SE London house prices

AnnaMonkey

shhhhhh! Crystal Palace is meant to be a hidden secret!!!

I live here too and looove it. slightly biased as i've ived here all my lief, bar 5 years in southampton. but the triangle is amazing, with bars and restaurants and cute little shops (and a sainsburys - always helpful). great transport etc etc, basically wonderful! some of the prices can be a bit high in the conservation areas but you can get a bargain too - i did!!!!

MrsE_2

jenner wrote: »

Nooooooooo why are people alwayssaying that north london is better than south london

mind you i cant talk, im moving from south london to the coast, so im obviously not that keen!!!!

Wild horses wouldn't drag me back to London again, BUT I know south west London is the best quarter of London. East London & south east London are the pits!!!!

lynzpower

MrsE wrote: »

Wild horses wouldn't drag me back to London again, BUT I know south west London is the best quarter of London. East London & south east London are the pits!!!!

I'll let you in on a secret- this aint true! Some parts of east london, essex borders are great.

Ivew lived in Bow, jsut off the roman road that is a brilliant area- 3x tube lines, 2 nightbuses and the DLR. SO quick to everywhere, and the market is brillliant. We never had any roughness round there in 4 years, I would move back there tomorow, love it there.

I lived in Stepney, also really good, ( close to station in a lush Victorian terrace) but transport not as good as bow - no central line.

Victoria Park is lovely too, but pricey and away from the tube. A few resturaunts have closed down there recently though but again couple of good pubs and the village is really "villagey" 5 mins bus from bethnal green and about 10-15 from dalston if you go that way, ior down to Mile end station in 10mins on bus- cheaper as off tube, but be v careful which road up that way :eek:

Out further on the central line we lived in Upper Leytonstone near the hospital. You have all off epping forest there, really beautiful with the lakes and THE BIRDS ( Hitchcok lived in leytonstone and the birds inspired by the huge black birds that congregate on the flats, close to the green man roundabout. Its a 15min bus ride into Walthamstow for the fantastic market there, but its a great place to live we had really freindly neighbours, lovely roads absolutely NO roughness whatsoever.

Likewise further out does feel a bit more essex than london, but Snaresbrook/ Wanstead is lovely ( bit pricey)and I believe the schools are excellent, theres a few good resturaunts and pubs there along with the usual delis etc. Really is nice there, adn would move there tomorrow, only problem is when the central line goes down for repair ( ie most weekends) your stranded :rolleyes:

toja

Doozergirl wrote: »

Mmm. It's Woodside Green or bust for me. South Norwood in the main is like hell. It's a bit rough and parts of it are run down like you've never seen before. Portland Road has never thrived; it looks terrible. House prices have always been cheaper there than anywhere locally.

Well thanks, now I live in Woodside Green and it is so-so. The area I like it S. Norwood is next to S. Norwood Country Park, the distance to Norwood Junction is good and tram takes you to Beckenham or Croydon. And people seem to be quite decent there.

toja

Hmm... I am quite sure somebody mentioned Mackenzie road here but later deleted the post? This one of the nicest streets in the area, I wish I could afford it.

adecor

Never personally experienced any problems in Bexleyheath/Welling area. If you have children it's worth bearing in mind that Bexley still have the 11+ and Grammar Schools. Bromley/Chilslehurst/Elmstead Woods are nice, but a bit more pricey that Bexley.

cheekykid

How about belgravia?

Radsteral

thanks cheeky git,
people here are comparing peckham with southwest london..and i dont think there will be a winner... well unless you are from southwest and in to drugs and fights, then peckham will be a winner

Morglin

pigeonpie wrote: »

Houses around here (we have a flat) keep going up in price. 2 have sold for over £600 000 in the last month (terraced houses) and I'm fed up with reading about how house prices are going down everywhere because they aren't. (Flat prices are down 10%). ie what sold for £450k or less in 2006/7 is now well over £550k.

Prices in nearby "less posh" areas of SE London seem to have fallen a bit. Does anyone know what Plumstead is like to live in or if there is a good or less good bit of it? It looks a bit nicer than Thamesmead (?). My neighbour has a little girl and really wants to move to somewhere with a garden where a house costs under £250k, but where she feels safe moving around on her own. Thanks if anyone has any ideas.

Hell would be better than Thamesmead!:eek:

That place should be treated like the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, and razed to the ground.....jeez.:eek:

Plumstead is fairly ok in some bits - the top end of Plumstead Common that leads into Welling is nice enough, but lower Plumstead is a dive, and I wouldn't go there if you paid me, and Woolwich has been sliding down the pan for years and has finally arrived at the bottom (my parents live there:()..;)

Has she thought of parts of Eltham or Mottingham?

Some roads in Eltham are very nice, and the houses prices vary a lot - and there are some ok schools and all fairly safe. Daughter, SIL and kids live there, and they have not had any hassles at all.

Chislehurst (where I live) is extremely nice but very pricey, and I wouldn't be able to afford it other than I rent the place, but it might be worth looking to see if there are any repo's for sale in this area.

Hope she finds what she is looking for.

Lin

chivers1977

Now it's not often you see Beulah Hill on MSE!!! I used to live on Beulah Road - now that is Thornton Heath. Definitely not the most desirable postcode CR7 but as you say huge rooms, wide roads and high ceilings.

I try to close my eyes whilst driving off the A2 and through Catford to Streatham to visit the MIL and count the minutes till we escape back to the "Garden of England"! And I live in CHATHAM. Now that is definitely not the town most people aspire to but I love my neighbours, great school and cheap houses!

Doozergirl wrote: »

Crystal Palace girl at your service . I've lived in the Midlands for nearly six years now but we're still back in town pretty regularly.

We moved to Penge after we had our little boy and it was really nice. We lived up the top of the high street and you really see where your council tax goes in a place like that. We had new paving, lovely clear streets and hanging baskets outside our flat. On google street view they are still investing in the hanging baskets! In London terms it really wasn't that bad - I never felt intimidated there and we were sandwiched between two train stations.

There are nice parts of SE19 quite far away from any train station; where I grew up off Beaulah Hill it was leafy (I can't even spell it any more how tragic is that) but a proper bus ride from CP station - not a bad thing in some respects because it was always quiet - no day visitors etc. Crystal Palace bordering Sydenham is nice also - most of the roads bordering crystal palace park are pretty nice and also heading down towards Dulwich.

It's always the inside of your house that is really important but we found a nice balance of price and area in Penge. I loved that flat - it was modest but Victorian, high ceilings, huge beautiful garden and our own beautiful big front door. Little park right by it and a great chinese opposite, lol! We paid 112,000 for it back then but I doubt it would have been worth more than 190,000 at peak prices.

Crystal Palace itself has always looked a little sad but it's really good for restaurants - I'm a foodie if ever there was one and there was such a selection there whether it was a little pricey or something quite simple. Lunch or brunch at Joannas was an essential part of living there - lots of happy memories at very different times in my life