now offering affordable luxury
Do you remember the above photo of the main entrance to the Highland Housing Fair or Highland Housing Expo as it was renamed on its way to become a brilliant success? That's how it started, that's how it went on and that's how it ends: Expo's Funky Town in the bin:
Inverness Courier, 17-10-11: Luxury housing fair homes now selling as "affordable"
THREE of the prestigious houses built for Inverness’ controversial housing expo are being marketed as affordable homes as organisers try desperately to sell the 24 remaining properties before April.
The terraced houses, which feature Ikea kitchens, Neff appliances, ground source heat pumps and solar panels, are valued at £200,000 but are being marketed on an 80/20 shared equity basis, leaving the purchaser to find £160,000.
If the move proves successful, expo organiser Highland Housing Alliance is likely to try and sell more of the homes in this way.
I bet, once three more units are sold it will be then described as the greatest success in Scottish history of what once will have been a world's first and the globe's market leading event or some kind of other beloved exaggerations that have accompanied this disaster all along.
And how do you define "luxury", by the way?
Carpe diem!
More from the Inverness Courier:
Affordable Homes at 300,000?
Expo homes in running for design awards
Housing Expo to mount sales drive in bid to recoup 6m
- (...just decide what headline you would like to give this one!)
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