So we found the cheapest property in Co Durham if not England and went for a visit in the run down and boarded up Streets of Horden the £5000 boarded up house went to Auction but how much did this run down property sell for? Then we took a walk around Horden Colliery with out tour guide and seen firemen cutting into a abandoned shop and old cinema as a suspected Grow farm was inside Please Like And Subscribe thanks .. #property #abandoned #exploring #housingmarket #northeast #cheaphouses #derelict
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Great video again terry
Lovin' these local North East videos, especially around Easington and the surrounding areas. Breaks my heart what the country, and especially our local areas have become thanks to successive Governments. I have lived and worked all over the world, and sometimes our area reminds me of a developing country 😪 but it will always be home. I went to see Hot Shots! Part Deux (Charlie Sheen) and that was the last or one of the last films to be shown at Horden Fairworld cinema in 1993.
They would be better off keeping those few streets and refurbishing where necessary since they are decent solid houses and any replacements will be poorer construction and everything. In addition to that people round Durham and everywhere in fact are in desperate need of social housing, if they flatten those streets they probably won’t replace them with the same degree of social housing which helps nobody apart from the cash hungry developers are profit from it.
You right though that guy did pay way too much for that house, but this happens in auctions because it acts as a catalyst for peoples competitive nature and they end up bidding more than something’s worth.
Also they often haven’t looked inside the properties.
If you check out a channel called wandering turnip he recently did a video viewing an awful property in Middlesbrough for auction. He went in and you could see it was worth about 20p. It was unsalvageable. But some (most likely cockney mug) went and paid 36k at auction. And there is not a chance he could have viewed the house first since no sane person would have offered anything for it.
Great videos Mads keep em coming son! 👍
Keano sounds like one of Vic n Bob's Bra Men!!!
average buyer's commission at auction is around 6k. land registry and solicitors fee is around 1k plus the fact that when contracts are signed you must then pay full council tax on the property to the parasitic council. no empty home discount or exemption when your not living there while its being renovated. buyer beware.
Get wincy out on one of your trips
Such a shame to see once thriving areas reduced to nothing this country's really is knackered mate really enjoy theese vids terry get raymondo out on the walk abouts with you 🤣🤣🤣🤣
so just in case I was thinking about moving to horden…. its a solid no from me 😂😂😂😂😂
Mate,you've proper stirred some memories here,as a young lad I walked these streets for my work, there was full employment, the collieries were booming and the people were fantastic.The state of the place now dismays me this is the legacy that Maggie Thatcher left.I remember the occupants of that home on 6th St very well for a particular reason…I'll have some crack with you next time I see you about this….Great Video,keep them coming and never forget yer roots.
I was in Horden a couple of weeks ago looking at those houses in the numbered streets. A lot of those houses were boarded up. I did actually view a house on one of those streets. The house was on sale for £40,000 and it was in excellent condition. But in the end, I couldn't make an offer because I got a really bad vibe from those numbered streets. I spoke to some people in Peterlee and Sunderland and they advised me to avoid Horden like the plague. I did some research into Horden and I found out that the numbered streets are eventually going to be demolished under the Compulsory Purchase Order Act. That means even £10,000 is too much to pay for these properties. I spoke to one lady who moved to Eleventh Street from the South of England and she paid £30,000 for her house because she couldn't afford to live anywhere else. Now she's shitting herself the council will evict her from her own house. Even if the council pays her the going rate for her house, there's no way she'll be able to afford to buy another house. I think it's scandalous and disgusting. On a more optimistic note, I did view a property on Park Terrace, which I really liked but they wanted too much money for it. Thanks for uploading this video. The search continues! PS- I wonder if the person who paid £29,000 knew that the house was in danger of being demolished?
Born and bred in Horden.left in 1986.used to stop at parents house when I came up for the football.Absolutley shocked at the decline of the place and surrounding pit villages .Its such a shame as they were all good honest people who looked after each other and you could leave your door unlocked without the fear of been robbed.Great video though.My school mate used to live on 7th street back in the 70s
So depressing those houses. I wish they didn't have the need to demolish them.
I use to walk around those streets when i was a bairn, now they are a former shadow of themselves 😢 thank you for taken us along 😊
Born in Horden in 1953 and lived in Second Street…I came back in 1975 as a teacher at Blackhills Road Primary School.
It was still the great community then as it had always been.
Decent, hard working people and their children were a joy to teach.
My parents lived in Sunderland Avenue and I used to come back with my children and visit…we were with the Armed Forces and they thought of my parents as their home base….they still do.
The heart ❤ left Horden when the colliery closed and it’s so sad to see how it is now.
My brothers and I were lucky to have great parents…a happy and fun childhood …there were lots of clubs and activities…parks, playgrounds and sports.
I roamed the streets you’ve shown carefree and safe.
Thanks for this….so many happy memories and now so much of it is like a wasteland
A good property delevloper would buy the full street nd sort the place out.
Should have went to 12th street 😂
Its Heartbrakeing 💔 theres nothing been done no investmemt since the Pits closed its just the same as my birth place Easington the Goverment dont give a Damm
Another good video, thank you, Expat Geordie, Canada, the places have sure changed since the 1960’s.