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  • At some point I’ll have to sell my parents’ house and it will only sell to a developer. There’s too much wrong with it - not through neglect but it’s just not at all modern - that nobody will buy it to live in. After you’ve costed up what it will cost to modernise you might as well knock it down.

    In the circumstance where it came to a developer / buyer like you describe it would go to the developer because I know it wouldn’t make it through a sale at the offer price if the offer was made by someone looking for a home.

  • Saw a house exactly like this in Hastings at the weekend, same people in it for nearly 40 years. It clearly was a lovely family home at some point, but the work needing doing now would cost us more than the house is worth, which is probably why they aren't doing it either.

  • Hah we saw quite a few like that, often in the same roads - seems that people see their neighbours sell up and want a piece of the action regardless of the state of their house.

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