Local paper - £500K houses, half of estate possibly bought by housing association

ginvzt

That is a lot of saving for a teacher to afford £535k house.... I hope I will be able to get something like this when I retire (I am not a teacher)

ginvzt

RabbitMad wrote: »

She won't these houses are awful. Crammed in like hens in a cage, inside there is no storage at all, no understairs cupboard, no airing cupboard nothing and only one parking sapce per house (Although the 5 bed houses might have 2 spaces)

I thought there was a planing requirement to provide 1.6 parking spaces per house. Not sure where can you get a 0.6 size car, but that space probably is your rear garden....

Ok, I have to be fair - I have seen some decent newbuilds... With enough parking and plenty of storage in house and decent garden. They were more than double average house price.

Realy

Hi have purchased my house (well have a mortgage), my nearest neighbour is in a social house (4 Bed semi, nice big house with garage owned by a great housing association) they both work and have a really plesent Son.
Difference between them and me I had an opportunity in my life which perhaps they did not get.
Am I better than them? No.
Do they deserver their house? You Bet
Would I like a privately owned neighbour? No way not now.

mr_magoo_5

ginvzt wrote: »

That is a lot of saving for a teacher to afford £535k house.... I hope I will be able to get something like this when I retire (I am not a teacher)

when I retire I won't be spending that much on a house either !:money:

Realy

ginvzt wrote: »

I thought there was a planing requirement to provide 1.6 parking spaces per house. Not sure where can you get a 0.6 size car, but that space probably is your rear garden....

Ok, I have to be fair - I have seen some decent newbuilds... With enough parking and plenty of storage in house and decent garden. They were more than double average house price.

Now that is rubbish (I think you can tell by the picture it is hardly small), we have a new house and it as two large cupboards by the front door (the size of double wardrobes) and an under stairs cupboards (again the size of a wardrobe but twice as deep).
Going that she as 5 rooms upstairs she may well have near that down stairs. If she is on her own she would have plenty of storage.

Sorry that should be Rabbitmad quote.

ginvzt

mr_magoo wrote: »

when I retire I won't be spending that much on a house either !:money:

Well, if I have £0.5 mil spare by the time I retire, I might retire somewhere nice, like Tuscany... Or New Zealand...

Kez100

She wants to stop moaning and thank her lucky stars she has a pension that hasn't lost half it's value in the past few months.

RabbitMad

ginvzt wrote: »

I thought there was a planing requirement to provide 1.6 parking spaces per house. Not sure where can you get a 0.6 size car, but that space probably is your rear garden....

Ok, I have to be fair - I have seen some decent newbuilds... With enough parking and plenty of storage in house and decent garden. They were more than double average house price.

No the local councils have decreed that each house can only have 1 space. Every new development I have looked at in the area is like that and if the property has a garage that is the space.

Apparently it is to encourage the use of public transport (Ha ha ha)

Very few of the new builds I have seen have had any storage space, it never ceases to amaze me but if morons still buy these properties developers will still buold them like this.

ginvzt

I am yet to see a garage in the newbuild that it used to park a car (where a car easily fits and you can get out through the door, not the boot. If you go to view a few year old houses, you probably notice that the garage is used as the storage and cars will be parked in front of the house and on the road.

Realy

RabbitMad wrote: »

No the local councils have decreed that each house can only have 1 space. Every new development I have looked at in the area is like that and if the property has a garage that is the space.

Apparently it is to encourage the use of public transport (Ha ha ha)

Very few of the new builds I have seen have had any storage space, it never ceases to amaze me but if morons still buy these properties developers will still buold them like this.

No i have 2 parking spaces (well space for 4 realy) and a double garage! (not showing off but the poster is wrong.)
Each plot can have a alocated spaces + Garages.