geordieskin

I have posted on our local papers story about this, sheer insanity. Does anyone know how much they are asking for these flats? Cruddas Park is grim, I used to work in mental health and have spent a fair bit of time in these blocks.The locals will see the new residents as easy pickings, there is nothing in the area for "young profesionals", it is benefits central. "Riverside Dene", its not by the river and its not a dene. I seem to remember Newcastle City Council are also financing a private hotel, thats the Lib Dems for ya!

Have you got a spy camera in my house?

You said the open market, this has now changed. The main point of this site is that housing cost are massively distorted by a varity of powerfull vested interests to raise housing costs, are you really claiming that is an open market? Patronising ****.

Where is this open market?

This is an average?!

I have no idea. It's funny how another topic claiming a rent of £180 a month ( which i have my doubts about) has now become the council norm on here. In 2000 i was homeless and went to Newcastle City Council, they had loads of empty propertys and were desperate for tenants.I eventually got a small 2 bed room maisonette in a roughish area.By 2005 the rent was £75 a week, I understand it is now around £100 a week. This for a 1930's block which will have been paid for many times over, how this is subsidised is beyond me. How strange that on a site which campaigns (or used to) for affordable housing there are so many against low rents! I am sure many of you are looking forward to seeing old people dragged from their rented homes, down with tenants rights, eh? HPC, the provisional wing of the Daily Mail.

Not sure what they mean, a few years ago I was informed by my council that rents were to go up by the maximum allowed to try and bring them into line with private rents. But i was not to worry as 2/3 of tennants had their rent paid by benefits so they would not lose out. So raising rents will cost more, not less, at least round here.

Great news! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-11458832

i was hoping to be ironic.

was not Alnwick voted one of the best places to live in England? Ashington is more or less the same.

The second is a guide price for auction, i still don't understand why people prtend these are the real prices. The 3 bed semi is for a %40 equity share.

Perhaps others here are unaware of the strange goings on with pattinsons online and real auctions. What is the point of a guide price if it is less than the reserve?!!

or a bit more.either way it is not a £30 000 house, nor is it on the outskirts of newcastle for that matter. Any idea what the buyers premium is, without it how can we know what its real price will be? I would be well pleased if a HPC was to arrive, but pretending auction guide prices are the real price is pointless.

Whats wrong with it? It is sitting at £30 000 now in the online auction, it will probably go higher before/during the real auction. This is not a £30 000 2 bed terrace, why do people pretend auction guide prices are actual prices?

"Reverse auction where everybody wins"

Good point, i started going to pubs at 14, i was tall but clearly underage. 3 pints and i was well away, but i kept my head down and tried to behave like an adult as i wanted to stay in the pub. Now they are so strict there is litte chance for most young uns to do this, so they just drink in the streets.Plus drugs are so cheap now and freely available.Cheap than a night in the pub.

Dunno, but by coincidence they have just announced they are to restart production of them, i presume at the old factory. I knew a few who worked there and conditions were shit.

No offence meant pet, but 5 mins browsing this site would have shown the general view towards BTL, if we were wanting to be real swines we could have recomended Longbenton! Most of Newcastle is rough, with the odd nice bit.

This is normal even in the better parts of Newcastle.

Found this http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/tm_headline=seven-years-on--50p-homes-worth--150k&method=full&objectid=18416362&siteid=50081-name_page.html and this http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/jan/07/houseprices.communities But honest, its still ******ing grim!

They were in the Benwell/Elswick area of Newcastle if i remember correctly, crime was through the roof and you had to spend a certain amount (i seem to remember it being £10 000) doing it up. This in an area where you could buy a flat for about £5000. I am working in the area at the moment and its not changed much, 50% aisan 50% charver scum, very high crime still loads of empty,burnt out propertys.

IMHO gosforth is not even that good, its only "posh" because its in rough as ****** newcastle!gosforth high school is drugs central.

Probably mental health problems,either you are mad or she is. can't see why a cannabis farm would cause on going noise.

Very interesting thread this, i have learnt a bit. At the end of the day, what could Britain have done to free Poland at the end of the war? Must admit, we are lucky to live on an island, imagine having borders with Russia and Germany! I wonder if those snapping up cheap property in eastern europe and the balkans have looked at a map and seen who thier neighbours are.

Sorry to be a pedant, but it's Battle hill is not in Newcastle. If you think thats rough try Scotswood (now renamed Riverside Dene) ,Byker or Walker, Battle Hill is middle class by comparison.