Hill View, Crescent Road, Ramsey
Description
Welcome to Hill View, a charming three-bedroom semi-detached home set in a sought-after location on Crescent Road in the heart of Ramsey. Perfectly positioned for families and professionals alike, this delightful property combines comfortable living space with an enviable setting. The home offers well-proportioned accommodation throughout, featuring a bright and welcoming living area, a spacious kitchen with a separate utility space, ideal for everyday family life, and three generous bedrooms providing flexibility for growing families, guests, or a home office. In addition, the property benefits from a versatile boarded attic space, providing useful additional storage and potential for a variety of uses such as hobbies, storage or a creative workspace (subject to any necessary consents). This provides valuable flexibility and an area away from the main living accommodation. To the rear, the property truly comes into its own. The private back garden enjoys lovely open views towards the iconic Albert Tower, creating a picturesque backdrop and a wonderful space for relaxing, entertaining, or simply enjoying the surroundings. Situated in a great location close to local amenities, schools, and transport links, Hill View presents an excellent opportunity to acquire a lovely family home in one of Ramsey’s most desirable residential areas. Early viewing is highly recommended to fully appreciate all that this appealing property has to offer.
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Nearby
- SchoolRamsey Grammar School0.83 mi · 18 min walk · 3 min drive
- GP surgeryRamsey Group Practice1.3 mi · 28 min walk · 4 min drive
- DentistGrove Mount Dental Practice1.4 mi · 29 min walk · 4 min drive
- SupermarketCo-op Food0.55 mi · 12 min walk · 2 min drive
- PubThe Fynoderee Distillery0.42 mi · 9 min walk · 1 min drive
- RestaurantSilver Star Chinese Takeaway0.45 mi · 10 min walk · 1 min drive
- CaféGelatory0.51 mi · 11 min walk · 2 min drive
- Petrol stationSpar Ramsey0.63 mi · 14 min walk · 2 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Isle of Man amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to the Isle of Man's roads and 25/35mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
Masts nearby
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map320 yards away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map326 yards away
- Mobile phone mastUnnamed on the map0.60 miles away
- Mobile phone mastSure1.4 miles away
Read this before drawing a conclusion. These are masts mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors — 38 communication structures for the whole island, 29 of them tagged as carrying a mobile network. The operators run considerably more sites than that, so a mast not shown here is not evidence there isn't one. There is no official Isle of Man mast register to check against: Ofcom's Sitefinder never covered the island and the Communications Commission publishes no list. Nothing in this data says which generation a mast carries, so none of it can tell you whether a site is 5G.
What the numbers on this listing say
- Freehold. The most straightforward tenure to buy and to lend against. Tenure is as declared by the agent; have your advocate confirm it against the register.
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What this purchase costs beyond the asking price
Duty is charged in slices, so each rate applies only to the part of the price inside its band. Three categories exist: owner-occupier (nothing on the first £230,000, 1% to £500,000, 2% above) — £1,300 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £7,199; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £14,398. Which one you fall into is a question about you, not about the property, and the Registry decides it. Scale set by the Land, Deeds and Probate Registries (Fees and Duties) Order 2023, in force 1 May 2023 — check the Central Registry's own calculator or ask your advocate for the figure that actually applies. This site is not a tax adviser and takes no fee from anyone named on this page.
What it would cost each month
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Getting connected
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What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,513/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 5 Ramsey properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Isle of Man build rates: £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Isle of Man actually grants that kind of application.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£35,182 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£17,318 | 0% (314) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£50,260 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£9,260 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£70,364 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£34,636 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£27,140 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£40,360 | 0% (199) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale, because the Isle of Man's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — what work of this kind actually gets approved here shows how often applications like yours succeed, and on what grounds the refusals go.
Building work on this property
Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (UK cost ranges with the Isle of Man's 18% uplift) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from an Isle of Man builder before budgeting.
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Sale history
| Sale date | Price | At 2026 prices | Address on register |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-14 | £320,000 | £387,843 +21% | Hill View May Hill Ramsey IM8 2HJ |
| 2019-11-01 | £234,000 | £327,410 +40% | Hill View Crescent Road Ramsey IM8 2JR |
| 2019-10-04 | £320,000 | £447,740 +40% | Hill View May Hill Ramsey IM8 2HJ |
| 2016-12-05 | £200,000 | £308,154 +54% | Hill View Crescent Road Ramsey IM8 2JR |
| 2015-12-18 | £200,000 | £297,686 +49% | Hill View Crescent Road Ramsey IM8 2JR |
Matched by house name/street and parish against the Isle of Man Land Registry's transaction register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2026 prices" column carries each price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — it is what that sum of money would be at today's market level, not a valuation of this property, and it takes no account of the condition it was in then or any work done since.
Planning history
No planning application found in this site's planning dataset for this address.
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