Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road

[sparkybird]

3%! That's shocking. Would expect it to be at least half that....

 

[ViolentPanda]

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Anti-police protection device:

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[George & Bill]

Is there a law against ringing up estate agents in a deep and well-fed home-counties accent, arranging a property viewing, and then sitting sniggering in a cafe across the road watching them pace up and down trying to call you?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is there a law against ringing up estate agents in a deep and well-fed home-counties accent, arranging a property viewing, and then sitting sniggering in a cafe across the road watching them pace up and down trying to call you?

No.

 

[editor]

Apparently Foxtons have been spamming Clapham households with news of their new Brixton office, trumpeting the lower prices to be had in the area and encouraging Cla'am homeowners get in quick to make a killing.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

 

[cuppa tee]

from Foxtons website



http://www.foxtons.co.uk/living-in/brixton/

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Hunting down young professionals and getting them in the food chain via trendy pop-up restaurants. Stringy and gristly bits mechanically retrieved and donated to food banks...Brixton cares!

 

[Winot]

from Foxtons website

View attachment 28811

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/living-in/brixton/

Jemima Everden

 

[George & Bill]

Busted

 

[stuff_it]

My poor father has been known to confuse Foxtons in Streatham for a generic coffee chain and has shuffled in, taken a seat on one of their gaudy fluro-chairs then tried to work out how to order a drink on more than one occasion.

Their whole Aspirational Lifestyle Design schtick is nauseating, but I look forward to reading their promotional literature to see how many times they describe Brixton as 'vibrant'.

You should hire him out to people who live near other branches.

 

[19sixtysix]

I think I'll just go in an ask for noodles.

RIP speedy noodles

 

[Winot]

I think I'll just go in an ask for noodles.

RIP speedy noodles

Excellent. You do that and I'll try and score some E in the Tesco/George IV.

 

[Greebo]

Is there a law against ringing up estate agents in a deep and well-fed home-counties accent, arranging a property viewing, and then sitting sniggering in a cafe across the road watching them pace up and down trying to call you?

My good man, I can just about still do that accent, is there any particular place you'd like me to ask them about?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Foxtons selling a few houses in Brixton for £1.5m and above


http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

 

[equationgirl]

Foxtons selling a few houses in Brixton for £1.5m and above


http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

And you'll need the same again to heat that £1.6m factory conversion with 20ft high ceilings...

 

[Paulie]

Hunting down young professionals and getting them in the food chain via trendy pop-up restaurants. Stringy and gristly bits mechanically retrieved and donated to food banks...Brixton cares!

My brain twisted that into mechanically rendered young professionals. I'll stick to horsemeat thanks.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My brain twisted that into mechanically rendered young professionals. I'll stick to horsemeat thanks.

That was the idea. I came over all Mrs Lovett.

 

[Rushy]

Foxtons selling a few houses in Brixton for £1.5m and above


http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

Blenheim Gardens and (I think) Morrish Road have both been for sale at those prices for at least 5 years. The Citadel one opposite the post ofice is newly on.
Winkworth sold a house for around 1,300,000 on Effra Road recently.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Winkworth sold a house for around 1,300,000 on Effra Road recently.

Effra Road, Herne Hill.

 

[Rushy]

Effra Road, Herne Hill.

Hadn't noticed that

 

[story]

Effra Road, Herne Hill.

That house is not at Herne Hill, it's right at the bottom of Effra Road, before the Eurolink Centre.

 

[Chilavert]

from Foxtons website

View attachment 28811

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/living-in/brixton/

First quote was me.

Seriously though, £1.7m for a two-bedroom house. *head explodes*

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

That house is not at Herne Hill, it's right at the bottom of Effra Road, before the Eurolink Centre.

My point exactly. Although I'd have thought these days the estate agents might be moving the border back the other way.

 

[sparkybird]

oooo, interesting..I've always thought that Citadel was huge inside - well I suppose it is, but not in all the right places and no garden to speak of.

The one at 31 BG has been on the market forever as Rushy says

For less than half the price (!) you can get a 5 bedroom in the same street, almost opposite, and with a garage -BARGAIN!

http://www.haart.co.uk/HRT011107080

 

[leanderman]

oooo, interesting..I've always thought that Citadel was huge inside - well I suppose it is, but not in all the right places and no garden to speak of.

The one at 31 BG has been on the market forever as Rushy says

For less than half the price (!) you can get a 5 bedroom in the same street, almost opposite, and with a garage -BARGAIN!

http://www.haart.co.uk/HRT011107080

and you get 'quiesence'

 

[laluna]

Foxtons arrives on Brixton High Street *Lisa packs her bags* sob!

 

[el-ahrairah]

Foxtons arrives on Brixton High Street *Lisa packs her bags* sob!

don't pack your bags, make the bastards pack theirs.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Foxtons selling a few houses in Brixton for £1.5m and above


http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?loc...ch_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search

I told them I am NOT selling.....

 

[lang rabbie]

At the risk of being regarded as even more of a humourless middle class whatever, I don't find the suggestions that the "solution" to Foxtons is a Molotov cocktail in the least bit funny.

There are local people living in around half a dozen flats above that parade.

It remains little short of a miracle that everyone got out alive from the flats above the block that was torched in Hackney in 2011.