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Is This The Next Adventure?

£8,500 For A House?

Surely £8,500 For a House (Ruin) Is Too Little A Price?

The last Unique Property Adventure from 2016 worked out well: 6 buildings fully renovated.

Noss Head Lighthouse Station Is Now Safe From Dereliction

How about 2024 and…

A Derelict Village By Castletown

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^^ £8,500 For A House ^^

It may be in need of total renovation,

but the £8,500 is for total legal ownership!

^^ Is This The Next Unique Property Bulletin Project? ^^

^^ £8,500 For A Ruinous House Shell? ^^

At A Derelict Village By The Coast

^^ Surely The Bricks & Stone Masonry Are Worth The £8,500? ^^

 

^^ £8,500 For The House Shell ^^

Estate Agents Often Say A Sea View Is Worth £10,000!

^^ Surely This Picturesque Location Is Due A Bit of TLC? ^^

 

^^ Is This The Next Unique Property Bulletin Project? ^^

We Have Managed These Types of Project Before.

This weekend, 9th and 10th March 2024, we have a special feature article. It follows on from the article we wrote in 2016 about the deteriorating Noss Head Lighthouse Station. A group of 24 Unique Property Bulletin readers ended up buying Noss Head Lighthouse Station and renovating the buildings. That was an example of successful Unique Property mischief and adventures made real. Now we spotted a derelict village by the sea. There are 34 dwellings. Each works out at £8,500 after legal conveyancing and title registration fees. 34 people/couples would have their own house in a magnificent location for less than the price of a second hand car. Of course there is a lot more to this. Attached are photos and the initial feature article.

These are the first steps, especially the Planning Permission files and drawings for you to enjoy…

 https://wam.highland.gov.uk/wam/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=O3D66ZIH0A000 

Then the old details on Rightmove: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/71919049#/ 

Also our contact details and credentials if your interest is piqued…

 https://uniquepropertybulletin.co.uk/contact-us/

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Wet Wet Wet

Water Tower

(This should be nearer £249,000 Than £350,000)

How Do We Choose Candidate Properties?

Several ways!

Here are just a couple in this latest update on our social media feed…

Marti Pellow just happened to be singing in the background.

This brilliant musician may have helped find you a unique home…

 

^^ Perry Water Tower ^^

The Drive, Perry, Huntingdon PE28 0SS

Photo Courtesy of the very decent Simon Judd and the kindly host, Geograph.

We are scratching the old wooden top heads here! The Perry Water Tower SOLD last year was £290,000. Now, it is for sale at £350,000. That is £60,000 more. Yet does NOT appear to include a successful Planning Permission (to convert into a home) or any meaningful expenditure to warrant a steep £60,000 profit. Especially from our experience, this water tower is already at the top of it’s value (they can go for less that £100,000).

So we would CAUTION our readers…

PLEASE DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.

We would ONLY expect this water tower to be worth £60,000 more (just 11 months later) if the intermediate owner HAD successfully ADDED the crucial and valuable Planning Permission.

We have looked and can find NO record of a granted or approved Planning Permission on Perry Water Tower.

Just some nice photos of what Perry Water Tower MIGHT look like (click here).

But someone, likely the new owner will have to do a lot of hard and expensive work SECURING THE VITAL PLANNING PERMISSION to convert this FROM a water tower TO a home. That is the red-tape that MUST be done (plus extensive and expensive BUILDING WARRANTS), before even just one house-conversion brick may be added or subtracted.

The fact that this water tower has been hanging about since 4th December 2023 on Rightmove UNSOLD after having been sold already for around £290,000 on 10th May 2023 does not auger well.

=> If any of our readers can help us, and research a bit more on the Local Authority planning website to see if there has even been a “pre-app” planning permission enquiry and share your findings in the comments  section on our social media feeds (click here and scroll downward until you find the relevant post), that would be very much appreciated). Thank you.

Consequently, and with all we have seen so far at Perry Water Tower and much of which is included here and on our social media review page, we don’t like advising this sort of thing, but it is based on 37 years tapping away at this keyboard and the experience from many very helpful Unique Property Bulletin readers,..

We do NOT value this water tower at the current guide of £350,000. We value Perry Tower in the current condition and with NO Planning Permission at approximately…

£249,000.

Even then, that is a high price for high tower when compared with other, similar sales. The last water tower of similar construction/style that one our readers went to bid on was guided at around £40,000 and sold for £101,000. Even at £101,000 the eyebrows were raised that £101,000 was a very good result for the seller. So here the current £350,000 wishful price comes from is difficult to fathom.

=> If you are really into finding your own unique home (and from a candid source with, warts and all!), then…

 

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Please consider “following” Unique Property Bulletin..

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…so as not to miss any of the tasty morsels we upload for you

every day or two, since rebooting

the publication on 1st January 2024.

For example. one of many here might just be your ideal home.

There are plenty more of these to be added going forwards 🙂

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^^ Don’t Miss a Thing ^^

Apparently It Is called FOMO (Sorry!)

Editor’s Special Unique Property Mischief Finds:-

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Update: 21st February 2024

Fire Station For Sale

Only Our Estimate…

£350,000 to £850,000

Please let Eddisons Know if, you, like us, loathe it when an estate agent puts POA on a set of details. This is very annoying. Though here at Unique Property Bulletin one of the few buildings we DDO NOT like featuring are fire stations. Why? We REALLY DO NOT LIKE FEATURING FIRE STATIONS. One of the few unusual buildings that we believe should STAY OPEN AS A FIRE STATION are fire stations (when a new, bigger facility is being built, then that doesn’t hurt so much).

Declaration of interest/bias disclosure: one of our directors served for 20 years as a firefighter.
The only reason we feature these is that the one thing worse than a closed fire station is a DERELICT station building. Enough said. 
So to balance the previous cop-shop police station for sale at £120,000 to £90,000 we have a fire station for sale.


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Update: 19th February 2024

Tillicoultry Police Station

For Sale

Guide: £120,000.

We Suggest: £90,000

Here is our latest feature article. This time about the many former police stations for sale.

This one is located is a place surrounded by the Ochil Hills and Wallace Monument. The actual building could do with a bit of added sparkle. Maybe a Tardis or Dalek.

^^ Police Boxes Are Also For Sale ^^

But today we feature a modest police station,

Or as we often say:

A neatly arranged pile of bricks…

^^ Tillicoultry Police Station ^^

Guide £120,000. We Would Suggest: £90,000.

^^ Tillicoultry Police Station ^^

Guide £120,000. We Would Suggest: £90,000.

It is tempting to think the stripping of this structure back-to-bricks was possibly due to an unwelcome infestation. Daleks maybe?

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^^ Police Stations & Police Boxes^^ 

Seem To Attract Some Iconic People & Extra Terrestrials

^^ Russ McLean ^^

Founded Unique Property Bulletin

2 Years After This Photo Was Taken

As you may appreciate from the old photo above, our editor, Russ McLean has a soft spot for these old police stations and has mentioned Unique Property Bulletin buying this project. At £90,000 it would be a very good price and is only one hour from our current HQ. But then again, the purpose of Unique Property Bulletin is to help YOU find your favourite style of unusual home…

^^ Tillicoultry Police Station ^^

A very modest structure

But in an outstandingly beautiful part of the country

& a LOT of property for the money!

But our main thesis today is that there is a LOT of property for little money to the extent that many buyers will have a much sought after desire to be free-of-mortgage realised if they purchase this hidden gem…

^^ The New Format of Unique Property Bulletins ^^

Every Couple of Days.

Thanks to an alert reader, we may now understand why Tillicoultry Police Station in Moss Road has been stripped back to brick…

 

Tillicoultry Flood: Moss Road
Photograph Courtesy of Geograph & John Chroston
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Tillicoultry Flood: Moss Road
Photograph Courtesy of Geograph & John Chroston
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Here at Unique Property Bulletin we have owned buildings where flooding is an issue. We raised the floors by a foot (concrete) and built substantial flood defences around the perimeter. All valuable items were upstairs. Downstairs was minimal furnishing (actually used for sleeping ~ with flood alarms fitted). That cured the flood problem in Argyll. Here in Tillicoultry it is a challenge to consider what the best remedy would be.

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UPDATE (Since we were alerted about the local flooding issue)…

It is also worth mentioning that given the flood local folk endured, maybe go a bit easy with the haggling for this building. It would have been traumatic for the owners and neighbours. It is an important matter, to be aware of how distressing a local flood can be (we know, we’ve had it happen).  Also worth chatting with the neighbours about maybe altering the police station (if you buy it) by extending out the back so that there is a bigger FIRST FLOOR, with a significant amount at the back built over open air (on pillars) for car parking on the ground floor area. If you have your living accommodation and your home-office/studio on the upstairs first-floor, you will be much safer and your home will survive better if there is another flood.

Leave the pre-existing ground floor minimally furnished. You may well set a good template on how to survive the worries and hazards that come with ever increasing numbers of floods.

The CONTACT details for the estate agent SELLING Tillicoultry Police Stations + more photos are on the regular social media updates and especially to take yuur interest in this curious wee police station in an awesomely beautiful area of the country further, just click onto the photos in the next (social media) boxes….



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You may need to scroll down this page to find hat you came here for. This is because we add fresh unique property for sale regularly and he older buildings listed tend to slip down the rankings on our Bulletin pages…

The Gatehouse, Dover

For Sale

Guide: £120,000

We Value At: £90,000

Subject To Survey & Legals

The Gate House, Victoria Park,

Dover, Kent, CT16 1QR.

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