Phil down under

avantra

Generali beware, P.Spencer is going down your way, take cover.
How much tripe TV bosses think we can handle?!!

FoxtonsRIP

Australia must still be fertile territory for shameless property ramping. I hope whoever he employs in Australia doesn't get too attached to their jobs.

Generali

avantra wrote: »

Generali beware, P.Spencer is going down your way, take cover.
How much tripe TV bosses think we can handle?!!

No worries, I've got the battlers ready to sort him out:



TBH, the general view over here is that property is still the place to be and that prices can just go back to rising after the last little hiccup.

There may be something in that in Sydney (there is a genuine shortage of rental places) and property investments get very nicely treated by the tax authorities here. Less so in Perth and WA more generally which saw huge increases in values over a very short period largely driven by lots of workers being drawn to margin mines by massive increases in commodity prices.

There are already tons of property !!!!!! vids on the TV over here, both Aussie and UK based. It's really funny watching the UK based ones with the Aussies that haven't travelled as they are really shocked that British houses are so small and yet so massively expensive. The idea that a million dollars will buy a 3 bed terraced house in an urban warzone (link) or a 2 bed houselet in the boondocks (aka Kingston - link) is laughable.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

or a 2 bed houselet in the boondocks (aka Kingston - link) is laughable.

is it shocking that for a two bed terrace I think that is spacious?

DH and I almost bought a gorgeous little terrace in Kingston area pre Italy...it really was teeny tiny though. We'd never have fitted in our furniture really. I'm glad we didn't in retrospect.

Generali

Well let's say that the Sydney equivalent of Kingston is Wollongong. 'gong is by the sea but it's not an unfair comparison apart from that. It's right on the Southern edge of the City and about an hour from the centre (give or take).

This place for example (link) is about $600,000 or £250,000 or so. It's a 3 bed house with 2 flats. The garage alone is 72m^2 which probably is a similar floor space to the house in Kingston!

I would expect 'gong to have a much, much lower rate of crime, especially that low level, anti-social stuff that is a charming feature of the UK market town and city suburb.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

garage alone is 72m^2 which probably is a similar floor space to the house in Kingston!

I rmemebr as a kid finding British houses really small, moving back here permanantly. Wardrobes in particular amused me....I was used to walk in wardromes for real storage...and ''wardrobes' were sort of decorative piece where items of choice might be kept.:o But one adjusts The real confinement to me is lack of private and more year round useable out door space.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I rmemebr as a kid finding British houses really small, moving back here permanantly. Wardrobes in particular amused me....I was used to walk in wardromes for real storage...and ''wardrobes' were sort of decorative piece where items of choice might be kept.:o But one adjusts The real confinement to me is lack of private and more year round useable out door space.

I went to a place a bit south of here called Jervis Bay (very nice). Down there you could get a brand new place for quarter of a million and it would be massive. Trouble is that while is something of a pardise, there's no work there really - you can be a teacher, work for the police or be a social worker. Loads of people retire there and to places like it - it's a bit more realistic for your house to be (some of) your pension if you want to make that sort of move.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I rmemebr as a kid finding British houses really small, moving back here permanantly. Wardrobes in particular amused me....I was used to walk in wardromes for real storage...and ''wardrobes' were sort of decorative piece where items of choice might be kept.:o But one adjusts The real confinement to me is lack of private and more year round useable out door space.

I went to school in Australia and the thing that amazed me moving back here is that you got bathrooms that didn't have showers in. I still don't get that.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I went to school in Australia and the thing that amazed me moving back here is that you got bathrooms that didn't have showers in. I still don't get that.

In Milan we had an apartment with a shower but no bath. It was a pain. DH and I usually start the evening with a bath with an apperitif. Its not as relaxing in the shower, and the drink gets diluted. . our last apartment we had one of those wee half sized baths. we managed to both get it it but it was NOT relaxing. If we do ever build I'll have shower rooms for normal cleaning use and one extra bathroom, for leisure use.

Dithering_Dad

lostinrates wrote: »

In Milan we had an apartment with a shower but no bath. It was a pain. DH and I usually start the evening with a bath with an apperitif. Its not as relaxing in the shower, and the drink gets diluted. . our last apartment we had one of those wee half sized baths. we managed to both get in it but it was NOT relaxing. If we do ever build I'll have shower rooms for normal cleaning use and one extra bathroom, for leisure use.

Woah!! Way too much information lir!!! :D

(who gets the 'tap end'?)

lostinrates

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Woah!! Way too much information lir!!! :D

(who gets the 'tap end'?)

depends...most often neither of us. I never understand why people think that a tap end is compulsory.