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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on September 07, 2012, 05:14:59 pm

Title: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 07, 2012, 05:14:59 pm
4 miles away from me, price just halved.

4-bed semi-detached barn conversion, stabling for 15, indoor arena, outdoor sand school, 18 ac paddocks, and more.

Kingwater EQ Centre (http://www2.housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/full.pl?&tif0&&DEMX002127)
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: robert waddell on September 07, 2012, 05:22:28 pm
is that the reduced price or the old price    just under half a million :farmer:
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: Anke on September 07, 2012, 05:25:43 pm
Don't tell me they wanted a cool million for it originally????? For 500k it may actuallly be sellable... now that riding hall could accommodate a few goats....
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: bloomer on September 07, 2012, 05:32:05 pm
i dont have half a million quid but i read the listing with the thoughts of how hard would it be to do something useful with it that didn't involve horses!!!





Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 07, 2012, 06:17:32 pm
Don't tell me they wanted a cool million for it originally????? For 500k it may actuallly be sellable...
Exactly so.  On the face of it, I think it's now very reasonable for what it offers, so I just thought it might be an opportunity for some TASer...  and by the way, I have been known to hire that indoor arena (by the hour) and would love to be able to do so again  ;) :D
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: doganjo on September 07, 2012, 07:17:41 pm
They've got the same kitchen floor as me  ;D ;D  and it looks like they've already moved out  ::)   :thinking: :thinking: so in the words of the great Phil Spencer 'there may still be a deal to be done' :innocent: :innocent:
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: sokel on September 07, 2012, 08:00:12 pm
I have been there in the past and TBH I dont think the pictures do the place justice.
If I had the money I would be very  tempted
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: Anke on September 07, 2012, 09:55:48 pm
I have been there in the past and TBH I dont think the pictures do the place justice.
If I had the money I would be very  tempted
But do riding schools actually make money atm?
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: bloomer on September 07, 2012, 09:57:29 pm
depends on area but surely fully serviced livery would make money?

Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 08, 2012, 04:33:01 am
depends on area but surely fully serviced livery would make money?
TBH, probably not around here.  You'd need to do equestrian events I think - horse-and-owner (residential and non-residential) courses, holidays, 1-day events, that sort of thing.  The locals will come and hire the arena now and again, quite a few would probably come for some instruction if you had a good instructor for rusty adults who just want to enjoy their ponies more, and for working / driving / training instruction, but you won't live on the income stream from local horsey folk alone, I don't think.
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: omnipeasant on September 08, 2012, 05:16:49 pm
I've got my lottery tickets. I would make it a livery and training yard. Wishing. :hshoe:
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: sokel on September 08, 2012, 09:37:23 pm
I have been there in the past and TBH I dont think the pictures do the place justice.
If I had the money I would be very  tempted
But do riding schools actually make money atm?
I wasnt there having riding lessons, I have been riding for over 45 yrs lol. Someone I know kept their horse there in livery
The local trecking centre down the road from us is definatly still making money. They go out in groups of 10-15 horses at a time and its busy all week and at weekends its mayhem
Title: Re: Equestrian Smallholding - price slashed - north Cumbria
Post by: Clairie on September 12, 2012, 01:12:44 pm
Urgh! I wish it was up here!!!