Property for Sale

[w124bob]

Here is one that caught my eye, just needs a bit of TLC!!!! €10k would be my first offer. Nexon is in the Haute-Vienne department.

http://www.avendrealouer.fr/vente/nexon-87/b-maison/3-pieces/loc-101-41238/fd-2450713.html?gclid=COrW57fUmM8CFRITGwodPwIBSg#xtor=SEC-721-GOO-[Dynamic-Remarketing---Property-Achat_Searchers-FD]-[103275396617]-C-[]&utm_medium=cpc

[The Stationmaster]

 Oh dear, already sufficiently far West to be the modern equivalent of a rotten borough, council in the pocket of a small coterie?

 

My thinking was predicated on the crossing - and thus the keeper's cottage -  likely having originally been on a public road; and since there must have been continuous access since to the cottage,  (if no further) then there's established right of way, so no difficulty in development access. Get the planning permission on the plot, which with appeal will almost certainly be obtainable whatever the local situation may be, and then see how it plays. Selling at the established potential value to someone wanting to prevent development on their boundary/in 'their' view/on 'my' drive, etc. can be a good deal.

 

The problem with the plot is its shape (narrow) with the railway boundary on one side and a road on the other plus the path across one end to the foot crossing - have a look at it on Google Maps.

[Ian J.]

(ignore the marker, that's on a different property to indicate the postcode):

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Semley,+Shaftesbury+SP7+9AP/@51.042905,-2.1635653,246m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4873c97b12e7d5d7:0xcfc2e4669869b20c!8m2!3d51.0427713!4d-2.1627003

 

That through road is going to be a problem for quite a few people, probably, so that might affect the price too.

[petethemole]

The road past the house appears to be private and part of the property. Google Streetview shows the west end is gated with a 'Private Land' sign and a cattle grid but doesn't show the east end by the house. Bing Maps Bird's Eye shows a change in surface at the east end. 

[ruggedpeak]

The road past the house appears to be private and part of the property. Google Streetview shows the west end is gated with a 'Private Land' sign and a cattle grid but doesn't show the east end by the house. Bing Maps Bird's Eye shows a change in surface at the east end. 

That's why I'd expect to see a link to a legal pack containing deeds and information on exactly what is the situation regarding access rights and other matters. There could even be some sort of restriction on use tying the property to railway use only. Pure speculation but I would not be surprised if the ownership details of this property are not straightforward.

[The Stationmaster]

That's why I'd expect to see a link to a legal pack containing deeds and information on exactly what is the situation regarding access rights and other matters. There could even be some sort of restriction on use tying the property to railway use only. Pure speculation but I would not be surprised if the ownership details of this property are not straightforward.

 

I would be very surprised if BR (or whoever closed the crossing to vehicular traffic) had been able to sell it without an access agreement over the section of road which was obviously built to allow the crossing to be closed - in fact providing the new access and closure of the crossing plus retention of access to the crossing cottage were probably all part of one agreement.  The thing to watch will be the maintenance agreements for that extra bit of access road which might put costs on the cottage owner.

[Mallard60022]

Here is one that caught my eye, just needs a bit of TLC!!!! €10k would be my first offer. Nexon is in the Haute-Vienne department.

http://www.avendrealouer.fr/vente/nexon-87/b-maison/3-pieces/loc-101-41238/fd-2450713.html?gclid=COrW57fUmM8CFRITGwodPwIBSg#xtor=SEC-721-GOO-[Dynamic-Remarketing---Property-Achat_Searchers-FD]-[103275396617]-C-[]&utm_medium=cpc

Look at that land......

If you are confident with building renovation then that is a great place. Wish I was young and brave.

Phil

[The Stationmaster]

Look at that land......

If you are confident with building renovation then that is a great place. Wish I was young and brave.

Phil

 

Not many trains either - only 5 northbound passenger trains between 07.00ish and 19.15ish on the JOB timetable, I didn't bother to look at southbound but it will probably be somewhere between 3 and 6 knowing secondary lines (in fact it might even be 5, strange things do sometimes happen on SNCF rural lines - and having checked there are indeed 5  )

 

Mind you it is more or less in the middle of nowhere and the land behind it is a right messy jungle - but  a nice bay window for watching the trains go by.

[runs as required]

Look at that land......

If you are confident with building renovation then that is a great place. Wish I was young and brave.

Phil

Might a Brit begin to encounter Brexit generated probs as a prospective purchaser/alien resident ?

 

It seems already the case in Tuscany.

 

dh