• I have a friend who’s parents bought him a run-down Victorian house off Clapton roundabout for peanuts, back when it was ‘murder mile’, with shootings/stabbings outside Chimes nightclub almost every weekend. We used to come back to his after squat raves to find the road cordoned off regularly...

    He slowly turned the basement into a flat, sold that for £600K, and the 3-storey house above is now worth £1mil.

  • exactly... my Uncle turned down a 3 bed in Barbican for 4.5K because it was just another council estate and they already lived in one.
    I think my parents first house was 9K and I saw one on the same street recently for 650K.

    The price jump that generation have experienced is not far off a once only event IMO.

  • just another council estate

    Barbican's always been private, it's next door Golden Lane estate that's council. There's some great contemporary news/doc clips of residents with a little neighbourly envy (Golden Lane had swimming pool, launderette etc).

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