Owning your own home

I get the impression that there is a high concentration of Walthamstowers (and Leyton/Leytonstoners) 'on here'. I'm not far from St James and that area has smartened itself up immeasurably in the past few years: https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content/st-james-street-improvements

From there you have good access out to Walthamstow Marshes and the new Wetlands 'one of London’s largest open spaces': http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/NEWS/15587995.After_years_in_the_making__Walthamstow_Wetlands_opens_to_the_public_next_week/

https://walthamstowwetlands.com

Lea Bridge Road seems to be suddenly on a tear - a new road layout is being finished, new retail and quite a large residential development at Lea Bridge Station is underway.

I moved to E17 in 2013 just before things started going hyper ballistic and some of it is completely unrecognisable - the development with the cinema and restaurants near the Tube Station wasn't there, lots of pubs were shutting down, mini-holland wasn't a thing. It still has its problems with rubbish dumping and litter and the traffic/pollution and parking situation is a problem, but in that time it's only really become a much better place to live and spend time, especially since starting a family - it must be the epicentre of fertility for London.

Cheers for the extensive reply... yeah I get the feeling lots of folks are out that way... friends bought out there maybe 4 years a go max and after a little extension their place has gone up 50%. Kinda worried about being priced out because I am sure at some point a full house in e17 will be worth more than a 2 bed flat in e3, we are getting very close to that point now in fact and for some unknown reason my flat hasn't increased in value for years.

The place I am viewing is a 10-20 year place, the mortgage is easily affordable and I could start saving for the loft extension if/when it's needed should we get another cat/animal.

My flat in the connaught works hasn't increased in value from when I sold it 3 years ago. I'm not sure why that is.

I guess 2 bed flats in E3 have topped out? Feel mines still on the low end of the price scale, looking at places the same price and cant find anything I feel is comparable...

Mine was a 1 bed but I got a v good price for it (435) at the time. I dont think the people who purchased it from me have lost out but I don't think they've made much, if anything , on it

people love telling you how much their house has gone up in value. salt/pinch/etc

yeah. how much are people prepared to pay you for it is usually miles away from what the EA tells you its worth.

as i'm finding out.

I hope they never want to buy something bigger? Those ladder rungs will keep getting further apart...

EAs know shit at the moment

Their industry is going to be a bloodbath next year

I suspect I could get more for mine than the EA claim, I have ply kitchen, Aesop, cheese plants and all the right posters, as suspected already getting booking calls before the photographer has even had a chance to get over...

sell it some Vice reading tory for fat profit

1 in 1 out?

I KID.

Davey Stone were bought out or rebranded Dexters...not the same as what was a small indie I guess?

I need a lawnmower for a small terraced lawn and a jetwash for car/patio duties, any recommendations?
Thinking one of the medium hover flymos and Kärcher K2...

Snore.

Where are you based? You can test drive my fairly new basic flymo hover job if you can grab it from SE19. I got it for my postage stamp square of grass for about £40 from B&Q

Don’t lord it.

It’s massively rare that an exchanged property doesn’t complete. Even death isn’t enough to stop it completing most of the time.

I’d say the number that fail to complete is decimals of a percent.

I still wouldn’t sign it tho.

Ask them to strike it out, it’s probably some generic estate agency contract they found on the intrntz and have never read.

fuck it. we accepted the lowball offer after we managed to get him to up it a bit. Still doubled our money but covering the overheads of buying the new place we've put an offer on is probably going to have to come out of our savings which is a shitter.

Congrats!

yeah cheers m9. we're not quite jumping over the moon but if anything, it's a relief not having to make sure the place is spotless every time you step outside and the Aesop costs were crippling.

considering there's no more chain, what else can go tits up?

From what you have said, I think you have come to a sensible decision. Congratulations.

End of the day it’s all imaginary money.

Hah! Try moving out of London ;)

Down on the South coast now unforch. Is it one with a grass box?

It collects grass but only while it is moving forwards as the updraft/suction is through a port in the back. If you chuck it around in odd directions then the hovering principle throws clippings everywhere.