Worth nothing? It has a lovely indoor water feature and a vast sky light. What more could you want? 36k is a bargain if you ask me…

The fact the fire brigade didnt switch off the mains water supply,to protect the adjacent houses is beyond me,it would have taken about 10 seconds.

It's barely a 10 minute job to cap that water leak, I can't believe they've left it. I know it doesn't have a roof but with it being a terrace that is very unfair on the neighbours, I hope the damp hasn't affected their properties.

I'm surprised the estate agent didn't say the upstairs was "flooded with natural light".

That EPC rating of D on the listing was a bit ambitious 😂 it doesnt have a roof

I would like to leave a request. Could you go back in about 6 months or so and see if whoever bought this is actually rebuilding it. I think it would be interesting to see who had a vision for this place. And the financial backing to rebuild it. Also, very glad you are wearing protection. I always worried about you walking through those places with all the mold and whatever else is flying around there. Thanks for the video.

I can’t believe how this house wasn’t condemned rather than sold!

Looks like someone has ripped out the boiler, which caused the leak. No way should they let people in to view it

Wow! Unbelievable that the water was just left to leak like that. I hope the buyer did view it first lol.. It would be good to somehow in a year or two to do a video on some properties you've seen and to see if they've changed 😊

How has the council not turned that water off we pay loads for our water and that's just pumping out, also I love people exploring old abandoned buildings and it's amazing how much valuable stuff gets left behind

My partner and I have renovated a few houses over the years, but I've *NEVER* seen anything as bad as this!! It gave me an uneasy vibe just watching the vid.. can't imagine how horrible it was actually being inside! Can't they even turn the water off? The on-line listing states it's "close to a wealth of facilities and amenities.." Right!That's OK then - can't be all bad.. 😬🤭 Seriously though.. I can't believe someone bought it for any price let alone _that_ price!! (Plus fees!) 🤦🏻‍♀️ Fascinating vid, as always. Great to be able to watch the auction at the end.. Thanks, David.. 👍

Imagine the damage that’s being done to nearby property with all that water running into the surrounding walls and floors and foundations. That house will probably need to be raised to the ground. I’d love an update to see what happens to it.

I lived in that street, no 82, when I was a kid in the 1970s.

Itmakes me angry and sad. You can see all the little touches which means someone loved that place once. Once upon a time somebody looked after it properly. Imagine all the memories that were made in those rooms - the marriages and births, the parties, the quiet winter afternoons. My grandparents lived in a terraced street in Liverpool. It's a cliche but it was a warm community. But the streets belonged to a factory, who pulled most of them down for a lorry park. Nan's half of the street somehow stayed there for decades afterwards. Even after everybody moved out and all the doors and windows were bricked up. Now all of it has gone - the whole area. It's Edge Lane Retail Park now. Even the name of Nan's street has gone. Makes me sad.

imagine how the neighbours must feel

How did they allow anyone inside there? Absolute death trap!! There’s nothing salvageable from this house cost you thousands just to make it safe for the renovation.

Imagine living next door to this dump, what about the poor neighbors 😢😢

How casually they say "requires some improvement".....! Talk about the kings of understatement!

I flip houses on the side and I'm also in the trades, it sold for 36k but you also have fees on top of that as well which will be a few grand extra, that house will need everything redoing from top to bottom, roughly 55k to sort that out inside and out. materials aren't cheap and neither are trades. so house price plus fees and renovation cost your talking 100k all in, this house will more then likely be a BTL property. I wouldn't buy it that's for sure.

There are such things as stopcocks, you can turn them off from outside. Why haven't they at least done that??? bloody hell!

Land values must be incredibly high in that part of Middlesborough because the actual building itself must surely have negative value - i.e. not repairable therefore incurring costs to demolish and clear before starting again with an entire new building. Or the buyer just took a blind punt.

You know its a rough arse area when you see barbed wire

Can't they turn off the stop cork

Anyone with sense would isolate the water at the stopcock.

came across that video about the tiny abandoned house and watched a few now. Top content gaffa, keep smashing it

The fact that the house has been let to get to the standard it did before the fire damage is unbelievable. Years ago when my first marriage ended I tried to get a council property but was put straight to the bottom of the list and was never contacted to get one, yet the obvious standard of people they allow to have them is crazy……it shows how wrong the system 8n the UK is! Great content again, very brave going in there with the damage that has been done. You should revisit in 6 months to a year and see if the house has been put right.

I like these short videos highlighting what you think is noteworthy, a nice mixup from the longer ones! Great job!

How has nobody thought to switch it off at the mains yet? And the stream of water landing on the kettle base too! Literally, shocking stuff!

That would be about £500K in London.

That new owner is in for one hell of a shock.

Love watching these videos you post! Always makes me wonder why houses get like this. 😢

£36k! I wouldn't pay that. When I bought my three bed 50s built semi for £70k and all that needed doing was single glazed windows replacing with double glazing, increased insulation, a combi boiler system put in to replace the back boiler system and a complete redecoration throughout to get rid of the 70s decor. There are some bargains out there but there is some that are just money pits too.

I viewed a knackered property in Sunderland which was a palace compared to this, but I still had to sign a safety disclaimer before being allowed to go inside. Can't believe they just let you view it like that. Totally reckless.

Seriously, why on earth do they not turn the water off? I suppose there must be a reason, but i cannot imagine what it is! Thank you for the video!

Crazy, I wouldn't spend £100 on that!

"A must for the D.I.Y enthusiast"....I would have loved to have seen the expression on the face of the buyer when they paid there first visit to there new "investment "....priceless.

Wow what a mess & I can’t believe they let people view it & goodness knows what the buyers reaction is if they haven’t viewed it prior to buying it. These videos are a real eye opener. Keep up the good work.

Fantastic video. I can't believe the state of it and it sold for that much! Good to see you've got some safety gear now! 😁

I can't believe no one even bothered to turn the mains off.

I can never understand how houses can be sold in this kind of state. Why has the water not been turned off at the mains? Cleared out? Really needs tearing down. Cant believe they let you walk round in this state to view. Its mad!

Absolute nightmare. My sister in law lives in a house in South Wales. The house is quite nice but it is wedged up against a mountain which is shifting. So the house is unsaleable and in fact is worth less than nothing because it would have to be demolished.

you could get a lot more content out of these visits, the comment section is full of questions about how the neighbours must feel, and what the situation with the water is. If youre feeling brave you ahould knock on a few of the neighbours doors and ask if theyre willing to give their perspective and explain how its effecting other property in the area. You can then also take the feedback to the council and see what their sorry excuse is for leaving this place like it is with the water uncapped.

What a shocker yet your style is brilliant as per 👍👏

£36000 for what is essentially an open-air garbage tip. Mind blown! 😶

Why has nobody turned the mains water off?! MADNESS...

This is fascinating! Bingeing your videos. I bought my house at auction without viewing. Was a bit nuts but I got incredibly lucky. Really hits home seeing these videos. So interesting!

Why the local water board were not informed to turn the water off!!

‘Wasn’t gonna go in cos I didn’t want a shower’ 😂

If i were to redo a house out of a choice of that or the tiny abandoned one in Yorkshire, I'd choose the latter.

Such a pity - that would have been a decent house before the druggies took it over for a growing factory. Very, very unfair on the neighbours to leave it in this state - surely the local authority should take some enforcement action to get emergency repairs done?

Give me this house! I will fixe it! His better to live in a hotels for last 2 years! With a disable wife! In the loft!! Thank you Redbridge council! Thank you for showing us abandoned house! The government should be doing something about that!

Number 43 sold last year for 62k which im guessing was in much better condition; and number 56 also a terrace on opposite side of road, sold for 38k in 2021; so was it a decent buy?. Wont be any mark up to flip so im guessing someone either didnt look at property or a builder will do it himself cheap for long term rental.

It needs pulling down David. Cool video!

You see that pipe pi**ing out water ?. Well there is a little blue handle on the side and all you do is turn it and the water stops. The fact no one could be arsed to perform that simple task says it all.

You would think the People each side of the house would stop the Water Leak

Good grief!😮

The fact that tap is on makes me realise the type of people we suffer with in the UK. Place is fucked.

Very sad. To think that at one time this house was someone’s pride and joy.

Good video, u definitely need to go back in 6 months to see progress.

Morning Swede, Glad you got some boots. 36k That's unbelievable,. I feel sorry for the neighbors.

You could Have stopped that water with that blue knob

How sad they let people bid on that house? It’s a hopeless cause!

Surely someone could turn the water off at the mains ffs lol

It's a shell, need several skips, new roof & windows just to be habital Glad you showed the reality of cheap house.

Bet there's a hosepipe ban this year.😅

Omg. I don’t think anyone should be in there. Surely not safe? Why hasn’t the water been turned off? The estate agents are not doing their job. The neighbours will be glad to get it all sorted. I suppose the value is for a building plot? That must be too high a price. Definitely won’t be appearing on Homes Under The Hammer 😂

Blimey! Grim! I would have to have a peek too though :-) Love abandoned crazy places so thanks gor the venture :-) ♡

great vid, maybe go back and see if anyone is doing it up or did the buyer refuse due to faulse advertizing ! !

Absolutely shocking! It's value to me would be 0 pounds.

The land would be worth something. If it was me I'd demolish and rebuild

In Maytfair, Estate Agents will shamelessly market this "pied a terre, fixer-upper" for a "very reasonable." £1000 per week plus extortionately spurious "Fees". "All it needs is a lick of Paint." There are dummies out there who will pay it.

They didnt pay for the house they paid for the land. Now they will demolish the entire property and transform it into a Hmo or whatever will make em a hundred odd K. Smart buy 👍🏼

Sad stuff... 😢

Thats crazy 😱😱

It might be hard to believe looking at the Mad Max hell hole, but if you went back in a time machine and knocked on the door of that house in 1918, 1923, 1943, 1954, you would most likely have entered a cosy family home, with a nice British family living there. You would have been given a warm cup of tea and some freshly baked scones. Then when you showed them your ipad, they would have been amazed, and then when you played this video of their home in 2023, they would have been heartbroken.

Such a shame. Would have made a lovely first house for someone. Big bay window, through lounge so it's nice and light, patio doors. Certainly beats my first flat, 1 bed, that I paid 9 times the guide price of this house for - and that was in 2001, same flat is likely worth £240,000 now. Pokey horrible place I was glad to be out of after 3 years. If that goes for £10k, it'd be well worth paying the 30-40k or so it'd cost to get it back into shape. £50k is still ruddy cheap for a house. Edit - just seen what it went for. I'd still say £37,000 isn't THAT much if a developer has bought it and can keep labour costs down - which I would imagine is what happens, nobody drops nearly 40 grand on something they haven't viewed. The house looks trashed, but it's amazing how quickly a good gang would turn that back into a nice house, I've seen much worse than that turned around and put back onto the market in less than a month. It's all superficial, the bricks and mortar is what truly matters and it all seemed in order. 1 day, 4 men and a few skips and that place would look hugely different. Once it's down to the shell and all the kelt is gone, you'd see the potential.

If you lived next door to this is it possible to buy it, demolish it and then just have a bigger garden (and a gap between you and the next terrace house)? Or is there some council mandated law that it has to be retained as an independent domicile?

That really was a sh1t hole I feel sorry for the next door neighbours. Great video 2x👍 Next time you visit Middlesbough can you come to Saltburn and show the cliff lift and pier JUST so people dont think its all grim and sh1t holes up North. 🤣

Would be interesting to revisit this one to see what eventuates to see if the house is recovered.

thats the worst thing about all these attached houses we have here. In most countries you could just bulldoze it in an afternoon then sell the land, but when its both ex-council and attached it becomes a real complication thats often not worth the effort because damaging the structural integrity of next door is a high possibility.

Wow, 36k ? They could not have viewed that. Hope you are well David.

lol wild to see this on your channel, I sometimes pass very close to this street on the way to work.

I'm sure they will back out of the sale. The pictures were a false advertisement.

So sad. I bet it was a lovely little house at one time.

You should head to the Port Clarence area of Teesside, entertaining drive through that.

£36k ouch what a waste of money - this is why I never buy at auction

Minus 25 grand would be fair

Yep that is a ruff one!!!

Who the fuck would pay 36k for that??

I would of turned that water off, just below where the water is coming out is a blue bit of plastic, turning it would shut the water off

So surprised that you were allowed in.

Quick sweep round, bit of dusting, that'll be ok! 😂😂

Question is, is the land it sits on worth more than 36k?

2:46 you could have turned that valve off to stop the water pissing out :)

People who make grow houses earn 100s of thousands of pounds and leave behind more than 100s of thousands of pounds of damage in more ways than one.

That fire surround in the living room is awful. So 90's.

'Requires some improvement'. They're not kidding.

No way this should of gone to auction - should be condemned. Also this being a terrace, there are neighbours living both sides?

Bought by a sparkie or chippie I reckon. It's nearly all joinery or electrics so if you have those skills then not too bad so long as it's structurally ok. I would say it was a canny buy for the right person.

I take your point that £36k is far too much to pay, which is probably due to naive online investors, but if I owned the property either side I might have to buy it and fix it up. Just because it represents a danger to my existing property and is certainly devaluing it. Also, when it comes to cash buyers, there are opportunities for laundering profits through building firms.