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It can be increasingly challenging to find a bargain building for sale, via auction or on the market with an agent, but when one pops up with a guide price of less than £20,000 it's bound to get noticed, although at that starting price, it is intriguing to find out why it is so cheap.
Wander up this residential road in Rhondda Cynon Taf and as you climb the view across the Rhondda Fach valley gets bigger and bigger, welcoming rooftops and hilltops to the expansive and panoramic vista. It's one of the big bonuses of living on a valley's hillside - the view from the front or back of one of the traditional terrace houses can be rather impressive.
Once you've appreciated the forever engaging outlook that this street boasts it's time to have a nose inside one of Wales' cheapest houses currently on the market to see what the view is like inside once you push open the front door. For more property stories sent to your inbox twice a week sign up to the property newsletter here.
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With a guide price of just £19,000, although of course likely to sell for more depending on the intensity of the online auction, you are surely expecting a full renovation project waiting for you inside this end of terrace abode in Blaenllechau.
This potential bargain house going to auction could be an excellent way of getting onto the property ladder, if you don't mind getting stuck into clearing it out first because some rooms have abandoned items strewn across the floor and, unless cleaned out prior to auction or otherwise stated in the legal pack, they will all be yours too, once the hammer goes down on the sale.
Angie Davey, of Paul Fosh Auctions, which is selling the rundown home via online auction, said: "Although the three bedroom house does require full renovation, once complete, the new owner will be rewarded with a really lovely home in a gorgeous location."
Blaenllechau is a small village that clings to the hillside along the winding Rhondda Fawr valley before the main road through the landscape oars up over the Maerdy mountain to the Cynon Valley and into Aberdare on the other side. From the front door of this house on this road to nowhere there are mountain walks and trails to explore literally at the end of the road where the tarmac stops and the dirt path begins.
The village has a population of less than 1,000 people and has a direct route to neighbouring Ferndale and Tylorstown, leading to Tonypandy and Pontypridd and, eventually about 45 minutes drive away, Cardiff.
Angie thinks that the house could be tempting for an investor as well as an owner occupier, stating that, once renovated, it could achieve a rental in the region of £750 per calendar month.
The house currently has a lounge, kitchen and bathroom area on the ground floor and the three bedrooms on the first floor. Step outside at the rear of the house and the final surprise awaits you - there's a small back garden but it's mainly a steeply sloping plot of land made up of the hillside - the price you pay for the stunning view found at the front of the house.
And if the price you pay for the house at auction is anywhere near the guide price and the renovation budget is kept on track then there could be profit as well as potential to unlock here, with Rightmove reporting, based on Land Registry figures, that properties in Blaenllechau had an overall average price of £133,749 over the last year.
The majority of sales in Blaenllechau during the last year were terraced properties, selling for an average price of £111,406. Overall, sold prices in the village over the last year were 35% up on the previous year and 36% up on the 2021 peak of £98,448.
The end of terrace with the exceptional view is going to online auction from 12 noon on Tuesday, July 23, and ends from 5pm on Thursday, July 25, via the Paul Fosh Auction website. For further information including about fees and the legal pack, call 01633 254044. For more property and renovation stories join our Amazing Welsh Homes Facebook group here.
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