Good places to buy house in London under £300K

[ivt03]

Hi there,

Due to personal change in our circumstances, me and my husband may have to relocate to London in a couple of months.

Rather than spending dead money in rents, we were thinking of buying a house (not flat/apartments) under £300K in a good locality that's safe to live in, commutable from central London under an hour and has good affinity for schools/shops, etc.

We stumbled upon areas like Tilbury and Gravesend and while the houses internally were wonderful for their price, the locality and people around didn't seem safe.

Would people living in and around London/Greater London advise of some good, safe, commutable areas to buy a house?

Many thanks!

I am frustrated by the snobbery on this thread (not just aimed at last few posters, but general comments all the way through..)

It somewhat bears the question, if you don't think OP should live in a 'shite' property, who do you think should??

What makes a property costing £300k in one of the areas mentioned above 'shite'?? This one for instance....

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50800242.html

Theres, from a snobby point of view, you wouldn’t live within at least half a mile of the location of that house. Having said that, Carshalton Village is very lovely with fab amenities and transport links. 300k would buy a 2-bed flat which I think would be hitting the jackpot for buying somewhere nice in London on that budget.

Look at Hainault, there are quite few. It is 30 minutes on the tube to the City , 20 minutes to the Olympic Park and Westfield , 5 minutes from Hainault Forest and Fairlop waters Country Park. Buses every 10. Minutes and lots of schools.

Can’t do,links but

Not a London but less than 45 mins on the train and money would go a lot further - Bracknell

@antimatter - as @nancy75 said, I was not calling the areas shite. It was a comment on what you would get for the money in those areas. Epsom regularly features on the best place to live in UK, so property is expensive. Sutton has got very good transport links to central London and the City so prices have risen over the years.

Doris, those properties are targeted towards over 60s. When they die the agent takes them back.

Commute time to “London” isn’t the main point, work is near Waterloo so not much use going into, say, Paddington or Liverpool St, unless OP wants an additional, costly and cramped tube commute.

Another vote for croydon. You can still get a 2 bed house for £300,000. Id say it’s one of the London boroughs that will still see growth in property prices. Still lots of potential for the area and lots of investment such as new businesses and Westfield etc. Also excellent commuter links.

And convenient for Ikea!

There's an advert running on the radio , Galliard Homes , under £200,000 in London, 10 minutes walk from Romford Station, Crossrail yadda yadda .

Except Romford is Essex (except in the Daily Mail where we're East London) and under £200k is a studio - parking is extra.

I feel really sorry for my DC if that's what they're going to face with homebuying.

...or under 200k is half (or less) of a share in a shared ownership scheme

Wouldn't bring up a child in Romford as their English would be fucked.

Well that’s where all the remaining Londoners have congregated now.

Are you sure you’re comfortable with your racism in that post pencilled?

Try saying it again about any other area of London, and the various ethnic communities there.

Racism Battleax You're barking up the wrong tea. I observed a poor standard of English. My colleagues in the London office would have agreed. My observations had zero to do with ethnicities. They were all white anyway, and all so benignly xenophobic that they were never done slagging me for being from a distant, strange, far away land - Ireland. Without a trace of self-awareness, they relentlessly teased my very soft Irish accent. I was fond of them and I'm still friendly with one of them. The homogeneity in that office stifled me. One Irish person was the closest thing to diversity that they were going to allow in to 'exxiggun 'assss

No you mocked an accent and were dereogatory.

Let’s here your rendering of the “fucked” English in Brick Lane, or County Wexford for that matter, if you’re being even handed.

Hear^

Wouldn't bring up a child in Romford as their English would be fucked

So much snobbery on this thread which is really sad but I think the one thing we can take away from it is that £300k definitely doesn’t get you much anywhere commutable to London anymore!

But as for the above statement I think you can interpret it a number of ways:
a) some of the (state) schools in Romford are not great so there’s a worry that the DC’s attainment level, including language skills would fall behind
b) a dig at the Estuary English/Essex accent
c) a comment on the fact that the area has a higher than average immigration population and many children don’t speak English at home
Hopefully it was A rather than B or C.

However, this is nothing new, I was born not a million miles from Romford and my private school included ‘speech and drama’ on the curriculum which were essentially elocution lessons!

I used to work in Romford. I couldn't undertand the locals. I'll be chased off the thread now, but they used to laugh at my accent (Irish)
Wouldn't bring up a child in Romford as their English would be fucked.

People think I'm Irish (I'm not) and they Love my accent. My DC (especially my DS) are pure Essex ( yes Romford) , I love my sons accent (DD has a less pronounced accent)

I know it's not a help to the OP, but I am really glad I had my DC in Romford, I spent most of my childhood/teen years in a tiny village and it bored me to tears.
At least here there's things to do, buses, trains etc.

Traffic is grim and houses are ££ but I love Romford.

I have pm’ed you @ivt03

Hi, did you find a house in the end? Just curious as I have same question now

I was just about to say Edith! They are putting more trains down that line, and when Crossrail opens it will be an easy transfer at Woolwich. Grammar school. Currently post industrial river front but countryside not far, and regeneration is East moving along the river.

Woking? Fast to w'loo. Bits of Slough?

Sigh. ZOMBIE THREAD EVERYONE.

Talijja, post your own thread rather than bumping someone else’s. Very antisocial.

Avoid Croydon, grew up there, horrible place. Crystal Palace is nice but now super expensive (alas sold flat there before the prices went up, would be worth £600k now). Look at office location - prices drop beyond the m25 but calculate commuting costs of course!

ElloBrian how did it affect you? I am new here and just replied to OP. I did not know it is against the rules to ask a question if it was posted 1 year ago.