Owning your own home

You can put boilers in bathrooms

This. The lasted rented flat I lived in had the boiler in the bathroom. Inspected every year for 6 years I was there and checked a couple of times by British Gas when they were doing metery stuff. No issues whatsoever. I think the main concerns are usually around proer electrical grounding and distance from the bath/shower. Ours was over the bog, one dude just said, "don't lean on it to take a piss if it gets a bit sparky".

As long as the boiler is 'room sealed' (i.e it pulls air in directly from outside, and expels air and condensate) to the outside you can put the boiler in any room you want.

It got vetoed by the missus and the big boy on Bushwood is under offer now as well.

I expect it was significantly smaller than you might have expected . The location was good though.

Offer accepted. Back of the net.
Just need to flog mine within 2 weeks.
Architects lined up.

Congrats. Walthamstow?

Cheers! And yeah! Oh boy I have some plans for the wee place...

'tis a cracking neighbourhood to be sure. This is worth a bookmark if you haven't come across it already: https://walthamstowdiary.com/

I think you'll know from the viewings you got coming up whether you've pushed the envelope a bit too much on the price.

Indeed, don't think we will accept anything lower than 15k off asking to be honest as feel the price is decent. Friends who know the place feel the price is fair, but then they are prob influenced by being friends and having quite a few pleasant parties at the flat... only time will tell!

An old colleague has listed their 2 bed in Brixton for 650
https://www.purplebricks.co.uk/property-for-sale/2-bedroom-flat-brixton-485810#

Bought it < 18 months ago for 502. they must be dizzy.

Quite nice to be a fair. But, you know, South of the river...

oh yeah its stunning but still

uh sorry but bathroom has Aesop .. i'd say 670 is fair.

You can buy a WHOLE victorian house like that for £500k-ish in London's famous Catford with less walking distance from station(s).

I guess the word 'Clapham' holds the value.

It has a lobby.

A lobby.

what more could you need?

Moodboard:

Change from half a million

Given that I struck out on the new job I'm back to looking for a place with more space.

I'm not going East, as that's graphic designers and northern hairdressers who only feel authentic if living within 50m of poverty, and that's not my bag.

Other than that, running distance from Waterloo (which may, or may not, be on fire currently), which I'd define as 10-15km.

Where can I get a double garage and garden, freehold?

How much have you got?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71430455.html

Sydenham.

There's a nandos opening here soon as well.

#dreams r real

@Dammit

https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/5412-orchard-rise/

Garden
Double Garage
10 miles to Waterloo ;)

Also @CYOA you seen this? https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/south-heighton-east-sussex/

@Chalfie Not that much. We've probably got around 300,000 equity in the current place, I could get a mortgage for 6-700k to go with that, but the repayments would be terrifying, so I'd rather not go to the top of the range.