L@@K! Photos from Real Estate Listings (see remarks)

I've tried to understand what's going on with Australian real estate, but it's hopeless.

For example, in the States, you hold an auction only if it's a foreclosure or it's a shitty property that no one wants. Apparently down there, it's the opposite - you take the photos and show your home, then wait for the big auction day where you'll likely get more than you asked for.

(Well, in Sydney, at least.)

Yeah sale by auction is something that crept in maybe 15-20 years back and seems ubiquitous now. And its precisely so they can make as much money as possible (a la ebay auctions I guess). I've been priced completely out of home ownership because I need $80k just for the *downpayment* and I just cannot get that sort of money together. Its insane.

yes they listed with swastika graffiti intact http://www.movoto.com/quilcene-wa/411-sea-home-rd-quilcene-wa-98376-501_320196/
http://501.mlsimages.movoto.com/096/320196_14.jpg

Geez.

I was thinking thats a lot of money for a shitshack but its on 7 acres of waterfront, that'd go for like 3 jillion here :(

"Yah, you can look at it that way, but didja know that in some cultures, it's a symbol of luck?"

its a banksy

I feel IA at the shape of the living room in this luxury condo in my neighborhood that also sells for nearly 3x the price of a nearly equivalent co-op apartment.

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpadded/207/genMid.2841207_2_0.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpadded/207/genMid.2841207_3_0.jpg

You don't like that it ends at a point?

Look! You get that nifty little reading nook because of it. If it was flat, the nook would directly face the rest of the room.

IDK why it annoys me so much, partly just because it's so narrow compared to typical apartments in my neighborhood, which are mostly very spacious due to having been built in the 40s/50s. The point is awkward to me though, like it doesn't really look comfy as a nook, but it also doesn't interact with the rest of the room.

but it also doesn't interact with the rest of the room.

http://i.imgur.com/MobN7iy.jpg

Could that be the point?

http://i.imgur.com/btS0Gny.jpg

It does look narrow, but hey, isn't that life in the big city?

http://i.imgur.com/IZM4caY.jpg

"Can I get you anything? Perhaps some Pringles?"

xp, IDK it just looks like an awkward layout resulting from an awkwardly shaped building resulting from an effort to put the maximum # of apartments on an awkwardly shaped lot to me. And it's absurdly expensive for the area, although the terrace has a "bar pergola."

http://i.imgur.com/NmT5hLR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bqI3ItM.jpg

"You may think that sign is corny, but you should've read what the original one said."

http://i.imgur.com/o65F4TB.jpg

- "Hey, Judy! Can you get me another beer?"

- "Sorry! I can't hear you! I'm in the kitchen!"

http://i.imgur.com/NJlddBA.jpg

- "I can't see very well in here. Does that say 'Haunted'?"

- "No, of course not. That would be silly. It says 'Wanted'."

http://i.imgur.com/fdjQJbr.jpg

"Well let me ask you something else: Are you a fan of Duke basketball? How about Israel?"

http://i.imgur.com/DtShLKV.jpg

Hmm. Maybe there's good reason why it's the loneliest number.

http://photos2.zillowstatic.com/p_f/ISphukilm6juxw1000000000.jpg

"Pressure-washer gathering dust? Have we got the house for you!"

That one hits a little too close to home.

As in, that is my home - how did you find it.

i am truley sorry for your lots

L at at K!

http://photos1.zillowstatic.com/p_f/ISp5hyampu965f0000000000.jpg

Comes with your choice of costume: cowboys and saloon girls, gangsters and flappers, or old-timey bathing suits!

Interesting backyard:

http://i.imgur.com/5L3hQLL.jpg

Do ya like Creedence? Well, take a look out of this back door!

never gets old

http://i.imgur.com/2ybcYtF.jpg

did f.w. murnau design that bathroom or

https://www.redfin.com/NY/Unknown/108-17-64th-Rd-11375/home/20914037?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=listings_update&utm_source=myredfin

$1.25 fucking million!

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpaddedwide/187/genMid.2860187_0.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpaddedwide/187/genMid.2860187_1_0.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/79/mbpaddedwide/187/genMid.2860187_2_0.jpg

I dunno? Maybe the light fixture in the second photo's cut from real diamond?

Was just browsing and found this. Weirds me out that it comforts me knowing this room is alive and well somewhere in America.

http://i.imgur.com/Yddfu7A.jpg

the idea of that phone ringing spooks me

I imagine silence, while one sits facing the mater, a clock ticking ominously in the background.

I feel like I can picture who lives in the house I posted above. It's the guy from my freshman college dorm with a blowout who once told one of my friends "I could make three phone calls and have you dead."

Second phone call goes to the guy who sits in the blue chair in mine.

I find these very subtly bad:

https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/78/mbpaddedwide/249/genMid.4601249_1_3.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/78/mbpaddedwide/249/genMid.4601249_4_3.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/78/mbpaddedwide/249/genMid.4601249_9_3.jpg
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/78/mbpaddedwide/249/genMid.4601249_13_3.jpg

"Oh you know, I love music, that's why I keep random components of a drum kit on hand not set up in any playable configuration"

Certainly an obscenely soulless and too-large house.

I love how the attempts at grandeur break down once we reach an actual room - just 8 foot ceilings, Venetian blinds, and an ill-proportioned room struggling to make sense of way way too many windows. Good luck putting anything in there besides miscellaneous objects arranged in order to vaguely suggest a hobby or lifestyle choice.

I'd live there. I could turn it around.

Yours for 3 mil

Weird how they snapped the photo just as the bride was coming out of the rest room.

never saw this thread before, very lol

http://i.imgur.com/gWbjjGV.jpg

Love the fringe halos around the trees. Anything else it's got that violates space and dimensions?

http://i.imgur.com/HATZ4lD.jpg

OMG, we'll take it. Right after I'm done peaking here.

https://s14.postimg.org/v2njnrek1/image.jpg

£1.2m is a lot of money but it's a big house...

https://s21.postimg.org/lor0t9i4n/image.jpg

Decor could use some updating but...

https://s11.postimg.org/hkc04h1dv/image.jpg

Hmm.

whaaaat

yeah who puts a men in black picture on the wall

o m g
https://www.trulia.com/property/1062850320-24-Brentwood-Dr-Avon-CT-06001
flip through those pics

mother of god

is that the hansel and gretel house

below is apparently the artist's spec for the brentwood house?
http://nebula.wsimg.com/d2d1e9307fee8e376e94e42c9174fcc7?AccessKeyId=D805D8BDDABF3F976511&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

(via jes skolnik on twitter: he got excited and a pal of his did some archive-diving)

ha yea we were talking about this place in the "buying a house" thread

posted it there too :)

another wonderful pplains thread. in the words of loleatta holloway, he gets down to the real nitty gritty.

lol that link. house is kind of amazing all things considered

With the land and the two side buildings, that really is a good price.

But man, it is on the border. That clearing is the DMZ.

https://i.imgur.com/gVOZUCv.png

Ha, I didn't even notice the marker until just now.

https://i.imgur.com/8SGXkdA.png

https://i.imgur.com/oTe3k4y.png

outtakes from the tusk album art photo sessions?

https://i.ibb.co/gZsQRd4n/Screenshot-2025-12-02-at-11-58-07-AM.png
"Bit dark for taking a photo. Flip that light switch on for me, ok?"

https://i.ibb.co/XfGGL07z/Screenshot-2025-12-02-at-11-58-22-AM.png
"Never mind."

Good for hiding the stains

perfect placement for the pack of always

a different way of hiding stains iirc

I did some house-hunting a few years ago and almost every place was staged after with exactly the sort of taupe Pottery Barn good taste you might expect.

One house we looked at was, however, still being rented by people who were totally just living there and it was refreshingly full of clutter and mess like that. Perhaps the tenants were in a dispute with the owner and were trying to be obnoxious, I dunno.

When I see listed houses that betray signs of human life it does sort of warm my cockles.

Just noticed the doorknob is falling off

The goofy charm of the last Christmas tree on the lot, or the shelter dog that has given up

I’d rather a bathroom that looked like that than some grey-and-black flip with poorly done wiring and plumbing. (I speak from experience on the latter— we will never buy a flip again).

Pre- Covid heard a lot of flip nightmare stories in the DC area

feel like this is a good thread to malign one of the worst real estate trends ever: "water features"

https://scontent-den2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/648842423_26506881152250951_9082334753989161201_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=e06c5d&_nc_ohc=zug-M509X10Q7kNvwEl-CtI&_nc_oc=AdlMjY8wKVpBB0sjYq5oCuWywm20bmNQnmiVAEzjGmN3PsZr4j3ciKy1yIYbWYFMHk4&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.xx&_nc_gid=xoJhbZxaE5lUCM_A9NcVeg&_nc_ss=8&oh=00_AfypXDAdJbB3XzlTnC67bTEVYjHKtXmQXNG2RKgGVuh9TQ&oe=69B50F3B

they are hated by urban planners in public locations because they are maintenance nightmares and they always break, the landlord won’t fix them, the local government has no money and more urgent things to spend public money on and the broken feature look like shit

I could fill a whole thread with defunct fountains (and tree stumps) found around my town.

https://i.ibb.co/BVW3LkLJ/Screen-Shot-2026-03-09-at-6-04-21-PM.png https://i.ibb.co/Xx8yhFq0/Screen-Shot-2026-03-09-at-6-04-45-PM.png

https://i.ibb.co/ZRxm3Chk/Screen-Shot-2026-05-30-at-8-44-44-PM.png
https://i.ibb.co/TMRPdgLQ/Screen-Shot-2026-05-30-at-8-43-06-PM.png
https://i.ibb.co/53D8Gt2/Screen-Shot-2026-05-30-at-8-41-55-PM.png
https://i.ibb.co/KcBTB2yL/Screen-Shot-2026-05-30-at-8-41-23-PM.png

i guess they hadn't sold the workout equipment by the listing photo appointment or something... but the toy car.. and the tree.. and the little table. very weird. it does provide scale but still very weird.

workout equipment on carpet is asking for a bad spirit to haunt your house.

When people are extinct, the treadmills will take over and wander around a desolate world, aching for their former sense of purpose (however intermittently they were used).