moveing to london

babie_gurl

hi everyone
i am moving to london next year with work , i was just wondering if you have any hints or tips about renting in london ??
im not sure if this is the right board
thanks
bg

kmmr

There was a good discussion on this a few weeks back:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2783490

It did descend into a little bit of a battle between some regular posters, but in between all that is some good advice.

22225

if you want to know about east london/essex i know a bit and so do others. it depends where you will be working.

CLAPTON

maybe say where you will be working
what price bracket you are in
what your personal circumstances (single, couple, family)
do you have friends already in london where you might wish to live

forgotmyname

Commuting could work out a LOT cheaper. Depends on working hours & where though.

My old boss used to live near Cambridge and would commute to London and Birmingham.
He said 90% of the journey was OK just the last few miles as he got close to the centre.

paddedjohn

by the time you move down the rents may start being a bit more realistic due to the governments cap on housing benefit payments

Jowo_2

paddedjohn wrote: »

by the time you move down the rents may start being a bit more realistic due to the governments cap on housing benefit payments

Or not, since demand for renting in London has soared because so few people are in the position to buy property and gazumping has started to take place where tenants outbid each other for rental properties....

I think the LHA cap will have a modest impact and will simply free up a few thousand properties in inner London over a course of a year or two for those in employment that were pushed out from the rental market by the effect of LHA.

beccad

Look at where you're going to be working and then look for transport options into that area, and then see what areas those transport options lead to, journey times etc.. It's best to live in an area that has more than one way of getting to work, ie. overground train and tube, so if there's any problems or your tube line goes down, then you can get the train instead. this is a good website http://www.commutefrom.com/

Don't automatically assume that living near to the centre of London will be prohibitively expensive. Yes, Mayfair is, but there are less nice areas (not necessarily unsafe or dodgy) that are as cheap as living somewhere further out.

Do you have any friends already living in London? If you want to see them regularly check out where they live - London is a big place and it can take ages to cross through if you live in the North adn they live South.

Public transport isn't that cheap, so factor that into account when working out budgets, where you're going to rent etc. https://www.tfl.gov.uk.

babie_gurl

beccad wrote: »

Look at where you're going to be working and then look for transport options into that area, and then see what areas those transport options lead to, journey times etc.. It's best to live in an area that has more than one way of getting to work, ie. overground train and tube, so if there's any problems or your tube line goes down, then you can get the train instead. this is a good website http://www.commutefrom.com/

Don't automatically assume that living near to the centre of London will be prohibitively expensive. Yes, Mayfair is, but there are less nice areas (not necessarily unsafe or dodgy) that are as cheap as living somewhere further out.

Do you have any friends already living in London? If you want to see them regularly check out where they live - London is a big place and it can take ages to cross through if you live in the North adn they live South.

Public transport isn't that cheap, so factor that into account when working out budgets, where you're going to rent etc. www.tfl.gov.uk.

thanks beccad
no friends in london, work is opening a new department next year but i havent been able to find out where it will be yet
i am trying to work out now so i can be prepaird the last job that came up they wanted a move within 6 weeks ! so if i have a rough idea now of what i want / can afford it will make my life a little less stressfull well i hope !

antonsocrates

@beccad

he's right!

Your rent is actually: Rent+cost of transport to work

First time renters always fall for that one. They rent in a cheap area
middle of no where and pay a fortune to travel to work.
probably getting there late too!

anton

hazyjo

Sorry, can't help until you know where - but should be able to give some advice on areas once you know!

Okay, not as big, but it's a bit like saying 'I'm moving to Scotland'. London's just too broad an area, and if you're working in say Hammersmith, you wouldn't want to be living in Woolwich. It can take over an hour to get from one side of London to the other - and that's just on one tube line. If you're somewhere that involves say 3 changes, or tubes and trains, it wouldn't make any sense at all.

Jx