Nico Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Has this one been done already ? Apologies if so. Well, we must be close to the peak of the market and this means that there are going to be some ridiculously overpriced places out there. This is our chance to pick out the places that we will probably looking back on with a certain amount of disbelief. When I saw what was essentially a trailer in St Albans for £170k (ground rent extra) it did make me laugh. Well....I thought that it would be fun to post the worst ones that you have come across. Now I don't mean a really small studio flat in Chelsea or anything like that - I was thinking more along the lines of council flats in Peckham for £200k, wooden bungalows in Cardiff for £160k or terrace houses in Moss Side for...well.....any amount really. To get the ball rolling (and I realise this isn't the best example), here is what is essentially the smallest council flat in North London for £155k. Complete with resident junkies and urine-stained stairwells. Mmmm. Nice. http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?md5=a7e463...urce=thumbnails Go on - I am sure you guys can do better.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy88s Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 If I committed armed robbery Her Majesty would provide me with better accomadtion! The best shit hole - how about the whole Greater London Area, Manchester and Birmingham. In fact the whole UK! The nation is mentally retarded for paying these prices for such poor quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cityfool Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Has this one been done already ? Apologies if so.Well, we must be close to the peak of the market and this means that there are going to be some ridiculously overpriced places out there. This is our chance to pick out the places that we will probably looking back on with a certain amount of disbelief. When I saw what was essentially a trailer in St Albans for £170k (ground rent extra) it did make me laugh. Well....I thought that it would be fun to post the worst ones that you have come across. Now I don't mean a really small studio flat in Chelsea or anything like that - I was thinking more along the lines of council flats in Peckham for £200k, wooden bungalows in Cardiff for £160k or terrace houses in Moss Side for...well.....any amount really. To get the ball rolling (and I realise this isn't the best example), here is what is essentially the smallest council flat in North London for £155k. Complete with resident junkies and urine-stained stairwells. Mmmm. Nice. http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?md5=a7e463...urce=thumbnails Go on - I am sure you guys can do better.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=1&tr_t=buy Over 100K for a shoe box in Merthyr Tydfil the only town to have been awarded viz's tip of the month twice. You would have to be earning roughly 30K a year to sensibly afford that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy88s Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=1&tr_t=buyOver 100K for a shoe box in Merthyr Tydfil the only town to have been awarded viz's tip of the month twice. You would have to be earning roughly 30K a year to sensibly afford that. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This house is not all that bad, a city trader would buy that with his luncheon voucher! Only joking. It is in the vally's after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=2&tr_t=buy £300,000 for this dump right next to the Broadwater Farm Estate. (scene of PC Keith Blakelock's murder) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy88s Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=2&tr_t=buy£300,000 for this dump right next to the Broadwater Farm Estate. (scene of PC Keith Blakelock's murder) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I just love the kictchen wall paper, it goes so well with the yellow toaster and slaughter house tiles. Surely not even in luny London people would pay 300K for disgusting looking grothole like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Never mind the decor man, think about the location!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy88s Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Is that the place where we had all those riots by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Pricker Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Well, we must be close to the peak of the market We are well beyond the peak of the market, which occured in April 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/304688.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TW11 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Has this one been done already ? Apologies if so.Well, we must be close to the peak of the market and this means that there are going to be some ridiculously overpriced places out there. This is our chance to pick out the places that we will probably looking back on with a certain amount of disbelief. When I saw what was essentially a trailer in St Albans for £170k (ground rent extra) it did make me laugh. Well....I thought that it would be fun to post the worst ones that you have come across. Now I don't mean a really small studio flat in Chelsea or anything like that - I was thinking more along the lines of council flats in Peckham for £200k, wooden bungalows in Cardiff for £160k or terrace houses in Moss Side for...well.....any amount really. To get the ball rolling (and I realise this isn't the best example), here is what is essentially the smallest council flat in North London for £155k. Complete with resident junkies and urine-stained stairwells. Mmmm. Nice. http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?md5=a7e463...urce=thumbnails Go on - I am sure you guys can do better.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> **** me! I didn't think Foxtons would touch anything at the 155k mark. I can just see the spotty agent taking that picture whilst some scrote nicked the hub caps off his mini ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.8 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 How about this one? This seems to have been slipped in between two houses whilst no one was looking. Yours for only £162,500. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=6&tr_t=buy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 How about this one? This seems to have been slipped in between two houses whilst no one was looking. Yours for only £162,500. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=6&tr_t=buy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thats a ****ing beach hut for 162K. Has the world gone mad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Goggles Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 There's always this lovely place on the infamous Blackbird Leys estate just outside Oxford. No dreaming spires here, just stolen mopeds! Yours for 175K... The photos obviously don't do it justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Muggy Bear Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=1&tr_t=buy Just to prove there are still affordable home in the UK. See? What are you all moaning bout? This is a delightful home, cosy, warm cos the neighbours set your house on fire every other night and theres a real close knit feeling in this village cos they all know each others business (like what day your giro comes so they can nick it). PS I was actually going to buy one of these about four years ago for £4k (no joke thats how much they were) because myself and a few friends thought it would be a good place to hide dead bodies! Joke. No, we thought the council was going to knock it down and build on it a new development, befitting to the golf course they were thinking (or have) of putting there. Meaning they would pay us off a nice amount to buy the land (a lot of the houses round the few streets that make up this area are empty). Wish I had bought it now. it 10x the price it was four years ago. Sorry to offend anyone who lives/grew up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No.8 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 There's always this lovely place on the infamous Blackbird Leys estate just outside Oxford. No dreaming spires here, just stolen mopeds!Yours for 175K... The photos obviously don't do it justice <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Blackbird Leys - where the bus drivers refuse to go after dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Ahhh, Blackbird Leys....the place where crack addicts go to die. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/3/113148/766 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Muggy Bear Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Beergoggles, is that Ashole Place, Jailbird Leys? Cheap puns, but more befitting… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rm/template/pub...pa_n=1&tr_t=buyJust to prove there are still affordable home in the UK. See? What are you all moaning bout? This is a delightful home, cosy, warm cos the neighbours set your house on fire every other night and theres a real close knit feeling in this village cos they all know each others business (like what day your giro comes so they can nick it). PS I was actually going to buy one of these about four years ago for £4k (no joke thats how much they were) because myself and a few friends thought it would be a good place to hide dead bodies! Joke. No, we thought the council was going to knock it down and build on it a new development, befitting to the golf course they were thinking (or have) of putting there. Meaning they would pay us off a nice amount to buy the land (a lot of the houses round the few streets that make up this area are empty). Wish I had bought it now. it 10x the price it was four years ago. Sorry to offend anyone who lives/grew up there. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Looks like the kind of place where dogs carry flick knives and junkies snort the white lines off the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Did you know Doncaster has the highest rates of teen pregancy and STD infection in the country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Did you know Doncaster has the highest rates of teen pregancy and STD infection in the country?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Joke time: Fairy liquid ad: "Mummy why are you hands so soft" "Cos I'm only 12". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Muggy Bear Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 zzg113, you love that bit of trivia about Doncaster, don't you? Ok, I'm not going to defend old Donny, I left there by choice as soon as I could! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Are you from there NMB? Is it as bad as people make out? I have a cousin living in Donny and she thinks it's the dog's ********. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzg113 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Fairy liquid ad:"Mummy why are you hands so soft" "Cos I'm only 12". Dicky, that would be funny if it weren't so close to the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 zzg113,you love that bit of trivia about Doncaster, don't you? Ok, I'm not going to defend old Donny, I left there by choice as soon as I could! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Top Gear Clarkson from Donny, bit more trivia, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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