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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can someone in the UK tell me how that home costs £450k? Is real estate that crazy over there or are they trying to recover the £300k they spent for the marble?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

40 mins to central London on tube. Lots of green spaces near by. 2 solid square bedrooms, all the cosmetic crap easily stripped out. Hard standing for 2 cars, decent back garden. Semi detached.

The only reason it's not more is "it's Dagenham" and the general shabby state of the street.

This'll get snapped up by professional couple earning 160k+ combined willing to await the inevitable gentrification in 5/10 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Amazing what passes for a "decent back garden" in the UK. My "back garden" is a 1/4 acre (1000m^2 ) on a property worth $140k USD including the 1200ft^2 (120m^2 ) house.

On the downside my exterior walls are made of glue and sawdust, and my interior walls are made of paper and powdered gypsum.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That's London prices for you. That's likely the bottom end of the price scale.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not in the UK, but I'm guessing, like real estate anywhere, high population + limited availability?

There are 9 million people living in London. 607 square miles, which means, on average, 14,827 people per square mile.

Compared to, say, San Francisco with 808,000 people in 47 square miles, 17,191 people per square mile.

Globally though, numbers like this aren't even in the top 25:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population_density

My "city" is embarrassed. 635,000 people in 145 square miles. 4,379 people per square mile. We're absolutely porous by comparison.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reading that I had to check my area, and it's a whopping 1518 people in 205.11 square miles or about 7 people per square mile. You got us beat by a long shot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is one of the areas that London expanded into, it was in Essex until to 60s. It's not desirable.