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How to check for Social Housing?
kyatezz
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I am looking to purchase a house in Bexleyheath area. I want to check if the neighbourhood that I am interested in has any concentration of social housing/ HA houses/ flats or not.
How do I check for it? Is there any website where I can give a post code and obtain statistics around % of properties that are privately held (fully owned) vs % of properties with mortgage vs % of properties that are social housing/ HA?
Thank you in advance.
How do I check for it? Is there any website where I can give a post code and obtain statistics around % of properties that are privately held (fully owned) vs % of properties with mortgage vs % of properties that are social housing/ HA?
Thank you in advance.
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Yep streetcheck is brilliant, I'm using it a lot at the moment.Honesty is the best poverty.0
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You can often tell by the price of surrounding properties.0
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Although you can get trouble in areas of owned houses as well as social housing concentrated areas. It just takes one person to send a neighbourhood downhill.
If you believe that tenants are a problem you also need to check for high levels of BTL as well - remember there isn't the social housing available now, so you could find houses have mortgages but are rented out, and oh dear, to people who would years ago have been in social housing.0 -
Equally you can find decent people who live in social housing surrounded by @rseholes in wholly owned, private properties. Hello to the stereotypes. So-called social housing does not mean the occupants are not owners, nor that they do not work or are not decent human beings. Chavs/irresponsible, ignorant, anti-social, selfish people occur in all socio-economic groups.
Why not just look for properties over 1.2 million outside of Essex? You should be on fairly safe ground then. :rotfl:0 -
Round here you can tell as they are the houses with solar panels and newer porches.Paid off the last of my unsecured debts in 2016. Then saved up and bought a property. Current aim is to pay off my mortgage as early as possible. Currently over paying every month. Mortgage due to be paid off in 2036 hoping to get it paid off much earlier. Set up my own bespoke spreadsheet to manage my money.0
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