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"A drainage survey is recommended."

Surely the police would have done that for you?

Ah. Well, better a former tenant than a neighbour.

5 miles from work.. hmm...

Oh, 1br. Out.

God knows what you'd find if you started doing renovations to that place.

Oh, 1br. Out.

Still plenty of space to put the bodies!

I'm a big fan of his work.
He is an inspiration to me.

I would love to feel that close to him.

Could you deal with that? I'd like to think I'd be all logical and rational about it, but...

Pretty creepy.

And not even that cheap.

You could always have this instead....

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?bedrooms_from=1&bedrooms_to=1&location_ids=1000-28&prop_type=flats&property_id=843234&resource=thumbnails&search_form=map&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search

Gareth Bale's flat.

Bargain

You could always have this instead....

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?bedrooms_from=1&bedrooms_to=1&location_ids=1000-28&prop_type=flats&property_id=843234&resource=thumbnails&search_form=map&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search

Gareth Bale's flat.

No way- that place looks boring as hell.

We're currently buying a house in that same Lea Bridge Road bit.

We may well be neighbours ish - looking at place near the Leyton Cricket ground. Been googling the local pubs. Hmm.

Aren't they all p/b maisonettes - decent enough sizes generally but too small to sub-divide into smaller units?

I have been in a lot of these places, I do a lot of lease extension work up there.

Yes I would say they're too small to mess about with but you know what some developers are like, they'd make three flats out of one g/f maisonette if they could get away with it, and the demand was there

Advice please...

Girlfriend and I are looking for our first flat. 2 bedrooms.
I'm Streatham through and through, she doesn't fancy it.

She would like Peckham Rye, but very expensive and small.

Looking at new cross/queens road borders.

Anyone have any experience of living there?
Pubs, bookshops, Flat whites?

thanks

I've heard Hackney is quite nice.

I lived at the new x end of queens rd for a while. new x gate is surprisingly ghetto given the lovely housing stock on the roads leading up from queens rd to telegraph hill. I expect this will/has changed though. There used to be zero flatwhite cafes or gastropubs there. The montague arms used to be the only decent pub in an eccentric way but I've heard that it has sadly closed as all the old guys and gals that ran it have died.

Why has streatham gone mental pricewise recently? its horrible with no tube and a motorway running through the middle of it

New X end of Queens Road has vibes.
But if that is the area you are sniffing I would have a serious look around Nunhead.

Although housing market round there is a bit of a goldrush at the minute.

Nunhead has gone mental. Nice though.

@jv:Brixton effect, three decent stations, 2 commons, 3 good schools (dunraven), high street isn't great but there are things happening, croydon getting a Westfield, the new hub thing going in.

makes sense when you put it like that. Its the high st that kills it for me I suppose. I am sure it will get the gentrification treatment soon enough

Don't know if you can gentrify a dual carriage way although they recently planted trees along the middle of it by the Odeon.
Maybe it will be re branded "Streatham Boulevard" (In my head at least)

the south london champ elysee perhaps?

What streatham needs is an underpass at st Leonards church and down to the hub. Bury all the traffic and pedestrianise it.