Gotta respect any landlord that has the gift of the gab to enable him to fleece over a grand a month out of someone. Sterling work.
That sh*t could not work on me at all.
no gift of the gab needed, its the going rate in london, youd be hard pushed to find a 1 bed flat in a decent area for under a grand, id say virtually impossible
Just need to find myself a girlfriend really then i'm set. London's affordable for couples
same.
Quite sad but ive recently considered getting into a serious relationship based on housing
It is gift of the gab, believe, how a man/woman can ask for £1.200 a month from you to pay for something that'll never be yours is outstanding. If more people were prepared to move out and so the stupid prices weren't being paid, what would happen? Would prices go down eventually?
There are the certain few who can afford those rent prices comfortably, but those are the biggest idiots tbh, £1.200 isn't going into anything but a mortgage for me.
i'd refuse to pay anything over £600 pcm for accommodation unless its mine.(even with that type of price my Dad says I'm being foolish.
The idea of getting into a relationship to pay bills is something else.
Pay £1300 a month for a 1bed flat.
Moving out soon. They're advertising it at £1450 from today and she's already telling me about 3 viewings on Saturday.
Insanity.
these times Council tax and utilities not even mentioned yet. plus you gotta eat and have a social life in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
These numbers are skewed towards soft middle-class rah-rahs who want to live in Clapham or Islington and frequently spend their disposable income in Starbucks and at the gastropub on the green with their chums.
If you're smart and can see where the money is gong next, then you can buy cheap in London and get by, Niall mentioned Willesden a while back there are a few other places with serious growth potential.
You can buy a nice 2 bed Victorian conversion flat/maisonette for around 200k (taking account of bidding up after guide prices) in Manor Park, Zone 3, which has an impending early roll-out of Crossrail in Liv Street. With a help to buy deposit of 10k, monthly repayments would be 1,100 (ironically 100 less than the average 1 bed rent in London) and a bank would just about be happy to loan you the 95% LTV on a 45,000 gross salary for one person, because two people with a gross adding up to 45k take home more after taxes.
Per month, the income after taxes you'd have is around 2,500 (if single, and say 3,000 if split between two people), so say according to GLA guidelines 40% of take home pay (1,500) is all living expenses you have 1,000 left. If you can cut £200 (to be safe) off your monthly expenses then you're good. To most people that's an annual holiday, eating habits etc, it's only 2,400 a year.
77k is when they refer to the average house price across the entire city which is like 500,000, which is in turn skewed by high prices in the centre.
Then if you want to wait for the value of your property to increase off the back of Crossrail and it's impending gentrification of areas with great transport connects and nice Victorian housing stock whilst enhancing your income and aggressively paying back your mortgage, as your equity increases you will soon be in the position to leverage against your house and buy a buy-to-let style investment, like an ex-local authority flat at auction (yes you can get mortgages for auction), rinse and repeat.
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Sometime I walk around Forest Gate and I wonder where all these Polish people actually live.
It's like they just seep out of the walls with a can of White Lightning come 9am.
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insane.
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These numbers are skewed towards soft middle-class rah-rahs who want to live in Clapham or Islington and frequently spend their disposable income in Starbucks and at the gastropub on the green with their chums.
If you're smart and can see where the money is gong next, then you can buy cheap in London and get by, Niall mentioned Willesden a while back there are a few other places with serious growth potential.
You can buy a nice 2 bed Victorian conversion flat/maisonette for around 200k (taking account of bidding up after guide prices) in Manor Park, Zone 3, which has an impending early roll-out of Crossrail in Liv Street. With a help to buy deposit of 10k, monthly repayments would be 1,100 (ironically 100 less than the average 1 bed rent in London) and a bank would just about be happy to loan you the 95% LTV on a 45,000 gross salary for one person, because two people with a gross adding up to 45k take home more after taxes.
Per month, the income after taxes you'd have is around 2,500 (if single, and say 3,000 if split between two people), so say according to GLA guidelines 40% of take home pay (1,500) is all living expenses you have 1,000 left. If you can cut £200 (to be safe) off your monthly expenses then you're good. To most people that's an annual holiday, eating habits etc, it's only 2,400 a year.
77k is when they refer to the average house price across the entire city which is like 500,000, which is in turn skewed by high prices in the centre.
Then if you want to wait for the value of your property to increase off the back of Crossrail and it's impending gentrification of areas with great transport connects and nice Victorian housing stock whilst enhancing your income and aggressively paying back your mortgage, as your equity increases you will soon be in the position to leverage against your house and buy a buy-to-let style investment, like an ex-local authority flat at auction (yes you can get mortgages for auction), rinse and repeat.
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SLEAZE BALL
As a man said
No gift of the gab is needed
This is not the 90's
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And that is possibly CP's best post thus far +1
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Good info there CP
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