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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - May 2013

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I was crossing Coldharbour Lane today where it's bisected by Atlantic Road, and a mahoosive Barbie-pink Landrover was stopped at the traffic lights. The driver looked vaguely familiar - on closer inspection it turned out to be Jordan/Katie Price!
 
From the FT on Brixton House prices:


Paul Markey has not paid much attention to the government’s latest plan to stimulate the UK housing market. As an estate agent in Brixton, a rapidly gentrifying part of south London, he is too busy selling houses.
“It’s boom time,” he says over the clatter of keyboards in the Brixton office of the Haart estate agency chain. “Prices have gone up at least 25 per cent here in the past year.”
Demand is so strong that he and his colleagues have adopted an “open house” strategy, where they invite potential buyers to group viewings of a property. “We normally sell it on the day . . . and we say to people, ‘If you want to get in before the open house, you have to pay top dollar,’ ” he says with a grin.
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Also here: http://www.theweek.co.uk/prosper/53316/george-osborne-help-to-buy-housing-bubble
 
MsCupcake used a similar scheme to buy an ice-cream freezer last year. Leon the fast-food chain did something like it as well, I think they went for half a million and offered you discounted lunch for life if you coughed up £5k. Couched it in a lot of cuddly prspeak, but it still seemed like a terrible deal for the punter. The brass neck of crowdfunding a for-profit business is quite astonishing. But if it works for this lot I might consider swallowing my 20th-century principles, because it's got to be a lot better than extending the remortgage. And fuck the bankers too.
 
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'Vibrant' Brixton Village food businesses French & Grace want to expand and open in Camden Lock and, err, want you to help fund the expansion with no profit share.

But if you give them £2,000, you get your name inscribed on a tile.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-french-grace-open-in-camden-lock
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Un-f-ing believable that they want free money so that they can make money. And I bet there'll be loads of twats that will give them what they want, but refuse to give to charity or the homeless asking for a bit of change.
 
Is one of the Woolwich attackers in King's? :hmm:

If not, someone important/dangerous is currently there as I was there this afternoon and there's three police vans parked up Caldecott Road and police all over the place.

eta: Just looked, and one of them is there apparently
 
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Here's the Twitter account for the oh-so-busy Mr Markey who works at Haart.
"Nothing was ever achieved without natural enthusiasm!," he opined, while counting his cash.
https://twitter.com/prm38
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I think ultimately it comes down to individual agents - some are smarmy and/or dishonest and/or useless cunts, and some are just trying to get the job done with a minimum of fuss. Sadly the latter, who tend to be the old school, are becoming increasingly rare, and end up having to work alongside the former. When buying our current place, I learnt to loathe with a vengeance the Foxtons agents, who were brazen in their greed and dishonour, while the rest were a mixed bag. And agents do move around. One useless twat who fucked up royally when selling our old place ended up at the place we bought through. Thankfully I dealt with the old school manager, and only got through to this idiot once on the phone - I recognised his voice immediately, from months of twattery on his part and an intense week of shouting on my part that saw us go separate ways. Obviously he'd been sacked from the other place and ended up at this new lot. I could have ended up with him for the purchase - it was just luck that the old school manager picked up the phone when I called initially.

I don't know what my point is here really, other than fuck Foxtons. They really are scum.
 
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