Riverside houses. Cheap ones

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I've recently done a trip from Teddington to Inglesham and I was contemplating where would be the cheapest place to buy a house beside the river. The requirements would be:

minimum 2 bedroom property.
full 365 day occupancy ie no chalets like at Henley with summer only residential use.
40ft mooring on the main line of the River or at least a through route with traffic
(for example the old river at Shepperton would be okay but not the weir stream below Old Windsor as that is a dead end and not part of a through navigation.
No marina houses
No footpath going through the garden.
Road access.

thats it.

So where would be the cheapest and about how much would it be?

and what about the most expensive? I suppose Mongewell would come quite high up the list but Fawley Court was recently sold for around £20,000,000 I believe, and now has its own uniformed 'SWAT' guards on patrol. And Culham Court was a few pennies too.
 
Cheap and riverside are not two words I would associate with the thames! I have seen what was basically a wooden log type cabin that meets your minimum criteria but without road access for £400k on Laleham reach probably worth less than half that elsewhere!
 
Think of a telephone number, double it and add 20% for good measure. That is the rough guide to Thameside property.

Some circumstances make prices somewhat variable. Area, direct frontage, towpath frontage, access, mainstream, weir-stream, availability etc. etc.

Certain properties cannot be valued as they are worth what someone will pay.
 
There's a line of houses on the nearside at Abingdon, 'twixt the marina and the "canal" bridge that could be affordable.

Don't suspect any of them might be for sale.....
 
That's probably

sarabande said:
there's an agency called Waterside Properties. I have seen their cars around in Staines.

http://www.watersideproperties.co.uk/
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Waterview, they are based at Thames Ditton Marina, Waterside are Southcoast, Waterview specialise in Thameside properties.

Plenty of apartments on the lower reaches (Rich / Tedd) but I guess you know that as I seem to remember you were local. More houses the further you go up...

edit - If you do go for an apartment council tax can be stupidly expense, I recently moved from a two bed riverside in Tedd and that was coming in just shy of top band (2400 a year)
 
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Don't you pay as much again for flood insurabce premiums?

More seriously, would you consider a houseboat? Seem to be a number of those and they look (from what you see cruising past) pretty comfortable and mooring to your property is presumably always possible.
 
RichardShead said:
Waterview, they are based at Thames Ditton Marina, Waterside are Southcoast, Waterview specialise in Thameside properties.
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http://www.watersideresidential.co.uk/

Bought my place through them and had no probs.

My house/contents insurance is probably comparable with similar properties elsewhere, however I am not covered for damage by rising water (flood caused by a burst pipe is covered in the normal way)

I had to "kiss a few frogs" before I found what I was looking for, and there are places where I could have got a five bedroom house with a double garage and a pool for what I paid for my "shed" but I don't regret moving here for one second. The view, the facility, and the lifestyle make it worth every penny. My neighbours obviously resent me moving here because four of them are advertised for sale on waterside :eek: (in fact one of the photos is taken from my garden!)

In answere to the OPs question, I reckon Chertsey - Weybridge probably offer the best value; below Chertsey you start paying London prices, above Weybridge you start paying "posh out of town" prices until you get to Abingdon and above where it may tail off a bit.
 
That's interesting

rr_123 said:
http://www.watersideresidential.co.uk/

Bought my place through them and had no probs.

My house/contents insurance is probably comparable with similar properties elsewhere, however I am not covered for damage by rising water (flood caused by a burst pipe is covered in the normal way)

I had to "kiss a few frogs" before I found what I was looking for, and there are places where I could have got a five bedroom house with a double garage and a pool for what I paid for my "shed" but I don't regret moving here for one second. The view, the facility, and the lifestyle make it worth every penny. My neighbours obviously resent me moving here because four of them are advertised for sale on waterside :eek: (in fact one of the photos is taken from my garden!)

In answere to the OPs question, I reckon Chertsey - Weybridge probably offer the best value; below Chertsey you start paying London prices, above Weybridge you start paying "posh out of town" prices until you get to Abingdon and above where it may tail off a bit.
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That Waterside clearly have far more exposure than that of Waterview, I wonder why they have not snapped up the Thames office? edit - got it all wrong see below...

Cripes there's another one! watersideresidentail! so that's three there must be something between all of them!
 
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Andrew_Fanner said:
And rr 123's "shed" is a super place, if work and finances permitted I'd go for one of the neighbouring houses.
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Ahah, but you haven't seen MY shed :)

Insurance for our island house is actually cheaper than the landlocked one we left in Suburbia!
 
" buy a house beside the river. "

I could sell you a nice "Hice" near the river,have be cash tho,nice river views and dead handy for walks into Windsor and the Pound Shop or Mcdonalds..
Does need a bit of work and the gardens might prove a problem for the flymow but you could make a few bob out of moorings and maybe selling teas.
Handy if you had a thing about flying big flags and all.
Rare opportunity,last on the market about 1066.
Did I mention a cash sale and no questions asked.:)
 
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Most expensive of the ones sold recently, or relatively recently, may be Park Place which sold for £42 million prior to the current planning consent which will allow a mahoosive revamp. The house isn't exactly on the river, but it does have about 1/4 mile of river frontage just above Marsh Lock so it probably counts.

PS I went round it with the developer prior to the work starting and, honestly, the house could not have been in a worse state without being reclassified as a heap of rubble. Of course, it would have been cheaper to start again from scratch.
 
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Yup, it will be lovely when it's done. Just look at the new trees planted on the river bank by the two houses which you can see being refurbed there - you get to those by way of a private road on the estate which runs under a rather wonderful bridge carrying the road to Wargrave.
 
Always wondered

benjenbav said:
Yup, it will be lovely when it's done. Just look at the new trees planted on the river bank by the two houses which you can see being refurbed there - you get to those by way of a private road on the estate which runs under a rather wonderful bridge carrying the road to Wargrave.
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About that pad, so those two houses are part of the Estate so there must be a chuffin great one though the bridge and up the hill?

I also like the big one just above Marlow Bridge on the left but the present owners are perhaps lacking in taste a little ....
 
Wow never knew that

benjenbav said:
The main house at Park Place was used for the filming of the St Trinians film with Rupert Everett and prior to that had an interesting history. Some pix in link below.

http://www.parkplaceschoolspage.co.uk/ppwebsite_006.htm
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you have solved 25 years worth of curiosity...although to be fair I could have had a little look on the web! may dig out the 1960 Country Life article it refers to and have a good read.

now tell me about the house in MArlow....
 
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