Get the monopoly on Park Lane home

The Haven, Park Lane, Cosham

Guide price £289,000

Are you one of those who had a lifetime’s experience of Monopoly in a single day over Christmas?You saw how Mayfair and Park Lane become favourites among the imaginary high rollers and you may well have left them to it, but when it comes to playing the property market for real, are there better places to invest your money?Colin Shairp, of Town and Country Southern estate agents, where everyone is too busy coping with the new year rush to worry about playing any sort of board games, reckons Park Lane in real life is probably a more realistic place to be than Park Lane in Monopoly, which costs a fortune to buy and only earns rent very occasionally.

‘In Park Lane, Cosham, we have a property appropriately named The Haven that would be a perfect place to invest cash to secure a family home,’ explains Colin.‘It doesn’t have to be for high rollers, either, because the guide price appeals to many in the market for a three-bedroom family home and the good news is that with no onward chain it could provide a speedy exit from the rental market for those seeking their fortune in the property world by purchasing their first home.

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‘At less than £300,000, first-time buyers would have no stamp duty to pay at all, meaning a saving of £4,450 to put towards other costs. The good news is that with an up-to-date kitchen and bathroom already fitted, there’s no need to spend on those either!

‘The house sits snugly in the centre of a terrace under a recently re-tiled roof and looks attractive with its ground floor bay window, curved brick arch porch shielding the front door, and decorative brick string course separating the ground and first floors along with feature brickwork around the windows.‘Inside there are separate sitting and dining rooms, the latter opening through an arch into the kitchen / breakfast room and via French windows into the garden. Both these rooms, like the two double bedrooms above, have feature open fireplaces. There’s also a further single bedroom and the family bathroom upstairs. The rear garden has been paved for easy maintenance and at the end is a store / former garage virtually 16 ft square. Families will appreciate the close proximity of schools, shops, bus routes, and transport links making this a practical base.’

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