Owning your own home

I've had too many atrocious nights out there it will always have a special place of hate in my heart.
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after 8pm and there is always a shitty air aggression. It's simultaneously bland and garish

TBH this and cunt drivers is what I think of.

Maybe it's changed. But does it matter? I'm guessing your of an age when your not going on nights out, so do you really care what the odds* of getting in a fight are?

Otherwise there are loads of practical/lifestyle benefits.

*75% ime

75%?
In.
That's a massive reduction for me.

including 50k on the Crittal windows

Lolololol. Seriously?

If they've replaced the curved frames on that house it strikes me as a good price.

Non-standard, bespoke construction isn't cheap and with something like that where small mistakes will be amplified and stand out like a sore thumb the manufacturer will have to factor the potential for fuck ups and re-dos into the price.

If the glass in the frames was curved as well the price would have been truly eye watering.

There’s a building down here with a curved glass stairwell and each pane is rumoured to cost £50k!

If they've replaced the curved frames on that house it strikes me as a good price.

I don't know anything about the house, but take 50k out of a 200k build and you're not even going to touch the sides on the rest of the refurb. Were the original windows metal framed?

In an art deco house - almost certainly.

Yes.

Kingston is alright, I’d definitely consider it for family life if you need to be close but not too close to London.

I thought this would be more, but it's still too much, sadly.

You could buy Mrs Howard’s parent’s amazeballs modern house for like £200k.

Only things to consider

• Canada
  
• Two hours drive from Toronto
  
• 15 minute drive to nearest shops
  
• Bears
  
  

Ok I’m joking about the last point but I wouldn’t let a cat outside.

Ok I’m joking about the last point but I wouldn’t let a cat outside.

If you put a collar with a bell on the cat, you don't have to worry about them killing bears.

Has anyone here got any experience buying a house which looks empty? Still looking at first house near where I work with the plan to let one room out to a colleague. Slightly on hold due to a potential move to Bristol and a 5x mortgages being scarce even with a 15-20% deposit.
There is an area of 6 streets which would all be great in the perfect location. The area has its own website/community group and there is only 1 house for sale currently which is slightly too big and too expensive (https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/54973957?search_identifier=9adfcebf10d98e31ba4e60456d7efdea). Had a quick stroll round midweek and there are 3 houses that look to be empty (judging from outside appearance walking past), plus 2 which are for rent.

One had been done up recently and had a nice e23 (I think) outside

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There is no harm with dropping flyer's through letter boxes saying you are interested in buying in the area. House I used to live in in Brighton used to recieve these fairly often as was in a desirable area and some neighbours sold that way as you get to cut out the estate agent fees.

I'm currently trying to buy in Heatherton village but sellers and agents seem to of lost their mind and want more than before the the lockdown and not noticed the city is about to be one of the hardest hit in coming recession

sellers and agents seem to of lost their mind and want more than before the the lockdown

Hoping this is a temporary blip

Time to get busy with Duolingo.

Ha, my mate lives on that road, the community action group was a big selling point for his wife. My other mate just exchanged on a place on wheeldon av just before the lockdown as well. I definitely think it's worth posting something through the letter box to see what's going on as places round there don't often come on to the market and when they do tend to sell quickly (for Derby).

@greentricky you're spot on. I haven't seen the price fall on anything I've been looking at other than one or two being withdrawn for sale. House prices have to fall here surely

@Gewürzt ah no way. How are they finding it? Will do cheers

alresford is lovely as well. a lot of cycling to be done round there too with minimal traffic

Bit late to the Kingston chat @howard, but I'm here too. Works for me. I'd echo what everyone else has said, although some of the scare stories about the town centre after dark are a bit misplaced nowadays I think (was certainly true 15 years ago though!)
Schools and green spaces/river are big pluses. The one downside is getting back from London centre late night - last train is relatively early, so its either train to Surbiton or tube to Richmond and bus/uber/hike from there, or cabbing it home, which is hexpensive. But, like you, kid-life means that's a rare occurrence anyway!
Let me know if you have any specific questions.

Thank you!

Time to get busy with Duolingo.

Honestly I think this is a much better direction than some of the other locations you've been posting. How many airports are there near there? You could probably drive to the alps too.

It's a big shift, and I'd need to learn French - so this place won't happen, but is a good indication of what's available. Bazas is next to a big national park, two hour drive to the coast, three or so hour drive to the mountains. I've not looked at airports - C19 has shown that we don't strictly speaking need those.