Oxoniensis

Oxfordshire most recession proof county in Britain... http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_web...-prices-th.html

One swallow doth not a spring make.

Why don't you move to Cuba and see how it works there?

Bloody nanny state - can't even take a shit where you want in your own home.

I found that they usually don't even know enough about the property to lie about it. They tend to employ bimbos, as if we're all idiots and some added sex appeal is going to be the clinching factor. One didn't even know what "HMO" meant!

Thank you Zaranna for this remarkably comprehensive response. I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't any leafy neighbourhoods in Cambridge... what about the villages just outside? Anything picturesque and easily commutable? Oxfordshire equivalents would be Woodstock and Thame.

I am moving to Cambridge from Oxford in August and would like on live in an area with quality (preferably old stock) housing from which it is possible to walk into the historic centre (the equivalent in Oxford would be North Oxford/Park Town). Any suggestions and a price guide? Thanks.

With regards to East Oxford, if you compare the Cowley Rd of 10 years ago with the Cowley Rd of today, it *is* fast up and coming... it's just that there was a long way to come.

Would you really want to live in one of those Waterways new builds? I mean the rooms are too small, and so are the windows. And there are no cornices, bay windows, fire places, etc. Might as well live in a box. Things have really gone down hill since our friends the Victorians; they really need to re-start teaching our children Latin and Ancient Greek. Sorry for sounding elitist

Or maybe people aren't selling because they won't find another/will be priced out as soon as. Does anyone have any idea of what house prices in Oxford are actually doing, area by area?

Forget OX2, this is the case all over central Oxford (OX1-4). I've been looking for four bedroom+ semi-detached old-build for over a year now and my impression is that they've increased in price quite considerably over that time. Seems like there's now nothing under around £450000!

Seems like you're in not so good a situation as you only make a quarter of any capital gains - as property prices keep on increasing, you won't be able to keep up with them because you have only one limb (so to speak) on the property ladder. Therefore, I would sell up and use whatever I have as a deposit on a flat of my own, where all the capital gains are mine.

Get a life man!

The other thing of course, is that you can STL (sell-to-let) and invest the money in a property fund

Well at least if you call to enquire you'll only be charged the low call rate. Larger than Buckingham Palace maybe, but how tacky!