Owning your own home

So you've never actually lived in any of the nice bits.

I agree that all the places you have lived are awful.

Swiss Cottage is an anomaly - a traffic snarled gyratory full of council estates in the middle of much nicer areas. Go west, east, north or south and everything is a vast improvement (Primrose Hill, St Johns Wood, West Hampstead, proper Hampstead, Belsize Park, etc).

Also, I'd point out that I said "London" not "The North".

Holy cow.

I'm moving South.

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I’d want more change from 1M for something with rooms that pokey

Eco house looks fun though

Pokey? That looks near perfect to me...

I like it - but it’s too small and dark for £800k in that location.

Don't know the location to be fair.

My flat hasn't sold yet, despite being on the market since the weekend, I'm going to have a melt down and slash the price...

The first one is actually one of the suspects for stealing my cat - you can actually see my flat in the background of this photo:

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Get a viewing and leave passive aggressive notes in their cupboards

I'm going to have a melt down and slash the price...

My - admittedly shittier - two bed in bow wouldn’t sell for £390k last year

Got a link?

I'm Victoria park Actually.

(Hove Actually ref)

It’s not on the market at the moment - will try again when the tenants are out.

Did you get any offers ?

Do you have a link to the old listing? Or a PDF? Or any details?

hold your horses, done be played by 'the game', ours took 6 months, life still went on, I bought bikes, travelled to sunny places etc.

and move to catford

2 bed ground floor single aspect flat single bathroom kitchen diner modern

+ Good sized bedrooms
+ modern shiz
+ 5 min walk to Bow Road tube

- ground floor
- shit road (ordell)
- tenanted at the time and they’d filled the place with crap

Wheres Catford? Is that London?

Move to South Essex, it's the best™

It’s a buyers market, you’re a bit between brackets (first time buyer/anything that isn’t renting -> double income/max space) and your asking price reflects things that aren’t raw space. It might take a while and you want someone who loves it.

Ive just bought on Croxted road!

Yeah totally, and without wanting to sound like a dick (for once) there hasn't been a person who's stepped foot in our flat who hasn't been impressed with the space (heights ceilings and views across a park), things that dont fully come across in pics. Or I could just have my head up my arse and 525 is more realistic.

My mortgage guy mentioned I could do a bridging mortgage to get round the time frame... anyone else ever dabbled?

What did the agent value it at? I presume they valued it a smidge lower right ?

3 Different, one lower, one higher, we went in the middle as we felt it was what it was worth (I know that may sound obvious, but...).

Other flats have sold for less in the building, but smaller ones, and even then I looked at them and thought they were worth more. Of course it could all come down to my own emotional attachment to the place.

do a bridging mortgage

Noooooooooooooooo!!! Recipe for utter, utter disaster. Only for the very brave.

Anywhere in East Anglia

FTFY. Except Ipswich.

Your mortgage guy is eyeing up more commission. Don’t do it. It’s only for the desperate.