Buying in tower hamlets/poplar

steveo999

I have seen a place I am possibly interested in Tower Hamlets/Poplar area.

I have checked the statistics for this area - i.e. average property prices and changes in the last year although I beleive this is skewed by some of the very pricey places in canary Wharf.

Other than this I dotn know much about this area - are there any websites sources or can anyone offer their own views - anything useful appreciated

Looking at a 4 bedroom maisonette

MissMoneypenny

steveo999 wrote: »

I have seen a place I am possibly interested in Tower Hamlets/Poplar area.

I have checked the statistics for this area - i.e. average property prices and changes in the last year although I beleive this is skewed by some of the very pricey places in canary Wharf.

Other than this I dotn know much about this area - are there any websites sources or can anyone offer their own views - anything useful appreciated

Looking at a 4 bedroom maisonette

Tower Hamlets use to be (I think it still is) one of the poorest areas in London. Have you tried looking on upmystreet?

jaype

Also, get reading the local papers online - newham recorder, east london advertiser to name two off the top of my head. They aren't the best areas to be honest - used to work in a court that dealt with that area.

neverdespairgirl

jaype wrote: »

Also, get reading the local papers online - newham recorder, east london advertiser to name two off the top of my head. They aren't the best areas to be honest - used to work in a court that dealt with that area.

Thames Mags? Snaresbrook?

milliebear00001

Tower Hamlets is one of the most deprived boroughs in London (I used to teach there) and your description of the property suggests it is probably in a tower block/estate. Please don't invest any money here until you are completely familiar with the area - it can be extremely dodgy!

bookduck

have a look here and compare it to an area you know well http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp

They are quite bad figures. My friend bought a 4 bedroom ex-council flat (possibly maisonette?) there 9 months ago and paid £190000, but he grew up there.

lynzpower

I know thea area pretty well lived there for about 5 years.
I too have had my eye out for a maisionette in the area and certainly would Not rule it out on roughness at all, Ive lived there for 5 years and the bits of trouble Ive noticed were REALLY nowhere near as bad as where im living now ( SE11)

Ive lived in

Stepney- just behind the co-op and old globe- was absolutely fine.
Bow - close to Roman Rd market - again absolutely fine- loved living here
Bow, just off Cambell Road- slightly more kids around, hanging round the shop after dark - never had any grief apart from the usual "can you buy me some fags" a freindly no never gave repercussions
Mile end - bit grottier, but again no real troubles to note.

Ive shopped all over the borough/ visited freinds all over, and have never seen anything that would bother me at all. Apart from Whitechapel, where dealing is happening all dfay long, and I once saw a patient injecting themselves with *something* on th ehospital steps.

If you have children, then you might want to be trying to get them into Sir John Cass, in whih case you might want to be "further in" towards Stepney Whitechapel, altohugh, the whitechapel end I would not choose, nor Shadwell - these parts of the borough along with the Brick lane area are particularly deprived, with its red light area/ crack houses ( albeit Ive had mates living here who have again seen nothing of note either).

If I was in your shoes, I would look around the Bow area, you are only a couple of DLR stops from Wharf plus you are on effectively 3 tube lines ( H&C/ Central / district) from Bow rd/ mile end. the change at mile end isnt really a proper change simply a stroll across one platform to another. then also close to stratford to the jubilee and connections to Stansted.

jaype

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Thames Mags? Snaresbrook?

Snaresbrook. Admittedly, about 8 years ago, but i would now never live in East Ham or Ilford - too much violent crime and drug activity.

lynzpower

No but I would live in Snaresbrook! Tis lovely and some belting resturaunts in effectively a short road Just not that affordable sadly

Snaresbrook crown court is a gorgous building, me & OH wanted to get married there, till we found out what it was and realised we couldnt!

Oh saying that, one criminal we did see quite a lot of evidence of is Pete Doherty he was always at the court on bow road, with his entourage of papparazi

meester

Most of Tower Hamlets is like Beirut. However there are some extremely gentrified and expensive bits around the river. E.g., Limehouse, Docklands, etc.. You could also try Spitalfields.

neverdespairgirl

That's Thames Mags - I spent a lot of my working pupillage there. It's always far too busy and you get stuck there all day. And the cells are exceptionally smelly (-: