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Good selection of decent baby classes if that's important.

I might be totally misguided here, but I feel like Barnet has better access to nice outdoor spaces.

That is a lovely looking place. Cost per square foot is bordering London prices.

It’s basically my perfect house, I just wish it wasn’t £1.3M

Plenty nice houses available in Edinburgh for sub £1M. Just not in the Grange! Have a look on espc.com - I believe the listings there are/can be exclusive so it'll widen the net a bit if you've been using the standard Zoopla & Rightmove.

The Grange is a famously expensive area of Edinburgh with massive houses. Some of them have turrets and everything! The one the Pope stayed in when he came to Edinburgh is pretty impressive.

I've seen Fred 'the shred' Goodwin's house in the Grange, very nice. Pretty sure Alistair Darling still lives there. JK Rowling did too I think, unless it was technically in Marchmont. It had a security cabin in the garden but it wasn't secure enough to stop the superfans so she's moved out now.

I guess my point is these sort of people - and very trad Edinburgh old money - would be your neighbours. The single most popular car thereabouts is a recent Honda Jazz with a personalised registration plate worth way more than the actual car.

Have you actually gone and spent time in any of these areas you're looking at?

Some reading which might help
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the grange ? you are a little baby. buy one in the moray feu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD62bKQ6Inw

New airing cupboard went up today. Not in the DIY thread as I didn't build it.

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You get some shelfs in it to dry your clothes as you'll still get a decent heat off it, not like a old tank but decent.

There's not much room for storage to be fair, but there'll be some. Not like we're lacking space in that room or next door.

Anyone fancy saving me a little legwork and recommending a manufacturer of 'perfect fit' type blinds?

I don't mind fitting them myself

Hi all,

Looking for a bit of help on conveyancing process. The sellers have performed some internal work (removal of walls/ chimney breast addition of a WC) about 10 years ago but don’t have completion certificates. What are the consequences for us as a buyer. We are looking at doing at extension which would be carried out over all of these works - does that make a difference? Is there any issue from a mortgage/ lender perspective?

Welcome any thoughts.

Thanks all.

viewings are a bit exhausting, especially trying to keep the place immaculate with the kids about!

Started on Monday, have had about 15 since, got another 8 lined up. Closing date set for Monday.

Had a cash offer of £275k already but given that we have so many viewings and quite a few notes of interest, we rejected the bid and will take it to closing.

Your solicitor will probably advise against buying without and probably suggest seller gets correct sign off retrospectively.

Your problem is you don't know to what standard the work was done and if it has compromised the structure at all.

Vent post, feel free to ignore this - I don't need any validation, just need a place to let all this out.

We put in an offer on a place a month or two back which we didn't expect to be accepted; when it was we were pretty agog so we had to get selling our place really quickly. We hadn't been thinking about moving so I hadn't considered the impact the stamp duty was having on the market and as a result I was more or less totally unprepared for how utterly savage things are at the moment. I mean I know it's the London property market, it's never quite been a walk in the park, but things do feel even more feral atm. And I feel utterly unprepared for it.

We're now on the 'easy' bit - draft contracts have been issued for our buy and our sell, and now it's just getting the lawyers to actually fix up before the 'proper' work of moving starts - but I am already foaming at the mouth stressed and feeling like I don't have the brainspace to do all this AND handover our RTM company to the other directors AND my full time job AND do all the logistics for the move.

I know moving is a bit like snowboarding - you never truly gain control of it, the best you can do is become comfortable with being out of control - but for someone like me who likes routine, and likes consistency, and likes coming home to a nice house rather than a building site (this new place is a state) I'm really feeling out of sorts with the whole thing.

Last time I moved, into my first ever owned flat, everything was exiting and a novelty. Even when I was clearing up rat shit from a flat without a working front door and no elecrics in the middle of February, I had a real sense of excitement and new possibilities. Now I just want it to be over.

I'm sure it'll be worth it but right now I'm in the panic/slog mode and we've not even really got started yet. Big sigh.

Right. Thanks for letting me vent. Back to it.

Or the solicitor might just advise to buy insurance to indemnify against it being a problem at some point.

I'm preparing to put my house in leytonstone on the market in the next 3 or 4 weeks. I really, really can't be arsed with all of the Ballache that I know is inevitably coming my way.

I feel your pain. We did the move a month ago.

We had to do the removals ourselves due to lack of availability with moving companies. My wife had unplanned surgery the day before the move so was no help and I walked into a house with the carpets crawling with moth larvae and mouse corpses under the kitchen units.

I've a solid 3-5 years of getting this place to scratch, work isn't exactly quiet at the moment, the cars on its last legs and the kids are on summer holiday while I continue to WFH.

Chin up, you'll get there.

When you’re in and it’s yours all that will subside. Then you’ll find all the shit bodges and huge number of things you hand to seen but it’ll be yours still and you’ll work it out.

We’re 2,5 years in and still at it but it’ll work out. Getting a house/flat across the line in Walthamstow which I think your moving within? Seems like murder atm

Don’t know what this place is I passed earlier just off Wanstead flats is but I want it.

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On Dames Road I think? I used to live just around the corner.

It's got the potential to be an amazing house. But I assume the cost of a very nice house would be needed to make it so.

There's a seriously neglected house on Wanstead Park Avenue, and another in Chingford on Forest View, that would be dream/nightmare renovation projects.

Not sure of the rd was opposite the newly done up Holly Tree pub

I always lust after those old electricity buildings too. Like one on Clare rd in Leytonstone which I think @Tenderloin liked. Didn’t realise that most are built over buried rivers or sewers as cheap land you can’t dig down on.

Theres a short row of massive over grow terrace houses on Mile End Road that always look deserted apart from maybe a cracked window or recent plant pot. I'd love to have one of them.

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Near Stepney Green station? There’s also some near that if not like that. They’ll all be owned by Dennis Severs alikes wearing old town clothing. Amazing houses.