to feel sick at the cost of this house in London?

[RavioliOnToast]

this house it is absolutely beautiful, but that is more or less my DH's salary in a year!!!

How on earth could anybody afford that?

Ooooooh bitchy blindsider.

She means the monthly rent!

blindsider I think the OP meant the monthly payments are her DH's annual salary... i.e. £15k. At least that's how I read it.

It is quite nice but definitely not worth the price tag! And I'm in London.

It's lovely. It screams short term lease for visiting Hollywood actors to me

And you think that is expensive - try renting a house in Hampstead

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-40911360.html

£35,000 per week ... yes per week

Sold my house yesterday for a ridiculous amount in SW London.
I'm buying a house in Yorkshire

£35k per week! Might as well be a different planet. Went to hampstead once, thought it would be a nice place to live. Think I'll stick to somewhere you can buy a house outright instead of rent one for a month.

Eustace your mortgage was 90K a YEAR? For INTEREST ALONE? And in outer London?!

Basinhaircut , Bibbity bobbity and Mackerel

In which case I apologise unreservedly

How do you survive on 15k a year?? :-(

Or special offer of £151k per month.

It's horrible too.

Wish I hadn't sold my flat in London. Why didn't I rent it out?

The face above the fireplace in Hampstead would give me nightmares... I hate stuff like that.

Chaz - what do you think that sculpture in photo one is?

It's a snip for people who are used to renting entire floors of five-star hotels all year round. Those are the people it's for. Not for the likes of us. I get it - it's right in the heart of one of the world's greatest cities so fair enough, only the richest can afford that address. But it really wasn't that long ago that the likes of Pinter - a playwright! - could buy a great old house overlooking Regents Park. It is getting more soulless.

I want to image search the lamps so I can look and covet them.

This sort of thing just reinforces my desire to stay in the North, beautiful as that is. The property prices in London and parts of the South are crazy.

How the other half live eh.

Makes ny two bed mouldy council flat seem even worse, i just couldnt imagine living in a house like that, i think id be to scared to touch anything lol.

Me and dh inherited property from my dad and one of the properties is that much a week I had to take my jaw off the floor, we've had tenants live there the last 18 months ago.
Some people can and will pay it.

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b1d56de4-0485-11e6-96e5-f85cb08b0730.html?siteedition=intl#axzz466z3s6Qn

London's super-rich turn to renting.

I don't like the floor in the kitchen/dining/sitting room.... Too white.

Yes, it is expensive. But some people can afford it (not me!!). However, it is a really pretty house.

Wow sure is alot of money to pay for inhaling all that lovely London fresh air, I'd rather not.

I get more worked up about the price of so called working class houses. Small 2 bed and a box room terraced houses

There has always been ridiculously expensive houses in London but now much of London is out of reach for those on an average salary

I was watching Only Fools and Horses the other day, the Yuppie Love episode (hilarious Del falling at the bar). Del and Rodney are admiring houses along millionaires row and discuss the price Del thinks they might go to 3/4 million pounds they are huge and probably didn't got for more than 1 million but they are detached mansions now many houses are that price or close to it

I watched 'Millionaire Mansions' last night. I think it almost counted as 'shock television'. It made me very sad. It really drove home the force that is pushing house prices up.
I don't much care about the higher end. My worry is about my children and where they will live.
We live in a completely undesirable bit of South London. A house on our road is on the market for over a million.
I feel deeply, deeply anxious about it.
Actually, I wish the rich would just find somewhere else to invest. I don't find it all incentivising. I think people who say that kind of thing are either masochistic or are hiding feelings of anger and fear through a misplaced identification with the people/forces that are fucking them over.

thetoothfairywhoforgot Fri 22-Apr-16 09:39:15
Chaz - what do you think that sculpture in photo one is?

A seed germinating

What do I think it is? I think is something very very expensive that people buy because it is very very expensive. [old cynic emoticon]

A friend of ours had a corporate relocation to london, paid house in Belsize park (lovely house) and dc private school fees paid. But they were paid in the currency of place the came from, which at the time had a poor conversion rate with gBP. Their salary ended up certainly liveable, but not what you'd expect given the house and private education. Weirdly, the house in a corporate relocation should be commensurate with what you have at home, so outlandish expensive houses in London!