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Ha pop up to Norths when you move in there's a bunch of us in and around that area, including @Mikey5000 who lives in the middle of Crouch end
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@cake I think Fi and I shall be looking to you to be our local guide. We can pay bribes in alcohol or dinners.
Separately, I've now found the extra £15k I needed... the universe is still working as I hoped it would. Life remains weird. Clearly I'm over-extending though, to have needed that, and that's going to be something very tangible once we move in as we'll not be able to do much with the property for a long while. Thankfully, it's really nice and nothing is needing to be done.
I've been doing the valuation scoring based on what I perceived was the avg sq ft price, and there was huge deviation across London, everything from £500 per square foot for ex-council / needs overhaul, through to around £1k per square foot for marble lined bathrooms and Neptune kitchen with a garden. For the places we were looking at we were seeing prices consistently around £750-800 per square foot for being quite average. The place we are attempting to buy is £693 per square foot and above average condition, comparative places nearby are closer £800 per square foot.
Yes the place is at our upper end of affordability (because it's larger than what we were looking for), but I think we're getting a really good deal and are just very fortunate that the personal circumstances of the seller (they've bought in Surrey and are paying twice, and their child starts at a local school there imminently) resulted in them needing a quick sale.
We are stoked. And we also have a huge loft to hide all our skeletons in before we convert it into a bedroom or dungeon or observatory or something.