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| address | type | original price | current price | change | days on market | postcode | |
| Bratton Fleming, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4TG | 4 bedroom house | £265,000 | £250,000 | DOWN 5% | 79 days | (ex31) | |
| Yelland Road, Fremington, Barnstapl EX31 3DT | 3 bedroom | £325,000 | £310,000 | DOWN 4% | 187 days | (ex31) | |
| Lovacott, Newton Tracey, Barnstaple EX31 3PX | 4 bedroom house | £379,950 | £367,500 | DOWN 3% | 60 days | (ex31) | |
| Yelland Rd, Fremington, Barnstaple, EX31 3DT | 4 bedroom house | £397,500 | £375,000 | DOWN 5% | 187 days | (ex31) | |
| Buy Detached House For Sale East Do EX31 4NA | 3 bedroom house | £465,000 | £449,000 | DOWN 3% | 304 days | (ex31) | |
| Kentisbury, Barnstaple, Devon EX31, EX31 4ND | 4 bedroom | £595,000 | £570,000 | DOWN 4% | 297 days | (ex31) | |
| Lovacott Cross, Newton Tracey, Barn EX31 3QF | 6 bedroom house | £650,000 | £575,000 | DOWN 11% | 105 days | (ex31) |
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- N Sanders || Still ridiculously overpriced in north Devon. The more unrealisitic vendors and estate agants are, the bigger the crash will be when it,inevitably, comes -- left at Thu Mar 13 22:15:25 +0000 2008
- N sanders || What did I tell you about a crash? But you didn't listen did you? Where do you think we'll be this time next year? -- left at Thu Jun 12 21:01:50 +0000 2008
- || I agree have a look at london prices they are reducing between 15% and 20 % if london and the south east are reducing how can North Devon expect to reduce9% to 1% !! wake up North Devon! -- left at Sun Sep 07 22:44:16 +0000 2008
- Realdeal || In my opinion the worst value properties in North Devon currently are old bungalows needing work marketed at boom, or near boom, prices. Don't get conned. Estate agents have been able to get shot of these at high prices to 'unsuspecting' older retiring people, selling up houses from 'higher priced' areas like London and the home counties. These older people often do not use the internet, so would not think to ask a younger person to check the land registry past ACTUAL boom sale prices to see if the current asking price is fair. They think the prices look cheap here, compared to where they live, when they come down to Devon specially for a couple of days to take a look and make an offer. But when these people actually complete their retirement purchase and move in they realise that they did not get such a bargain as they thought. eg the local OAPs will let it slip that the property was overpriced so they did not buy it and it had been on the market for many months. Then the purchaser starts to realise other issues. Like the cost of living here is actually very high - eg petrol dearer than in the home counties, water rates are shockingly high because the usage by tourists inflates them. Can your pension and savings stretch? Add to that the fact that many of the bungalows are built on small plots with hardly any garden here, and you realise just how overpriced they really are. Compare what you get in the way of a bungalow to a house here. Then compare the two to the area you are moving from. You will get a shock. Also be warned - there are currently a lot of 'old shed' bungalows in North Devon at boom or near boom asking prices. Estate agents commonly descibe them as 'needing a bit of love'. They actually usually want major work - completely stripping out, and having old conservatories (which are a liability not a selling point!) pulled down. Also note many old bungalows are not built of brick but of other local materials. By the way, you would be surprised to know who coined the phrase 'old shed'. It wasn't me. The person knows who they are and, put it this way, I am sure, by their occupation, reads this site. I think I'll leave it at that. Make sure you know what the locals know before you buy. For example Braunton bungalows are very expensive. But its roads and beaches are always heaving with surfer traffic in the summer, which may spoil your enjoyment. Besides, it's always raining here far more than the home counties,(you will definitely need a washer dryer and watch out for damp mould problems with old bungalows). Consider carefully -do you really want to retire here? -- left at Tue Feb 24 18:54:18 +0000 2009
- Realdeal || Update on North Devon bungalows April 09. Care many people are putting their bungalows on the market at very overinflated prices this Spring - especially those that did not sell last year coming around again at the same price as last year. Check past land registry selling prices for the road to protect yourself. I have just discovered the worst case of it so far. It was a bungalow that sold to current owners in the peak of the boom for £225,000 (checked to land registry sale prices). It has just come on the market at £235,000. The sales particulars read that it was 'a much improved bungalow' so I thought that might be why it had a higher than boom asking price. However when I got there and asked what the current owners had done to the property they told me they had not done anything to the property! Also watch out for asbestos in Devon bungalows in these old conservatories and garage roofs. When I tried to reduce my offer because of a leaking asbestos roof, as it should be removed, an agent said 'Well you don't have to remove it.' Another thing to watch out for is garden photos in estate agents' particulars - the wide angled lense shot is a favourite to make them look much bigger than they actually are to get you to view. It is not a normal practice in Devon to give garden sizes on sales particulars which makes value comparisons more difficult. -- left at Sat Apr 11 20:28:08 +0000 2009
- Realdeal || A big nasty shock now comes to the North Devon bungalow market following the budget (see BBC news website story 'Tax blows for holiday homeowners' also mentioned on the housepricecrash website). The BBC story states: "From April next year holiday property landlords will no longer be able to write off 'trading' losses from second homes against their tax bill." Buyers should bear this in mind on your future plans for retirement before you make your offers on bungalows this summer in Devon with the IMF predicting further price falls in the UK. Be cute over the lag effect between London and the home counties and Devon which affects unemployment and house prices in recessions. Unemployment has only just now started to rise rapidly in North Devon and asking prices have scarcely fallen below boom prices in many cases up to now. It is well known by estate agents that price falls in North Devon always lag behind London and the home counties by about 6 months. -- left at Thu Apr 23 10:07:44 +0000 2009
- Readdeal || Realdeal Update on North Devon bungalows. Unemployment is now steadily increasing in North Devon eg Shapland, a very old established Barnstaple door manufacturing firm, laid off a lot of people who have been working there for decades in recent weeks. There was a programme on local TV tonight about locals giving up bed and breakfast because too much government legislation is destroying their profits. Meanwhile locals are petitioning the government on the recent tax changes on second holiday homes which will soon eat into their earnings. I saw 3 reposessions on flats and houses for sale in the local paper this week. Nevertheless there are plenty of bungalows on the market waiting for unsuspecting cash buyers from other parts of the country, often at asking prices higher than the boom selling prices, so it remains vitally important to check out land registry selling prices so you don't get done. EG I recently saw a 1950s bungalow at asking price 240,000, described as 'improved' including a 'new kitchen'. This had sold in the boom for 200,000 needing doing up. Well, put it this way, a bit of paint had been splashed around, new carpets laid, and new kitchen doors put on a very old carcass (good job I opened one of the doors, though I didn't appreciate the spider nestling in the splashed paint), but there was still much more important, expensive work to be done eg tell-tale old electric fuse box lurking in the cupboard, white painted old iron guttering, old central heating, old windows, original roof etc. Make sure you check out claims on estate agents particulars - that 'recent conservatory addition' that the agent figures turns the bungalow into a spacious 3 bed from a poky 2, is confirmed by the seller as being 12 years old and made by his own hands when the spot of rainwater plops on your face looking upwards at the viewing. Some bungalows sold for much less in the autumn and winter, and prices will be appearing in zoopla for those soon, against which to guage the lack of realism of current asking prices. Be very wary if you are buying with cash. Two different local surveyors have agreed my exact cash offers as being the market value - even when costly defects were discovered after survey I did not know about, which made me want to reduce my offer. That meant I was unable to revise offer price to complete a deal. If you can take a builder with you when you first view and make an offer in the knowledge of particular defects (and allow a bit extra for what you can't see) you will probably be told where to go, but at least then you won't waste any survey money and can move on to the next one. Special note on asbestos. It is rife and often crumbly so don't buy a 50's or 60s bunglaow without a proper survey. A local specialist firm quoted me between 1,200 and 4,000 pounds (depending on the type of asbestos) for removal from a 1950's bungalow garage roof. Quite a few bungalows with asbestos in them were just demolished by unknowing builders at Westward Ho a few weeks ago causing a major health scare (I'm not kidding). I may have to start wearing a hard hat and charging danger money to report on the North Devon bungalow market soon! -- left at Tue Jun 09 21:03:35 +0000 2009
- Realdeal || I have just been reading a series of articles in the Telegraph online about apparently rising seaside home values around the UK. Truth is, where I am at least, a lot of properties are sticking in cases where sellers are trying to get boom prices. To protect yourself check out, over a period of time, Rightmove and websites like Zoopla). The tell-tale signs of some long-time unsold overpriced property are appearing on Rightmove with the use of old-hat multiagency creeping in. (Sellers, why don't you just reduce the asking price that you have barely, if at all, reduced in the last 1-2 years. It would seem to me that as half the world has been able to view your overpriced property on Rightmove 24-7 under one estate agent you don't need an extra agent on the case.) I suppose it looks a bit less obvious how long a property has been unsold if one agent puts up a picture of the exterior and the other one puts up a picture of the interior on Rightmove - a practice that I noticed last week. I've also noticed a few properties re-appearing on Rightmove where chains have fallen through after several months. Anyway, back to the Telegraph online seaside series. The website has, quite amazingly, given some statistics from an estate agent on how many thousands/millions of pounds more people will pay the nearer to the sea a property is. Who are these loonies, I wonder, who are prepared to lose their life savings paying more and more the nearer to the sea they get? Haven't they heard about global warming and rising sea levels? And you know it's not just properties on cliffs that are at risk (because of cliff erosion). Sand, I've discovered from locals, can block drains in villages near the sea, resulting in cases of flash flooding. So do your research before you buy using the environment's flood website. In this severe recession I don't see the seaside councils having so much cash in the next few years to bolster up existing defences against the sea, and when they cannot afford to do so, as you well know from TV programmes,they just let properties go into the sea with no recompense for the owner. One other thing to bear in mind before you buy in the South West is the presence of Radon. Don't be alarmed - it will appear widely in home information packs and cannot be avoided in Devon. There are remedies if it affects the home you wish to buy. I'm trying to find out more about it but you might feel it would be a good idea to have a Radon test done if the HIP indicates the home in the area you wish to buy is at risk. -- left at Sat Jul 11 16:55:18 +0000 2009
- Realdeal || Anyone inspired by Kirstie Allsopp to buy one of the many fixer-uppers to be found in Devon should bear in mind the Daily Mail online article 'Make your home greener or pay higher council tax' by Daniel Martin seen today before you dive in. It seems the government is thinking of charging higher council tax and stamp duty to those who do not make their homes greener by updating old boilers, insulation etc. Under proposals, while you own a 'bad house' you would have to pay higher council tax. When you come to sell the buyer would have to pay higher stamp duty (which I suppose could result in a lower offer prices). As owner you would be allowed to borrow the money to sort out the property at cheap interest rates, so the idea is the interest cost should be outweighed by your utility bill savings over the period of the loan. If you sell while you still have the govt loan outstanding the new buyer would have to take it over. Sounds fraught with difficulty if they bring this one in to me. -- left at Mon Jul 13 19:53:55 +0000 2009
- Readdeal || Just a short post to warn buyers in North Devon about a couple of things that have come to my attention lately. First tree roots on SOME types of trees (re potential to cause subsidence of buildings) and thick tree canopies on tall trees(that can block light from buildings). I've seen a few properties lately with nearby trees like willows, oaks, beech etc that are known for trouble. Check out good websites that tell you how far these trees should be away from a property you are buying (a long way). I've seen some very close to buildings for sale. Some are in gardens or neighbour gardens, some are on council owned ground nearby. I have been told by one person that a tree surgeon would not allow a reduction to half height on an oak tree very close to their home. Many of these trees have protection orders on them and you can be fined up to £20,000 if you reduce them yourself. This is usually because tree surgeons see the tree as having value to the wider public ('amenity value'). Second there are mines in North Devon you should be aware of - consult your surveyor and solicitor. You can do some of your own research by looking at the list of North Devon mines on the internet but this is definitely an area where you need to get specialist advice. -- left at Mon Sep 21 10:48:44 +0000 2009
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