What do you think about this flat?

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www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44509686.html

I'm not getting involved in the price talk as I'm a Northerner who's never lived in London but I'd love to live above a library. It would be nice and peaceful.

It looks like a nice flat to me

AmysTiara are libraries in the Noeth actually quiet?! Ours (Zone 2) is like a shopping centre, always busy, especially on cold days when homeless people congregate there to have a warm place to spend the day. As well as being full of children ( a good thing) and sometimes there are people with disabilities who also can be loud - one man in particular talks very loudly the entire time he is in the library, occasionally he screams and is escorted out for the day. He's been a regular in our local library for at least 15 years. There is another who likes to do karate type poses and hold them for long periods of time. There are supposedly quiet areas for studying but they are rarely quiet! Still, I enjoy it, it's a great place.

London prices are expensive but you can make a lot on property in London it's a good investment. I don't know that area I live out in Surrey but literally just over south London border. The library below potentially becoming a takeaway might be a concern. Have you viewed many others?

Our local library was being shut down by the council and there was a great hoo-haa to prevent it being turned into a Sainsbury's.

That has been thwarted and it is now a training centre. For a chain of estate agents .

I think about that every time every time I pass it. On balance, a supermarket might have been more useful. At least I'd have the chance of picking up yellow stickered items on the way home.

London prices are expensive but you can make a lot on property in London

London's had it Darbs76. I think there is much more money to be had further afield

Delinquency we have some like you describe but our local one is quiet.

Maybe op will be be taking a chance then.

OP Don't forget that the Forum is just up the road (not far from MN HQ) so you do get late night crowds going back to the Tube.

limited You have a whole broom cupboard?! I hope you realise how lucky you are. There are 5 of us in our kennel although it's an improvement from the rabbit hutch we were in.

Its grotty and too small for what you plan to do with it.

Potentially renting a box room and a shared tiny bathroom with 2 other people. You wont get much in rent for it as most people wouldn't want to live with their landlords or share a bathroom with 2 other people

As I said before, I really don't think that particular library will be closing any time soon. There have been some changes with the Camden Libraries, but I haven't heard of any threat to that one. It's usually pretty quiet in there too, at least at the times I go.
What would put me off buying ex-LA are potential unexpected demands for large amounts of money.
On the other hand, I wouldn't buy a flat in a converted house like the Priory Rd one either. They look nice, but the lack of sound proofing in SO many conversions makes living in them a horrible experience.
I've been in loads of friends' flats where you can hear the neighbours coughing, boiling the kettle, turning light switches on, practically every word of conversations if they don't know how to use indoor voices... And that's ordinary day to day living, thats before they put the music or TV on loudly!
I have a friend who lives in a top floor Victorian conversion (actually that's also in Kentish Town) and you can hear every single sound from the flat downstairs so it's not just living on lower floors that's a potential problem.

IsadoraQuagmire You are right about house conversions. I had forgotten but I have just had flashbacks of hearing the couple above us walking around their kitchen every morning and the lady below going to the loo in the middle of the night.

Wow. I couldn't imagine spending that much to live over shops! And it looks pretty dated to me

I bought a six bedroom detached up north for similar money. I could never pay that for a flat.

Novel post...

Surely someone will be along to say they bought a 27 room detached igloo in the North Pole for the same amount.

MrsPink Exactly how is that helpful to the OP? I'm pretty sure she is aware of what she could buy in other parts of the UK for the same money. But she's clearly said that she is looking to buy in London. Do you think that, after reading your post, she will have a sudden change of heart and start searching for properties in Newcastle or Manchester?

So one sister bought a farm for the price of our starter-one bed flat in London, and another a mahoosive (no, bigger than that) house in the states for half of our current modest abode. A cousin bought an apartment like you see on the TV in a fancy complex for the same as us too (also in the US). Bugger if only we'd moved out to - oh hey, aren't they trying to ban (some of) us? Phew, lucky escape then.

So what? It's the economy innit? Supply and demand an' all 'at.

I think MrsPinkCock might be taking the piss.

Anyway, this is a mile from me.

I hope it doesn't out me. I'm not the Queen. Honest.

Ooh you could get yourself a 1 bed 60m2 apartment in Shibuya, Tokyo for that.

I have to say that if you were having a barbecue, anyone could walk past your garden and gawp. That might put you off.

The photos 17 and 18 are a bit of a cheat. It's not yours. It's the local park. St James's Park.

I'm going to buy that limitedperiodonly just to slide down the bannisters.

limitedperiodonly so you're Kate Middleton ma'am

Funny you should say that TizzyDongue because I used to race my best friend down the bannisters in her house in Essex. She lived in a house that had an internal balcony with a staircase either end. It was a bit Dallas/Dynasty.

That house just wouldn't cut it. Plus the fact that if you know the area you will have thousands of gasping London marathon runners and spectators putting a bit of crimp on your afternoon party on April 23 because they go right past it.

I wonder if there's a chance of a discount

I wish people would broaden their horizons when looking in London. It took me too long.. to give up my postcode obsession. I live now in a fantastic part of London (but little known) where prices in London terms are amazingly good value, transport is amazing, similar properties to Muswell Hill but with real gardens and near open spaces with lakes and parkland, yet 15-20 mins by tube line (yep trains every 2 mins) to the City, not much more (25 mins) to the west end. Walk around this area... Check out flats like this one... www.purplebricks.com/property-for-sale/2-bedroom-flat-london-253313/# or little cottages like this one... www.tradingplacesproperty.com/particulars.aspx?id=57785

FishyGill I wish. Well, I don't fancy Wills but she has lovely hair

Good point limitedperiodonly, once I've slid down them I'd put it back on the market.