Recession? Housing Crisis?

What recession. What fucking housing crisis. Well not in York at least.
Is it the power of "old money"??

I spent the morning looking at 6 places. OK, so ignoring the dross that
should never have been built (and were bought by assholes) prices are
firm and no more than 10% down on a couple of years ago. People are
queuing with up to 10 interest parties on a nice gaff and new builds are
sold by the time the paint has dried.

It isn't what I expected to find at all.

 

Why you moving?

 

No one reason but less garden and more garage would be cool!

 

Someone come and buy SWMBOs place please? Actually I blame the useless
estate agent as most houses in the village stay on the market for
about 6 weeks max.

 

Same around here (Bracknell & area)

With new builds, you'll definitely get the "less garden" bit, but the
"more garage" bit might be a toughie. At least IMrecentE.

 

My dream........

 

I'd also like "maintenance free"

 

It will be when you come to flog yours off (assuming ownership, of course).


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I'm with you there, but we recently looked at a new-build 4-bed
detached. It had a double car-port, rather than a garage. According to
the sales bod, this is to encourage people to actually park their cars
in it, rather than on the road[1] and fill the garage with tat. There
was the possibility of putting one of those secure motorcycle garages
inside one of the the car ports, I suppose.

However, we would still need somewhere secure to store the garden
equipment, bicycles etc. and the garden was so tiny that a decent sized
shed would have used up all of the lawn[2]

Plus, the house itself was pretty small, but hey, whaddya expect for
£400k+?

[1] Most of the houses are 3/4 bed, with some of them having a single
garage. There's little or no other off-street parking.
[2] Negating the requirement of a lawnmower, I suppose.

 

I have a caravan and a building site.

 

heh.

Has Kevin McCloud popped by yet?

 

whoosh

 

Same here. Not the buyers market we were expecting. Our preferred choice
has just been sold - literally as we are arranging the photos to put
ours on the market. Should have offered nearer the asking price perhaps.
Still a chance it might fall through though.
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Ditto! We found a detached four bed dormer bungalow (masses of easy
access storage space in the eaves) with a gated drive and gated side
access to a parking apron in front of a double garage with workshop.
Sold very quickly - too quickly for our offer to be accepted until we
have an offer on ours.



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Heh, same here, plus not a slightly damp, chilly 20's place with
incredible external wall surface area (though not such a bad energy
rating for the HIP as we feared).

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"6 months into the project and winter is fast approaching. Should Jim
fake a building site accident to raise the cash to complete the project?"

 

I'm fortunate enough to be a cash buyer but I'm thinking this will not
be uncommon. I think there is just fuckloads of money around here.

How exactly does one generate lots of dosh other than by own sweat?
clearly there is something I missed at school. Or does every other ****
in the game inherit wonga.

TBF I'm restricted by being completely debt averse, but still.

 

By arranging the situations that cause other people's sweat, and then
taking most of the spoils.

 

Move to a more pikey area.

 

That's a variation on theme I know all about.