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The house you'd really like
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That price has got to be a missprint, surely? :eek:0 -
I manage to contain myself to my budget but I do have area searches set up on Rightmove. They have a drawn search feature which means you can narrow the search down to specific streets. This is great as where I live there can be 10 fab streets, then a couple of nasty ones, then another great patch, then just on somewhere utterly out of the question so my drawn searches zig zag around the local area.
Occasionally, I will forget to put up my maximum upper limit and end up drooling over townhouses and duplexes in the poshest part of town but I try to not to stalk anything that I can't buy.
I much prefer people to cyberstalk than waste my time.
My large house is on the market and I recently had a couple enthuse long and hard about how great it would be for their new family (wife expecting), where they would have the nursery and how great the garden is for their barbeques. That weekend, they then subsequently put a low offer on a flat round the corner valued at around 100k less than mine. Pah!0 -
I have never been into big houses, my idea of perfection is a little bungalow with a really big garden that's within walking distance of local shops. I also dream of being able to decorate and do the garden how I want, something I can't do while renting.0
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500k where I am (north London) will just about get you a house that is not very nice.0
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I keep checking to make sure nobody's bought my house yet and it's still there waiting for me... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-34806586.html0
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Every. Single. Day. I check for dream homes back in the motherland......
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44303458.html
Roll on the day I can go back.
Oh and the catch 22 is we could just about afford it while we work in London but if we could live there we wouldn't earn enough in the area to live there!I'm proud of my advice, if others want to look I say enjoy the show!0 -
My dream house is on the market at the moment.
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I look at the house we were to buy, as our dream home, forever until we retire to seaside, every day, as its still on the agents website, even though it sold and people moved in at Christmas. (I wont post a link, as its someone elses now).
Pains me so much, looking, i really shouldnt.
But due to the situation which as occoured and I'm only myself now, it wont be that one, I've found another stop gap place instead.
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Just to play here as a child (friend of daughter of the house) - now cannot afford to live in the area, let alone this house, but still look at it occasionally (been for sale quite a long time...)
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29110791.html"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. "
A.A. Milne
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced (James Baldwin)0 -
I love looking on right move. Ever since I was a child I've always looked forward to buying my first home which I did last year. Literally about a money after getting the keys I was back on right move looking for something bigger and better. I think it's what motivates me to work and there's no harm in aspiring to move up the property ladder!0
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