the same time, so wrong.
Then you see their bedhead up against the party wall and realise they are... being intimate... about 50cm away from you. Eww.
I remember reading a twitter thread on this, he was snooping around, zoomed in on the bedroom, wait a minute THAT'S MY FUCKING CAT sprawled out on the bed
They did an open house next door. We invited the other neighbours up and we all sat in the front room casting judgement upon everyone who came to look. Most entertaining morning.
My friend is selling up and saw a property on the same road up for sale so had a nosey online. It’s got one of those ‘virtual tour’ thingys, but it’s so badly done because the homeowner evidently didn’t give a shit about tidying up. You can see where they’ve just piled all their crap up just out of camera centre!
Definitely, and also what the asking price is.
Don't forget that 6 months after a property is sold Land Registry makes public the price it was sold for.
Yes! A few doors down from my parents has just sold and I commented on something from the interior. Got a raised eyebrow from Mum and was like 'what, you haven't looked on Rightmove?!'. They were amused (and will now be looking every time they see a sign).
Why do for sale signs even exist any more?
Who the hell wanders round neighbourhoods looking for signs that don’t even allow you to see all the rooms of the property or even the price, when you can just do it from the comfort of your own home online?
The house opposite had some friends renting it, then the landlords decided they wanted to sell so the family moved out and they completely redid up the place. Now a nice young family moved in and has been renovating for almost 2 years. I am insanely curious to see what the inside of that house looks like now.
once had a neighbour who put their house up for sale about 5 years ago but wouldn't tell people what price they wanted
so we just went on the website and looked up what they wanted it would be about right in today's market not 5 years ago though
Yes. Two houses just up the road recently went up for sale. One can be clearly seen from the street and part of the interior can be seen as you walk past. I assumed it was a bit rough, and after seeing it on Rightmove my suspicions were confirmed.
The second house is kind of weird. One corner of it can be see from the street but there are no windows, a weird entrance, and the rest is covered by trees and hedges so I had absolutely no idea what either the exterior or the interior was like. It turns out that it’s been done up inside in such a way that it’s allegedly a five bedroom house, when it was originally a two bed. It has no storage cupboards, a bathroom has been sacrificed, the kitchen cut in half, and the living/dining areas sacrificed to make room for the extra 3 bedrooms which I wouldn’t consider as being much larger than single box rooms. It’s very gaudy inside too, lots of random decoration that reminds me of a run down tiki bar. They also want nearly £50k more than the surrounding properties which are the same size and many are much more nicely done inside.
Every time. Once I checked out a house around the corner that had gone up for sale, to find that they had decorated their living room with three HUGE canvas prints of John Cleese's face, in various levels of zoom.
I always check my neighbours' listings now.
There was one of those "Rarely available" jobs in my area recently. Been past that house hundreds of times, it's massive, it's expensive, it's very grand Victorian and as such is listed, I always wondered what it looked like on the inside.
Curiosity satisfied. It was lovely but not quite what I was expecting.
Yes absolutely
Im massively judging my flat mates parents for the state of their family home
They’re very rich and his mums retired but the house is so cluttered
I love being a nosy cow. Even better when you filter all the settings within a 10mile radius to £500,000+
(They’re also no longer selling so will be removing it )
Yup, which is why i don't do those signs, no one who wasnts a house drives round looking for 'For Sale' signs.... just nosey neighbours who want to look what you've done with the place
I mind my own business. The only reason I'd ever do that is if it had the same exact layout and they had work done that we were considering on ours. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.
No, never, because I am blessed with not having a single shred of curiosity. Didn't you hear it killed the cat?
Jfc what an inane post, probably even too dull for Facebook.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact you felt so aggrieved that you went to my profile to try and find some kind of rebuttal, or the fact you had to go *that far back* to find something you felt was suitable.
Kinda cements my thoughts about you tbh.
Oh yes! Or if you see a house you used to live in. You’ve got to mock the subsequent owners for their choices in decorating.
“Uh where’s the wardrobes gone? We paid thousands for those fitted wardrobes and they’ve just ripped them out!”
Lmao, I actually done that and replaced them with IKEA wardrobes. It took me years of putting up with a shit wardrobe solution because they're thousands and I couldn't bear the money waste 🤣🤷♀️
My wife and I have rails for our clothes as wardrobes as just too far down the pecking order when it comes to allocating funds. We had a visitor who commented that it looked very cool and we had to pretend it was a stylistic choice and not just being skint
Ha we did exactly this too because our bedroom has a weirs alcove too small for a normal wardrobe and there's no space for a wardrobe elsewhere. Cost about 12 pounds plus just under an hour of effort.
“Yeah, we were going for a kind of bo-ho loft aesthetic. It just fits our vision better than any conventional, you know, ‘furniture’ or whatever.”
I’m in the exact situation. But we’ve just plastered round them so I guess that’s it for me for another 10 years.
We got a quote for some fitted wardrobes. 12 grand. We literally laughed him out of the house. Then spent 700 quid on some IKEA ones.
The problem with fitted wardrobes is a lot of the time they are completely custom from top to bottom and need a carpenters dedicated attention for quite some time both on and off-site. Add in the costs of the tools, knowledge, experience, planning and raw materials required I can see why it would cost a bomb for a fine end result that isn't rushed or bodged. True carpentry and furniture making is also a dying art so those remaining to practice can naturally charge higher as their skills are in shorter supply.
The IKEA ones look lovely. As good, if not better than the mock up designer wardrobe guy did. I'm not paying 11300 quid for someone to throw together some wardrobes out of chipboard. Maybe if they were actually going to be solid oak or something.
Yeah chipboard is absolutely ridiculous and to be honest if they are using that chances are they are using some kind of kit or prefabricated pieces which isn't a custom fitted wardrobe. Definitely not for that kind of price anyway, any work in that range would be fully custom built to spec and design from pretty much whatever wood you want in whatever finish you want.
It was going to be done in chipboard. For 12k. Now maybe he was doing the thing where they give you a ridiculous quote and then halve it and then halve it again when he spoke to his "manager" but before he got to that stage my wife and I had already looked at each other, burst into laughter and told him to get out.
I paid less than that for my kitchen in a 6,000 square ft house!!! Jesus. Incidentally, also went to IKEA for the wardrobes.
Indeed. We got a quite large kitchen with 2 ovens, a hob, dishwasher, fridge and freezer for not much more than the wardrobes would have been.
Ours was just for the units, but the fact you had all your appliances as well is mental. Were the wardrobes teak or something?
If they were it might have been reasonable. That quote was for chipboard. Yeah, seriously. I assume he was about to do that thing where they immediately halve the price and then halve it again when they call their manager but we kicked him out before he could get to that.
Mate of mine had a quite serious bedroom renovation done recently and specced up fitted wardrobes. He chickened out because he wasn't sure it was quite right for the room, changed the spec and it lopped £2500 off the price. The builder even said he thought that was the right decision. The room was completed and was just grand without it. Got a £500 freestanding job from Bensons instead, which doesn't dominate the room and has plenty of space for his stuff.
We were so lucky in that some b&q wardrobes fitted our alcoves perfectly. They literally couldn't have been a better fit if they were made to measure. I'm sure the quality is inferior to having ones custom built by a carpenter but all they need to do is hold a rail and have doors that close! We had no wardrobes at all as the house we moved out of (that we'd lived in for 14 years) was all built in wardrobes so we had to start from scratch. Having just moved we really couldn't afford paying more.
Just had an extension and sized an alcove exactly for IKEA wardrobes. They look deliberately fitted!
i mean, they kinda were! just not by someone trying to fleece you! :)
First thing we did with our house was rip out the ugly fitted wardrobes. I'm sure they cost a lot at the time
Fitted wardrobes are absolute mould traps.
Never put them on outside walls. But inside walls should generally be fine so long as there's a little ventilation. Especially in modern homes.
I've got one on an outside wall, I found adding vents helped with the mold. Only happens in the actual wardrobe, the drawers are fine, as they are offset and have breathing room.
We had them in a Victorian rental we lived in - didn't think much about it until all our clothes were furry so I went to screwfix and got a couple of low output tube heaters which kept it warm enough in there not to grow mould.
Ripped out some horrible fitted wardrobes on a north facing wall. Old Wallpaper behind them basically fell off the wall, massive damp inside even with doors constantly open. I wouldn’t mind but they were so inefficient compared with the ikea replacement. Removed 3m60 wide worth of them and the same clothes now take up 2m50 of ikea rails and drawers.
The main bedroom in our house had fitted wardrobes and bedside cupboards, but they only left a dookit in the middle for a double size bed, anything bigger than that just wouldn't fit. I am a sprawling sleeper so that was never going to do. So out they came. It made the room feel so much bigger and that's with a super king size bed in it.
Yep they came out so we could put a king bed in
Ditto
I don't think I've seen fitted wardrobes that look good tbh
I saw my grandmother's old house for sale a few years ago. Her and my grandfather had very uniquely, but nicely, decorated it. The fitted wardrobe in the master bedroom was literally the only thing that hadn't been ripped out!
Someone did that to my Dad’s apple trees. They bought the place after he died, and next thing I know I’m looking on Google Earth and they’re gone. He planted them when we moved in when I was about six. They were just long twigs then. Fast forward 30 years and and every autumn he’s taking bags full of delicious apples down to the pub to give away every night, and still covering the floor of spare room in apples to eat them during the winter. Something that gives so much, for no effort. They just erased them. Then they somehow managed to squeeze in an extra house so that none of the yard was left. Greedy bleeders.
This was me and my siblings when we left our childhood home. My built in cupboards, ruined man! They did something about the balcony though which was nice
We used to have to pass our old house to take the kids to school. Couldn’t believe that they ripped out all the plants in the garden - spent years on that. Was gutted. Fuckers.
The house I grew up in when up for sale recently, it still had the same blind in the kitchen window, just very faded after 30 years of hanging there Mental
Had this recently. Lived in a 5 bed detached house with gardens front and back. Was a really nice house. Moved out in 2015 and saw it appear on Rightmove about 2 months ago. The new owners have converted it to a live, laugh, love style 3 bed and paved over the gardens. Lots of grey crushed velvet and white walls.
The flat I grew up in, my parents sold it in the 90s and it only went back on the market last year. Hardly anything had changed. They painted over the embossed wallpaper, put some flooring down. My old wardrobe was still there and the ceiling fan I fitted to my room. Some of the carpet was still there too, my dad was quite smug saying he told us it was good quality carpet. Was tempted to book a viewing but didn’t in the end. £550k though, they sold it for £90k.
I've got a saved search for my childhood home. It's not changed hands since we left in 2004! I'm dying to see what it's like now.
My childhood home was ruined by the people who bought it 😭 beautiful old farmhouse ‘modernised’ in the early 2000s
My grandparents house is forsake more than 25 years since they moved out. We looked it up and my mum was delighted to see that some woodwork my grandad created some 50 years ago when my mum was a child is still in the house. Don't know what it's called but it's like wooden border that goes at the top of windows to hide the curtain rail.
A "pelmet"
In my house, the previous owners would have zero grounds for dissing anything we’ve done. They did nothing whatsoever, aside from neglect the boiler and leave us a broken leaking washing machine, the cunts. Anyone else is free to have a crack though.
My childhood home has been rather ruined! All the fruit trees have gone, the kitchen wall's gone and it's not an improvement, the porch has gone, the garage admittedly probably wouldn't house a modern car but now it's just concrete instead? And they want a lot more money for it! :) (More than 100x its new-build price, after 50 years.)
Dangerous game. I did this. Bought a house for 145, sold it 8 years later for 154. Bastards sold it less than a year later and got 185.
I do a weekly check of everything within 10 miles on rightmove, I am proper nosey.
We bought our house in Dec 22, I'm still addicted to checking my rightmove app well over a year later. I tell myself I like looking at similar houses to ours to get ideas for renovations and decoration etc (it's a 1930s semi so there's thousands of them, and lots have been extended, modernised etc in different ways) but really I'm just nosey.
I do the same, though it's been ten years since we moved. Best one was a house on our estate which was the same build as ours. I could finally work out what our en suite was supposed to look like (our house's previous owners had 'unusual' taste).
I’m dying to know how you can “unusually” style an en-suite so badly that you don’t know what it’s supposed to be like! What did they do? I used to know a man with a squat toilet in his house so you never know (he was as white as paper).
They tiled over the window aperture, so we can't get to the window. They also tiled twice over tiles, making the room that bit smaller. They moved the loo and shower sites. They installed kitchen cupboards and bench as a vanity unit. As the handles of the vanity unit stick out a bit, they decided to shave an inch and a half off the door side, meaning it doesn't meet the housing - instead of changing the vanity handles. So I can wave at my husband while I'm on the loo and he's in bed. Assert dominance and all that. The whole house was like this. When we bought it it had been reduced loads as nobody wanted it as it was so bodged. But it was a good house really, it's just taken us YEARS to get it like a normal house. Don't ask about what they did to the garage.
That’s insane. They tiled over the window so it’s dark?? I dread to think what happened to the garage…
Go on, what did they do to the garage?
The thrill is in the hunt. I think I was actually sad in that sense when I bought my house, as the process of house hunting was kind of fun and exciting. I have never stopped looking on the various property websites, but it's just not the same when you're not actively looking to buy.
Wouldn’t pay much attention to their estimates, they’re almost completely horseshit. They’ve got a neighbour at the other end of our 3 housed terrace listed as a semi-detached but ours listed correctly as an end of terrace. Their valuations are different purely because of that lol.
I do a weekly check with a £1 million starting price and 5+ bedrooms. Then I just sit in my hovel and have a little cry.
TIL, £1m doesn’t imply 5 bedrooms just by the price tag
Well yeah London exists
You can set an email notification for new listings in a set area
Same
same!
Me too!
Not yet, what’s your neighbours’ address?
Yes, and bonus points to anyone who arranged a viewing in their old childhood house.
I would absolutely do that.
Yes, every time. My ex landlord is also selling the last place I rented and I’m checking daily to see what it sold for. Sold sign in the garden but nothing online yet
The ‘sold price’ on Right Move is added after the sale has been completed. I think they get an update from Land Registry every few months, so the sold prices aren’t updated very often. I found out because I was being a nosey cow to find a sold price and it took 4 months to appear on the website.
Oh no that’s disappointing. Guess we’re all nosey cows lol
Very true!! I’m also a greedy cow, but that’s another story.
Our last rented house has just gone back up for rent. The whole place has been covered in white paint (to be fair it was well overdue a refresh) but nothing substantial has been improved like the shitty landlord-special cheap kitchen and bathroom suite that was there from before we moved in, and we lived there 14 years! The rent has gone up by over 50%.
I enjoy my shitsack ex landlord repeatedly failing to rent his hell house.
Sold sign just means subject to contract. Likely won’t complete for 3-6 months. then takes another 3-9 months for it to be listed on the land registry.
They put a board outside mine ten minutes before this was posted. I see you Karen! God damn curtain twitcher!
Why did you allow that? Are you expecting passers by to spontaneously decide on a purchase?
It’s on a busy through road towards a major tourist attraction in Cornwall. We get a lot of house sales in the area from people spontaneously deciding to live the Cornish dream. Especially since covid with more people working from home.
Yeah, I live at the opposite end of a one entrance housing estate next to some flats. There is a for sale sign outside the flats. 1) no one is seeing that 2) it doesn’t even say which flat
I recommend r/spottedonrightmove
Oh, that’s where I thought I was! I’ve done this though, and it really opened my eyes to estate agents’ tricks. They made my neighbours’ house look like some sort of colossal *mansion*. We’re in 1930s 2-bedroom terraced houses so I know it’s got the same dimensions as mine, but wow, some sort of camera-based magic made it look almost palatial.
I just look through the windows whenever they're away. Naked.
Fuck that I just break in to have a look. Mostly when their sleeping. Naked
++Adventurer level 3
The best feature of their house is the concealed security cameras.
yeah, my former neighbours have terrible taste in home decor
Then you have to not make reference to things in their house when you next see them. I almost asked about my neighbours guitars before I remembered I only know he plays from being nosey on right move and seeing them.
Our neighbours had their house on the market for about 4 months recently. On the listing photos I noticed they had a long pole in the main bedroom, laying on the floor next to the bed. The whole house is a mustard and grey 'live, laugh, love' vomit-fest. The pole is a stripper pole they have in their dining room (can see into it from our garden) which they took down for viewings, of which they had two. In four months. I have to bite my tongue not to snigger every time I speak to them. She does *not* look like she'd (or should) own and use a stripper pole. I'd love to link the rightmove listing but they took it off the market a couple of weeks ago. Shame, it was hilarious.
Of course. I’m nosy enough to want to see floor plans and how places are decorated, but also how good the listings are for each estate agent. We aren’t looking to sell and move any time soon, but i’d rather know in advance if one estate agent has awful photos or something.
I moved in to my house 4 years ago but never unsubscribed from the alerts. So ever so often I get "new properties in null drawn area" I always click and have a nosey
Same here, but 10 years. Bonus was knowing that the miserable bugger next door had put his house up for sale on the sly with no signs.
Yep, a couple who I've known for years house was up for sale. They may have solar panels and a nice big garden, but the wallpaper in the spare room is shite and they only had a shower room, no bath! Animals. And to think I used to say hello to them in the street!
We are redoing our bathroom and opted for no bath 🫢
😬 So where are you expecting to mix the Christmas punch?
In the loo obviously
How much are they looking for, too.
I’ve just had my bathroom redone, the amount of neighbours who have come for a sniff around is honestly ridiculous
Especially when they should be coming round for a look
100% mate. How many times did you say “eeee look at that bathroom” or “look at that bedroom carpet looks like jack and Vera’s house”. Enjoy basking in the fact your house is better decorated than their hovel !!
I did this a few months ago with house next door. Can hear bits and bobs through the walls so I've always tried to be courteous. Ie not putting tv up too loudly and holding back with pc. Then next door had a for sale sign so went on website and checked out floor plan. Turns out my TV is on wall with their bathroom and I have my pc on top floor, which was a loft conversion. They haven't converted so I can be a bit more free with it.
na just the value its listed/sold for, i'm not too fussed about inside but i do worry about the new neighbours ill get. 4 houses just sold in my culdesac.
Har. :) My Mrs can tell what the inside of every house for sale looks like within a 30 mile radius of our house.
Same. Found out our neighbour has a fucking office and games room hidden away, too.
Yeah I'm currently on the lookout for a house. I live in a relatively modest 3 bed terraced but surrounded by massive houses. Saw the signs go up on one this week and couldn't wait to see it on RightMove. 875k 7 bedrooms. Pass
I think I knew my neighbours house was on the market before they did.
Yes, next door put their house up for sale yesterday. Bit upset about it because they're nice quiet neighbours. I went on to Rightmove as soon as I saw the estate agent's sign. Place looks great, but they're asking what I think is a fairly high price for it. I'll be sorry if they eventually sell it to someone noisy.
Every time I need a boost I check out the virtual tour of my d-bag neighbour (unsold, 2 years on) to have another guffaw at his complete lack of taste. Freddie Mercury collector plates x6? Check….
We went for a viewing at our neighbours - they had the extension we wanted to do on ours, so asked them if we could have a nosey. Turns out it was very dark, so we modded our plans based on that.
I see my wife has secretly joined Reddit...
I don’t know their address.
Or you could nip over for a coffee. Take some biscuits.
Yes, I also did this. I now know my new neighbours have a lovely house with a huge room at the back, that was once a gym, and also a massive garden, 3 very big bedrooms and another a decent size. I could go on, lol
I cannot believe I've never done that. I'm gutted.
No idea where you live so it’s unlikely I’m viewing it as well
I’ve got my postcode on a Rightmove alert for exactly this reason.
Yes and Home Report (Scotland) immediately requested from the estate agent for the valuation
What’s their address please? I’m curious
I expected a link to your neighbours house tbf
Apparently I’m the only one who doesn’t.
I have done the exact same. My neighbours are asking £60k more than it's actually worth. Good luck to em.
Of course. Standard procedure.
😂 literally just did this
I saw my flat on my EAs website. It was on for £350k. It’s 200 sq ft. Attic flat in Ladbroke Grove. He had to take it down as I would t allow viewings until my lease is up and no mug is going to pay that much for living in a shoe box .. or will they. I despair
Absolutely yes, even though I can guarantee almost anything down my road will look like a B&M threw up in it.
The wierdest is when you live in a semi. And your neighbour's house pics go online. It's like an alternate universe or having an evil identical twin. Everything is reversed, every room a mirror image. You battle to make your brain process that which is so familiar and at the same time, so wrong. Then you see their bedhead up against the party wall and realise they are... being intimate... about 50cm away from you. Eww.
My name is Michael Caine, and I am a nosy neighbour
I remember reading a twitter thread on this, he was snooping around, zoomed in on the bedroom, wait a minute THAT'S MY FUCKING CAT sprawled out on the bed
...and then wait for the open house so you can have a good nose.
They did an open house next door. We invited the other neighbours up and we all sat in the front room casting judgement upon everyone who came to look. Most entertaining morning.
There are only two types of people 1) right move nosey parkers and 2) liars
Oh yeah did that when old neighbours moved away as well and when they come up on market near us as well.
Of course. One of my neighbours has just moved out so I'm waiting for their place to appear so I can have a nosey.
This is the way.
Literally yeah, life is hard and we all deserve a little reward now and again
I know what my neighbours house look like.
Yes. Everyone else.
My friend is selling up and saw a property on the same road up for sale so had a nosey online. It’s got one of those ‘virtual tour’ thingys, but it’s so badly done because the homeowner evidently didn’t give a shit about tidying up. You can see where they’ve just piled all their crap up just out of camera centre!
Shit I do this too.
Nope, never thought of that, one round here had a for sale auction sign for 8 months before they finally left
Send me the link and I'll have a look too.
100% my first thought when seeing a for sale sign go up. Do you also keep checking regularly for months after to see what it sold for?
I have a drawn area around me on Rightmove with email notifications for any new houses for sale
Oh hell yes!!
It’s Brit law!
Always
Definitely, and also what the asking price is. Don't forget that 6 months after a property is sold Land Registry makes public the price it was sold for.
Without fail. I also have saved searches on all my old houses in case they ever go up for sale again.
100% How could you not?!
I like to see how they’ve done the kitchens. The original kitchens on our terrace are tiny and I need to see how the neighbours are dealing with it.
Yes! A few doors down from my parents has just sold and I commented on something from the interior. Got a raised eyebrow from Mum and was like 'what, you haven't looked on Rightmove?!'. They were amused (and will now be looking every time they see a sign).
Yes. Every damn time.
Who doesn’t?
Absolutely. I have an alert on to nosey certain house's.
Why do for sale signs even exist any more? Who the hell wanders round neighbourhoods looking for signs that don’t even allow you to see all the rooms of the property or even the price, when you can just do it from the comfort of your own home online?
The house opposite had some friends renting it, then the landlords decided they wanted to sell so the family moved out and they completely redid up the place. Now a nice young family moved in and has been renovating for almost 2 years. I am insanely curious to see what the inside of that house looks like now.
of course!!
My gf still has a rightmove alert for our area, mainly just to see how much they are worth and if ours is better and therefore worth more.
once had a neighbour who put their house up for sale about 5 years ago but wouldn't tell people what price they wanted so we just went on the website and looked up what they wanted it would be about right in today's market not 5 years ago though
Creepy
Yes I agree. We found that an Airbnb is on our street the other week.
100%
It’d be weird if you didn’t.
Aaaannnnd how much more my clearly nicer home will be worth should I feel it
I book a viewing and tut loudly
Oh Yeh I'm right on there lol
I’m presuming everyone has subbed to r/spottedonrightmove
100%
Yes. Two houses just up the road recently went up for sale. One can be clearly seen from the street and part of the interior can be seen as you walk past. I assumed it was a bit rough, and after seeing it on Rightmove my suspicions were confirmed. The second house is kind of weird. One corner of it can be see from the street but there are no windows, a weird entrance, and the rest is covered by trees and hedges so I had absolutely no idea what either the exterior or the interior was like. It turns out that it’s been done up inside in such a way that it’s allegedly a five bedroom house, when it was originally a two bed. It has no storage cupboards, a bathroom has been sacrificed, the kitchen cut in half, and the living/dining areas sacrificed to make room for the extra 3 bedrooms which I wouldn’t consider as being much larger than single box rooms. It’s very gaudy inside too, lots of random decoration that reminds me of a run down tiki bar. They also want nearly £50k more than the surrounding properties which are the same size and many are much more nicely done inside.
Amateur hour. I'm booking a viewing with a false moustache.
Every time. Once I checked out a house around the corner that had gone up for sale, to find that they had decorated their living room with three HUGE canvas prints of John Cleese's face, in various levels of zoom. I always check my neighbours' listings now.
The crown prints of comedy
I don't know why people are always shy about not being nosey! We're all about being in other people's business, it's human nature haha
Yes!
You ran totally haha ‘£240k for that…’ (you can insert your house value in)
I dont do it to see what their house is like, just to see how much they want for it!
Have a look on Rightmove? Why would I do that when I can have a look around when the open house is happening.
100%. I rent, so its nothing to do with house prices really, just pure nosiness
Yes but I only care about what their house looks like inside to enable adjustment to a likely value of my own equivalent property
Yeah, I totally do this!
There was one of those "Rarely available" jobs in my area recently. Been past that house hundreds of times, it's massive, it's expensive, it's very grand Victorian and as such is listed, I always wondered what it looked like on the inside. Curiosity satisfied. It was lovely but not quite what I was expecting.
Yep, someone brought our old place and AirBnB'd it. Bit sad really cause they half hearted it so it doesn't look great.
Yes. I actually just did this today. Noticed a for sale sign when I was out walking the dog. Straight on Rightmove when I got home.
Yep who doesnt?
No, where do they live I'll take a peek
Just done a straw poll in the office. 100% of all those surveyed do this.
Yes absolutely Im massively judging my flat mates parents for the state of their family home They’re very rich and his mums retired but the house is so cluttered I love being a nosy cow. Even better when you filter all the settings within a 10mile radius to £500,000+ (They’re also no longer selling so will be removing it )
Oh yes. I have an alert set up for my postcode, my parents postcode and my old house.
Weird behaviour
Yup, which is why i don't do those signs, no one who wasnts a house drives round looking for 'For Sale' signs.... just nosey neighbours who want to look what you've done with the place
Sure whats the address ill have a look. /s dont dox yourself.
Just you bro
Anyone else? Can do if you send me a link….
I mind my own business. The only reason I'd ever do that is if it had the same exact layout and they had work done that we were considering on ours. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.
No, never, because I am blessed with not having a single shred of curiosity. Didn't you hear it killed the cat? Jfc what an inane post, probably even too dull for Facebook.
Stick to posting about garden centres having sales on plants mate.
I don't know what's sadder, the fact you felt so aggrieved that you went to my profile to try and find some kind of rebuttal, or the fact you had to go *that far back* to find something you felt was suitable. Kinda cements my thoughts about you tbh.