From a father living in "The Far North": I know there are lots of you who live in that there London. Just throwing this out there. Looking for 3-bed semi in Richmond or Kingston-On-Thames, with garden. Info would be appreciated. Daughter in chain which is in imminent danger of collapse, and her current lease is up mid-October!
won the lottery then ? https://property.mitula.co.uk/property/semi-detached-houses-riverside-kingston-upon-thames
Mmm I live in 4-bed, detached, stone-built with 3 acres & stables...and I couldn't even afford a 2-bed terraced down there!
to buy or rent? not clear what you want... for either, rightmove would be a good place to start? if she's in the area already, she'd have a feel for which roads she likes?
B buying. They live in the area and she has her head screwed right on, so is monitoring Rightmove etc. I just threw this out to the London folks "just in case" ... Their current target has had offer accepted, but they now find that the vendor has yet to have probate granted on the property!
Don't do it. Stay up north in civilisation. London is a shithole. Within six months you'll be calling for a second referendum, you'll have turned gay and started eating tofu and your bike will have been stolen. Assuming you haven't been stabbed to death by then of course.
When I lived in Richmond my studio flat was £80k and my 1 bedroom basement flat was £200k... this was in the second half of the nineties, and I can't imagine house prices went down since then... Richmond is lovely in some ways (safe for London area, villagey in parts - The White Hoss is a lovely pub, The Marlborough lost its soul and I think The Hole In The Wall closed?) but bonkers expensive. I did like living across the road from Jennifer Saunders and Ade Edmonson, David Attenborough was next door but three and I had Jagger and Townshend across the way. Richard E Grant lived elsewhere further down the hill and one of the most Stella Street moments of my life was being in Oddbins behind Keith Richards who was buying Jack Daniels. Fun times for sure. I can understand why your daughter wants to be there. When the sun comes out though the place grinds to a halt... has she considered Teddington? Also on the mainline to Waterloo, also quite lovely and by the river but isn't on the District line and is a bit cheaper as a consequence. Down near the lock is very lovely.
I'm staying up here! Hope you lot stay down there! Don't like Brexit or tofu. Gays don't bother me, and I've decided NOT to visit on my Supersport, as I understand parking it on the street might not be recommended, if I can get through the city without being mopedded!
Hey don't lump all us southerners in with London. I'm from the south west. London has nothing to do with us. It is a foreign state. Anyway I have dual north/south citizenship. My Mother is an Anglo-Saxon but my Dad was from Rotherham and I own two flat caps.
A flat cap! Hats are for southern softies! You can all drop in for s SHORT visit, but stop buying the houses!
It's the Londoners buying the houses. The bastards buy ours as well. Every old farmhouse in Dorset now has solar panels on the roof and an oak-framed garage and is owned by some twat in red corduroys with an Audi.
Ummmm wonder what a 450m2, 5/6 Bedroom, coach house, stables, detached out buildings, separate garage, off street parking (+7 cars) detached 300 year old property is worth near Heathrow is worth..... asking for a friend. & not a Audi or Red corduroy in sight.....
Richmond (married there), Ham and Teddington are great places, as is Hampton. Sadly it's a well kown fact, so prices are high. Best of luck.
As a Londoner I find this very........................................................................... accurate! I was born in Islington - bang smack in Corbyn territory - but when I lived there. there was no tofu and only the women had their hair in buns. Lucky I moved out of London in the '90's and to the Middle-lands a decade or so ago. The dinosaur in me saw migration as the only way to be able to go into a cafe and ask for a Full English.
We have friends in Steele road Isleworth just along from St Margaret’s which is ok price wise and has a nice atmosphere. Wife’s bestie lives in Richmond but I really don’t get the premium price for the postcode however I do understand the buzz of living there.
