Clayfield House - $3.75m in Sept 2013, on market 200 days sold $3.125 2016

Discussion in 'Property Market Economics' started by RPI, 29th Feb, 2016.

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  1. RPI

    RPI SDA Provider, Town Planner, Former Property Lawyer

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    Only so many people can buy in that section of the market. Sometimes those big mansions have the biggest losses.
     
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    I quite like the place even though its not my typical style.
    $3M in Brisbane is very top end.
     
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    That is my sort of house. I would move into that in a heartbeat. ;)
     
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    Not my type of house. I like the one we did in your Coorparoo Wylie, the Normandy style up on the hill, about finished now. Was green roofed and had 1 turret before it was expanded.
     
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    On a street with the first letter used twice? Used to be owned by a well known figure?

    And if we are on the same page, then I know that house well, used to live a few doors away, knew the family that lived there and have been inside. I'm curious now to know what you mean by the "one we did"?
     
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    Yes. I did the planning on the extension (assuming you can call making it 5 x bigger an extension)
     
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    You did the planning for having it approved to be built (town planning), not the planning on the look of the end product?

    Do you like the end product?
     
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    Yes, although wasn't completely finished last time I went past.. The summer house is awesome. The huge basement garage has a gym and a wine cellar in it. Very sympathetic to the original Normandy style while opening up the views. Absolutely not my design though, I worked closely with a very talented architect (he painted what the finished product would look like in water colours) who designed it based on what the client wanted.
     
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    I'm sure it is amazing... but all a bit "Disney" for my liking. Too new and shiny. I liked the old place. It was a bit shabby, but genteel. Maybe when the gloss levels tone down it will look like it was always there. The original owners would be tut-tutting I think :D.
     
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    Very European. I guess the roof pitch helps keep the snow off...
     
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    That's riverside waterfront money.. I don't know Clayfield that well but seems like too much for 1619sqm.