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I grew up in a 1960s concrete house in the area. My endurng memory of that is how the sound of footsteps and low conversation travelled around the building. Not an easy thing to test when viewing a property and I suppose not unique to 60s concrete.
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Hmm, my experience of flats with concrete floors/walls is this is better (than, for example, our 1860s terrace, which is made of cheese). But I'm more concerned with neighbour noise so not quite the same thing. I suppose the design of individual places makes a big difference.
Could be tested by someone having a conversation with the estate agent and someone else moving to the other end of the house to see what they can hear.
Fox
2 flats rather than 3. One flat normally gets the left side of the ground floor, all of the first and the back half of the 2nd floor. Then other one gets right/none/front/all. Having both would be amazing.
It's still for sale actually but they've dropped the asking a lot. Started at £1,675,000 on TheModernHouse 2 years ago, then gradually dropped and changed agents down to 1.25M (then to 1.35 again).
@Howard Think windows are down to the individual owners (/leaseholders). The neighbour mentioned they choose whether to opt in or not (and paid the ~4k for the large windows at the front, with the back windows being a few years earlier).
@Tenderloin @Mickie_Cricket @tbc
Gotta say I'm pretty tempted. Obviously I'd miss the lovely noise, pollution and view that is the sliproad to the Blackwall Tunnel Approach as I currently have, but I'm sure I could put up with Blackheath instead.