Three-bed semi on sale... for £80m

IT is a well-known trick of the real estate trade – setting a high asking price to get the biggest possible offer for your property.

But one homeowner in Greenock seems to have been a bit too optimistic.

They listed their three bedroom pebbledash semi-detached home for offers over £80million.

The Inverclyde home has none of the special features usually associated with multi-million-pound properties – a swimming pool, helipad or private golf course. But it does boast a ‘family bathroom’, ‘small breakfast bar area’ and ‘good local bus routes’.

Its location – on a quiet residential road – also offers no clues to the price, which would usually be reserved for properties on the most exclusive streets in the most upmarket of cities.

The house was listed online on Thursday for offers over £79,990,000 – roughly 1,000 times that of other homes on the same street. The asking price is also more than £70million more expensive than that for the 90-acre Dall Estate in Loch Rannoch.

That property – with a history dating back to 1347 – comes with 38 bedrooms, a laboratory, an indoor five-a-side football pitch and two squash courts.

Estate agents Homefinders admitted their listing of the Greenock property for the astronomical sum was a ‘human error’.

They did not say whether any offers had been made, but the price has since been lowered to a more reasonable £79,990.