London Prices
Sep. 25th, 2017 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI believe my grandparents may once have lived in Highgate. If not they lived nearby. My father certainly attended Highgate School; we have the sports trophies to prove it.
My grandparents were fairly well-to-do but they couldn't afford to live there now.
Our family party was held in a house belonging to the Methodist church which was probably purchased new because no church would be able to justify buying it today- even if it had the money. An identical house across the road is on the market for £2.3 million. And what do you get for that- a mansion? No, just a decent but unexceptional mock-Tudor detached house- on a narrow plot- with a small garden at the back- the sort of house that went up in its hundreds of thousands in the years between the wars, a starter home for a city clerk. There's no garage so you have to park your Merc on the street.
London prices are mad.
My grandparents were fairly well-to-do but they couldn't afford to live there now.
Our family party was held in a house belonging to the Methodist church which was probably purchased new because no church would be able to justify buying it today- even if it had the money. An identical house across the road is on the market for £2.3 million. And what do you get for that- a mansion? No, just a decent but unexceptional mock-Tudor detached house- on a narrow plot- with a small garden at the back- the sort of house that went up in its hundreds of thousands in the years between the wars, a starter home for a city clerk. There's no garage so you have to park your Merc on the street.
London prices are mad.
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Date: 2017-09-25 01:15 pm (UTC)A friend of ours has a place in Barnes which she paid something like 750k for. It's now worth a cool 2.5m! A large five bed terrace just a little bigger that ours and we paid 218k for this........
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Date: 2017-09-25 02:06 pm (UTC)