Owning your own home

Surely if they were cash buyers they wouldn't need anyone to lend to them?

Thank, you too :)

Sorry, I meant chain-free.

More recently, the owning someone else’s home thread.

Out of interest, who the fuck does buy mediocre houses in Harringay / Kensal Rise / Crouch End etc for just shy of £1M?

Speaking of mediocre houses in Crouch End. £1m for under 850 sq ft
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63861981.html

So the people buying them in Harringay are often those who couldn't afford Crouch End.

The people buying them in Harringay are those who don't have just over £1m for the houses in Crouch End.

^^ hague blue and Live Laugh Love pic spotted in same room tho.

#soconflictedritenao

You reckon real people are actually doing it?

I can't get my head around who has access to £1m either through cash or loan only to spend it on a small terrace in somewhere that's...sorry guys who live there...a bit...neither here nor there? I guess I'm old enough to remember times when £1m was a fuck-tonne of money that really set people apart.

Certainly, I know a few people who've bought houses in Harringay by selling the flat they bought 10-15 years ago in Archway, Highgate, Crouch End or similar. That seems a pretty common route.

If you want to buy a good sized (for London) house in an area where you can get into central London or the City in under 30 minutes but still has a local organic store and coffeeshops then the options are limited if you've "only" got a million.

The answer to that is Leytonstone.

It doesn't say Live Laugh Love. It says something else but I can't make out what. It looks like Live Love Lean. Or Live Love Lion. Either of which would be better.

Places like Crouch End and Harringay are now well beyond the budget of anyone with less than £1m.

We couldn't afford to upsize in Forest Gate after doing the now-typical Walthamstow -> Leyton/stone -> Forest Gate progression looking for affordable places.

I did look south despite not knowing it that well and it looked like the same kind of story. £650k and up for a three bed that was within a 15 minute walk of a mainline station if you were lucky.

I can't quite see it, either, but I think it must be 'Live Love Life'.

'Live Love Lean' would obviously be pretty dangerous advice.

Live. Love. Lern

No one actually owns those things, the estate agents just put them there for the photos.

I can't get my head around who has access to £1m either through cash or loan only to spend it on a small terrace in somewhere that's...sorry guys who live there...a bit...neither here nor there?

This x1000

Location location location? :/

I did look south despite not knowing it that well and it looked like the same kind of story. £650k and up for a three bed that was within a 15 minute walk of a mainline station if you were lucky.

I'm 15, 18 and 22 minutes from 3 different stations (diff lines, so options), it takes 15-20 minutes to get to London Bridge or Charing Cross, a 3 bed house with front and back garden is less than £500k. Zone 3.

Same, although it's more like 5mins to a station that is 30mins from Liverpool St but goes via Seven Sisters for easy tube access anywhere else.

Also has the benefit of being North London.

You're looking at between 600-800K (and up) around here, 5 minute walk to the mainline station, 13 minutes to London Bridge, and the strong positive that you're not in North London.

Where is this place? Sounds like where we should have looked.

Catford. Nice area. Between Catford Bridge, Bellingham and Hither Green stations.

Catford. Nice area.

Lies.

Compared to somewhere like Camden it’s the Elysian Fields (sp).