£175k - Pretending your boat is a house...

[Mark-1]

Pretending your boat is a house and pricing it accordingly:

Check out this property for sale on Rightmove!

(And no, it's not being sold with a mooring.)

 

[Stemar]

(And no, it's not being sold with a mooring.)

Charges: 'Norana' is moored on a 12 month Berthing Agreement starting1st June 2020. The sum payable to Premier Marinas, Chichester is £7265.10. The fee includes parking for a vehicle and connection to mains electricity, water and sewage.

That sounds rather like a mooring to me. I thought my rates were bad, but that looks not so different from a marina berth price to me. I always fancied a houseboat, but I definitely like my rates bill better than that.

 

[Mark-1]

Charges: 'Norana' is moored on a 12 month Berthing Agreement starting1st June 2020. The sum payable to Premier Marinas, Chichester is £7265.10. The fee includes parking for a vehicle and connection to mains electricity, water and sewage.

That sounds rather like a mooring to me. I thought my rates were bad, but that looks not so different from a marina berth price to me. I always fancied a houseboat, but I definitely like my rates bill better than that.

By 'without a mooring' I meant you're not buying the mooring, just the boat. Sorry, I should have been clearer.

 

[dom]

By 'without a mooring' I meant you're not buying the mooring, just the boat. Sorry, I should have been clearer.

Waaay overpriced!

 

[srm]

Advertising a boat as a freehold house? I wonder if they took legal advice as a buyer with no knowledge of boats could be in for a very nasty shock when the first problem below the waterline manifests. Trades description act anyone?

Did they mention bilge pumps?

 

[xyachtdave]

Quite nice inside, I wonder what it’s like below the waterline?

 

[srm]

Oh dear lost the post when editing:

Advertising a boat as a freehold house. I wonder if they took legal advice as a buyer without knowledge of boats will be in for a very nasty shock when the first problem below the waterline manifests. Trades description act anyone?

I did not notice any mention of bilge pumps !

 

[Concerto]

Nor any mention of engines.

 

[jordanbasset]

Last lifted out 10 years ago, I suspect it is due again, I wonder how many house surveyors are also scuba divers

 

[pvb]

Last lifted out 10 years ago, I suspect it is due again, I wonder how many house surveyors are also scuba divers

I suspect it's very dodgy underwater by now.

 

[xyachtdave]

I suspect it's very dodgy underwater by now.

Good idea to sell it then....!

 

[duncan99210]

Friends of mine in Falmouth sold their live aboard MFV about a year back. It was sold along with an agreement to moor via estate agents. It went for £75k..... To put it mildly, I was amazed at both the speed it sold at (days rather than weeks) and the price. And it was in reasonable nick with a functioning engine but as a boat I’d have regarded it as a money pit.

 

[Lucy52]

A houseboat in Shoreham sold for £350,000. Freehold mooring, the boats there look to be complete liabilaties as boats. One of my patients daughters has one. "It's all right, they have put a butyle membrain round it," lol. It would cost a fortune to get one taken out and the hull fixed properly.

 

[Mark-1]

A houseboat in Shoreham sold for £350,000. Freehold mooring, the boats there look to be complete liabilaties as boats. One of my patients daughters has one. "It's all right, they have put a butyle membrain round it," lol. It would cost a fortune to get one taken out and the hull fixed properly.

Large sum for Freehold mooring + boat, seems fine to me. Large sum for Boat without mooring, less so...

I've been on a couple of Shoreham houseboats. (They do an art thing on some of the boats.) I liked them, interesting vessels.

 

[prv]

Nor any mention of engines.

It‘s a houseboat on the Chichester canal; it’s permanently connected to mains water and drainage and probably can’t go anywhere without a crane. Why would it want engines?

I don’t know the houseboat market to comment on the price, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to list it on Rightmove. “Freehold” is a bit questionable, but I doubt the site has an option for “you own the boat but rent the mooring”.

Pete

 

[cherod]

Pretending your boat is a house and pricing it accordingly:

Check out this property for sale on Rightmove!

(And no, it's not being sold with a mooring.)

pretending your house is a boat more like it

 

[HissyFit]

They should build more 'houses' on flood plains. it would save on insurance costs.

 

[Tam Lin]

You could go for a more expensive one. Check out this property for sale on Rightmove!

 

[cherod]

You could go for a more expensive one. Check out this property for sale on Rightmove!

They usually ( in holland etc ) come with a merc or vw on the poop deck ?

 

[Bathdave]

My BiL has started buying process on a houseboat in battersea - the mooring was alleged to be included and ‘valued’ at £400k but it turns out there are lots of legal hurdles and approvals needed, you can’t apparently transfer the lease on it and it will cost tens of thousands and take 6 months for a new one to be granted

He’s thinking of walking away despite spending several thousand on it to be towed down the Thames and lifted for a survey