Post by Dave on Apr 7, 2013 16:50:32 GMT
This a very sad tale and a good lesson for anyone looking to buy any property that has been put up for auction. Let’s be honest who would not want to buy a six bedroom house high on a cliff top in Torquay with the most wonderful sea views. In February 2010 Sue Diamond, who is disabled, made a telephone bid of £154,500 for such a house in Torquay without viewing it or having a survey done. But just eight days after the auction, a landslide left the 1930s house just 50 yards from a drop into the sea that signalled the start of a lengthy legal battle with the property's seller after refusing to pay up after the auction. The auction particulars had warned buyers that the house was severely structurally damaged and might be beyond economic repair
A judge in 2010 ordered Miss Diamond to pay Mr Taylor what she owed.Mr Taylor has a legal charge for the money, plus 8 per cent interest annually, over Miss Diamond’s home in Chiswick, West London, which s is worth over £1million. In March 2011 a judge gave Mr Taylor permission to market the property at £650,000 but that brought protests from Miss Diamond. Miss Diamond was evicted from her home so it could be sold. Later another judge gave Miss Diamond the chance to get a better price for her home after she produced letters from estate agents saying £1.1million was ‘easily achievable’ The legal dispute is still on going and just three years after buying the house, what is left of it won’t be there for much longer.
More recent cliff falls this year high above Oddicombe Beach has now taken half the house with it and this afternoon I decided to go and take a look and do a photo shoot. While the house or whats left of it can be seen from Babbacombe Downs, I wanted to try and get some shots much closer to the house and decided the best chance I had of doing that was from Petitor.
I walked halfway down the steep grassed slope and took a narrow pathway to my right that had been fenced off, only the fence had been pushed to one side. As I walked further down the path I started to get some great views of the house and all the parts of it that had gone down over the cliff.
After talking all the pictures I wanted, I went back to my car and drove up to the front of the house. It is all fenced off and I had to laugh as it has a for sale sign on it. I understand the house next door is for sale, but the owner claims he only wants to move to down size, yes I can believe that
I then went and took a few shots from Babbacombe Downs.
How the house looked in 2010
Pictures I took this afternoon
A judge in 2010 ordered Miss Diamond to pay Mr Taylor what she owed.Mr Taylor has a legal charge for the money, plus 8 per cent interest annually, over Miss Diamond’s home in Chiswick, West London, which s is worth over £1million. In March 2011 a judge gave Mr Taylor permission to market the property at £650,000 but that brought protests from Miss Diamond. Miss Diamond was evicted from her home so it could be sold. Later another judge gave Miss Diamond the chance to get a better price for her home after she produced letters from estate agents saying £1.1million was ‘easily achievable’ The legal dispute is still on going and just three years after buying the house, what is left of it won’t be there for much longer.
More recent cliff falls this year high above Oddicombe Beach has now taken half the house with it and this afternoon I decided to go and take a look and do a photo shoot. While the house or whats left of it can be seen from Babbacombe Downs, I wanted to try and get some shots much closer to the house and decided the best chance I had of doing that was from Petitor.
I walked halfway down the steep grassed slope and took a narrow pathway to my right that had been fenced off, only the fence had been pushed to one side. As I walked further down the path I started to get some great views of the house and all the parts of it that had gone down over the cliff.
After talking all the pictures I wanted, I went back to my car and drove up to the front of the house. It is all fenced off and I had to laugh as it has a for sale sign on it. I understand the house next door is for sale, but the owner claims he only wants to move to down size, yes I can believe that
I then went and took a few shots from Babbacombe Downs.How the house looked in 2010
Pictures I took this afternoon