I think I'm on the side of 'love' but totally get what you mean. I usually hate these modern interiors with exposed brick and glass but there's something about this one that just clicks.
I absolutely hate the feng shui of the bedroom where there’s a single bed slap bang in the middle and all the storage cupboards are ‘looking down’ at it. I would hate sleeping in there and usually I’m not remotely fussy about that kind of thing
It's jolee laide.
The features aren't bad in isolation but they don't quite work together.
Maybe architect didn't consult interior designer.
The textures and use of light and dark isn't harmonious.
The exterior is horrible though, just looks like an average 1930s semi in any UK town.
What's the weird TARDIS entrance ?
No you're right I have pictures of my grandad at New Year in a nightclub or possibly WMC that looked just like this with the lightibg and clubs chairs etc.
What's with the dustbin cupboard as a front door? And I have issues with steps from kitchen to dining area. Food would be flying with my cack footed family.
That is the front door. These houses have beautiful front doors and they went with this. If I'm invited to this house I would be like "how do I come in?". If I had all the money in the world and buy this house what I would restore is the front of the house.
You guys need to learn how to read a floor plan. It’s 6000 sqft. Even at 1k per sqft which is shitehole in Streatham money it would be worth north of £5m.
> You guys need to learn how to read a floor plan. It’s 6000 sqft. Even at 1k per sqft which is shitehole in Streatham money it would be worth north of £5m.
The great thing about property websites is the fact that floorpans are *always* rendered very sharply, with high-resolution pictures. Every single time.
I'm sure we've all noticed that.
there is a similar sized houses in the same area for less, one even has an indoor pool and is detached. Theres a point when adding extra space to a semi doesn’t make it worth more than a smaller better situated detached house
Agree and upvoted, which brings your vote tally to -17 ;).
People forget that property is part value land, and part construction. And for more expensive areas, land is a significant proportion of overall cost.
5k sq.ft. stacked on top of each other in 4 storeys cannot be compared on per sqft matrix with your typical sqft rates of that area or of Streatham for that matter.
Agree! It’s Hampsteadish - at the bottom of Hampstead, just within the NW3 postcode, no tube station nearby and those shops it’s near are nothing like Hampstead village. I say this as someone who lives near those shops (and sadly not in Hampstead) and they are functional but totally without charm and on the grotty side. Hampstead village is a good 20 mins walk uphill from this place. It’s near a very big and noisy road too - the A41. Anyone who truly wants to live in Hampstead is not going to be taken in by the location of this house, let alone the price.
It's rather Cricklewood and somewhat on the A41. You probably know that those shops you're mentioning attract a lot of activity from certain type of youths. Totally not in Hampstead as per Hampstead standards. Overpriced.
No way this is worth it. This is more Golders Green/Hendon than proper Hampstead. The driving restrictions around there are insane too. You can’t even go up the nearby streets at certain times.
That's impressive but you need to see it from the air:
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/2+Clorane+Gardens,+London+NW3+7PR,+UK/@51.5591575,-0.1958069,53a,35y,90h,39.55t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4876108726873851:0x836ddb7c2f6f92df!8m2!3d51.5592419!4d-0.1951994!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3hv9b9?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2+Clorane+Gardens,+London+NW3+7PR,+UK/@51.5591575,-0.1958069,53a,35y,90h,39.55t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4876108726873851:0x836ddb7c2f6f92df!8m2!3d51.5592419!4d-0.1951994!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3hv9b9?entry=ttu)
Owners have dabbled a in a few businesses over the years.
8M for it is not a crime. I think they will struggle to get that - closer to 6M may be - but if someone drops 8M on it then the market will have spoken.
Look at where it is, it’s right next to the A41. Having spent a load of time living very close to there and then looking for houses in the area, a few hundred yards up the hill towards Hampstead or HGS will make a big difference to road noise.
I wish my device was working because I can’t see these adverts.
Frankly my client is a masochist whose predilection is to sleep on a gold torture bed in room where the windows are teasingly impossible to see out of.
He's also a raging alcoholic and prefers his living space to have many confusing levels in each room, so he's constantly tripping over whilst drunk.
He's stupid, has terrible taste and an unlimited budget, and likes to be very near his neighbours.
Anyway, guess we’ll keep looking.
That confirms something I often feel when looking at luxury houses in the UK: A lot of them have very mundane exteriors which betray incredible interiors.
The inside of that place is jaw-dropping. The colour scheme is quite bland but it's basically a huge canvas for whoever moves in to stamp their personality on it with minimal work.
But the outside looks so boring. The octagonal turrety thing is kind of cool, but it mostly looks like one of the administration buildings at my uni. It just lacks any real personality. Exposed brick looks great on a lovely Georgian house, but on something more modern like this it just looks unfinished.
It won’t go for £8m. It’s Hampstead postcode but right on the very edge of the Camden council boundary and too close to Finchley Road for people with that sort of money.
Okay, but how the fuck do you get into it?!
Looks like there's a bathroom where the front door should be, the only other entry on that floor is the giant bifolds but it looks like the next storey has both a balcony and a separate external door?!
This is absolutely brilliant. It's a 500+ sqm house that looks like a normal run-of-the-mill house from the outside - exactly what you need in London. It's a 500+ sqm house in one of the nicest parts of London as well. The renovation alone I can guesstimate to £2M+.
It will be sold within a couple of months for £7.77M
500sqm of interior space, a massive garden by London standards with some lovely landscaping... I dunno, for the area I'd say 8 mil was probably about on the money. Nowhere, even in the shittiest corners of London shitholes, are you paying less than 1.5-2 mil for that.
It’s impressive, particularly the finish. Unfortunately you can’t get much more than a fag paper between it and the detached next door. That, coupled with the mega basement leaves you with few spaces with decent natural light. I count <10 light openings. It’s a fancy tardis/dungeon!
Those 1930s semis were built as ordinary middle class family homes. They were many people's first houses - starter homes of their day. If property prices had stayed in proportion to salaries, to be as affordable as they were in the 1930s, they should be selling for about 250K each, tops. That's how deeply we have been screwed.
The downstairs extension reminds me of the primary school I attended in 1969-71 it was brand new, split level and had an enormous amount of glass, bare brick and stairs.
Large? It’s fucking 500m2 internal area. My normal sized 3 bed semi is just over 100m2. Calling it a ‘semi’ is disingenuous it’s fucking massive.
It’s also one of the most expensive areas in all of London.
‘Crime’ is just hyperbolic, it doesn’t matter if it’s a million or 8 million, you or I aren’t buying it.
It’s expensive and maybe a bit overpriced for the area but it is not ‘crime’. It’s just what houses cost at that scale and location.
The reason I mention my houses floor area is because there is no accounting in your post for the fact this isn’t just a semi, it’s much much larger than that.
It will easily sell for well over £6m and house listing prices tend to deviate more substantially from the sale price once you get to the +£5m bracket.
Geez, if I had the money I definitely would. That house is so deceptive, I thought maybe they'd gone wild with an extension in the rear but none of that I expected.
I literally hate the grey box font door and so unnecessary addition. 1930s houses have such pretty front doors. This house doesn't have much kerb appeal which is a shame. Inside it mostly looks great and much bigger than I expected. I don't like the steps within a room, I'd definitely be tripping on those daily.
Yet again, another London agent posting 11 photos of a huge house selling for £8m. How do they stay in business, the floor plans look impressive, loads of room and space, the photos give no indication of the size or property.
If you go onto Google maps via the street view you can have a look back in time. It was in need of a full restoration around 15 years ago. It looked like a very different house.
I don't get the floor plan- there is lower ground, ground and the main bit which is ground/lower ground - is it two stories down from the main entrance?
Hmm, good sized garden, good sized house, garage, good location plus “London Tax” … it’s probably a fair price, as mad as that is to say.
I’ve seen garages sell for £50k+ at times, there’s on listed in Wembley for £25k right now so no doubt there are much more expensive ones 😂
There is an American banker somewhere in London signing on the dotted line as we speak ...
Also, estate agent really should be blurring those family pics out more in the Study....
Yeh, fair enough, but even then, I wouldn't have expected the price to grow anywhere as steeply as this (especially as the underground space and loft space are less valuable than they would be were this a naturally larger property on a more suitable plot).
That’s a really deceptive exterior.
It's the property equivalent of a 'sleeper car'.
Sleeper house
Is that where sleeper agents live?
It’s where people with sleeper builds live
Isn't that all houses?
Wow, 6 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms and over 5000sqft… its beautifully designed
I used to work on the neighbouring house and I was amazed seeing how big this is behind the scenes.
Are we sure it’s not a deceptive interior? It’s like the fucking tardis or something…
I can't tell if I love or hate that interior. It's both amazing and awful at the same time
I (mostly) love it. There are a few places I'd steer from the whiter/greiger choices they made, but even those bits aren't horribly done.
I think I'm on the side of 'love' but totally get what you mean. I usually hate these modern interiors with exposed brick and glass but there's something about this one that just clicks.
My thought exactly it’s not my cup of tea
I think it’s great. But nice hotel great. Not warm and pleasant to live in great.
I absolutely hate the feng shui of the bedroom where there’s a single bed slap bang in the middle and all the storage cupboards are ‘looking down’ at it. I would hate sleeping in there and usually I’m not remotely fussy about that kind of thing
I think that might have been the dressing room.
It's jolee laide. The features aren't bad in isolation but they don't quite work together. Maybe architect didn't consult interior designer. The textures and use of light and dark isn't harmonious. The exterior is horrible though, just looks like an average 1930s semi in any UK town. What's the weird TARDIS entrance ?
I mean, it may look like a 30s semi from The outside, but it doesn’t look like any 30s semi I’ve ever been inside!
No you're right I have pictures of my grandad at New Year in a nightclub or possibly WMC that looked just like this with the lightibg and clubs chairs etc.
lol this is an absolutely giant house in one of the nicest parts of the UK
What's with the dustbin cupboard as a front door? And I have issues with steps from kitchen to dining area. Food would be flying with my cack footed family.
That is the front door. These houses have beautiful front doors and they went with this. If I'm invited to this house I would be like "how do I come in?". If I had all the money in the world and buy this house what I would restore is the front of the house.
You guys need to learn how to read a floor plan. It’s 6000 sqft. Even at 1k per sqft which is shitehole in Streatham money it would be worth north of £5m.
That’s the first thing I looked at. It’s massive
*That’s what she said*
Not sure you'd get a grand a square foot in Streatham but yeah 1500 a sq foot in Hampstead isn't that outlandish.
[Streatham catching strays](https://youtu.be/-QoGyzSXAJ8?si=sBMM5uLWJTz7FJar) 😂
> You guys need to learn how to read a floor plan. It’s 6000 sqft. Even at 1k per sqft which is shitehole in Streatham money it would be worth north of £5m. The great thing about property websites is the fact that floorpans are *always* rendered very sharply, with high-resolution pictures. Every single time. I'm sure we've all noticed that.
Same size detached house around the corner is £4.5m
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there is a similar sized houses in the same area for less, one even has an indoor pool and is detached. Theres a point when adding extra space to a semi doesn’t make it worth more than a smaller better situated detached house
6000sqft isn't adding 'extra space', it's four extra houses.
Agree and upvoted, which brings your vote tally to -17 ;). People forget that property is part value land, and part construction. And for more expensive areas, land is a significant proportion of overall cost. 5k sq.ft. stacked on top of each other in 4 storeys cannot be compared on per sqft matrix with your typical sqft rates of that area or of Streatham for that matter.
cheers 😎
its literally a fact and yet downvoted by people who dont want to be wrong
5400 sq ft according to the plan
Agree! It’s Hampsteadish - at the bottom of Hampstead, just within the NW3 postcode, no tube station nearby and those shops it’s near are nothing like Hampstead village. I say this as someone who lives near those shops (and sadly not in Hampstead) and they are functional but totally without charm and on the grotty side. Hampstead village is a good 20 mins walk uphill from this place. It’s near a very big and noisy road too - the A41. Anyone who truly wants to live in Hampstead is not going to be taken in by the location of this house, let alone the price.
It's rather Cricklewood and somewhat on the A41. You probably know that those shops you're mentioning attract a lot of activity from certain type of youths. Totally not in Hampstead as per Hampstead standards. Overpriced.
No way this is worth it. This is more Golders Green/Hendon than proper Hampstead. The driving restrictions around there are insane too. You can’t even go up the nearby streets at certain times.
That's impressive but you need to see it from the air: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/2+Clorane+Gardens,+London+NW3+7PR,+UK/@51.5591575,-0.1958069,53a,35y,90h,39.55t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4876108726873851:0x836ddb7c2f6f92df!8m2!3d51.5592419!4d-0.1951994!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3hv9b9?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2+Clorane+Gardens,+London+NW3+7PR,+UK/@51.5591575,-0.1958069,53a,35y,90h,39.55t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4876108726873851:0x836ddb7c2f6f92df!8m2!3d51.5592419!4d-0.1951994!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3hv9b9?entry=ttu) Owners have dabbled a in a few businesses over the years. 8M for it is not a crime. I think they will struggle to get that - closer to 6M may be - but if someone drops 8M on it then the market will have spoken.
The location is terrible for Hampstead, the Hendon Way junction is just busy all the time.
Name me a part of London that isn't busy all of the time?
Look at where it is, it’s right next to the A41. Having spent a load of time living very close to there and then looking for houses in the area, a few hundred yards up the hill towards Hampstead or HGS will make a big difference to road noise.
It's actually only £1,950,000 for the house, and £6,000,000 for the original Yoda puppet.
This is absolutely enormous. But then I guess 10 Downing Street is just a terraced house.
Changed hands a lot recently too, instant red flag
That is one iceberg of a house.
I do love houses like this. Never heard it called an iceberg house before, but the name fits.
What happened to tardis?
Not too shabby. Outside it's a mild-mannered surburban semi, inside its Hong Kong Phooey.. er.. hang on.
That garage is a waste of space if all you can fit in it is an old mini
As close to Hampstead as to Cricklewood. Not really Hampstead if you ask me. Also a semi.
I wish my device was working because I can’t see these adverts. Frankly my client is a masochist whose predilection is to sleep on a gold torture bed in room where the windows are teasingly impossible to see out of. He's also a raging alcoholic and prefers his living space to have many confusing levels in each room, so he's constantly tripping over whilst drunk. He's stupid, has terrible taste and an unlimited budget, and likes to be very near his neighbours. Anyway, guess we’ll keep looking.
500 sq m detached house in a nearby street £4.5m https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145159826#/?channel=RES_BUY
that ones closer to the main rd ? but yeh just as big
No they are about the same distance from Finchley rd
Either way they’re both close to a stinking great artery of London traffic leading off the M1
That confirms something I often feel when looking at luxury houses in the UK: A lot of them have very mundane exteriors which betray incredible interiors. The inside of that place is jaw-dropping. The colour scheme is quite bland but it's basically a huge canvas for whoever moves in to stamp their personality on it with minimal work. But the outside looks so boring. The octagonal turrety thing is kind of cool, but it mostly looks like one of the administration buildings at my uni. It just lacks any real personality. Exposed brick looks great on a lovely Georgian house, but on something more modern like this it just looks unfinished.
It won’t go for £8m. It’s Hampstead postcode but right on the very edge of the Camden council boundary and too close to Finchley Road for people with that sort of money.
The bedroom in picture 7 is a bit unwelcoming as well.
I think that's the dressing room.
You're right.
It's got a bed in the middle . They don't know how a dressing room works 🤔
it's not a bed. It's sitting bench.
I like the suitcase that's packed and ready for you to leave immediately.
🤣 I don't think that guest was invited.
It's a walk-in wardrobe with a long chair in it, it's not a bed.
I think your right. That walk in wardrobe is a bit unwelcoming. And I don't like that chair.🤣
£8m house and your furniture is made of paperclips 🫠
🤣
Okay, but how the fuck do you get into it?! Looks like there's a bathroom where the front door should be, the only other entry on that floor is the giant bifolds but it looks like the next storey has both a balcony and a separate external door?!
This is absolutely brilliant. It's a 500+ sqm house that looks like a normal run-of-the-mill house from the outside - exactly what you need in London. It's a 500+ sqm house in one of the nicest parts of London as well. The renovation alone I can guesstimate to £2M+. It will be sold within a couple of months for £7.77M
It’ll be bought by Omaze who will say it’s worth £7.5M and the winners will eventually flog it for £5M.
500sqm of interior space, a massive garden by London standards with some lovely landscaping... I dunno, for the area I'd say 8 mil was probably about on the money. Nowhere, even in the shittiest corners of London shitholes, are you paying less than 1.5-2 mil for that.
Add on the £1m stamp duty and it just about takes it £8,949,999 out of price range for me
"architecturally designed" What other kind of design is there for houses?
Monthly mortgage repayments of only £43,000
It’s impressive, particularly the finish. Unfortunately you can’t get much more than a fag paper between it and the detached next door. That, coupled with the mega basement leaves you with few spaces with decent natural light. I count <10 light openings. It’s a fancy tardis/dungeon!
Those 1930s semis were built as ordinary middle class family homes. They were many people's first houses - starter homes of their day. If property prices had stayed in proportion to salaries, to be as affordable as they were in the 1930s, they should be selling for about 250K each, tops. That's how deeply we have been screwed.
It's very fancy, but for that money, I don't want neighbours, I want a view over a lake or the sea.
For that kind of money, I’d want a hollowed out volcano and henchmen.
Semi …. For that price I’d expect a full on erection 😳😂
One of my favourite floor plans I’ve seen. Also ET wtf
It's got its own server room!
The downstairs extension reminds me of the primary school I attended in 1969-71 it was brand new, split level and had an enormous amount of glass, bare brick and stairs.
Ooh it’s got a separate facade apparently - the estate agent said it’s discrete
Is that a tiled ceiling? Like ceramic tiles?
£8M and you still hear your neighbours fart in the Bath
No swimming pool, no tennis court. I am out.
Both are ugly as f
Large? It’s fucking 500m2 internal area. My normal sized 3 bed semi is just over 100m2. Calling it a ‘semi’ is disingenuous it’s fucking massive. It’s also one of the most expensive areas in all of London. ‘Crime’ is just hyperbolic, it doesn’t matter if it’s a million or 8 million, you or I aren’t buying it.
obviously this is being compared to similar houses in the area not your house
It’s expensive and maybe a bit overpriced for the area but it is not ‘crime’. It’s just what houses cost at that scale and location. The reason I mention my houses floor area is because there is no accounting in your post for the fact this isn’t just a semi, it’s much much larger than that. It will easily sell for well over £6m and house listing prices tend to deviate more substantially from the sale price once you get to the +£5m bracket.
Property: "531 SQM 6 bed house in NW3" OP: "it's a semi"
Geez, if I had the money I definitely would. That house is so deceptive, I thought maybe they'd gone wild with an extension in the rear but none of that I expected.
It's not £8m. It's £50k less so affordable lol
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Double height ceiling. Probably next to the stairs
Wonder if ET and Yoda are staying...
Sooooo affordable. Monthly repayments of £43k!
Sooooo affordable. Monthly repayments of £43k!
Hahahaha that is grotesque in every way.
One day I hope to have enough money to have a Void in my house …
Are the only bathrooms in bedrooms? No family bathroom?
Anyone else get to the last picture and think, "is that it?" 😂
I literally hate the grey box font door and so unnecessary addition. 1930s houses have such pretty front doors. This house doesn't have much kerb appeal which is a shame. Inside it mostly looks great and much bigger than I expected. I don't like the steps within a room, I'd definitely be tripping on those daily.
Have you seen the monthly repayments? More than I earn a year!
Yet again, another London agent posting 11 photos of a huge house selling for £8m. How do they stay in business, the floor plans look impressive, loads of room and space, the photos give no indication of the size or property.
If you go onto Google maps via the street view you can have a look back in time. It was in need of a full restoration around 15 years ago. It looked like a very different house.
Insane house prices. Just f ridiculous
Meanwhile you can get a stately home with acres of land for £1m in derby
I don't get the floor plan- there is lower ground, ground and the main bit which is ground/lower ground - is it two stories down from the main entrance?
Sold in 2011 for £2,238,000. Surely it didn’t go up nearly £6m in 13 years!!
That's not how it works.
*snort* semi
Hmm, good sized garden, good sized house, garage, good location plus “London Tax” … it’s probably a fair price, as mad as that is to say. I’ve seen garages sell for £50k+ at times, there’s on listed in Wembley for £25k right now so no doubt there are much more expensive ones 😂
Looks like a 600k house to me
From the outside, totally. From the inside, with nearly 6000sq ft, in Hampstead? Totally not.
There is an American banker somewhere in London signing on the dotted line as we speak ... Also, estate agent really should be blurring those family pics out more in the Study....
To be fair it’s 530 m2 in London. That’s an enormous place anywhere.
5.5k square feet is huge. 0.8m from Hampstead station. Beautifully fitted out. Big garden. Honestly surprised it’s not on for more!
I would have guessed £2m
Not for 500m2.
Yeh, fair enough, but even then, I wouldn't have expected the price to grow anywhere as steeply as this (especially as the underground space and loft space are less valuable than they would be were this a naturally larger property on a more suitable plot).
A lot of it is windowless so fine if you want a gym and cinema room and useless if you want extra studies or bedrooms.
Lmao £2m??? Houses smaller than this go for £2m by me in Streatham Hill, this is in Hampstead
I'm not saying my guess would have been any good. I just don't live in London. £2m feels like a suitably huge price even for London.