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I'm really not expecting it to appreciate, but if it did that would obviously be a big bonus.
Regarding the parents/brother thing...my parents actually own about 10 properties in Essex and old Pa does most of the building/plumbing and questionable electrical work himself. It would be a little out the way for them to come up to London, but they would happily do this for me in return for all the free labour hours I've given them in the past.
The reason I'm asking this question here and not talking to my parents is because I have asked them already. and although everything they said was useful and has been taken on board, they bought all of their properties at the start of the nineties when the property market was a very different animal.
I guess the question I am getting at is this...is it worth getting something now thats not as nice just to get on the ladder, or would it be better to wait a couple years and get something a little nicer in a nicer area and maybe not ex-LA?