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I will be selling in a couple of weeks and am downsizing - have seen a couple of flats in ED at 310 and 359 - both pretty sh&tty - a decent 2 bed garden is nearly 400 !! As I don't have a family and don't want to pay the 'family' premium here am moving out of the area. Only the wealthy can afford to move here now more's the pity.
The arguement in its favour is that ED is a safe bet and locking the money in allows me to downsize when I move back oop North where I come from when I'm finally tired of London - which frankly I can't see happening though a 7 bedroom terrace for 68k is tempting .... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-13710915.html and I happen to love Blackpool and have family nearby ...

Annette, Lordy. Few insults are more biting than "estate agent troll", thank you very much.


All, Actually we have been watching the market for over two years, waiting to buy on the dip that never really materialised, and getting more and more frustrated as time passes, our deposit grows, admittedly but not nearly as much as the damn asking prices. The guy I spoke to yesterday or the day before was a jolly sort of chap, well informed but also pretty confident. We are now looking outside ED as it is far too dear around LL and suggestions of nice streets are welcome.

If you're not an estate agent troll, the alternatives are much worse dulwichgirl2.


The majority of the people in ED don't consider housing to be an exercise in speculation whereby embittered cynics today can strip income, optimism and meaning from the lives of future generations.


You don't use phrases I would expect from someone who wanted to live in ED but was saddened and bereft. Terms like 'upbeat', 'getting the upswing' and 'prices going crazy' are used by people on the make.


So what are you? The alternatives are much more cynical and noxious. I don't like you already.

ibilly99 Wrote:

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> I will be selling in a couple of weeks and am

> downsizing - have seen a couple of flats in ED at

> 310 and 359 - both pretty sh&tty - a decent 2 bed

> garden is nearly 400 !! As I don't have a family

> and don't want to pay the 'family' premium here am

> moving out of the area. Only the wealthy can

> afford to move here now more's the pity.



Where are you moving to?

Considering Leytonstone and Wanstead - on the central line , long way to go gentrification wise - probably not good for schools but we have no kids - can get a nice 2 bed Victorian terrace in Leytonstone - the nice part bordering Wanstead for 300k . 15 minutes to Brick Lane / West End . Shoreditch - 5 mins to Westfield Olympics and the same feel that ED had way back before the inexorable rise of the cappucinistas took over.


Feels like Columbus setting out for the New World from the over civilised environs of ED.

dulwichgirl2 Wrote:

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> Annette, Lordy. Few insults are more biting than

> "estate agent troll", thank you very much.



I must say it was tongue in cheek


BUT soon as I read your reply, I hooted with laughter


So thank you(tu)


*puts 10 points on the board*



NETTE:)

Except that for someone who hasn't got a house dulwichgirl2 you seem remarkably au fait with loft conversions, planning permission and property legalese on another thread.


You're so familiar with conveyancers you even call them 'sol's.


And of course you're keen on 'getting the upswing'.


;-)

The nice Lithuanian lady who cut my hair* in GK, Melbourne Grove, the other day said you can still get an apartment in central Kaunas for ?10,000.


You can get that on the upswing provided you keep it on the down-low.


*(very good btw, ?10 and a cut-throat razor applied around the ears and nape for that smooth finish)

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