Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Oh there is plenty of money about.
In the past six months, two neighbours have left behind (and let out) flats of that value so they can go on to buy another place to live in.
Their transient tenants won't give a toss about the community.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I make about the national average wage (less than the London average) and I could afford that (with someone sharing), if I was prepared to fork out half my income on rent. Which I think some people are tbh, to live in what they see as an exciting area. Or get a couple of couples in there and it's not that much.
Frumious B.
Well-Known Member
Rents in the gentrified buildings in Rushcroft Road are similar to the above - c. £1600 pcm + bills for a spacious 2 bed or a cramped 3 bed. I have my flat all to myself, so I have no money for anything but food. My neighbours, 4 of 'em, occupy the same amount of space as me, and they can afford to go out boozing etc.
Peanut Monkey
Flea-Bit of CHL.
They also neglect to mention the railway line about 20 yards from the lounge windows...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
We're not allowed to say things like this, because it makes the incomers feel put upon, or so they keep whining.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
TBF they've been high value since the late '80s (when the more derelict-ish ones got tarted up). Still, £1.2 million is a bit fucking staggering, isn't it?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Pretty sure the TV/radio comedian who owned it told me he paid about half that only a few (4/5) years ago.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
TBF they've been high value since the late '80s (when the more derelict-ish ones got tarted up). Still, £1.2 million is a bit fucking staggering, isn't it?
The gardens are outlandish. Over a 100ft. And wwwwide.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I went to a party back in the mid-eighties in one of the houses opposite the entrance to the park, and yep, MASSIVE bloody gardens.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Ex-neighbours who backed on to our house now own the one right opposite the park gate. City type with a Labour MP as a sister.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Free market and free world are different things.
Last 30 years of so called free market has led to increase in inequality for example.
In which case, they won't mind taking what the average troll gets back.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Foxtons employee I reckon.
clandestino
no llevar papel
That's not true at all. The Streatham branch of Foxtons only opened a couple of years ago and it was greeted with the same mistrust and hostility as the Brixton one, certainly amongst people I talk to. And the effect they've had on the area has been terrible - driving up prices, ramping up greed, leaving vendors with houses they're unable to sell because they've been put on at an inflated price. Foxtons are evil, money-grabbing cunts, and we don't need to be more tolerant of that at all.
T & P
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Christ, it's sad enough to be a universally loathed Foxtons agent in charge of selling & renting property at hyperinflated prices. But to be delegated to fight PR wars for the company on message boards is particularly tragic.
Manter
Lunch Mob
not sure supporting labour is unacceptable in City circles any more. Labour politicians are hardly socialists any moreNot something he boasts about nowadays, I suspect.
Manter
Lunch Mob
if you can find a way to afford to buy it is a hell of a lot cheaper than renting. Plus you are building up some sort of investment, so I can see why people sell their souls to do it. That ranges from deposit/mortgage guarantee from bank of mum and dad (who often remortgage, or delay retirement to fund it- we're not talking liquidate a trust fund, we're talking scratching together any money possible), deposits made up of inheritances (7k from the sale of Granny's house she'd lived in for 40 years in Stoke will do enough to tip people over the affordability threshold), buying with relatives/friends, buying something small/grim completely out of area and using that to be a first step because rates, deposit requirements etc are better if you're not a first time buyer (I know someone who bought a tiny cottage in Derby years ago because he couldn't afford to buy in London, has been renting it out and is planning to sell in a few months to generate a deposit for an even tinier flat in London) etc etc.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Yes. But I think it is relatively a lot more costly to get on the ladder than ever before.
Especially for those from outside London.
And, yawn, it's because we are building far too few houses to meet a London population growing by 110,000 a year.
Manter
Lunch Mob
oh yeah, completely agree.... my point was just that the people who do buy are not all oligarchs/ landed gentry/ city hot shots- there are 'normal' people who buy by putting themselves and their families under enormous pressure and by making huge sacrifices- because they have bought into the home owning dream
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The problem with most people who spout "free market" rhetoric, is that they're invariably too shallow to have actually explored the effects of the free market, or too greedy to give a fuck about the effects.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
TBF, according to folks I knew in SW11, even Nappy Valley had an "oh fuck" moment when Foxtons first rocked up in Lavender Hill, and that was ages ago.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Actually, I meant admitting being involved in politics. It's a bit like admitting you indulge in sordid sexual acts with a tube of toothpaste and a squeegee.
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