We're in ES Homes & Property ...

[IlonaM]

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/southwark-borough/east-dulwich/living-in-east-dulwich-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-links-a114876.html#gallery

[Nigello]

Still would like a Tube station, though. I'd have loved one at Peckham Rye (the Rye itself) or at Camberwell, at the very least, but it was not to be. Our transport is not great - at best it is a 6.5/10.

[Sue]

"The kind of place where you could still leave your back door open"??!!

[nxjen]

It was an estate agent talking

[Mark]

... or a burglar doing some persuasion marketing

[Jennys]

It reads like the journalist who wrote it has never visited. But I am probably wrong there.

[nxjen]

You?re probably right, that?s what press releases are for

[Abe_froeman]

...or lives here and is hoping to pump prices up to finance a move?

[rendelharris]

I suspect they paid a flying visit and never got too far from ED station - I notice our road is on the pictures, it's a lovely road but not (despite my loyalty, I love it) maybe the best road in ED - but it is very near the station!

[Sue]

Some years back, I can't remember the exact details but a journalist wrote an article basically dissing East Dulwich, and had clearly not even made it as far from the station as Lordship Lane :))

I'm sure someone on here will remember better than me!

[Mick Mac]

Cant be the case this time - the article had photos of people working in Mons, which is new, and what I believe to be current staff in Palmerston and Moxons (with the cinema clearly visible in the background)

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/southwark-borough/east-dulwich/living-in-east-dulwich-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-links-a114876.html#gallery

such a bunch of sceptics I have never seen the like of.... ;)

[Mark]

Here's their 2011 version

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.homesandproperty.co.uk%2Farea-guides%2Fsouthwark-borough%2Feast-dulwich%2Fliving-in-east-dulwich-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-31032.html

Including:

Average costs: buying and renting

2011

1 bed Flat ?222,000 or ?1,100 a month

2 bed Flat ?284,000 or ?1,650 a month

3 bed House ?501,000 or ?2,000 a month

4 bed House ?647,000 or ?3,000 a month

2017

1 Flat ?393,000 or ?1,253 a month

2 Flat ?536,000 or ?1,540 a month

3 House ?872,000 or ?2,179 a month

4 House ?1.11m or ?2,966 a month

[mikeb]

Thanks Mark, fascinating to see that rents haven't really shifted much but house prices have apparently increased by 70%+. Or alternatively rental yields fallen from 5.6% to 3%.

[Mick Mac]

I think most people feel rents have increased in the last 6 years. I'd say the 2011 rents shown above look a bit on the high side

[Tractorlad]

I went round to Kinleigh Folkard last night but found it to be all locked up!

[Angharad_L]

LOL, my rent has gone up every single year I've been in ED... about six times!

[mikeb]

Angharad - If I were a rapacious landlord (and I'm not a landlord at all!) then I would try to increase rents just a little less than would cause my tenant to move out. So it's possible that, while your rents have been increasing each year, if you moved out then the landlord would have to lower rents to re-let it.

[Angharad_L]

Not the case... have been in three separate flats in Dulwich, all with yearly rent rises.

After moving out of one flat, it went up by several hundred quid a month for the new tenants... then the same with the other flat... who then had to lower their price back a little to get new tenants in...