Owning your own home

Has there been a Leyton/Leytonstone Vs. Walthamstow thunderdome in here ever?

I've been viewing in Walthamstow, but the overall impression I get is people pushing prams around, fried chicken shops, and carpet shops.

I need to have a good look around Leyton/Leytonstone, but was wondering if anyone had any pointers, eg. any positives apart from being cheap?

it's just s. african and polish people pushing prams around and fried chicken shops, and carpet shops

rather than whoever the people are in walthamstow

I waiting for my end terrace to be worth the same as this , then I'll cash in and go back to the hinterlands. With any luck Scotland will be a foreign country and I can set up as a gun runner.

Should be about 6 months or so...

if you need a butler

I was actually just planning on picking the biggest room and turning it into a studio flat. You can have the 2nd biggest but you need to bring your own pillows.

That's about the same price as a 4br semi-detached around the corner from me.

hey don't skimp on the walled garden

Chastity was her name - walled lady garden was her game.

dibs the ball room if not taken ... plenty of wood to screw my bike hooks into
i could just bring my whole house and put it in there

home from home in home

but note the river esk does flood quite regularly
basement swimming pool ?

I'll just put the place on stilts, be fine.

dicki's room ^^^

where did you get that photo of my fathers ?

My sale price is £153k more than I payed for it exactly three years ago (and most of that is in the last year or so).
Surely prices can't continue to rise so quickly for much longer??

Hoops, you are right, the current rate of growth will likely slow. Your reason to sell (upthread) - to put cash into a new pad for yourself - is an excellent one, so its the right move.

But a buy-to-let investment is a different proposition. What one must weigh up is whether the money could be more sensibly invested in anything else. For the next couple of years, I don't see that it can.

P.S. My flat is very close to yours. Another factor which has affected our area (and others like Hackney), and probably never will in the same way again, is the 'vibrancy' virus, or the transition from arse-end-of-nowhere (definitely was when I bought in 2005) to desirable location. The same does not affect the rest of the country, nor does it affect the likes of Chelsea or St John's Wood. That's contributed to the epic rate of growth.

Has there been a Leyton/Leytonstone Vs. Walthamstow thunderdome in here ever?

I've been viewing in Walthamstow, but the overall impression I get is people pushing prams around, fried chicken shops, and carpet shops.

I need to have a good look around Leyton/Leytonstone, but was wondering if anyone had any pointers, eg. any positives apart from being cheap?

Been in Leyton for 6 months. Spotted my first bearded-manboy-on-a aerospok'd-fixie on Saturday. Its happening.

'vibrancy' virus

First against the wall when the revolution comes. People who use vibrant. When they mean "kicking people out".

I reckon Loughborough Junction might be good for a punt now if you are looking for buy to let?

Been in Leyton for 6 months. Spotted my first bearded-manboy-on-a aerospok'd-fixie on Saturday. Its happening.

I should hopefully have got my place in Leyton in a month or two. So another fixeh skiddah in the neighbourhood, with less than impressive facial hair.

I'da though LJ would have been swallowed up by the brixtonvibrancyameoba by now.

I saw another Foxtons sign outside a house a few doors down yesterday. FINALLY, west norwood gets the recognition it so richly deserves.

/fistpumps

If you go to Forest Hill the price of a one bedroom flat in Brixton buys you a three to four bedroom flat with garage, depending on condition of course.

That's a very big 'if'...

First against the wall when the revolution comes. People who use vibrant. When they mean "kicking people out".

I thought vibrant meant stabbing?

i heard Forest Hill referred to as "FoHi" the other day. Game's up im afraid.

If you go to Forest Hill the price of a one bedroom flat in Brixton buys you a three to four bedroom flat with garage, depending on condition of course.

I've been having a crappy few weeks commuting on the train - still haven't been on bike much since getting doored, feel a bit wobbly about it all - and it's made me question where I bought. For £170k I got a spacious two-bed with an underground parking space. In Brixton that would only get me a hole in the ground. My commute to work is 1hr 10mins on public transport and I spend it all crammed into a sweaty armpit. But once I'm home... Thinking of buying a scooter and then it would be far, far quicker.

I work in W1, takes me 40 minutes on the bike, around about the same on the train.

I go through Brixton on the way, I prefer being further out as it gives the ride a bit more substance.

Brixton does have more going on, 'tis true- but then it has the tube, which is what everyone seems to cite as their main reason for moving there these days.