I'm looking in that area. I've seen all houses between 400k and 500k in the last 6 months. Prices are dropping and this has enormous downsides.
There is loads of stuff that isn't shifting. I'm seeing the same houses all on since last summer, most of which need some work. The ones that are going are ready to live in and under £500k or bigger and perfect if they're over that.
This is basically at one point of it. You have everything from the O2 Academy to pubs to great restaurants, shops and stuff within 10 minutes walk. But you're not in the city centre rammed with tourists.
In front is a huge public park. Behind, the university parklands that you can walk across, 20 minutes to the city centre.
It's on major bus routes and not far from the A40/M40.
The location is pretty great. But specifically it's right on a busy main road, and there's no way you could park a car within a 15 minute walk of this house. It's also right on the border of the new congestion zone, so that's a downside. Turn right and it costs £5 and in a year it'll be shut completely. Which cuts off those possible parking spaces.
I reckon anyone buying at this price is overpaying. There are beautiful 6 bedroom townhouses with parking nearby for £600k-700k and this will never be one.
I was also going to say these are very 90s colours and it's not been touched since then. If there were a sofa I'd half expect Zig and Zag to leap out from behind it.
In many ways it's a perfect location for me - i used to live just up Cowley Rd for a long time, and it's walking distance from town, supermarkets, buses, and the park is right there. But they stopped being in my price range in the 90s!
In general I agree. We're (fairly casually) looking in this area.
But this house in particular isn't that great. Zero parking nearby, you couldn't own a car. The congestion charge is 10 metres away and it'll be a bus gate in a year, so you can't turn right. That junction outside your window is jammed every night from 4 until 6.
Further up Morrell Ave or in the bit between Cowley Road has all the same benefits, often a driveway and is much quieter.
Having said that, if this was £500k and I could be arsed with another project, I'd consider it.
(In fact my wife has just said "When it's still on in September for £450k, we'll buy it")
I've lived 30+ years in Oxford without a car, so the access/parking aspect doesn't bother me, but the traffic might just be the clincher. It's bad enough where I am now (Headington).
At £450k, yes, it's a project worth the punt. Not at £550k.
Yeah, we're outside at the moment and wouldn't need a car day to day if we moved in (We're considering it so we can walk to work). But with elderly parents a long way away, I think we'd still want access to one.
Are you really sure a residents' parking permit wouldn't allow you to park in a nearby street? Bath Street is just feet away, for example. I don't think residents' parking permits are so specific that it can only be one street.
You're right, a permit covers a whole area. But the congestion charge starts between this house and Bath Street, and you only get (I think) 70 passes a year. After that it'll cost you a fiver to drive your car 10 metres out of the zone towards your house and the closest bit of the ring road.
And once Botley Road reopens, that becomes a bus gate and you won't be allowed to drive your car through at all. The only way out of the city would be all the way back down to the bottom of Iffley Road and onto the ring road there.
Once it’s renovated to a good standard, that will make the lucky purchaser(s) a delightful, characterful period property in a desirable, bohemian part of Central Oxford👌🏼😌
It's in a brilliant location (if you don't need to park a car) and would make a gorgeous home. If you have a hundred grand to spend on it and don't like rectangles.
Garden has got so much potential, I love the kitchen cabinets. It's got 2 bathrooms, one with a beautiful violet bath. And some of the rooms I would repaint in similar vibrant colours once they'd been replastered.
It's a nice house.
It has lots of potential but it's on a busy road and needs a lot of work inside- literally every room stripped back, repaired and re-done, plus any bigger jobs like kitchen, bathrooms, heating etc. Looks like there is penetrative damp. It's so shoddy.
I used to work opposite these houses. It’s a super convenient location, and around them is some parkland which is great, though the road in front is hideously busy and congested and parking anywhere nearby is a nightmare. They are all different colours as you go up the row, and very picturesque.
I love the colours! Not so keen on the kitchen but the house is great even if it's a little dilapidated.
This is a great house in a really prime location, by the way. I literally used to live just around the corner and this house should go really fast, especially at that price. Even if it needs some fairly substantial repairs, house prices in oxford are insane.
To be fair, the colour of the walls is the least of the worries given the state of the plaster etc.
Yeah, it's in quite a state. On a highly congested main road too, but the general location is great.
My view is it's about £100k over priced given the work needed.
You’ve not seen Oxford house prices? Know how highly sought after, and desirable the St Clements area of Oxford actually is with houses buyers?
I'm looking in that area. I've seen all houses between 400k and 500k in the last 6 months. Prices are dropping and this has enormous downsides.
There is loads of stuff that isn't shifting. I'm seeing the same houses all on since last summer, most of which need some work. The ones that are going are ready to live in and under £500k or bigger and perfect if they're over that.
I dont know Oxford at all but assume its highly desirable so wasnt sure how ludicrous the price was for a dilapidated house there.
There's an area known as the Golden Triangle.
This is basically at one point of it. You have everything from the O2 Academy to pubs to great restaurants, shops and stuff within 10 minutes walk. But you're not in the city centre rammed with tourists.
In front is a huge public park. Behind, the university parklands that you can walk across, 20 minutes to the city centre.
It's on major bus routes and not far from the A40/M40.
The location is pretty great. But specifically it's right on a busy main road, and there's no way you could park a car within a 15 minute walk of this house. It's also right on the border of the new congestion zone, so that's a downside. Turn right and it costs £5 and in a year it'll be shut completely. Which cuts off those possible parking spaces.
I reckon anyone buying at this price is overpaying. There are beautiful 6 bedroom townhouses with parking nearby for £600k-700k and this will never be one.
The 90s rang. On the house phone. When it was last updated.
I was also going to say these are very 90s colours and it's not been touched since then. If there were a sofa I'd half expect Zig and Zag to leap out from behind it.
I spent years wanting to live in one of these houses, until I saw the state of them. Hopefully this is the last 'needs modernisation' of them now.
I go past them a lot. It's a good spot but a seriously busy road!
In many ways it's a perfect location for me - i used to live just up Cowley Rd for a long time, and it's walking distance from town, supermarkets, buses, and the park is right there. But they stopped being in my price range in the 90s!
In general I agree. We're (fairly casually) looking in this area.
But this house in particular isn't that great. Zero parking nearby, you couldn't own a car. The congestion charge is 10 metres away and it'll be a bus gate in a year, so you can't turn right. That junction outside your window is jammed every night from 4 until 6.
Further up Morrell Ave or in the bit between Cowley Road has all the same benefits, often a driveway and is much quieter.
Having said that, if this was £500k and I could be arsed with another project, I'd consider it.
(In fact my wife has just said "When it's still on in September for £450k, we'll buy it")
I've lived 30+ years in Oxford without a car, so the access/parking aspect doesn't bother me, but the traffic might just be the clincher. It's bad enough where I am now (Headington).
At £450k, yes, it's a project worth the punt. Not at £550k.
Yeah, we're outside at the moment and wouldn't need a car day to day if we moved in (We're considering it so we can walk to work). But with elderly parents a long way away, I think we'd still want access to one.
Are you really sure a residents' parking permit wouldn't allow you to park in a nearby street? Bath Street is just feet away, for example. I don't think residents' parking permits are so specific that it can only be one street.
You're right, a permit covers a whole area. But the congestion charge starts between this house and Bath Street, and you only get (I think) 70 passes a year. After that it'll cost you a fiver to drive your car 10 metres out of the zone towards your house and the closest bit of the ring road.
And once Botley Road reopens, that becomes a bus gate and you won't be allowed to drive your car through at all. The only way out of the city would be all the way back down to the bottom of Iffley Road and onto the ring road there.
Once it’s renovated to a good standard, that will make the lucky purchaser(s) a delightful, characterful period property in a desirable, bohemian part of Central Oxford👌🏼😌
It's in a brilliant location (if you don't need to park a car) and would make a gorgeous home. If you have a hundred grand to spend on it and don't like rectangles.
The painted kitchen cabinets are amazingly bad
I was thinking they are amazingly good. The kitchen and the deep violet bath I would keep.
The Pixar lamp looks like it's being held hostage.
Garden has got so much potential, I love the kitchen cabinets. It's got 2 bathrooms, one with a beautiful violet bath. And some of the rooms I would repaint in similar vibrant colours once they'd been replastered. It's a nice house.
It certainly could be. If I had enough to do it up, I'd be tempted.
It has lots of potential but it's on a busy road and needs a lot of work inside- literally every room stripped back, repaired and re-done, plus any bigger jobs like kitchen, bathrooms, heating etc. Looks like there is penetrative damp. It's so shoddy.
Yeah, that's my opinion too. It's a money pit that could be beautiful with £100k
Would love to have seen in furnished, I wonder what went with those walls
Absolutely nothing goes with those walls
Sometimes you get a good bulk deal on paint and need to go with it, I feel like that's what happened here.
Did del boy ever do any work that far out of London?
I used to work opposite these houses. It’s a super convenient location, and around them is some parkland which is great, though the road in front is hideously busy and congested and parking anywhere nearby is a nightmare. They are all different colours as you go up the row, and very picturesque.
Citrus colours would work better in that address. Some oranges and perhaps lemons too.
I love the colours! Not so keen on the kitchen but the house is great even if it's a little dilapidated.
This is a great house in a really prime location, by the way. I literally used to live just around the corner and this house should go really fast, especially at that price. Even if it needs some fairly substantial repairs, house prices in oxford are insane.
JFC, is that black marble skirting in the first room?
Externally ducted cabling also looks spectacularly vile.