An excellent opportunity to acquire a move-in-ready semi-detached home, situated on a generously sized plot, with a sizeable garden to the rear and large frontage including driveway parking. This property also has the huge benefit of having no onward chain!

• No onward chain
• Established residential area
• HMO Licence gained
• Turn-key ready home
• Neutral décor
• Spacious dual aspect living dining room
• Large rear garden
• Driveway parking
• Superfast broadband available

The accommodation within is light and spacious and includes a dual-aspect living/dining room and a kitchen on the ground floor. Upstairs, the property has been reconfigured to create three good-sized bedrooms, alongside the family bathroom.

During the current ownership, the property has been utilised in a range of ways, including gaining its HMO license. This means it could be either a fantastic investment opportunity or a lovely family home.

36 Drake Avenue is approached via a block-paved driveway leading to the front door with a canopy storm porch overhead. There is a lawned garden situated to the side of the driveway and gated access to the side of the property accessing the rear garden.


Entrance
As you enter the property, you are greeted by a welcoming entrance hallway featuring a staircase rising to the first floor and doors accessing the kitchen and living/dining room.


Living/dining room
Situated off the hallway to the right-hand side is an impressively spacious living/dining room. This dual-aspect room has windows to the front and rear allowing plentiful natural light to fill the room.


Kitchen
The kitchen is situated to the rear of the property and is fitted with wall and base units, with work surfaces over incorporating a stainless-steel sink with drainer and mixer tap nicely situated in front of the window overlooking the rear garden.

Integrated appliances include an oven, a hob and an extractor hood. There is tiled flooring, tiling to the splashback behind the hob, space under the counter for a washing machine, and a window and door to the side accessing the garden. This room also houses the wall-mounted boiler.


First floor
The landing has a window to the side and grants access to the bedrooms, family bathroom and an airing cupboard.


Bedrooms
Bedroom one is an excellent-sized double room situated to the front of the property featuring a window to the front aspect.

The second bedroom is also a double room and has pleasant views over the rear garden from the window.

Bedroom three is a good size and includes a window to the front and a built-in desk.


Family bathroom
A family bathroom comprising a low-level WC, a washbasin and a bathtub with a shower over completes the accommodation.

This room also includes tiling to the splashback and walls around the bath, and obscure-glazed windows to the rear and side aspects.


Garden
The rear garden is a wonderful family-friendly outside space, being mainly lawned, with a pathway leading to the rear. There is a useful brick-built outbuilding situated within the garden ideal for storage of garden equipment or use as a potting shed. The garden is bound by a combination of panel and mesh fencing and a mature hedgerow.

The property has mains gas, mains electricity, mains water and mains drainage. There is also standard and superfast broadband available.

Council tax band B

Reservation Fee - refundable on exchange

A reservation fee, refundable on exchange, will be payable by the Buyer to Andrew Grant Sales Limited prior to issuing the Memorandum of Sale and marking the property as Sold Subject to Contract. This fee will be reimbursed upon Exchange of contracts.

In the instance the Seller withdraws from the sale the fee will be returned to the Buyer. The fee will be retained by Andrew Grant Sales Ltd to cover costs in the event the Buyer withdraws from the purchase or doesn't Exchange within 6 months of the fee being received other than as a result of:

1. Any structural or material issues arising from any survey that has not previously been disclosed
2. A defect in the seller’s legal title
3. The local searches reveal any matter that has a material adverse effect on the market value of the property that were previously undeclared or unknown

The reservation fee levels are as follows:
an agreed offer under £500,000 will be £750 inclusive of vat
an agreed offer between £500,000 and £1,000,000 will be £2,000 inclusive of vat
all agreed offers over £1,000,000 will be £3,000 inclusive of vat

The reservation fee is payable upon acceptance of an offer which itself is subject to an assessment of ability to proceed. Any renegotiation of an accepted price after the issue of the Sales Memorandum for any reason not covered in points 1 to 3 above will lead to the reservation fee being retained. A further fee will be payable on any subsequent reduced offer accepted by the vendor. This will be returnable subject to the conditions that prevail for all reservation fees.