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Advice on areas to buy our first home (South London/surrey)

finanegnome · 2019-02-17 10:15:02

Hi all, My girlfriend and I are looking to buy our first property. We currently rent in Wimbledon and wanted to buy around here. As we started to look around and put together our wishlist for our first home, it became very obvious we would need to move further out to buy what we wanted. After some negotiation we agreed on…

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zagubov Posts: 17,943 Forumite

22 February 2019 at 11:52PM

PhilE wrote: »

There's a regular Southern rail express from Cheam and Sutton to London Vic as far as I can remember, about 30-35mins.

Yes but that still needs more changes to get the OP to Holborn. Plus Victoria's not as central as Waterloo.

Getting onto a more frequent, later-running service to a more central station might help, especially if it's closer to East Sheen. Both Cheam and Sutton benefit from the fast Heathrow-Croydon bus service that New Malden has, and Gatwick is easily drivable.

Buying a house is a seriously colossal decision, and time spent on reconnaisance is never wasted.

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