Owning your own home

I don't make the rules, I just live by them

Keep it up, your trolling is getting amazing!

Asking on behalf of someone else (thank god) - if a buyer pulls out of a purchace, and the seller gets billed for a portion of their solicitor's fees can the buyer be made liable or does the seller just have to suck it up?

If the buyer pulls out of a purchase pre-exchange of contracts it's tough shit. If they've exchanged, the buying party should receive the entire deposit (usually 10%).

This is everywhere now.

1930s semi in Ealing with an hmo with smashed windows next door? £940k pls

thanks

Your quest brings me joy. More joy than the relentless nimby trolling from team @amey.

@rogan Catford is great. If you can wait 12-18 months we'll be selling a hilariously over-specced 2-bed... The bonus is that in 12–18 months there may be an actual benefit to having two decent independent cinemas within 15 mins walk and a regular food market, right now it's hard to sell that as a plus :/

We're about to go on the market so wont be waiting! but thanks for the info.
And as always @amey full of the most useful advise.

There are some decent places on rightmove around catford in budget but the prices seem to just be wildly random.

I've been banging the Catford drum in this thread for coming on 8 years now I think, so probably said variations of all of this before:

Catford is lots of different vibes butting up against each other. Corbett is family central, and where @amey, @hoefla (sort of) and I are. It's nice; good deli, local butcher, generally quiet roads, strong community vibes (active community group which puts together stuff like this) as well as a fantastic/hilarious/awful Facebook group, easy walk to a choice of stations, easy to the lanes.

Roughly four kinds of house on the estate – big double-fronters, (wellmeadow, broadfield), big single-fronters (amey over on arngask, dowanhill), and then smaller variants (Braidwood, then slightly smaller, Killearn. Killearns are often 3-beds, achieved through downstairs bathroom. Braidwoods are sometimes 3-beds, achieved by splitting front bedroom.). Steer clear of sangley/sandhurst – it's a narrow, busy road with plenty buses and people disregarding the 20mph limit. Pokey houses that aren't worth the faff even if on paper it's got the floorspace and bedrooms. Amey still hasn't adequately thanked me for steering him clear of it all those years ago. Even though it's not great to live on, the closer you are to Sandhurst parade the easier it is to get your flat white and sourdough. Forster and Mountsfield parks are great.

Culverly Green next door is a conservation area and those people look down at us so I have nothing to say about them. Good houses though.

Outside of the Corbett, you're on your own. I've barely left the estate since kid/lockdown so who knows what it's like out there now. Between Ladywell fields and the centre is generally quiet and seems to be coming together. Perry Hill still waiting for its moment. Blythe Hill has good pub, bookshop and park and some nice old bits. Bellingham, hmm. Doesn't have that victorian housing stock, but The Fellowship is a great asset and the waterlink way is an ace running loop, plus you're closer to Beckenham Place Park. Been a while now since the last stabbing. Downham, nah.

No matter where you end up, you'll be easy walking distance to a station, a park, a real Morley's, a fake Morleys, a good pub and a jerk place. If you're blind to food hygiene ratings, Jerk Scene is the one to go to.

My mind was blown when I read that catford mews indoor market had turned into a hipster indy cinema.

couldnt have put better myself

On the cycling front, excellent access to Kent lanes and one of the best commutes to work I have had in London, 90% traffic-free for me (I work in SE1) but if you can take Blackfriars you can be in city well away from cars. Thanks to Quiteway 1 and the extended infrastructure towards here. It kinda ends here though, any south of this its awful; I know this because I lived further south.

Come gentrify Catford further!

I know this because I lived further south.

Comments re: Downham, above ;)

Jerk place sounds like my jam

I nearly bought this last year but the seller wouldn't come down the £25k I needed them to. There's mad bargains to be had in Catford.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/12-faversham-road/london/se6-4xf/50428556

You could have made a monster out of that! Mega. And easy pizza from Van Dough outside the Blythe Hill Tavern every Friday.

I know a guy who lives in bankhurst road and I've been to his place a few times. Seems a nice enough area, quite residential and leafy.

Yeah it was ridiculous, every one of the 6 bedrooms was big

Can’t believe that it’s that big and the only full bathroom is on the ground floor tucked behind the kitchen.

Servants shit in a pan in their room

It was a good £150k of work to get it back to livable. The pictures on the site must've been taken years earlier because when I went to see it there was damp in every room, floorboards all fucked, walls crumbling. It was a right project.

trolling the anti-cycling nimbys on FB groups also mandatory

I very nearly @'d you on a freecycle post on some Live Love Laugh decor still in wrapping...

He’d only sell it on to @chrisbmx116 for profit.

Looks so great.

I'd guess £200k project and you would need to sacrifice one of the bedrooms to make a decent bathroom but the potential is huge. I love these kind of houses.

True, but at least @amey would finally have enough money for his “shut up legs” tattoo.

Where are you off to boss man?