Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Property/DIY

Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.

Original poster

Voyeuristic London flat thread

71 replies

Pipbin · 19/02/2016 21:26

I have no desire to live in London, or in a teeny tiny flat, but I just love looking at them on Rightmove. and saying 'how much' a lot.

Beautiful front door, tiny flat

The space inside the fireplace seems bigger than the rest of the flat here

I love the optimistic place setting for two. I don't think two people could fit in here

The prize for the smallest flat goes to..........

OP posts:
Quodlibet · 19/02/2016 22:32

But bargains in London do exist!

For a mere £350-400k you could 'invest in happiness' in Brixton:

Crack Den chic

tribpot · 19/02/2016 22:34

My god. Imagine what that crack den must look like inside if they didn't take any photos of it.

Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 22:35

Oh my God, Quod that is ........... interesting.

The floor plan is odd to say the least.

OP posts:
sparechange · 19/02/2016 22:37

Haha, quod
Do you think that was a tongue in cheek headline..?
I again know I have lived in London too long when I think that is good value Confused

IShouldBeSoLurky · 19/02/2016 22:37

The one with the fireplace, OP.

sparechange · 19/02/2016 22:38

That Brixton one, with 3 beds, is the same sq ft as the Jubilee place one with the books and chairs though

Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 22:40

What I don't understand about London is if a shit hole like that Brixton one cost a load of money then where the hell do the poor people live?

OP posts:
marghini · 19/02/2016 22:42

Prices are insane (considering the location!) but these new flats in East London look like they are going to be quite pretty to me!

m.zoopla.co.uk/new-homes/details/39546998?search_identifier=5623b69fde8e08e6cc54c211c91b05d8

PennyHasNoSurname · 19/02/2016 22:42

In Hull

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 19/02/2016 22:46

Wtf is that bathroom mirror in the one with the study? You'd have to be a giraffe.

Kernowgal · 19/02/2016 22:50

I find that Camden one really fucking depressing. Some arsehole developer has thought "I know, I can put a wall up to divvy this room in two and some poor desperate sod will part with £225 fucking thousand pounds to live here".

That 'flat' is all that is so desperately wrong with the London housing market. It's almost comical (in fact it reminds me of the Black Books episode where Fran's landlord moves her wall to put in a new flat).

Zampa · 19/02/2016 22:51

Oh, I desperately want to live at the St Pancras apartment. You can order room service from the Renaissance hotel! My dream ...

Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 22:54

Right then - I think we should all club together to buy that St Pancras one and then have it as time share.

I've got some small change in Euros and half a Curly Wurly.

Any one else?

OP posts:
tribpot · 19/02/2016 22:54

I know Zampa it would just be amazing. Surely Mumsnet has 6.5 million to spare and then we could take it in turns renting it? It would pay for itself in, er, no time at all.

Zampa · 19/02/2016 22:54

Re. Brixton, on Homes under the Hammer a woman bought a flat for £250K, refurbed over 6 months at a cost of £70K and got a valuation of £520K (2015).

The crack den will be worth half a million by Christmas.

sparechange · 19/02/2016 22:55

pip, the Brixton one is for an investor
3 rooms, cheaply furnished with ikea beds and then rented out for £750 a month to 20-somethings who have moved to London for a job in media or websites, earning £30k a year and willing to spend half of their take home pay to live somewhere vaguely hipster
Landlord more than covers the mortgage, with little incentive while there is a steady stream of people willing to live in student house-standard house shares if it gives them bragging rights for the right postcode

Zampa · 19/02/2016 22:56

I'm definitely up for a Mumsnet Commune!

Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 23:00

And you are right Kern.
I'm looking at this just for interest. I'm not someone who is thinking about parting with the kind of money that will buy you a decent sized house in the rest of the country for what amounts to a large cupboard.

OP posts:
Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 23:02

But looking on Street View at the Brixton one the whole place looks like a crack den. Why are people paying good money to live there?

OP posts:
sparechange · 19/02/2016 23:07

It's a 2 min walk to the tube which will whisk you to your soho office in 15 mins, and is on Coldharbour Lane which was known as Murder Mile until 10 years ago when the hipsters moved in so you've got loads of cool bars and restaurants on your doorstep and a selection of dealers and Brixton Village Market to go for a gluten free vegan brunch with your adorkable girlfriend to recover from the excesses...

I'm too old for it now, but it would have appealed when I was 23. And despite the reputation, Brixton is safe

Original poster
Pipbin · 19/02/2016 23:10

I see Spare, it's for cunts.

Nathan Barley came true didn't it.

OP posts:
sparechange · 19/02/2016 23:11

It is very Nathan Barley...
Not quite as cunt soup as Shoreditch/Dalston/Haggerston, but a close second...

tribpot · 19/02/2016 23:11

Yep, I used to go to some great cafes in Brixton many years ago when I lived near-ish by. Would have killed to have been on the Tube line instead of training it into somewhere, possibly Waterloo I can't really remember now, and then having to bus/Tube it the rest of the way.

BumWad · 19/02/2016 23:12

I do love your property threads Pipbin

Quodlibet · 19/02/2016 23:18

That Brixton one some slum landlord will be able to push £700/m rent out of each of those bedrooms, £2100/m I reckon. I had a friend who was renting a studio flat for £800/m in Peckham - a huge proportion of the applications were from families with 2, 3, 4 children. Hideous.