The Price of Property (part 2) : tonite C4 @ 9 pm

PasturesNew

I moved from down there last year. Everything was unaffordable. The incomers caused local services to close, empty properties everywhere as they were 2nd homes, anything for sale or going on locally was priced at the posh folk as other posh folk set up businesses to cater for them.

Some places, the village where doc Martin is based, are 75% 2nd homes. Local shops for food, bread, papers, just close as they don't have the day to day people buying things. Petrol stations close because there aren't enough residents needing petrol daily. They end up as posh shops/restaurants to cater for the rich folk.

chewmylegoff

step 1: put your house on the market

step 2: agree to sell it to someone from london who offers the most for it

step 3: complain about people from london taking over whilst you count your cash

:rolleyes:

dad-of-4

quite bizzare that the people who spend all the money on holiday homes talk about it being totaly unspoilt. their is nothing authentic about it.

and lets be honest here, they only bought these houses cos they thought it would go up in value,
nobody could possably see spending half a million on a house you visit once a month as a sensible thing to do. The builders had it right when they said they buy them for no other reason than they can.

It was looking like sympathy allround for the villagers though.....


till the guy in the pub let slip he has a second home in spain.:rotfl:

and i cant help feeling that the idea of the old dear feeling shame for owning her house was total bowlox. any shame would have been for being in debt in back in thoes days.
crazy tho that she bought her house for 150 quid, 50 quid deposit, yet it cost her 50 bloomin quid for the solicitor.:eek:

i enjoyed the program as i did last week.:beer:

swingjune

Kingsand looks eerily deserted, the houses appear to be boarded up, as though preparing for some kind of storm surge :rotfl:

I still struggling to keep awake

moanymoany

I did love the property developer who said the area was cushioned against house price falls - and that it was so nice there the prices would continue to go up.

I estimated that the programme was made March/April - wonder how he feels now?

I really don't like the man who is presenting this programme.

dudleyboy

So was it any better than last week or was this green-eyed, obnoxious, so-called "journalist" still trying to "educate" us, enviously, about something we've all known about for years?

Jon, old boy, I'm not the one who's been living outside the UK for the last 20 years.

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JanCee

dad-of-4 wrote: »

It was looking like sympathy allround for the villagers though.....
till the guy in the pub let slip he has a second home in spain.:rotfl:

and i cant help feeling that the idea of the old dear feeling shame for owning her house was total bowlox. any shame would have been for being in debt in back in thoes days.
crazy tho that she bought her house for 150 quid, 50 quid deposit, yet it cost her 50 bloomin quid for the solicitor.:eek:

i enjoyed the program as i did last week.:beer:

I also thought that was pretty strange, imagine paying your solicitor the equivalent of a third of the cost of the house in fees at today's prices.

My favourite bit was the local builders moaning about the incomers pushing the prices up, while being paid by them for renovating the houses they has just bought.

lostinrates

The whole situation of incomers has really changed my area of south west too (and I'm an incomer!).

My fa,mily came into this area because we were out priced of the areas we had been 'born' into (southern cotswolds and SW3). My family, for generations and generations and generations had both a rural home and a 'city base' and they were not aristocrats, but 'gentleman farmers'. Lots of two boy families depleted any 'wealth' in property! But the point is, if Londoners were not priced out of family homes in London/south east they'd be more of a feleing of community still there, less need to crreate an artificial disney one in another area. Whats happening in South west has happened everywhere in South East too. I don't really see a huge difference TBH. (but I do not applaud it.)

More o9f a problem might be that second home owners no longer provide the kind of domestic/land employment they used to, which would provide local employment. But, while village shops have closed down eveyrwhere, lifestyle shops are supported mainly my weekenders/two home owners, good restaurants are supported by the same. Its certainly a society in which the wealth (or debt) is more equally spread than in 'our' village in the Cotswolds when my Dad was a lad.

boyse7en

and i cant help feeling that the idea of the old dear feeling shame for owning her house was total bowlox. any shame would have been for being in debt in back in thoes days.
crazy tho that she bought her house for 150 quid, 50 quid deposit, yet it cost her 50 bloomin quid for the solicitor

I pretty sure she said that she gave the Solicitor £50, which was the deposit, and borrowed £100. I don't think the Solicitor cost £50 extra.

Sammy_Girl

boyse7en wrote: »

[/b]I pretty sure she said that she gave the Solicitor £50, which was the deposit, and borrowed £100. I don't think the Solicitor cost £50 extra.

No, I heard it as she paid £50 deposit for the house and then £50 for the solicitor...Although I may well have been half asleep as the whole program was fluff IMO

I watched the first two episodes, don't think I'll bother with the rest...