Owning your own home

While we're all dreaming.
Scotland. Apart from the rain, the darkness during winter, and the fact I wouldn't know anyone and would be miles away from any family.
I'd like:
a big garden where my kids can be mad heads and shout like twats
somewhere I can do a job
quiet
near a decent rail line
nice people
smaller happier schools
cyclocross

I mean. It doesn't have to be Scotland, I'd like the North East/the North.
When can I sell up the house I'm in, and what am I going to have to "give up"?

Oh... Sad times. Is this a serious thing or are you spitballing?

There are plenty of beautiful places within commute distance of Edinburgh. South, places like Berwick on the border and north up the coast to Dundee. It's all stunning and accessible.

I'd love to do the same but I think too many elderly parents and family in/around London for it to be feasible.

https://www.propertypal.com/9-craigboy-road-donaghadee/576103

Craigboy? Worth it just for the road name...

Just thinking out loud, thinking where else is possible with a garden.
And if you're thinking "where can I move?" why would Sutton (and other places south of here) win over somewhere it could be less crowded, schools might be a bit nicer as class sizes smaller, etc and so on.

@stevo_com yeah. suttin like that.

I dunno. The talk in the house is still "5 year plan" stage and throwing ideas around.

I don't think moving out of London is going to solve some of the unhappiness that is generating the "where else could we live" and would throw up unknown unknowns. As well as known unknowns.

And if you're thinking "where can I move?" why would Sutton (and other places south of here) win over somewhere it could be less crowded, schools might be a bit nicer as class sizes smaller, etc and so on.

Yeah this is doing my head in

If my family wasn't SE based we could go anywhere, rather than paying £1m for a shitty two up two down and being a wage slave 4 lyfe so that the drive to my parents isn't that awful.

I remember a few years ago - maybe 2017 - I posted about one of these on Kempe Road in similar condition being on for £1m and everyone shitting the bed

Well here we go, now they start at £1.5m.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-86234165.html

That's about six miles from Bangor, right?

Sutton is utterly depressing, i cant think of anywhere id rather live less

i cant think of anywhere id rather live less

Kingston?

id absolutely live in kingston over sutton. no question.

"where else could we live"

I like to play, avoid the black

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Aye. My old ends. Still trying to win the war in this house about where to move next. Weirdly for me, being back in NI will be better for my work as my department is better aligned to the Belfast office than the Reading one. Not that I ever go to Reading any more.

It is pretty amazing that 'standard' terraced houses in places that were quite unremarkable 10 years ago (Queens Park, Peckham) are now routinely over £1m.

Similar-sized houses in East Ham are still a half to a third of that price:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-80776444.html

Whatever problems the area has, this is a decently sized, nicely finished house, with a garden backing on to a park. Does that mean prices here are going to shoot up at some point? Or is the bubble going to burst elsewhere?

Or is East Ham a lot further away than I think, and my perspective is being skewed by knowing a lot of people who live in Seven Kings, Romford, etc.?

What's this, a map for ants?

https://i.imgur.com/zxZ3KUp.jpg

What's this, a map for ants?

:')

But isn't Peckham spenny because it's cool/trendy and overspill from Clapham>Brixton etc?

Does that mean prices here are going to shoot up at some point?

Yes

Well I suppose everywhere in London is overspill from somewhere else - and as long as there's good housing stock it's going to become a trendy area. I suppose even if there isn't good housing stock it will be - so much of Bethnal Green/Bow and that area is relatively grim looking but it's still getting expensive.

I don't know so much about Queens Park but I suppose East Ham has to wait until Forest Gate is pricing more people out (which is what happened to us).

But I really can't imagine seeing £1m three-bed terraces here in the next 10 years.

You used “kerb appeal” and “housing stock” in a week .. i can chat with your neighbours and stop your chapatis.

Wasn't it lowbrows who said street appeal? I had to look up what it meant

forum recommended mortgage adviser ? who'll get me a negative interest rate 10 yr fixed mortgage then ?

I'm currently using:

https://cmgadvice.co.uk/our-services/mortgages/

As a first time buyer without a clue they've been super helpful. No fee. Can drop you an email contact if it helps. I've never been through the process before though so I've got nothing to compare to.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for­-sale/property-80776444.html

I'm calling them now East Ham here we come

I mean, it's either that or Ealing (£1m) or Kingston (£1m)