Owning your own home

Try borrowing a cup of sugar though.

people are dying to get in there

See also:

The neighbours are dead quiet.

Still low rates though so just smash it before they get crazy when Brexit fucks the country.

Idle speculation: will house prices plummet quicker than interest rates go up? Or will it all roughly balance out so the actual cost of buying somewhere will not change significantly

Asking for a friend...

Edit: should say "armchair speculation".

I doubt there will be any house prices plummet. There might be a few more places available due to more repos from people who thought the low rates would last forever but I can't see big money being knocked off except maybe high end overinflated shit. I know nothing though. But housing does seem pretty stable (unless you're in Detroit).

When we kick out all the doctors, nurses and teachers bloody foreigners there will be so many empty houses we can just take our pick.

Yay sovereignty.

Since they've been taken advantage of wrt worker rights and pay rates, they've only been renting bedrooms anyway so once they go, all you have left is a bunch of empty rooms in shit places run by shit landlords.

Oh, well in that case I don't want us to leave after all. Who do I tell?

You need to take a load of barrels of gunpowder to a building in town... hang on... I'll get you the address.

I got a quote from diamond shutters recently. a gr8 big fat bloke turned up in a mini, quoted me a grand more than anyone else then kept swearing to god that they were the best.

Cheers to you and @Soul for all the info, you guys have got big old bay windows in your living rooms which I'm assuming are a fair bit more pricey than a single sash window? Leaning more towards fitting them myself but you guys have definitely given me food for thought.

If you are north or east, give shades of Chingford a look. Family firm, been around ages, good workmanship.

Sounds about right, TBH most of the companies do the same thing. The shutters are manufactured in China and shipped over, these guys just measure and fit rectangular shutters into rectangular holes. Hence why you'll have a 2-3 month wait for installation, they are on a slow boat from China.

Its not a 'craft'

Yeah, Detroit scenario seems unlikely.

Soft market could equal 10-15% off peak prices though.

In general I agree with "who knows what might happen?"

@Bainbridge what shelf is that? Nice hole too.

I plan to live in my place not sell it so I'm not really bothered what prices do.
If I move somewhere I'll rent it out. Brexit does mean I've stopped looking for a bigger place here though.

I didn't have any luck with them either. chased them up a few times, wanted shutters and latterly curtains too for my loft conversion but they didn't get back to me.

I went with complete shutters in woodford in the end. nice bloke and a fair price. they are due to get fitted n the next few weeks.

I guess the frames for the bay windows are more complex so more expensive. I think the panel are where most of the money goes though.

We've got 11 panels, each with two separate shutter mechanisms in them (top and bottom windows) and all are with hidden louvers. <- £££

It’s a @dbr bespoke jobbie.

He’s very good.

Well at least it was just for the one month. Could be a lot worse.

True, but the whole point of using an MA was so that I wouldn't have to deal with any of that kind of shit.

On the mortgage chat I feel I am being royally screwed by the soon to be ex.
She moved out in jan and so i moved back in and have been paying 100% all the (repayment) mortgage, bills etc and our fixed deal runs out this month.
It means the amount I repay is going up by about 300 quid in interest payments. all she had to do was phone them up and we can get a new deal and now rates have gone up.
So fucking annoying

Cemeteries make for the best neighbours, they don't have parties, kids or noisy pets.

There is a higher amount of Goths and Emo Kids though.

And often in the dead center of town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tO0xwSsco

Idle speculation: will house prices plummet quicker than interest rates go up? Or will it all roughly balance out so the actual cost of buying somewhere will not change significantly

Asking for a friend...

Edit: should say "armchair speculation".

May 2008 to Feb 2009 house prices dropped ~16%, then came back up again: