Buying a House in London

BitterAndTwisted

Megarobbie wrote: »

There are good and bad council estates, just like there are good and bad private housing. Check them out at different times of the day and look at the people coming out of the flats/houses. If it's youths in hoodies with angry looking dogs, maybe it isn't the best place to move your family to. If it's young couples/families going to the nice clean park across the road, then maybe it's alright.

You are correct. Although I live in a very undesirable post-code the estate where I live is very desirable indeed. It's all families here and some old folk in the ground-floor flats. People all over the borough would give an arm and a leg to live where I do and I don't blame them, it's lovely here. No anti-social neighbours that I'm aware of, no feral hoodies making a nuisance of themselves just hard-working people trying to raise their kids responsibly and live decent lives.

bottleddog

St00zer wrote: »

I actually live in London already. I have lived in London all my life.
I work in Canary Wharf.
All my family live in London and 90% of my friends are based here.
I want a good long term base as well as capital appreciation.

I just don't think council houses are that good althoguh you do get professionals buying them in the area one has to think why not just get a council house rather then buy it?

Sure there is a waiting list etc.

I don't like flats as they are leases and you end up paying a lot in service charges and pay a lot when renewing the lease. I like free hold.

I am very well aware that £250 K does'nt get you far in London but I think that is absolutely mad becuase it means people end up buying a house and servicing that debt for pretty much the rest of their lives.

That is in no way fair and I think a clear indication of how overvalued property in London and the UK is.

But I am getting to the point in my life where I want to buy my own place to live in but I want to do it where I am less exposed to a big downturn in prices and the only way I can think that will happen is by buying a house or a flat in a very central london area.

Maybe a bit biased as I enjoy the area (the river and greenwich/blackheath), but if you're working in Canary Wharf, why not try Brockley, Nunhead, Deptford/greemwich borders. Lived in Deptford for the past 10 years or so and have finally bought a 3 bed victorian terraced house under 250k that is 2 mins from a DLR station. Took a while for one to come on the market at my price 230,000 (needed work doing to it), but ones for 250-270k come on the market fairly frequently.

(only 35 mins or so cycle to Islington too if that is where you were living)
:beer:

MrsE_2

rumbaba wrote: »

CARSHALTON is in Surrey. You're making yourself look silly.. A BOROUGH is different to an area or postcode - didn't you know that???:rotfl: I suggest you keep quiet - you're making yourself look very foolish and none too bright.

You sound a very confused person - and it might help you if you learnt how to spell, too.;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carshalton

Carshalton pay their council tax to London, if they lived in Surrey they would pay it to Surrey.

Care to tell me which area of Surrey Carshalton is in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SurreyNumbered.png

MrsE_2

rumbaba wrote: »

There's a difference between having an opinion - and being opinionated. There's also a difference between an opinion - and a FACT!

FACT is that Carshalton is in SURREY. OK?

Tell me which of Surreys districts its in?

1. Spelthorne
2. Runnymede
3. Surrey Heath
4. Woking
5. Elmbridge
6. Guildford
7. Waverley
8. Mole Valley
9. Epsom and Ewell
10. Reigate and Banstead
11. Tandridge

Emy1501

MrsE wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carshalton

Carshalton pay their council tax to London, if they lived in Surrey they would pay it to Surrey.

Care to tell me which area of Surrey Carshalton is in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SurreyNumbered.png

Its will come under Sutton but its county is Surrey. The Post code will be Surrey. Croydon is the same you will represent Surrey if you play and sport. The Post code of Carshalton will be SM something not a London Postcode.

breadlinebetty

MrsE wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carshalton

Carshalton pay their council tax to London, if they lived in Surrey they would pay it to Surrey.

Care to tell me which area of Surrey Carshalton is in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SurreyNumbered.png

Carshalton is in Surrey. Have you got some sort of problem with grasping facts? Several posters have tries to explain to you the difference between a county abd a borough - but you can't grasp it! I'd leave it now if I were you. Oh, and but yourself a compass while you're at it - you don't know your north from your south!:rotfl:

RacyRed

rumbaba wrote: »

Sounds to me that you're THICK on top of being visually impaired! What a nasty thing to say to a person?! Thermidor must be visually impaired!

Just because YOU mistake gas sprays, communication devices and truncheons for GUNS doesn't mean to say everyone is as dim as you. We do NOT have armed police walking the streets, dear, but maybe where you were brought up they had regular raids? Eh?

Yeah? Try getting through the security cordons around City or Canary Wharf or through any of the mainline stations during a heightened security alert without seeing a gun. And that is leaving aside the armed rapid response teams which ARE out on the streets of London on an every day basis.

I observe what is going on around me, that is all. And as for me being rude, pot, kettle and so on...

GDB2222

I don't know what the problem is with this board. Someone asks for advice about where to look in London, and a fight develops about whether the Police are armed. Can't you guys just let someone else have the last word, or if not at least pm each other with the insults?

Oh, and we have the fight about where Carshalton is. Why does it matter? (I accept it's important for the people who live there, but they probably have a very good idea of where it is, anyway.)

RacyRed

True - this thread is getting much too silly.

Although it started out silly from the beginning with many of us trying to genuinely help someone who sounded as if they had no idea about London.

Then it subsequently turned out that he or she already lived in London all of their life!

I'm outta here.

Gambit

RacyRed wrote: »

True - this thread is getting much too silly.

Although it started out silly from the beginning with many of us trying to genuinely help someone who sounded as if they had no idea about London.

Then it subsequently turned out that he or she already lived in London all of their life!

I'm outta here.

Agree... bored now