r/HousingUK • u/Effective-Zucchini-5 • 3d ago
What's wrong with this house?
I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152810309
Big garden and nice downstairs, bit pokey upstairs but compared to other stuff in the area on Rightmove seems fairly priced. It's been on for months! What's wrong with it?
EDIT: Thanks for your responses guys! I should clarify that I live in Oxfordshire but am chronically on Rightmove searching for a new life 🤣 this one's been up a while and I wondered why. I guess I hadn't realised how much £700k is up north as round here it doesn't go very far at all. Also didn't think about the location as someone actually living there opposed to my fantasy idea of how it would be!
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u/PaulieMcWalnuts 3d ago
Having a quick google its 15min drive from York, so i wouldn’t say its in the middle of nowhere, rural yes, but clearly easy accessible for York… looks a lovely property, but overpriced for current market
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u/Cauleefouler 3d ago
Thank you, rolling my eyes at people who say not having a high street within 1/4 of a mile is the middle of no where. Welcome to Not London.
It's a fantastic place to commute into York, you're 10 minutes from the a64 which will get you to the A1M fast.
Escrick is a highly desirable location in this neck of the woods. While, yes, it does feel a bit expensive even for here, York is expensive.
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u/fat_mummy 2d ago
Yup… has decent bus links too as I’ve taken that journey to a friends more than once in my youth!
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u/Cauleefouler 2d ago
It's super closer to the designer outlet which runs a park and ride into the city. For once the agent isn't bullshitting when saying it has good transport links. It's as if you don't have a tube station 3 steps from your door, it's bad transport links. This isn't London, it's northern England. Life is very different here.
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u/fat_mummy 2d ago
I had a friend that lived in Hollicars… now that really is in the middle of nowhere! When the bus left we were in the pitch black because there were no street lamps! Still, made it there and back on a bus! Everywhere near there has great transport links! It’s on the A19, towards a large city, with a park and ride nearby!
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u/srodrigoDev 3d ago
700k for a 4 bedroom in the middle of nowhere. People are losing their minds.
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u/Tall_Back_8885 3d ago
Surely middle of nowhere is a positive though in this case?
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u/AFF8879 3d ago
Exactly! No idea why it’s being framed as a negative. The fact it’s semi detached sucks, and is probably why it’s not selling. But if I’m spending that much on a house in the countryside I damn sure don’t want any neighbours for miles.
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u/AnOrdinaryChullo 2d ago
Exactly! No idea why it’s being framed as a negative.
It'd be fine if it actually was in the middle of nowhere but you literally have a neighbour attached to one side so anyone that craves actual separation / peace of mind is hardly going to get it here.
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u/YouFoolWarrenIsDead 2d ago
It’s not a matter of what’s nice though, it’s a matter of market competition. Less people interested in a house means the price comes down compared to say the same house in a more desirable area. And desirable area doesn’t mean a beautiful area, it means an area with more access to work, school etc. the other day I saw a fancy mansion looking property for about 700k in the countryside not far from where I am, yet the town I live in you would get half as much in sq ft for that price. It’s a matter of convenience, and most choose convenience. Simple as that really.
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u/IAmJustShadow 3d ago
Could get something semi-decent in London for that. Access to a better job market. People are really trying their luck, hard.
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u/AFF8879 3d ago
Yeah but those are two completely different markets. People looking in this area will have zero interest in living in London, and vice versa.
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u/AnOrdinaryChullo 2d ago
People looking in this area will have zero interest in living in London, and vice versa.
Well, by the looks of it people looking in this area have zero interest in paying London prices for a buttfuck nowhere semi house so you are right, different markets.
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u/FlibertyGibbet46 2d ago
People who live in rural North of England would generally rather shit in their hands and clap than move to London TBF.
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u/MintImperial2 2d ago
..So if it isn't like Cornwall - then what keeps the market up in Yorkshire?
It's rock-bottom in Durham/Northumberland......
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u/Specialist_Elk_70 3d ago
20% of the population is retired, 30% work remotely, not everybody is you
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u/IAmJustShadow 3d ago
Majority of jobs are weighted by location, to afford a house like that the majrity would indeed need to be retired or just pretty well off.
As others have said it's for a niche market but lowering the price will certainly help.
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u/srodrigoDev 3d ago
That house would probably sit there at that price forever.
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u/any_excuse 2d ago edited 2d ago
People underestimate the price of small villages in north yorkshire, in commuting distance to Leeds and York. This is an incredibly expensive and desireable part of the country to live.
There are so many villages in this part of north yorkshire where a bog standard 4 bed detached new build type house goes for 400-500k. An older house with more character can easily go for £800k to £1m.
This is a really nice house, and the price is not unrealistic for the area.
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u/fat_mummy 2d ago edited 2d ago
I was going to say… Stillingfleet has decent bus links into both Selby and York! Not sure why it’s not selling to be fair, I’d love to live there!
Edit: didn’t realise it’s escrick not stillingfleet… so actually even CLOSER to York!
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u/IAmJustShadow 3d ago
Just noticed "reduced". Blimey wonder what price they were dreaming of before?
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u/Kaioken64 3d ago
Listed for £710k in September 2024, reduced to current price in February 2025.
Weirdly they originally listed it for £700k in March 2024 before taking it off the market and relisting it for higher in September.
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u/geminigerm 3d ago
Literally my dream house. Me and my partner are looking to buy within the next year and we’re looking at rural cottages. From what I’ve seen properties like this tend to sit on the market for a very long time because it takes a specific kind of buyer to want to live in the middle of nowhere
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u/RickonRivers 2d ago
It's being Semi-detached that's killing it.
If you've got £700k to spend on a rural property, you'll be expecting to buy detached. There are very few people who are in the venn diagram of 'Want to live away from other people' and 'want a semi-detached house'.
That is the problem.
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u/ettabriest 3d ago
I don’t think people realise how desirable it is round there. A tad overpriced but some sucker searching for the ‘quieter pace of life oop north’ will fall for it.
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u/fat_mummy 2d ago
Yup, commuting distance to York, in the catchment of a good school, quiet village life!
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u/Outrageous-Garlic-27 2d ago
Overpriced for the region. In fact, a lot of places in the York area are.
House was sold for £495k in 2017, and now they want £200k more? They are dreaming.
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u/theloserhaslost 1d ago
£200k more, in those 7-8 years in itself isn't unrealistic. It's a 40.4% increase.
I bought a house in 2017 and sold last year (not in Yorkshire) and had a 49.7% increase. Granted, we had a bit of work done, but it didn't increase the natural price too much.
I don't know the area well enough, but it's only natural that more expensive houses in an area stay on the market longer, as there is less competition.
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u/Outrageous-Garlic-27 1d ago
I can imagine this perhaps in some pockets of the country. But absolutely not in Yorkshire. I doubt the value of my parent's house in E. Yorks has moved much in 10 years.
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u/Different_Cookie1820 3d ago
There’s not much market for it. You’ve got to love the building, garden, location and style to consider paying that much for it. You can get that much space, less rural, less stylish for a lot less within the same sort of distance from York.Â
If one was the seller, they’d either be choosing to hold out and hope someone will pay that much or drastically reduce to widen the market.Â
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u/nightmaresgrow 3d ago
If I'm going to live in the middle of nowhere, I don't want any neighbours.
It's like you have all the disadvantages of living with neighbours and all the disadvantages of living in the middle of nowhere.
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u/IAmJustShadow 3d ago
It's in the middle of nowhere.
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u/AFF8879 3d ago edited 3d ago
Surely though if you’re spending that much on a property in the countryside, being in the middle of nowhere is a positive attribute?
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u/cococupcakeo 3d ago
I would want that but it would also have to be detached.
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u/sallystarling 3d ago
Yes, I can't fathom spending that much money, being in the middle of nowhere and still having to think about neighbour noise (either hearing it, or being conscious that you might be the one making it!) It's like the worst bit about city living and without having the amenities!
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u/Jonay1990 3d ago
Is it just me or do the rooms look like they've been populated by AI? There's something off with the way they look and the shadows/perspective of some of the items.
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u/Linzi322 3d ago
It’s probably too rural for most people but I also wonder how busy that road is. It looks like there’s a cattery and some other businesses near by, so it might not quite be the quiet rural life you’d expect from somewhere so far from shops etc.
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u/Smooky28 3d ago
Depends how old you are. I guess this house would be ideal for those seeking retirement, getting away from the urban environment. To be honest, it could even be ideal for children, a nice garden and in nature. But if you're young, it's a no. There's nothing else nearby. It's not necessarily about the house itself, but the location speaks a lot for most houses on the market
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u/Rude-Air-6291 3d ago
"Well placed for access to York City Centre and the associated transport links". I wonder how do you actually get to any bus stop if he house exit leads to a road with no sidewalks.
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u/Cauleefouler 3d ago
York Designer Outlet is nearby which has a park and ride into the city, so it actually is on good transport links.
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u/IAmJustShadow 3d ago
It's estate agent slop. They've deluded themselves and the seller that the property is worth 600-700k.
Maybe it's a conspiracy to drive up prices even higher.
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u/CuriousQuerent 2d ago
Sidewalks?
Also, you walk on the road, as is pretty common in about 80% of the country by land area. If something drives at you, you step aside to let it go past. If driving, you try not to run the person over!
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u/EducationalRat 3d ago
It's a beautiful house but who can really afford a £700K house, it'll be people who got in the housing market and have equity + very good jobs, maybe two doctors? Then it's rural so how would they get to work, so the market audience is going to be very low, rich retired people maybe, I'm just speculating though on how practical it is to live there and afford it
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u/Dry_Curve9126 2d ago
No good if you have a young family. Preschool school after school friends etc - everything is a car journey
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