Location, Location, Location

[dave50]

Does anyone on here watch this program? What I can't grasp is how a young couple can afford a £500,000 flat in London as shown last night. These kind of prices crop up time and again and I have always wondered how these people do it. I live in the north of England and i could not afford anywhere near these prices so it would be nice to have an opinion from some of you southerners.

[ummmm]

It was her inheritance, money left by her father.

I don't think 500k is considered unaffordable in London.

[sandyRoe]

I sometimes wonder if the couples featured have had a lottery win, particularly when they're fairly young and can go to near half a million for the right place.

[berniecuddles]

we moved from London to Kent 16 years ago cant afford London prices love kent!

[Baldric]

Moving North of Watford, reset your Watches to 1995!!
;-)

[ummmm]

They weren't that young either. I'd owned 3 houses by the time I was 30.

[bednobs]

they made it quite clear (on more than one occasion) that her father had died when she was 17, and had left her money as an inheritance. Were you actually watching the program dave?

[Svejk]

yes, life's unfair. People, who on the face of it are as thick as two short planks, turning their noses up at half million pound properties. I only saw a couple of episodes years ago and all I could think was, 'how do these half-wits accumulate such wealth'. ;-)

[ummmm]

Maybe they aren't half wits....

[bednobs]

or maybe the half wits are the ones that can't grasp informaion that's been presented to them twice?

[Svejk]

maybe, ummmm, but they put on a good show of it for the cameras. ;-)

[Svejk]

who are you talking about, bedknobs?

[ummmm]

I don't know how you come to that conclusion, Svejk? How can you tell someone is a half wit by watching them viewing houses?

I believe the other lady featured last night was a doctor and was helped by her parents.

[Svejk]

the same way I identify half-wits on here or in real life, by what they say.

[VHG]

My father bought a house in a "good" area of London in 1965 for £10,000.

In 2012 my mother died (father was already dead) and the house was sold for £750,000

As I have 3 siblings the money was split 4 ways, but if I had been an only child I would have got all the money.

[Svejk]

I think that explains a lot of what I was watching, vhg.

[Bazile]

VHG- did you know i'm your bestest friend ?

Or has it all gone , buying a property in Solihull ?

[dave50]

Yes I'm sorry I missed the part about them being left a large sum in a will but it's not just this particular couple, every other week people spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on property, just wondered where I am going wrong!

[chaptazbru2]

When I watch these programmes, I think flippin' 'eck you could buy a four bedroomed detached house oop north for the price of a small flat in London - staggering !

[sandyRoe]

A neighbour of mine went on a course in London. The rent for a 'studio flat'( a bedsit?) was more than his mortgage on a 3 bedroom house in a nice area of Belfast.

[ummmm]

I suppose, beside London, there are plentiful average priced houses on the market and those buyers don't need help.