Kidbrooke

kidbrookeaddick said:

Good luck canters and welcome to the area! Hope you love it as much as me and my family do!

Your mum still in the area Craig?

kidbrookeaddick said:

lordromford said:

kidbrookeaddick said:

Good luck canters and welcome to the area! Hope you love it as much as me and my family do!

Your mum still in the area Craig?

Yeah, she's still living in the same place. She won't ever move away and I'm only 5 minutes from hers so its perfect really

Ahh! Bless her. 

I got an Instagram advert for Kidbrooke Village yesterday, was pretty astonished that the cheapest 2 bed available was £575k!

I’m sure this has been done to death earlier on this thread, but wow that is a lot. It’s nearly another 50% more expensive than my 2-bed in Charlton which isn’t that far away really. It’s obviously newer, nicer, right by the revamped station etc. but that is a hell of a difference that about 750m makes!

The prices I see on here totally amaze me. I moved away from charlton 25 years ago and the property prices gobsmacked me. I wanted to try and get a handle on things in terms of comparisons. 
I have a plumbing and heating business. The plumbers I employ are on a basic wages of £36k pa. You can buy a nice starter home here for around £120k 2/3 bed semi. A really nice 4/5 bed with a few acres would be around the 500k mark. My 20 year old has just bought his first house. In terms of income to property prices how does that compare to london and the SE ?

Addick Addict said:

Covered End said:

Addick Addict said:

MrWalker said:

Canters - don't forget to check this site  - check the street you are interested in.

We did before buying a place, and noticed one potential purchase was on a street with a huge ASB rate - turned out it was a route from a flat roofed pub to the 'hood. ;-)

https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/blackheath/?tab=CrimeMap

Thanks for this and some extremely revealing results. Figures for number of crimes in March:

Bexley 73
Chislehurst 84
Sidcup 104
Eltham 137
Bexleyheath 195
Bromley 325

Wouldn't want to live in Bromley. Imagine how bad their figures would have been if we hadn't all been in lockdown for most of the month!

That'll be all the chavs in Penge :-)

Penge is treated as a separate entity and had 193 reported crimes in March. But, clearly, Penge does have any number of undesirables that no other area would seriously want. I bet they support Palace and/or Surrey CCC too!

I've been living in Penge for many years. "Beckenham borders" as the estate agent told us. It's improved no end. Granted there are too many Palace fans about but it's a perfectly decent place to live. It's all my daughter has known and she loves it and her school. We can get to the Valley on one bus (the 54) or from Clock House via Lewisham in no time. Oh and it's easy to get to the Oval to watch Surrey...or a walk to Copers Cope when Kent are there.

North wales just over the border from Chester

SporadicAddick said:

SuedeAdidas said:

Oh_Yoni_Boy said:

I got an Instagram advert for Kidbrooke Village yesterday, was pretty astonished that the cheapest 2 bed available was £575k!

I’m sure this has been done to death earlier on this thread, but wow that is a lot. It’s nearly another 50% more expensive than my 2-bed in Charlton which isn’t that far away really. It’s obviously newer, nicer, right by the revamped station etc. but that is a hell of a difference that about 750m makes!

No Wat Tyler either. Tell em to poke it. 

The pub (bar) on The New Ferrier (I will NEVER call it Kidbrooke Village) is called The Depot. A decent historical link as the whole of the area was until the 1960's an RAF Depot (I assume that's why it's called that) but it would have been quite amusing if they had called it The Wat Tyler. The young professionals living the life on the New Ferrier would have enjoyed, I'm sure, the link to the casual drug dealing and pool cue fights of its predecessor. 

The Watt Tyler, some place. I went to Thomas Tallis and, when I was in sixth form, we would walk to the Wetherspoons in Lee to drink rather than go into the Watt Tyler. It was a very intimidating place! 

AndyG said:

The prices I see on here totally amaze me. I moved away from charlton 25 years ago and the property prices gobsmacked me. I wanted to try and get a handle on things in terms of comparisons. 
I have a plumbing and heating business. The plumbers I employ are on a basic wages of £36k pa. You can buy a nice starter home here for around £120k 2/3 bed semi. A really nice 4/5 bed with a few acres would be around the 500k mark. My 20 year old has just bought his first house. In terms of income to property prices how does that compare to london and the SE ?

Well a pimlico plumber heating engineer earns between £75 and £100k per year, and I guess a starter home in the SE is £350-400ish depending where you are so not a million miles out on multiple. That said they are probably the higher end of the earners for that job so it's probably more like 6-7x on average.

The SE has always been the high end of multiple for house purchase. I've known many teachers move out as the salary doesn't drop massively away from London whereas house prices do.