Estate agent speak for where I've lived in London

[silverfox]

Over the years the places Estate agents told me I was living in didn't match the reality

Shoreditch = Haggerston, horrible place

West Hampstead = Kilburn, you could hear the din from the legendary Biddy Mulligans

Stoke Newington Ladder = Tottenham, not far from the football ground

Canary Wharf = dodgy BNP enclave off Trafalgar Road on Isle of Dogs

Dulwich triangle = Peckham borders

[Moos]

My best was Herne Hill = Loughborough Junction. I don't think so!

[????]

"borders" = Shittiest place vaguely near posher area

[*Bob*]

East Dulwich = Peckham

[????]

3/10. Too obvious by half. See me afterwards for viewings

[red devil]

'village' = house with a pond in the front garden, complete with ceramic goose, often seen with a backdrop of stone cladding...

'up and coming' = down and out...

[matthew123]

Peckham = Chelsea

As the Bushells estate agent drove me through SE15 he said, "this so reminds me of Chelsea"

[red devil]

Do you think he meant World's End?..

[bigbadwolf]

Dulwich Village = Southwark riviera

[bigbadwolf]

Forest hill = Beverly hills

[silverfox]

Dog Kennel Hill = Sunset Strip

Goose Green = Central Park

Lordship Lane = Avenue des Champs-?lys?es

EDT = Harry's Bar

Somerfield = Macy's

[bigbadwolf]

Nunhead = The local p...y camp

[????]

i've also just remembered Coldharbour Lane as being described as having a "Notting Hill feel to it"....circa 1956 maybe

[James]

"Blackheath borders" = Lewisham

[sophiesofa]

I was shown a flat in Deptford (not a nice bit of Deptford either) that the Estate Agent said was in Greenwich.

Me: Isn't this Deptford?

Him: No this is definitely Greenwich.

Me: Hmmn. So it's SE10 then?

Him: It's SE8

Me: Yes I know i used to live around the corner and I hated it.

[James]

I was shown one next to the blackwall tunnel - billed as "historic Greenwich." They must have been referring to the Dickensian squalor.

[bignumber5]

Much better to avoid all this by exploring scenic Kent:

historic town centre = well preserved building fronts on a single street now home to thomas cook, superdrug and millets, all inside a ring-road being furiously lapped by 17 year old chavs in tarted up xr2's...

Actually, "East Dulwich = South Peckham" might not be so bad...

[bigbadwolf]

I wonder if Estate agents make up these broad labels for the areas they're trying to con you into living or they have a pre-recorded tape that they play whilst they sleep. I tend to think the latter is a more plausible explaination in the world of buying and selling property. Aside from that I saw a Winkworths 4x4 in North London recently with 'Property response vehicle' emblazoned on the side of it!

[silverfox]

pied-?-terre = somewhere to doss down during the week

Studio flat = bedsit

Mews House = no longer good enough for horses to stay there

[????]

Mews House = no longer good enough for horses to stay there

Come on, we've picked on Mews enough today

[silverfox]

Sorry Moos

Work/live unit =brothel

[Moos]

???? - funny.

silverfox - how did you know? *blush*

[jscott]

Shoreditch = Haggerston, horrible place haha :)-D

well anyway i've been at goldscmidt and howland estate agents london they've done some work pointing out the issues of this area