Riverside houses. Cheap ones

[Brayman]

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....

When I worked in Marlow about 8 years ago it belonged to an Arab family who visited a number of times a year. The story goes that they also bought the field across the river to complete their view. If you look at the balustrades that front the river, you should be able to find one that is upside down, may take you a little time though, makes the eyes go weird.

Shades undoubtedly will know more.

 

[Outinthedinghy]

I know houses by the river aren't cheap.
about 15 years ago I could have bought a 4 bed house by the river down at Hampton Wick, for £400,000. A couple of years ago the place sold for closer to £2,000,000.

I don't really like houseboats because I've lived on boats for 15 years and a static one just doesn't appeal to me much.

Its funny that the houses just up from Abingdon marina have been mentioned because it was when passing these that I thought of the subject 'cheapest house on the river' for the thread. I find that Abingdon itself is a bit dead and potentially rather asbo-esque though.

Thank you all for the feedback.

I thought maybe Park Place on Remenham Hill was being redeveloped into a golf course or a country club or something?
It was the rather clinical way in which is has been refurbished and a new imitation iron fence run around the boundary which gave me that impression. and those funny little trees in the riverside garden. £42m??? That's a bit silly.

My favourite house on the river is a nice swiss style chalet just above the last in the group of aits (eyots?) you pass when you come from Marsh lock towards Shipwreck Lock. Its on the right bank going upstream, a few properties further on from the big house which was burnt down and is now being rebuilt.

 

[byron]

There's a semi-detached available at Moulsford at just over one million. There's also another place with tow path frontage for £1.5 million. They both look like nice properties and even though they are on the 'non-sunny' side of the river seem like good value to me.

 

[kesh]

correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe owning riverside property doesn't automatically give you mooring rights on your own land

 

[Outinthedinghy]

As I understand it as long as you are above Staines (the London Stone) and that you don't construct anything in the water then you have the right to moor a vessel to your own land. Construction could include the installation of riser poles which would therefore make mooring 365 days a year somewhat impractical. Not sure if I've got that all right but its my understanding. If you do construct a jetty of any sort you are due to pay the Environment Agency fees for this.


living on a boat on a mooring at the end of you own property is different as that would be subject to planning permission for a residential dwelling.

Below Staines riverside property owners do not in fact own the riverbed, whereas above Staines they do.

 

[benjenbav]

I thought maybe Park Place on Remenham Hill was being redeveloped into a golf course or a country club or something?
It was the rather clinical way in which is has been refurbished and a new imitation iron fence run around the boundary which gave me that impression. and those funny little trees in the riverside garden. £42m??? That's a bit silly.

Without wishing to come over as a single issue fanatic, I can say that Park Place was bought as the big hoose, plus various run-down buildings plus a few other houses in a 500+ acre park.

The planning permission will produce:

Big hoose full of glitz and glam plus staff accom in 300 acres plus a couple of guest cottages plus (I think) six "Wentworth" style houses each in very substantial grounds.

So they just need one oligarch plus half a dozen premier league footballists to bank the projected £100m out-turn. Simples.

 

[byron]

correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe owning riverside property doesn't automatically give you mooring rights on your own land

Absolute minefield. The answer is "YES" if you can show boats have always been moored there.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

>>>
So they just need one oligarch plus half a dozen premier league footballists to bank the projected £100m out-turn. Simples.
>>>
I hope that the earining potential of those footballers has just nosedived...

 

[byron]

>>>
So they just need one oligarch plus half a dozen premier league footballists to bank the projected £100m out-turn. Simples.
>>>
I hope that the earining potential of those footballers has just nosedived...

With larger riverside homes it seems to me the price is what someone will pay. Price isn't a factor as money is meaningless to certain folk. If they want it, they buy it. I wonder how many properties change hands without an Estate Agent being involved. I say this because on occasion I have been approached directly. I have no idea what my place is worth but I do know it would have to be a ridiculous amount to get me to sell.

 

[DogsBody]

I have no idea what my place is worth but I do know it would have to be a ridiculous amount to get me to sell.

I've got about £30 in my wallet at present, is that a ridiculous enough amount for you? I could pop it round on Saturday and we can draft up the paperwork then, I'll not bother getting a full survey done...

 

[byron]

I've got about £30 in my wallet at present, is that a ridiculous enough amount for you? I could pop it round on Saturday and we can draft up the paperwork then, I'll not bother getting a full survey done...

That should pay for 3.5 days council tax or just over one day gas bill.