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[alfie]

Hi,like the title says, Homes under the hammer showed a house in the next block to me. It had been left empty for about 20years,until the council had made a the owner sell it via a auction.
Made into a nice tidy home now,but still not sold after about 3 months on the market.

                                                Alfie

[aaronjb]

Made into a nice tidy home now,but still not sold after about 3 months on the market.

An area nobody wants to live in or over priced?

I was talking to someone who has just started going through the process of buying a new build (as yet unconstructed) near work (Chertsey, Surrey) - the sales office opened at 9am and by 10.30am they'd started the sales process for 5 of 20 plots; and these are £400,000-600,000 plots.. My colleague has been watching them since the planning application went in last May!

[the alarming man]

there is certainly is money out there...wrong time to be buying a house too expensive

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Made into a nice tidy home now,but still not sold after about 3 months on the market.

An area nobody wants to live in or over priced?

I was talking to someone who has just started going through the process of buying a new build (as yet unconstructed) near work (Chertsey, Surrey) - the sales office opened at 9am and by 10.30am they'd started the sales process for 5 of 20 plots; and these are £400,000-600,000 plots.. My colleague has been watching them since the planning application went in last May!

I would want an entire caribbean island for that sort of money. The one that Dickie Branners owns would fit the bill.

£600,000 to live on a housing estate. No thanks.

[Kevin Wood]

Made into a nice tidy home now,but still not sold after about 3 months on the market.

An area nobody wants to live in or over priced?

I was talking to someone who has just started going through the process of buying a new build (as yet unconstructed) near work (Chertsey, Surrey) - the sales office opened at 9am and by 10.30am they'd started the sales process for 5 of 20 plots; and these are £400,000-600,000 plots.. My colleague has been watching them since the planning application went in last May!

I would want an entire caribbean island for that sort of money. The one that Dickie Branners owns would fit the bill.

£600,000 to live on a housing estate. No thanks.

It'll probably be like the new developments near me. Knock down 2 decent houses with generous gardens, then up comes the sign advertising "just 20 4 bedroom detached executive dwellings". A grass verge for a garden, 2 parking spaces if you're lucky, nowhere for the bin lorry to get off the main road, so it's chaos on bin day, and the reason they can call them "detached" is that they commissioned Rizla to make a special line of papers so thin that you can just fit them between the houses.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Made into a nice tidy home now,but still not sold after about 3 months on the market.

An area nobody wants to live in or over priced?

I was talking to someone who has just started going through the process of buying a new build (as yet unconstructed) near work (Chertsey, Surrey) - the sales office opened at 9am and by 10.30am they'd started the sales process for 5 of 20 plots; and these are £400,000-600,000 plots.. My colleague has been watching them since the planning application went in last May!

I would want an entire caribbean island for that sort of money. The one that Dickie Branners owns would fit the bill.

£600,000 to live on a housing estate. No thanks.

It'll probably be like the new developments near me. Knock down 2 decent houses with generous gardens, then up comes the sign advertising "just 20 4 bedroom detached executive dwellings". A grass verge for a garden, 2 parking spaces if you're lucky, nowhere for the bin lorry to get off the main road, so it's chaos on bin day, and the reason they can call them "detached" is that they commissioned Rizla to make a special line of papers so thin that you can just fit them between the houses.

Of course, these magnificent towering erections will need pretentious names to attract the punters.

The Kensington.

The Arlington.

The Grovernor.

The Premier.

If you buy a new kitchen, or perhaps a sofa from DFS, the very same names will be used again. This will let the customer know they are buying a quality product.

   

[alfie]

 A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

[Kevin Wood]

A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

.. let alone pronounce it!

Vowels, that's what you need.

 

[Seth]

A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

.. let alone pronounce it!

Vowels, that's what you need.

 

Pronounced 'Brinhuvvrid'

Bloody English foreigners!  

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

.. let alone pronounce it!

Vowels, that's what you need.

 

Pronounced 'Brinhuvvrid'

Bloody English foreigners!

Easy to say when totally arseholed.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

.. let alone pronounce it!

Vowels, that's what you need.

 

It does have a certain 'rhythm' though.

[tidla]

A lot of people will not buy a house in my street because they can't spell it.
                     Brynhyfryd or the welsh version Brynhyffrydd.

                                  Alfie

.. let alone pronounce it!

Vowels, that's what you need.

 

And how big would the road signs have to be then? They will have to open some mines for all the material they will need.