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

[bosie]

The madness continues: Two bedrooms, 900sq ft: £630,000!

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/29618044?search_identifier=ec1c517d7a4c3a37f54277fa733dfd6f

They're chancing it, they'll never get that.

Under offer. It didn't even get reduced on Rightmove. Absolute madness!

 

[leanderman]

£691 per sq ft.

My neighbour paid £18 sq ft.

 

[leanderman]

Rushcroft Road loading bay

 

[leanderman]

As part of its depressingly successful stock market flotation today, Foxtons plans to open 5-10 branches a year in London until 2018.

Also, the company has made its new owners a fortune, following the £390m made by the founder Hunt when he sold out

 

[cuppa tee]

I counted no less than six Foxrons signs with "sold" underneath in the space of less than fifty yards on the long red brick building on Coldharbour Lane just before Loughborough Junction. They looked like the architectural version of a nasty rash.

 

[leanderman]

and more Elm Park madness. £578 sq ft

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30499470?search_identifier=ec1c517d7a4c3a37f54277fa733dfd6f

 

[CH1]

I counted no less than six Foxrons signs with "sold" underneath in the space of less than fifty yards on the long red brick building on Coldharbour Lane just before Loughborough Junction. They looked like the architectural version of a nasty rash.

There are 4 flats in the recently added faux mansard roof - looks like the developer cashed in already.

 

[shakespearegirl]

2 bed house on our street went on for £500k, reportedly sold after going to sealed bids for £578k

 

[leanderman]

Some of these people must be taking on crippling, never-ending mortgages.

 

[Manter]

2 bed house on our street went on for £500k, reportedly sold after going to sealed bids for £578k

To think we looked at a four bedroom house last year on the market for £550k and told the agent it was overpriced... Brixton has gone completely mad, but has also gone completely mad so quickly! Literally in the last 12 - 18 months. I find it amazing, but what non- Brixtonite friends find amazing is that a zone 2 area on a tube line was insulated from the London property madness for so long.

 

[shakespearegirl]

To think we looked at a four bedroom house last year on the market for £550k and told the agent it was overpriced... Brixton has gone completely mad, but has also gone completely mad so quickly! Literally in the last 12 - 18 months. I find it amazing, but what non- Brixtonite friends find amazing is that a zone 2 area on a tube line was insulated from the London property madness for so long.

When we were buying our house two and a half years ago, similar ones to the one just sold were on the market for £400k.

 

[leanderman]

When we were buying our house two and a half years ago, similar ones to the one just sold were on the market for £400k.

It's inexplicable. But, according to many reports, similar rises are being seen across many parts of London.

 

[gaijingirl]

I posted this on the W. Norwood thread.. but I'm so flabbergasted I have to post it here, since it's Foxtons madness afaic!

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/17425760?search_identifier=884b01720b471b9983fb5051e67a8d97

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I posted this on the W. Norwood thread.. but I'm so flabbergasted I have to post it here, since it's Foxtons madness afaic!

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/17425760?search_identifier=884b01720b471b9983fb5051e67a8d97

The flat is above the Payless shop.

 

[gaijingirl]

The flat is above the Payless shop.

so ironic!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Under offer. It didn't even get reduced on Rightmove. Absolute madness!

FFS. That road has changed so much in the last 10 years

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and more Elm Park madness. £578 sq ft

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30499470?search_identifier=ec1c517d7a4c3a37f54277fa733dfd6f

That's mental! Been watching that being done up over the past few months and wondering how much it would go for. Now I know. Can't wait to tell my neighbour!

 

[Manter]

I posted this on the W. Norwood thread.. but I'm so flabbergasted I have to post it here, since it's Foxtons madness afaic!

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/17425760?search_identifier=884b01720b471b9983fb5051e67a8d97

Is that an outside door into a bathroom? Irrelevant to the point I know, but v odd...

 

[Manter]

That's mental! Been watching that being done up over the past few months and wondering how much it would go for. Now I know. Can't wait to tell my neighbour!

It's beautifully done, but god it's small for the price....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's beautifully done, but god it's small for the price....

My sister's just put her house on the market (3 bedrooms), and she has a garage, conservatory and large storage shed. Hers isn't on for even half of that, but then she's not in Brixton. She used to live in Elm Park though. I've just emailed her showing her that property and told her she shouldn't have moved so soon

 

[fortyplus]

As part of its depressingly successful stock market flotation today, Foxtons plans to open 5-10 branches a year in London until 2018.

Also, the company has made its new owners a fortune, following the £390m made by the founder Hunt when he sold out

and now institutional investors (that is, our pension funds) have gone in at the top of the market and bought something that will very likely go titsup when this stupid property bubble bursts. same old same old.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

and more Elm Park madness. £578 sq ft

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30499470?search_identifier=ec1c517d7a4c3a37f54277fa733dfd6f

I took a look at that one today on passing. It's practically opposite the £630k one, and they're both Haart. Seems like Haart are as bad as Fuckston's in overpricing property

 

[Rushy]

I took a look at that one today on passing. It's practically opposite the £630k one, and they're both Haart. Seems like Haart are as bad as Fuckston's in overpricing property

I guess they have to be, otherwise the don't get the instructions.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I guess they have to be, otherwise the don't get the instructions.

Lets be honest all of them are working on the basis of getting the most they can. It's only 'overpriced' as far as they're concerned if they don't sell it (and then only really if the seller takes their business elsewhere). If Foxtons price a bit higher it's not because the others are nicer somehow.

 

[Rushy]

Lets be honest all of them are working on the basis of getting the most they can. It's only 'overpriced' as far as they're concerned if they don't sell it (and then only really if the seller takes their business elsewhere). If Foxtons price a bit higher it's not because the others are nicer somehow.

True. The smaller agents don't have the clout to push the market up as Foxtons have done but they are happy to hang on the coat tails.

Let's not forget the complicity of owners - if you are enraged about house prices and you are an owner, you can always sell it for under asking price. Personally, I would need a pretty good reason not to sell to the highest bidder.

 

[Frumious B.]

Haart's cars are even more obnoxious than Foxtons' - Audis with racing stripes FFS.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I reckon there'll be no houses with net curtains left in Elm Park soon. I tried to look through the edges of the frosting on the £800k house today. Wonder what will replace frost on a roll when it goes out of fashion

 

[Rushy]

I reckon there'll be no houses with net curtains left in Elm Park soon. I tried to look through the edges of the frosting on the £800k house today. Wonder what will replace frost on a roll when it goes out of fashion

I reckon nets may be due a come back

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I reckon nets may be due a come back

*starts digging old nets out*

 

[Boudicca]

Mine are 'voile', not nets