Owning your own home

For investment purposes then XLA is probably the way to go. The room sizes are generally all decent, and haven't been sliced up in some half-arsed manner like the vast majority of the Victorian conversions that are on the market now.

Depends how long you want to be in it (as in have your money tied into it) for.

I was thinking along these lines. I live XLA now and as long as the neighbours aren't total reprobates then they make very decent homes.

Any property I bought would definitely be a keeper and hopefully the 1st of several, given time. XLA fits the bill as I think I'd be happy living in one for the medium-longish term future at least...no wifey and no kids so no extra curricular problems/distractions #touchwood