Mooring Value

[WJM]

Ok - this is one of those unanswerable questions but I am going to ask it anyway;

 

Does anyone have a feel for the possible sale value of a mooring? A 78' river mooring, campshed and paved bank, no services (and no possibility of adding them) - absolutely no possibility of residential occupation under any circumstances, and very limited access by land.

 

I am wondering if anyone has seen a similar mooring change hands and knows the price, or has anyone got any other insight into a possible value?

[KenK]

Ok - this is one of those unanswerable questions but I am going to ask it anyway;

 

Does anyone have a feel for the possible sale value of a mooring? A 78' river mooring, campshed and paved bank, no services (and no possibility of adding them) - absolutely no possibility of residential occupation under any circumstances, and very limited access by land.

 

I am wondering if anyone has seen a similar mooring change hands and knows the price, or has anyone got any other insight into a possible value?

 

I guess it depends where it is, the only one I have seen recently was something similar, it was 90 ft just outside Newbury on the K&A, just mooring and a strip of land. No services mentioned in the advert asking price was in excess of £40,000.

 

Ken

[grahoom]

http://www.apolloduck.co.uk/display.phtml?aid=114150

 

here is an example of a mooring in Sussex - on the river Ouse - doesn't say if it's residential - but I doubt it has residential planning permission - it's for sale for £22K - and it seems only for a boat up to 39.5 feet.

[Dawnie]

The Ouse is a bad example. it has been on sale for over a year and reduced!

The navigable Ouse is very short, just a few miles, Possible permission to build a jetty but the Ouse floods nearly every winter, this February right up to to the railway lines, 2002, right into Lewes itself causing much devastation which the town is still recovering from!

This mooring from what I can work out is very near the town and not where I personally would want to moor a boat. Believe me I would snap it up myself if it was worth the money!

 

Edited to add that it looks like they have built the pontoon now!

Edited July 3, 2009 by Carol Whale

[grahoom]

The Ouse is a bad example. it has been on sale for over a year and reduced!

The navigable Ouse is very short, just a few miles, Possible permission to build a jetty but the Ouse floods nearly every winter, this February right up to to the railway lines, 2002, right into Lewes itself causing much devastation which the town is still recovering from!

This mooring from what I can work out is very near the town and not where I personally would want to moor a boat. Believe me I would snap it up myself if it was worth the money!

 

Edited to add that it looks like they have built the pontoon now!

 

Yup, I've seen this one for sale for a long time .... but It was one of the only examples I could find of a mooring for sale - but it gives a good idea of what people are trying to sell small bits of land for mooring for.

[Chertsey]

Apologies if it wasn't, but was it not you who said, on another thread, that the only definition of value is how much someone is prepared to pay? In which case, if it is you that wants the mooring, then you already know the answer.

 

(Sincere apologies if that was someone else; I have tried to search but to no avail)

[WJM]

Absolutely - and an opinion cannot be formed in a vacuum, it requires reference and background.

[Dominic M]

A lot of factors.

 

Freehold or leasehold? If the latter, how long and is it subject to the Landlord and Tenant Act?

 

Location.

 

Flooding frequency.

 

Etc.

[Machpoint005]

Apologies if it wasn't, but was it not you who said, on another thread, that the only definition of value is how much someone is prepared to pay? In which case, if it is you that wants the mooring, then you already know the answer.

 

(Sincere apologies if that was someone else; I have tried to search but to no avail)

 

It was I, and I'm not in the least offended, so no apology needed.

This debate does seem to add weight to my definition, though!

[WJM]

Freehold - and it floods in winter ie: the water gets over the bank. There is s row of scaffold poles to beep the boats off.