What’s wrong with this property

ReadySteadyPop

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/05/majority-of-new-homes-in-london-have-no-car-parking/

strawb_shortcake

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/05/majority-of-new-homes-in-london-have-no-car-parking/

Not sure it's really that much back on topic, but London is a city where a car is really not needed

jimbog

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/05/majority-of-new-homes-in-london-have-no-car-parking/

No need to worry. For many years now car ownership in London hasn’t been vital as both the bus and tube networks are extensive 

brown_crow

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

The survey in the article seems to have a strong answer on this.

Personally, I filtered out all “car-free” properties when searching. It’s hard to imagine who would buy a 2+ bedroom apartment in a car-free development for personal use — unless there’s a strong price incentive. It might not be an issue for a 1-bedroom BTL, but overall, the pool of potential buyers is significantly smaller.

MeteredOut

brown_crow said:

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

The survey in the article seems to have a strong answer on this.

Personally, I filtered out all “car-free” properties when searching. It’s hard to imagine who would buy a 2+ bedroom apartment in a car-free development for personal use — unless there’s a strong price incentive. It might not be an issue for a 1-bedroom BTL, but overall, the pool of potential buyers is significantly smaller.

Is that the survey that did, or did not, ask if the respondent lived in London?

SarahB16

brown_crow said:

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

The survey in the article seems to have a strong answer on this.

Personally, I filtered out all “car-free” properties when searching. It’s hard to imagine who would buy a 2+ bedroom apartment in a car-free development for personal use — unless there’s a strong price incentive. It might not be an issue for a 1-bedroom BTL, but overall, the pool of potential buyers is significantly smaller.

The concern that I have for schemes like this outside of London where there is insufficient parking provision is the impact on surrounding roads where there is no off-road car parking.  

These schemes just make parking for existing residents on nearby roads even more difficult. People will just buy one of the 2+ bedroom apartments and park on a nearby road.  

ReadySteadyPop

strawb_shortcake said:

ReadySteadyPop said:

Back on topic. Could this make flats even harder to sell ( if that is even possible)?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/05/majority-of-new-homes-in-london-have-no-car-parking/

Not sure it's really that much back on topic, but London is a city where a car is really not needed

Always seems to be full of cars when I`m there.

ReadySteadyPop

Edinburgh is another city where a car is not really needed, small city, one of the best bus services in the UK, trams now in the centre again for a few years, Uber taking you across the city for a tenner etc. still rammed full of cars though, to the point that historic parts of the city are being damaged with the sheer volume of traffic, basically everywhere in the UK is the same, lost count of the number of "historic" places I have visited in England that are just completely ruined by the volume of traffic, to the point that you just can`t be bothered going to the ancient monastery or Roman ruin or whatever, at least not in daytime hours.

MeteredOut

ReadySteadyPop said:

Edinburgh is another city where a car is not really needed, small city, one of the best bus services in the UK, trams now in the centre again for a few years, Uber taking you across the city for a tenner etc. still rammed full of cars though, to the point that historic parts of the city are being damaged with the sheer volume of traffic, basically everywhere in the UK is the same, lost count of the number of "historic" places I have visited in England that are just completely ruined by the volume of traffic, to the point that you just can`t be bothered going to the ancient monastery or Roman ruin or whatever, at least not in daytime hours.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Is this a social commentary about the use of cars, a comment on how parking affects house prices, or a suggestion that the OP shouldn't buy the original property because of parking availability in Edinburgh?

ReadySteadyPop

MeteredOut said:

ReadySteadyPop said:

Edinburgh is another city where a car is not really needed, small city, one of the best bus services in the UK, trams now in the centre again for a few years, Uber taking you across the city for a tenner etc. still rammed full of cars though, to the point that historic parts of the city are being damaged with the sheer volume of traffic, basically everywhere in the UK is the same, lost count of the number of "historic" places I have visited in England that are just completely ruined by the volume of traffic, to the point that you just can`t be bothered going to the ancient monastery or Roman ruin or whatever, at least not in daytime hours.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Is this a social commentary about the use of cars, a comment on how parking affects house prices, or a suggestion that the OP shouldn't buy the original property because of parking availability in Edinburgh?

Probably a point about the use of cars, the OP shouldn`t buy the original property because they could lose a lot of money on it, they were aware of this though and have not been back to the thread for a while.