£450,000 for a tiny 2 bed in Brixton

[TheBogQueen]

I left London 10 years.

Holy moly I cannot believe the prices in 'trendy' and 'up and coming Croydon

Croydon???? (Yes I'm watching location)

My thoughts exactly

This is why I'm moving out of London!

Yanbu. We are sitting here open mouthed...how does anyone afford to live in London anymore. They could get a mahoosive pad where I live for that money.

These terraced conversions! I lived in many and you can hear everything your neighbours are doing. Which is fine fir a cheap flat - but half a million? In Brixton?

I used to live down the road in Tooting. London house prices are a whole different world.

I used to live in a Victorian conversion and I could hear the upstairs neighbours peeing.

That would get you a 5 bed detached up here (naice area outside Glasgow)

I went to college on Croydon 15 years ago. It was a ghetto... London Road, Mayday Hospital etc

What makes me laugh is when they walk into a pokey room overstuffed with things and say "wow, it's amazing"!?!?!?! They would pass out if they saw what you could buy around here (north west) for that money!

This is just insane

We have a 4 bed semi, 7 miles south of Croydon, worth about £475,000. They are barking mad!

Yes they are weeing their knickers over that 1/2 mill two bed that looks like a student flat

Exactly - you could buy a five bedroom semi detached Victorian house with front and back garden 20 mins on train from London bridge for £450,000 where I grew up.

A fool and his money.

£462,300

For a 1 bed flat in Brixton?

There is a 3 bed with a garden on sale just up the road from here for 65k. Nice area too with excellent schools and stuff.

£500,000??????

more than they wanted to pay? No shit.

Just been watching it. Croydon. Overpriced....

I have to go for a lie down now

I just asked DH if he missed living in London - we're watching it too. The answer was an emphatic 'No'!

I. Just. Don't. GET. It.

Dh is a high earner. Just shy of 6 figures.

Yet we live in a modest 250k house in the Cotswolds.

How much fucking money are these people earning, and doing what, to spend half a mill on a shit 2 bed flat?!

Genuinely

I know...!! Insane...

Also they just seem to throw in another 20k and say they'll get a loger.

How? How does that work with a mortgage application/agreement.

Eugh.

What's wrong with Brixton?

I haven't lived in the UK for a long time but it used to be quite dangerous.

I imagine it's gentrified quite a bit if they are able to ask those kind of prices

There's nothing wrong with Brixton - but it's an area of heavy traffic, lots of buses and the flats they were showing were poor quality and tiny. And the prices were horrendous.