Owning your own home

Lol

I thought about viewing that when it was on ages ago, pre-done. Railway in the garden, A12 slip road out front. Naaah.

i've always avoided the damp survey companies that give out do free surveys because i've been told that they are cowboys that will find lots of "problems

Yes, we had one of these round and they were, unsurprisingly, absolute shit.

Look for a company that doesn't do remediation work, only surveys.

The worst part is, you spend £1.125 million to buy a pokey Victorian worker’s terrace house in Homerton, surrounded by dodgy neighbours, scary schools and you won’t even feel like a baller.

Move up north and spend that £1.125 million though and you can get stables and a swimming pool for the real baller style.

no gail’s tho

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And when you change your mind a few years later you'll find that you can't even buy the equivalent place before it was done up as London house prices have accelerated faster than everywhere else.

(Had that happen to more than a few friends. The number that have successfully left London and not looked back are few and far between. Even then they're reminded that if they had stuck it out for a few more years they'd be looking at a larger pile or an even earlier retirement.)

If I left that there London or the southeast I'd be renting my 3 bed semi out and renting up north. Anything else would be madness

Also hipped roof, so not straightforward to bang up a loft conversion either, and a tiny, paved 'garden'.

Oh, and it's right next to Kenworthy Road which is always gridlocked in rush hour.

I wonder how much of the asking price is 'Modern House tax' though; looking at recent listings and corresponding Land Registry sold prices, they seem to achieve at, or very nearl, asking prices... madness.

But Homerton?

Maybe I just have a very particular idea of where/what Homerton is that's unfair and outdated.

I'm probably being like my mum, that time when I told her I was going to see a friend in Balham, and she responded, "alone?!"

Homerton is probably now full of antipodeans working in the City, and people who've been priced out of Vicky Park.

Don’t forget the patch of land next to it where something awful will be built.

Wait no that’s probably someone’s garden. Carry on :)

Sooo, group buy?

But Homerton?

Exactly. Don't do North of the river.

Don't do North of the river

Be serious. It is still preferable to anywhere south of the river.

Don't sell yourself short. One day.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141991661

Income tax on rental income makes that a trickier choice than it once was. Which is good, obviously. But annoying for anyone living in London and keen to test the waters elsewhere....

I like that v much indeed but don’t have any spare cash at the moment…

That's pretty cool. Pool badly needs a clean and I don't believe that Aesop in the bathroom is anything but an agent's plant (majorly doesn't fit with everything else!). But I'm presuming it comes with a moustachioed Belgian detective.

Key features: Detcahed

lol

Grade II listed Art Deco, going to be very expensive to keep it warm with all those single glazed windows.

Currently considering cashing in everything to get a rental place to replace my wife's non existent pension. Probably shouldnt but it would be easier than starting her a pension from scratch now.

Another swimming pool left to go to a pond.

Is Homerton anywhere near East Ham E6?

I used to go out with a girl who lived in Henniker Gardens, if that's worth over a million as well I might have to remind her I am still alive :)

Is that to tempt @Dammit back from lands foreign?