Owning your own home

Just burn it down and start again.

Jokes aside, so long as there is nothing structural that doesnt look toooooooooooooo bad. 30-50k would make it livable.

I don't know the area but strikes me as a lot for a shithole.

It could be a nice house and at some undefined point in the future, £1.75M will be a bargain for 4 beds in Queens Park.

The asking price in the current market looks a bit strong.

@chrisbmx116 Been on since aug 2017.

I could cobble together 900... if I sold everything.

The street is nice, area is good, schools and centrist dads everywhere.

I’m gonna take a look.

Any tell tale signs I should look out for?

Any tell tale signs I should look out for?

Frozen sausage remnants.

Oddly I was filming around the corner from that the other day and during lunch I saw that place (not viewed, just walked past). It's def a nice street/area. Asking is nuts atm but you know that. But it also makes me think why on earth haven't they accepted 900 in the previous 12 months...? i.e. they're just holding out for asking because reasons.

Because the market is about to crash and it’ll be a 600k house by March?

it’ll be a 600k house by March?

you don't really believe that.

Signs of headstones being removed but possibly not the bodies.

But it also makes me think why on earth haven't they accepted 900 in the previous 12 months...?

Dunnnooo. You can get a renovated place in Kensal Town for less money, albeit a touch smaller.

if you think it's "the place" you really want to be for the next 10 years plus, and you can be bothered with the hassle of living in and renovating a place, then it could be worth a punt.

That was the kind of punt that we took when we bought our current shack in Walthamstow, going on 15 years ago, and believe it or not, even then some people were saying the market was about to crash.

Which isn't to say i don't think the market will go down from here; it has already lost a good 10% at the top and likely to lose a bit more IMO, but i very much doubt 30-50%, and I also doubt it will be the start of long term devaluation of property. But obvs I could be wrong, past is not a guide to future etc.

@Howard looks like a lot of work because it’s old and a bit fucked but also the layout is weird. Looks like a decent size garden. If it were me I’d go for a side return extension plus bit out the back. Extend the 1st floor as well and add a loft conversion. But that would probably be more like £100-150k of works

I don’t think that the vast majority of the U.K. public realise (yet) what a disaster we are sailing into. I think when realisation dawns things could get very, very ugly- economically and socially.

Na, will be fine. Stop being a mood hoover.

Sell up now, rent for a year, profit...

I agree with this. Lot of work required for a million pound house. You’re paying for potential and location..

Easily 150ks worth of work there if you properly do the loft, side, kitchen, bathroom(s) new boiler/heating system, rewire, sort joists, replaster, sort garden front and back, windows, doors.

If you just want to move in and not want to kill yourself every hour then you could probably superficially modernise it and put a cheap bathroom and kitchen in and do the basics for 40/50

You’re paying for potential and location..

Yes, of course. We've lived in W2 for eight years but want something a bit bigger that doesn't mean uprooting completely and having to start again. And we have new small human that would benefit from a garden.

benefit from a garden

I'd just say that while fresh air is lovely make sure it's suitable for them. We had a massive garden in Brighton but it was steeply tiered with either concrete or decking or rock gardens or hypodermics. We've actually moved into a place with a much smaller garden (about a fifth the size) but the interior is enormous by comparison and having a 40-odd-metre length of corridor/open-plan for him to run through is a game changer.

Hah yeah I'm thinking nothing but a plain of astroturf

Current reccos for double-glazing companies? Looking for timber or alu. Had a not unreasonable (I think) quote from Kloeber but would like something to compare to. Ta.

shame, having somewhere where they can go and make mud pies, collect beetles, pick daisy's etc is awesome. i love mucking about in the garden with my little ones

Wait until @andyp hears about your plans

Did @dbr have some nice new windows put in recently?

I'm joking about the 'turf

The good thing about AstroTurf is that you can clean it with a leaf blower