Gone in 60 minutes!
During these difficult times you would be hard pressed to imagine that property sales could still exceed expectations, but one recent sale of a property in Berkshire has done just that. Award-winning premier estate agent Barton Wyatt, who sell exclusive properties in Berkshire and Surrey, agreed a sale last month on a four bedroom penthouse apartment overlooking Sunningdale Golf Course in just 60 minutes, with the exchange finalised in just 24 hours, proving that the right properties are still selling – and fast!
As Sales Manager for Barton Wyatt Oliver Clarke explains, this was an unprecedented move that took the owner by surprise:
“I showed the prospective buyer around the penthouse on a beautiful winters day in February when the country was covered in a blanket of thick snow. We spent a good hour looking over the luxury property which was on the market for £1,650,000 before heading outside where we met the owners returning from a walk. The purchaser asked to see the garage in which we sheltered from the snow. The prospective purchaser then made the owner an offer there and then in the garage to exchange by the close of play that day telling them that he had bought his last house in just three hours and that if his offer was acceptable, he would instruct his solicitor to do the same this time.
"Due to the snow we had to wait until 1pm the following day to exchange, but exactly 24 hours after the prospective buyer had seen the property for the very first time, we exchanged contracts. After three months of raising enquiries, it just goes to show that with the right property and the right buyer, a home can sell very quickly indeed – leaving the owner slightly bemused but very pleasantly surprised by what could take place in just 24 hours!”
Barton Wyatt – who recently also broke a record by selling the most expensive property per-square foot on Surrey’s famous Wentworth Estate – market prestigious properties in areas that include Virginia Water, Sunningdale, Englefield Green, Ascot and the Wentworth Estate. To learn more about the homes that Barton Wyatt are offering for sale, or to discuss the prospect of Barton Wyatt marketing your property, contact them on 01344 843000 or visit www.bartonwyatt.co.uk.
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Editor’s Notes
5 Chanctonbury Drive, Sunningdale, £849,950
A well proportioned and elegant house, the property is located on a very quiet cul-de-sac off of one of Sunningdale’s premier roads. A very well presented detached executive home, the house has five bedrooms and is within easy reach of the village and mainline railway station.
From the spacious entrance hall there is access to all main reception rooms, the drawing room being a particularly pleasant triple aspect room with sliding patio doors opening out onto the rear garden. The dining room is open plan from the entrance hall with a door leading into the kitchen/breakfast room with a good range of units, a large breakfast area with sliding patio doors and a utility room off of it. There is also a good sized downstairs cloakroom and a bright study with garden views.
On the first floor, the master bedroom features a luxury en-suite bathroom with separate shower and Victorian style free standing roll top double ended bath. There are four further good sized bedrooms and a family bathroom with a separate shower.
The front of the property has parking for a number of vehicles, a double garage, lawn and mature flowerbeds and the rear garden has a terrace, lawns and mature hedges. It also features a raised pond.
Priced at £849,950, for more information contact Barton Wyatt on 01344 843000 or visit www.bartonwyatt.co.uk.
Three bedroom apartment, Lyne Place Manor, Lyne, £335,000
This spacious two storey apartment is set in a fine country house approached via a long driveway of a third of a mile, meandering through paddock land and fields. Lyne Place Manor backs onto woodland and is set within 8 acres featuring landscaped gardens and a tennis court. Just two miles from Virginia Water and close to the Wentworth Club, Sunningdale, Virginia Water Lake and Savill Garden, the property boasts three bedrooms, family bathroom, attractive sitting room with open fireplace, cloakroom, kitchen, roof garden and parking.
The property is for sale at £335,000 and for more information, please contact Barton Wyatt on 01344 843000 or visit www.bartonwyatt.co.uk.