North South divide

I have recently returned from a weeks holiday in Eastbourne with day trips around the area.

Whilst there I noticed the houses for sale and estate agents windows
My three bedroomed end terrace house with reasonable garden is up here valued at about £110k
The identical house in Hastings was offered for sale at Offers over £1.2 million, Not just this one house but all similar houses in the area
The amenities around are more or less the same, but in Scotland better scenery

I have an oppo (friend) who lived down there but sold up his parents house and moved here, now he has the same house as I only an additional £1.1m in the bank :-)

How I wish my Mum and Dad had lived down Sarf

I do not know how young ones now can get on, (My company when working did pay an extra 10% to Southern engineers) but this would not compare to the present situation

Just thinking out loud

Jack McH

 

My brother and his wife live in Cobham Surrey the house prices there are astronomical as well .I think they just move the decimal point every four years to price them. How their children afford mortgages is beyond me , although two of them have moved further afield.
They visited us last year with the oldest daughter and her partner. The house opposite us is huge 7 bedrooms. They asked how much will that be worth?I said it will be just over £100k now They gasped ( Told them the real price later )

 

Yes house prices down here are stupid.
And as long as the so called "prosperous south east", is viewed as a good place to live it will continue.
I'd move North, but its too cold down here for me most of the time, so moving North is not an option.
Maybe South,.... but then I'd be a immigrant

It basically down to all that lot who look upon their house as an investment rather than somewhere to live.
I love to watch them squirm when house prices fall.

 

We have just got back this afternoon from a delightful two week stay down at Brockenhurst in the New Forest and we had a look in Estate Agents windows and the prices down in the NF is eyewateringly expensive(£1.8,000,000) for some of them and by the looks of things if you have a pony standing outside on the grass verge while the photo is being taken they had a few more 00000's on the end

What amused us though that there is so much horse,donkey,cow, deer and pig pooh on the roads,pavements and grass verges that no one bothers to gather it up for their rose beds or allotments.And the cheek of it is that these so called wild ponies have right of way on the roads and paths and if the little sods don't want to get out of the way (especially the Shetland ponies) then there is nothing you can do but wait until they get out of the wayWhoever got the job of installing cattle grids at the ends of all the drives must have made a killing so to speak

 

Prices in Suffolk are really stupid now too, the next generation don't stand a chance getting on the property ladder. We bought our first house (a three bed semi) for £49,250.00....it's laughable now but at the time I wondered how we would ever pay the money back! We sold that obviously at a profit twelve years ago, but they are now selling for £165.000! & rent for about £750-£800 PCM it's a joke really.
I was talking to an estate agent the other day who said Suffolk villages were going to be the next hot spot for Londoners looking to live in the country, all that's going to do is bump up the prices & make them less affordable for the kids who were brought up in the villages