{"id":384,"date":"2015-07-14T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:41","slug":"zoopla-accidentally-values-148k-scotland-home-at-14-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/zoopla-accidentally-values-148k-scotland-home-at-14-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoopla Accidentally Values \u00a3148k Scotland Home at \u00a314 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoopla named a home in Stornoway\u2019s Balmerino Drive as the most expensive in Scotland, accidentally setting its value to \u00a314 million.<\/p>\n

The owners of the property at 11 Balmerino Drive, Stornoway HS1 2TD were happily surprised to read that their property was valued at just over \u00a314 million on Zoopla and listed as the \u201cmost expensive in Scotland\u201d on the \u201csecond richest street\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n

Zoopla also listed the property as a \u201c10-bed houseboat,\u201d stating \u201cBalmerino Drive has 32 houses and flats on it with a average current value of \u00a31,876,297, compared to an average property value of \u00a3148,800 for HS1 (the Stornoway postcode).\u201d<\/p>\n

The owners of the property, however, knew the error was too good to be true and reported it to Zoopla.<\/p>\n

Zoopla blamed a technical glitch for the error and has since removed the incorrect value.<\/p>\n

\"Balmerino<\/a>

Balmerino Drive: “The second richest” street in Scotland (Google Street View)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Zoopla\"

Average House Prices in HS1 (Zoopla)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zoopla named a home in Stornoway\u2019s Balmerino Drive as the most expensive in Scotland, accidentally setting its value to \u00a314 million. The owners of the property at 11 Balmerino Drive, Stornoway HS1 2TD were happily surprised to read that their property was valued at just over \u00a314 million on Zoopla and listed as the \u201cmost expensive in Scotland\u201d on the \u201csecond richest street\u201d in the country. Zoopla also listed the property as a \u201c10-bed houseboat,\u201d stating \u201cBalmerino Drive has 32 houses and flats on it with a average current value of \u00a31,876,297, compared to an average property value of \u00a3148,800 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}