House only being worth ?30000

[dizzybint]

A flat in Glasgow is still occupied although all the other residents have moved out , this is because one family refuse to leave until the Council offer them more for their property, as its needed for the Commonwealth Village to be built on the site.. ?30000 in this day and age seems like an insult to this family to get rid of them to build. what do you think.. Im hoping the family are offered double this amount to allow them to move on and start again.

[Huguenot]

Well I think you'd need all the details.

Is it their flat? What's the money for? How as it calculated? What are the alternatives?

They probably didn't build the flat themselves, so they're capitalising on the hard work and effort of other people. It may be that they should try and fit in with other people a bit more.

Don't forget, 'Councils' are spending your money, and trying to do it wisely.

[womanofdulwich]

seeing as all the council hosuing in glasgow was sold 10 years ago to a hosuing association for ?1 due to the poor housing stock and inherent maintenance problmes this is not as bad a sit sounds.

[expat]

AFAIK you can buy a flat in Glasgow for 30.000

[Trump]

Relevance to East Dulwich?

[woofmarkthedog]

Well...

"There you go, eh "

"I don't know"

"Who'd have thought it"

"Would you like chips with that"

"Are you looking at me Jimme"

"A pint of heavy an' a black beetle chaser "

"Stitch that.."

W**F

[Trump]

W**F. Meds Due?

[womanofdulwich]

YOu can but 2 bed flats for less than ?30k in Glasgow

[woofmarkthedog]

The deep-fried Mars bar is mentioned in UK quarterly The Idler's book Crap Towns II: The Nation Decides in the article on Glasgow. 'SJ' writes: "They aren't an urban myth: they are available in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. I ate one on a cold December night. It was quite nice. Then I was sick."

All that for 60p

( & making that 30k flat look quite expensive )

W**F

[louisiana]

So is it a house, or is it a flat? Your title says one thing, your text another.

[Huguenot]

It's a two bed flat in a tenement block, the story can be found here in the Daily Express, a newspaper for the recently decesased.

They have been the only residents in the tenement block for eight years, as even the council didn't deem it fit for human occupation.

If anyone knows them please feel free to pass on this link to 30,000 quid flats in Glasgow.

The council have also offered them council accommodation.

It seems to me that the place is likely to be squalid, but they're very attached to it. The 95 grand valuation is clearly a con, and she probably wouldn't want to leave whatever the price. There is a lands tribunal process in Scotland, and I don't think anyone's out to get them.

[The Minkey]

"Relevance to East Dulwich?"

Fascination with property values ;-)

[????]

I seem to remember there was a house going for $1 in Detroit at the height of the Credit Crunch

[Dorothy]

When I worked in an Estate Agency in Plymouth we sold a three bedroom semi-detatched ex-council house with a large garden for ?8,000. Similar to the houses on Red Post Hill (for your East Dulwich reference).

[louisiana]

The average house price in Detroit is currently $60k.

[ruffers]

She might be given 48 hours now, but as all her neighbours moved out eight years ago it seems she had notice of this a lot longer ago than that..