Owning your own home

Ours (ybs) say they would but will sting you with a 1% increase in your rate I think

.. on the flip side,

reads like there's enough potential first-time buyers in town at the moment!

London’s Population Rises to Record, Eclipsing Prewar High

Source: ONS population estimate, GLA projections Population change in
London boroughs, 1939-2015 BY ALEX MORALES

London’s population rose to a record, eclipsing the capital’s previous high set before World War II, with authorities projecting growth of more than a quarter by mid-century.
About 8.63 million people now live in the capital, according to data published today on the website of the Greater London Authority. That compares with the 1939 level of 8.61 million. The war and then social changes as people moved out of the city caused the population to decline to 6.7 million in 1988.
London is projected to continue to grow to a population of about 11 million people by 2050, according to the GLA. London mayor Boris Johnson, put the “incredible population boom” down to low crime, a thriving economy and an abundance of green spaces, and said he’s working to ensure the capital has the infrastructure it needs to cope with additional growth.
London First, a lobby group that promotes the city as a business location, said today’s figures showed the scale of the task ahead to ensure the growth is sustainable.
“The challenges range from how we keep London on top as a leading economic and business hub, to how we build on the city’s emerging strengths in the technological and creative sectors,” John Dickie, the group’s director of strategy, said in an e-mailed statement. “We also need to address the challenges to London’s basic foundations, including the need for a dramatic increase in long-term infrastructure investment and house-building.”
Britain’s first census in 1801 revealed that London had a population of just over 1 million people, and the city then grew at 20 percent per decade, reaching 6.5 million in 1901.

We now have about a dozen flattened boxes in NW3 - if anyone needs them, let me know.

completed on friday and eventually picked up keys (just 2 keys) sometime after 2pm. seeing as though i only had the van till 5.30pm it was a race against time to get the stuff in and do as many loads as possible. (managed 2!).
opened the door and was relieved to see the pipe work still intact so luckily the poles hadn't run off with it. i thought it was all too good to be true, but soon realised it wasn't when the vendor didn't give the estate agents the key to the back door so i had that faff to still deal with. 2 days later some random bloke drops a bunch of keys round and one of them is the back door.

if anyone is planning on buying in walthamstow area stay well clear of central estate agents. they are a complete bunch of useless cunts.

end of

Polist.

Just put an offer in on an ex council flat in Woolwich. Originally we planned to stick to East London, but our money seems to go a lot further SE. It's gonna be a bit of a longer commute but I think/hope it will be worth it.

Crossrail is coming! Double your money in a few years.

I need opinions. Should we get the area of wall on facing the door on the right of the bath tiled white as well, or just paint it? I think tiled, but that means ordering yet more boxes. Right of that on the perpendicular wall is going to be a mirror.

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/23/lets-move-woolwich-south-east-london-tom-dyckhoff

Look at the picture they chose:

I thought Woolwich was the worst place in London, but then I just saw a house in Kidbrooke and have to re-evaluate

Mirror?

Fuck what made you view anything in Kidbrooke?? Stay the fuck away from there. That's never "coming up"....

I drove through/past Kidbrooke a while ago, through some squeezy narrow barriers, and they had some big signs up saying they were socially cleansing the whole area.

Mirror?

Noooo. The junction on the exposed corner will need a trim so it doesn't look terrible. Easier to tile it and abut the finishes in the corner behind the WC. Plus tiles makes sense.

tiles

There's a shitload of money going into new development in Kidbrooke, but it looks really incongruous, and basically it's still Kidbrooke. Close to Blackheath, but Blackheath really isn't up to much. Oddly, on a weekend, it becomes a mecca for Medway town wannabe gangstas who hit O'Neill's and then go to its one mediocre club.

Woolwich has got the worst building in Britain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29044927 and the best restaurant in London http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/21/is-tripadvisor-best-london-restaurant-blue-nile-really-that-good. It has a decent bike shop (Harry Perry Cycles), and nothing else.

Oh yes, and by the fucking way, we moved in 4 days ago, and had our first attempted burglary last night.

I took the dog and went to pick gf up from station and stop for a drink on the way home. When we got home, there was glass all over the floor - they'd tried to chisel and smash their way in through the lounge window. Had been gone for an hour.

Went upstairs to tell the neighbours that we'd had a break-in, 'Yes, I know, I heard the smashing glass and saw a guy out of the window in a baseball cap'. Didn't think to call the polis, mind. I already hate the new neighbours more than the burglars. Selfish, I'm-alright-Jack fuckers.

Worst thing is that gf went out for a late smoke a few days ago, and came back in scared that someone had run out of the garden. I convinced her it was probably a fox.

Shit news! Bats at the ready?

FFS. Cunty neighbours. Unbelievable.

Smash their windows and throw a shit in, then tell them you saw the guy curling one out into his hand and decided to just watch.

@tommmmmmm tile it.

^^ fantastic bad news sadface pic there.

this is the gold standard:

We got done on New Year's Eve (in Charlton), similar thing...claw hammer through double glazing. Found out via e-mail from landlord as we were out of the country for Christmas (now that's an e-mail you don't want to read!). From what was taken they were after small electronics and cash, so on the plus side all we lost was 'replaceable stuff' and not memories.

Few others down the street were also unlucky which made us feel a little better in that we weren't specifically targeted. One nipped out between five and seven to pick up some bits from Sainsbury's, returned to find it and spent the night sat there with a baseball bat thinking they were going to come back.

Scumbags. Hope you and your g/f aren't too shaken.

Maybe.

But I like to look at myself as much as poss.

I was just thinking the various angles in that bathroom with the straight lines of the tiles might get a bit mind bending

^^Small electronics is the thing now, the cops said they probably wouldn't have wanted the 3 laptops stacked directly under the window they smashed. Just want small stuff they can swap directly for crack. Last time I was burgled, the fools leaned over £2k of sweet crabon Colnago goodness to unplug my crappy work laptop.

We're not too bothered, been burgled before a couple of times, you get a bit blasé about it. Just a bit of an annoyance.