Professionals send Brixton property prices surging by 15%

[oryx]

I'm surprised that anyone's surprised that Brixton is gentrifying. Me, I'm only surprised that it hasn't happened sooner. It follows the classic gentrification model of lots of Victorian houses close to good transport, and the stereotypical 'artists as vanguard' thing.

Not that it is a good thing. I know how it feels to be priced out of an area one moved to twenty years before when it was very different. (Not Brixton).

The centre of London is pushing outwards.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yes, one of the mini riots.

I was locked in the George IV when one of those went off. New landlords were a bit scared so pulled the shutters down and locked us all in

 

[Kanda]

I'm surprised that anyone's surprised that Brixton is gentrifying. Me, I'm only surprised that it hasn't happened sooner. It follows the classic gentrification model of lots of Victorian houses close to good transport, and the stereotypical 'artists as vanguard' thing.

Not that it is a good thing. I know how it feels to be priced out of an area one moved to twenty years before when it was very different. (Not Brixton).

The centre of London is pushing outwards.

Yup.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

compared to 1981 or 2011 most riots are mini riots.

True, but 85 was a bigger one than the 90s ones, but obviously nowhere near the same scale as 1981. Even my grandfather was worried then and he'd been in Coldharbour Lane since the 30s

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm surprised that anyone's surprised that Brixton is gentrifying. Me, I'm only surprised that it hasn't happened sooner. It follows the classic gentrification model of lots of Victorian houses close to good transport, and the stereotypical 'artists as vanguard' thing.

Not that it is a good thing. I know how it feels to be priced out of an area one moved to twenty years before when it was very different. (Not Brixton).

The centre of London is pushing outwards.

no it isn't. yups are moving into inner london, it's been an ongoing trend since the 1960s when deborah glass (iirc) coined the term. it's not like the west end or city are expanding, it's simply that the middle classes are colonising previously working class areas and displacing their inhabitants to the outskirts.

 

[Kanda]

no it isn't. yups are moving into inner london, it's been an ongoing trend since the 1960s when deborah glass (iirc) coined the term. it's not like the west end or city are expanding, it's simply that the middle classes are colonising previously working class areas and displacing their inhabitants to the outskirts.

Clapham and such are out of room.... If I moved my flat to clapham, it would be worth over 100k more... Hence the spread... As well as the market gentrification etc....

 

[Dowie]

I’m sure everyone wants to live in Sloane Square, but this is the real London.

FFS...

The paper was on my train seat on the way home... saw the article - that line just stuck in my head... gobsmacked... can't even parody shit like that.

 

[RaverDrew]

What Brixton needs is more violent crime, that should get these nu-yups to fuck off !!!

 

[Kanda]

What Brixton needs is more violent crime, that should get these nu-yups to fuck off !!!

Violent crime is edgy and trendy these days dude...

 

[oryx]

no it isn't. yups are moving into inner london, it's been an ongoing trend since the 1960s when deborah glass (iirc) coined the term. it's not like the west end or city are expanding, it's simply that the middle classes are colonising previously working class areas and displacing their inhabitants to the outskirts.

You mean the same thing as I do, Pickman's. Maybe I haven't put it that well. It's social as well as economic and geographical.

E.g. when I moved to London, getting on for 30 years ago , Clapham was somewhere waaaay down the Northern line. You had to be brave and anti-racist as fuck to live in Brixton. When I talk about my experience I am talking about people who moved to London as opposed to people who'd been there all their lives and had a different take.

Such as my partner - born and brought up in Deptford, got moved to Forest Hill for clearance. He says Forest Hill was almost like the countryside in the 1960s! It was really sleepy - and now it has the tube and local people blathering on about how the local coffee shop gets mentioned in the Evening Standard.

Coupled with housing benefit cuts, this is what I mean by the wealthy centre pushing outwards. I do realise that in the 60s people moved outwards and areas like Islington were seized on by gentrifiers - I am talking more about the 80s on.

 

[Kanda]

I do realise that in the 60s people moved outwards and areas like Islington were seized on by gentrifiers - I am talking more about the 80s on.

I was kicked out of Islington in 76 ish.. London overspill to Milton Keynes.. oh the joy!

 

[RaverDrew]

I can't wait til they try to gentrify New Addington

 

[oryx]

I can't wait til they try to gentrify New Addington

2025.

 

[RaverDrew]

2025.

Oh so that's when Hell's freezing over...

 

[Kanda]

I can't wait for them to try gentrify (properly) Milton Keynes... it's a hell hole of London overspill, where everyone thinks things are great but it's actually really fucking shit....

 

[Belushi]

I spent my teen years in another New Town, Peterborough, I still have nightmares about all the red brick..

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I can't wait for them to try gentrify (properly) Milton Keynes... it's a hell hole of London overspill, where everyone thinks things are great but it's actually really fucking shit....

I know someone who was born in Brixton and moved Milton Keynes years ago. She's still there. Don't think she'd ever be able to afford to move back to Brixton

 

[editor]

I'm surprised that anyone's surprised that Brixton is gentrifying.

I'm surprised that people keep on saying that people are surprised, because I don't think anyone is surprised.

 

[RaverDrew]

I'm not shocked that people are surprised that people keep on saying that people are surprised, because I don't think anyone is surprised... or shocked for that matter.

 

[editor]

I'm not shocked that people are surprised that people keep on saying that people are surprised, because I don't think anyone is surprised... or shocked for that matter.

I'm too knackered to think of a clever answer, so I'll just say 'surprised' several times in a row: surprised, surprised, surprised, surprised, surprised, surprised, surprised, surprised.

 

[RaverDrew]

I'm not shocked at your reply tbh editor

 

[Mapped]

Bugger Brixton, E17 is where it's at

Affordable property, real ale and interesting spaces. Not much in the way of late night entertainment mind

 

[editor]

Bugger Brixton, E17 is where it's at

Affordable property, real ale and interesting spaces. Not much in the way of late night entertainment mind

I've lived there. Never again.

 

[Mapped]

I've lived there. Never again.

Why? It's not so bad. I've got a 3 bed terrace with a garden for what I was paying in rent on a 1 bed flat in Islington

 

[editor]

Why? It's not so bad. I've got a 3 bed terrace with a garden for what I was paying in rent on a 1 bed flat in Islington

Because there is fuck all going on there.

 

[oryx]

I'm surprised that people keep on saying that people are surprised, because I don't think anyone is surprised.

Sod the surprise factor, you're right really - the gentrification of Brixton was all too predictable and there were some really interesting threads on here about that when I joined back in 2003.

Where I live these days, a lot of people on local websites are absolutely orgasmic about the area (Brockley/Honor Oak Park/Crofton Park) gentrifying. The downside is that there are some really horrible snobbish comments about, for example, old traditional pubs that have been there for years. Which you don't get on here, thankfully.

Whichever area you live in, there is definitely a balance to be had between respecting old businesses and encouraging new ones.

 

[Mapped]

Because there is fuck all going on there.

That doesn't mean that things can't start happening. We're an Olympic borough dontchaknow

 

[editor]

That doesn't mean that things can't start happening. We're an Olympic borough dontchaknow

I just found it a bit of a depressing place to live and there's still bugger all going on compared to Brixton. Even if they have renamed it Walthamstow 'Village'

http://walthamstowvillageguide.com/events.html

 

[Mapped]

I just found it a bit of a depressing place to live and there's still bugger all going on compared to Brixton. Even if they have renamed it Walthamstow 'Village'

http://walthamstowvillageguide.com/events.html

Yeah. I don't live in the 'Village' I'm in Lloyd park, where thing's aren't (too) overpriced. There's a few urbs around here

 

[Kanda]

I just found it a bit of a depressing place to live and there's still bugger all going on compared to Brixton. Even if they have renamed it Walthamstow 'Village'

http://walthamstowvillageguide.com/events.html

But now there's loads going on in Brixton... some call what is going on gentrification, admitedly, there's always been stuff going on in Brixton but it's more widespread in media now... what would you like to happen to Brixton now?