£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)

And I suppose I haven't lived in London fir many years

Brixton is nice in parts.

London is such that people are forced to live in undesirable areas because the nice places are so bloody expensive.

We want to move out. It is disgusting. "affordable" housing is anything but - it is just a way of people buying a % of a home.

Housing is a disaster in this country.

Yes - I liked the park

But I remember having a pizza in a restaurant and this junkie kept rushing through the door and trying to lock himself in the downstairs toilet before the waiter chucked him out.

I thought I cannot be bothered with this shite when I'm trying to eat pizza.

She had inherited some cash. So a very big deposit I expect. Fair play.

needs a bit of work

another one

We've moved away from SE commuter belt due to house prices because unsurprisingly most people don't earn amazing salaries, perhaps a coule of grand more than in other parts of the country.

Is "lots of buses" a bad thing? Doesn't it mean that it's easy to get places?

trills having had buses changing gear, hissing and roaring outside my various flats over many years - no

I would not live near a major arterial route in London. But fortunately I can't afford it.

I would struggle to spend that much where I love to be honest.

What I don't understand is that when it comes to buying homes people just genuinely don't seem to want a bargain.

Croydon is bonkers.
When we sold our Croydon house last year we paid off the mortgage, bought a house with a third of an acre garden, and another smaller house to rent out/for pension pot and drove away.
Went back to buy a wardrobe in Ikea this week. No pangs of regret.

People don't seem to want a bargain?

Er, what?

Of course people want a bargain.

Perhaps the houses that you see as bargains, they see as having serious flaws that make it not a bargain, because they'd be unhappy there.

Croydon is bonkers and one of the cheaper areas!

What I mean is bidding up in increments of £5k, £10k and making overly emotional decisions rather than rational.

And I'm 8 minutes from the station, which is 37 minutes from St Pancras.
Used to take me and hour and a quarter door to door from Croydon house on buses and trains.

There's nothing wrong with Croydon.

Parts of it are shit yes. If you base your opinion on ikea then more fool you. There are some great bits of Croydon and it has fantastic travel links.

I'm from croydon

Living in London gives you such a warped view of property prices.

There is a large 4 bed house close to me up for sale at £1million, it is a total and utter shit hole - there is no nice way to put it a complete dump that would need to be gutted before you could even think of living in it, the estate agents opening blurb is "realistically priced for a quick sale...."

We are not even central London, just the SE

that was filmed at a time when London prices went a bit bonkers and nearly everything was going to sealed bids. It's a bit calmer now (although prices still stupid.)