4 years ago I was paying 1200£ a month for a one bed flat in Stratford. My Italian girlfriend then, wife now, complained to me so much about how much money we were wasting. So after a few years of this nagging I agreed to move to Italy with her. We now have a two bed flat we are renting with a sea view and we’re paying 350€ a month. Finally we can see our savings really growing and soon we’ll be able to buy a house here outright without a mortgage. Get out of London. It’s a trap.

@MikeDavidson-hi6nm

9 ай бұрын

Nice but I think London is cool

@youdontknowme3935

9 ай бұрын

Mi piacerebbe ma ho paura di non trovare lavoro.

@MikeDavidson-hi6nm

9 ай бұрын

@@youdontknowme3935 Gli italiani sono fighi, sicuramente troverai lavoro

@Rockyphilly94

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeDavidson-hi6nm North germany here. He's right. Paid over 2k in London for 2 small rooms. Now I pay 870€ for half a House. 3 rooms, 1 bathroom with Tub and seperate shower, balcony and kitchen big enough for a 5 Person Meal. London is rough ..

@andycollins1080

9 ай бұрын

Well said London is a complete shyte hole, Greece have some fantastic opportunities also. 50-80K for a cottage with mountain /sea views and acres of land

I am a londoner, and the situation has become completely insane for individuals - it only serves to benefit offshore investors and corporate developers.

@uioplkhj

Жыл бұрын

benefits investors?

@LeeGee

Жыл бұрын

@@uioplkhj Corporate investors looking for a return in decades?

@stephenberry8415

11 ай бұрын

This is what happens when you put stupid people in charge of the country :: Tories 12 Years of Greed

@Rubicon1985

11 ай бұрын

​@@joshtraffanstedt2862and yet people say of Charles - "he's one of us! A down to earth guy!" - he's riding in a gold carriage in gold robes! People are ridiculous in this country.

@weareallbeingwatched4602

11 ай бұрын

@@uioplkhj yes - the investors in mortgage securities, who made the big money out of the credit crunch.

In 2011, my mom was offered a flat on the 17th floor in grenfell tower, but she refused the offer because the lifts were defective and had a fault at the time and she has mobility issues, besides it was abit far and the building looked off. We were shocked when the grenfell tower fire happened, still feels emotional everytime we drive past it. We no longer live in London though since 2014. R.I.P to the grenfell tower victims 💚🙏

@liban2

Жыл бұрын

Subhanallah, your hooyo made the best decision. 17th floor survival chance was impossible saxib

@EliAdams777

Жыл бұрын

​@@liban2 thanks walal. Alhamdulilah

@NasirShahidAbeer

Жыл бұрын

So please to hear. In contrary one of my neighbours (a very kind family) who lived just opposite side of my house were moved out almost forcefully to Grenfelt Tower a year before the tragedy. Their entire family of 5 died in the fire. The dad was in his 80-90s and his daughter was engaged, was supposed to get married end of that month. The news were horrific.

@Zlervo

Жыл бұрын

Your mum was right.

@davidgray3973

11 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

Completely insane indeed. For that price (£500,000) I have a luxury villa in La Nucia (Costa Blanca - Spain), with six bedrooms, four bathrooms and a generous built area of 200 m², situated on a spacious plot of 652 m², private pool and garage box for two cars included. And not least, almost year-round sunshine.

@vespadavidson2315

11 ай бұрын

You've been had.! I have 300sqm built. 21,000 sqm fenced land. 50sqm garage. Own well water, drinking water. No neighbours. Etc etc. €55,000. Spanish weather.

@ColonelForkEyes

11 ай бұрын

All very well, but unless one is very lucky there's not a lot of work to be had in places like that. The main reason London (and indeed other capital cities or affluent port cities) is an expensive place to live is the proximity to opportunities that will hopefully help you get rich enough to be able to afford a decent future. In essence people are gambling that staying somewhere like London will eventually pay off and make them wealthy.

@vespadavidson2315

11 ай бұрын

@@sigiloXXX No sorry, 20 years old house. Thermal blocks, insulated, double glazed. We grow sunflowers and cereal. Lovely small village five minutes away. No guiris, no noise, or hassle. Trees and a stream. Oh, and my wife and I are not english, speak Spanish and wouldn't dream of living in an urban environment. We do part time work with the ayuntamiento for pin money. Having farmed in Ireland and Wales previously, I can say, this is nicer, easier, and cheaper. All based on being in Spain since Franco was alive. The foreigners who buy the kind of property you describe, are tolerated in order to boost the Spanish economy. Thank you for your investment, it pays our pensions. Worst case scenario, we have lost €55.000, but have made €4/5000 a year from the property, for twenty years....... you on the other hand.... bought at the peak of the housing boom...Duh.! paid over the odds and stand to lose.... Thank you for confirming my original comment.... you have been had.

@robdegoyim4023

9 ай бұрын

Willy waving on youtube comments… sad!

@nordfyr1

9 ай бұрын

@@vespadavidson2315 where

In 1989 we bought a two bedroom flat in Stockwell for £89,000. We sold in 1993 for £131,000. It sold last year for £698,000.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@peterd788

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip The thing is in 1989 between us we earned £34,000 a year so it cost less than 3 times our joint earnings. Now we live on the edge of the Peak District (Broadbottom) in a 4 bedroom beautiful stone house with a garden we bought for £192,000 5 years ago. Our joint income is £112,000 which to buy that London hovel would cost us well over twice what we paid in terms of the multiple of our income (6 times income) now. Seriously, the edge of the Peak District which is basically paradise, for a house 5 times the size of what we had in London. We paid for it in cash with the profit we made on our last property in Tooting. Edit No I'm not a southerner who moved North to take advantage. I was born in Chester.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

It’s so crazy isn’t it when you look at it like that. Super interesting cheers 👍

@michaelgoulding6609

Жыл бұрын

​@@peterd788 34,000 would be a very good wage now in 2023; never mind in 1989, my wage is about 15,500; in 2023 & i could manage on a lot less, if i needed to work less, but i,m rent & mortgage free, my mortgage is fully paid.

@grayhalf1854

Жыл бұрын

​@@peterd788 I used to live in Tooting Bec (Montana Road) back in the early 90s. It was the overflow for people who couldn't afford Balham (which itself was the overflow for Clapham...). Now that house would be a million or more. It's crazy. I know that rising house prices increase wealth - or the perception of it, anyway - but honestly I think the social costs outweigh that superficial benefit.

I was born in London but I would never want to go back or raise my kids there. I was mugged three times, lived in a box and was scared to go out at night. Many of my family have already left and we are enjoying life in the Midlands and further north! With remote working opportunities there is no reason to torture yourself living in that hell, plus people up north are nicer ❤

@stephnewman1357

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in South East london. We moved to the Midlands last year as my husband relocated due to a new job. Really prefer living up here although our sons, and some family are still all down there. Wouldn't go back otherwise. My eldest son and his fiancee both hate coming back home late at night. Someone was stabbed outside his work for a mobile phone and also outside their flat. It's a dangerous overcrowded place!

My brother bought his house in Hackney in 1998 for £125,000. He sold it five years ago for over £1,000,000. It was in a lovely road with a park at the bottom, and the house was really nice (although needed a lot of work when they moved in). It feels so weird knowing that you could once do that, buy an actual, entire house with three bedrooms in London and a huge sitting room and kitchen and garden for £125,000. I will never, ever be able to afford to buy my own place in London. Many of the houses my brother bought are now divided into flats, each costing £400,000 and some on shared ownership. It's crazy to think that you can only buy a 1/4 of a flat in the same kind of house my brother bought. I am actually really worried about the future, I still live here but will 100% have to move to another part of the country within the next few years. To anyone who says that's good because they hate London, I happen to love London with all my heart. Not only are my family and friends here but I love the city. It is way friendlier than people often suggest it is and there isn't anywhere like it culturally. It's heartbreaking knowing I can't sustain living and working in the place I grew up in and love.

@sheveka

Жыл бұрын

That's really sad to hear, it's like being exiled, but in the end, people make peace with their new home - it takes 3 years to fully settle in and for the homesickness to go away. After a while, you start to discover beautiful and magical things about your new town and start to find pieces of yourself in it. In the end, you will wonder what you ever saw in London. People are incredibly adaptable and resilient. As for me, I will be in London for as long as I want but there is a catch - I will need to look after my elderly parents in their large housing association home that is crumbling and in a state of disrepair. I can never decorate it how I want and I have to tolerate living in near squalor because it's super cheap and I can save money. Once I save the money for a deposit, the only places I can afford a house are up north. I can have a pristine and immaculate little terraced house in Leeds far from everything and everyone I love or I can live in a dingy house in London and never own my own home.

@lazygweetarist

Жыл бұрын

@@sheveka I feel you, that’s a difficult situation to be in. In our own ways we are both very much luckier than some. I didn’t even mention the pension factor: I’m not close to retirement yet, but when I am I fear I’ll be lucky if I only get the state pension (and they are continually pushing the age upon which you can receive it up). It is crazy how much it costs to buy in London now, and you are right, for the same money as a small, dingy flat in a not very nice area in London you can buy a nice terraced house on a nice road somewhere else. Just like my brother did in Hackney in 1998 in fact! I’m not sure what the solution is, obviously a massive house building project including huge a huge amount of both social housing and (truly) affordable housing. The shared ownership schemes seem like a scam to me. Without wishing to get political, it’s so frustrating that people keep blaming immigrants for this mess / people ‘coming over on boats’. Consecutive governments have messed up on house building, and developers are yielding enormous profits for flats they sell at a huge mark-up and which are often not quality builds. Thatcher shouldn’t have implemented the right to buy scheme, council flats should never have been sold off. Thing is, even if a massive house building project now happens I don’t think the pace could be fast enough. I’m single which also doesn’t help, most people I know who have been able to buy are in couples. Salaries that were once relatively respectable (if not amazing) are now terrible, especially in London. It’s difficult not to despair really. It’s a good thing if you can save. Also good to look after your parents. Save every single penny you can, I don’t spend money on anything any longer. I do have a holiday booked later this year, but I justify that, it’s totally necessary. But frivolous things, from coffee at Pret / Starbucks I no longer do, chocolate bars etc., I’ve dispensed with. I rarely buy clothes. It’s difficult enough travelling in London, it’s so expensive! So I save everything I earn within reason. I figure having even a small amount saved is preferable to having nothing. And maybe one day it’ll translate into a house in Leeds!

@harrypike731

7 ай бұрын

"Just be born at the right time bro"

@BabylonWatchTV

6 ай бұрын

Your brother and the millions like him destroyed the housing market and the futures of millions of families

@jacike

5 ай бұрын

In 60 - 70 yr's Pound lost 99% of purchasing value comparing to gold. Why? Who's printing currency?

I am British but live in Germany, and all i can say is i am so glad that i got out when i did. What a mess Great Britain is now in. And i personally would not touch even one of those houses for those prices. For €300,000 you would get a first class property with a beutiful garden in Germany and not one hole in the roof :-). Great video @Wandering Turnip.

I was born in London not very far from where you were in Brixton. The price of houses and the rents there now are completely obscene and I feel very sorry for young people who need or want to live in London in 2023, they are being robbed blind and exploited. That guy at 24:47 sharing with eight others sums it up, it's bloody Dickensian. As you can probably guess I left there a while ago and don't regret it.

@peterbradshaw8018

Жыл бұрын

Back to the good ole Victorian London.

@potato1084

Жыл бұрын

Only reason I’m able to live here is cause I live with my parents. When I eventually move out I’m gonna have to move to Herts or some other area that is outside London but still has decent fast links to the city. I want to get on the property ladder 😂😂 Nearly impossible though in this day and age.

@benib3311

Жыл бұрын

@@potato1084 not impossible mate . Its hard but just need to put down deposit on a flat, refurbish it if anything. I know its easy to say this but gotta risk it mate you never know

@maximyles

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was born in Streatham. Lovely to meet fellow kIn

@dcoughla681

Жыл бұрын

@@peterbradshaw8018 No. Houses in London have always been expensive. Always. Demand outstrips supply. It’s much worse today with its high population.

I literally bought a 4 bed (3 bedrooms + office size room) semi-detached outside of London for £315,000 in 2021. Seeing a wrecked terraced house for £500,000 and that being considered cheap for that area is mad.

@user-jv2tw1no8x

10 ай бұрын

Not to mention it would several thousands, more likely hundred of thousand to repair and spec up these places to make it habitable

@domtomas1178

Ай бұрын

Once you start opening up walls and floors, you’ll soon realise it will cost you hundreds of thousands… might as well build a new house.

i worked down london in 1999/2000, i roughed it & slept in my car, got washed anywhere i could find a sink, such as supermarket toilets etc , i ate in cafe,s or takeaway chippys & got a truckstop shower & meal, if i was not far from a truckstop, with what i saved, i bought a 2 bedroom terrace house up north for 6,500, which i done up myself fairly cheaply, to make it liveable, it is now worth about maybe 65, 000, but it means i can stay in a low paid job, which is 1,180 per month, but ok with not having to pay any rent or mortage

I live in Northern Ireland, and London prices are just bonkers to me. 2 years ago I brought my house for £175k (3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, driveway, front back garden, tonnes of space, £550/month mortgage, etc) and I looked to see what the equivalent was in London and I could basically have got a tiny 1 room flat for the same price. Crazy. You could buy an entire street in Belfast for the same price as a nice house in London lol

@CaptainBirdbrainJH

11 ай бұрын

My wife is from Northern Ireland and we’re moving there next month. Currently we’re living just outside the M25 and paying just under £1000 a month in rent for a tiny studio (over £1000 if you include the cost of storage since we have no room to keep anything here). Whereas for £300-£400 a month less we can get a decent 3 bedroom house with a garden within commuting distance of Belfast. I honestly don’t know why anyone wants to live in London now.

@haeselian

11 ай бұрын

I'm paying £550 a month for a room in a family home, and I'm not even in London. Oxford is mad, too

@johnboylan3832

11 ай бұрын

I hope you got a long-term fixed mortgage as it won't be £550 for long with these interest rates.

@clarebrody1

11 ай бұрын

Need to move to Northern Ireland. New Zealand is crazy prices. Especially with costs.

@douglassmith215

11 ай бұрын

3 bedrooms for 175!!! OMG!!! I need to move!!!!

Born in london and these prices are simply taking the pissssssss😖

I love how you’re completely redefining the meaning of “a bit” 😂😂😂

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I know very little about what actually needs doing and the comment sections proving this 😂😂😂

@CocoAzoitei

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip Haha! I love a bit of optimism!

@chris_london123

Жыл бұрын

Yep...."nothing too bad" = condemned rat infested property or a former crack house

@rumco

3 ай бұрын

He's English, he's never seen a nice house 😂

I can’t believe how tiny these houses are and they are dumps yet cost a fortune. We just bought a house that’s over 2500sqft with garden, garage (double), terrace of 100sqft for 190k. 3/3 bath with fireplace. It’s super cute, and needs approx 50k worth of upgrades (the 3 baths redone, new windows and solar system plus new kitchen and the wood floors redone, paint. We’ve already done the kitchen, paint and floors). The city center is 600 meters away, everything is close in a small Italian city near Udine.

Really enjoyed this video. Basically this is why we left London. We were lucky enough to be able to afford a 2 bed flat in zone 3 but when we needed more space we just couldn't afford to stay in the area. Saw a article recently that said schools in london are closing because families can't afford it. Sad really.

@MeiinUK

2 ай бұрын

It's because people are literally starting to take the mick, that is why... And it stops other working professionals from doing their jobs too.. so it is swings and roundabouts any way ? So.. when you have kids, move to family areas.. is what I say. Houses are only a pound in Liverpool. lol.... This is so crazy... lol.... And even with the most expensive EV car.. I think it is still workable... kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2ths9NmZJSzZ7Q.html

Really great video. I did it the other way round. Went to uni in Bradford. Lucky to buy my first house in Southend when down payments were minimal in 1998 for about £47,000 as newly qualified teacher. Still could only afford tiny 2 bed and moved in with a lodger. Sold for £83,000 in 2001 and bought spacious 2 bed victorian terrace in Waltham Abbey (just outside M25) for £97,000. It's worth about £380,000 now and I plan moving either back up north or to the South country as soon as I retire. Being able to park outside my house will be the biggest luxury. Homes should be affordable for all. The wealthy have made owning a home impossible for anyone not in the privileged upper middle classes. The greed of big corporations is vulgar. It is a very sad case of affairs.

@alpanaseth9453

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@MuzzaHukka

Жыл бұрын

You should get into property

@james6901

Жыл бұрын

@@MuzzaHukka Till its taken from you thats what happens when disparity is tooooooo big a casm.

@ReviewBoard-uy5nv

10 ай бұрын

Worse is the Tory government who allowed foreign investment to buy properties in London and massively upsale them

@amyschneidhorst1384

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I went to Uni in Bradford in early 90s as an intl student, interesting to see what my circumstances might have been had I stayed in England after my course.

This is absolutely nuts. The dearest house in my town up for sale at present is £290,00 for a 2 public, 4 bedroom, bathroom, ensuite, wc, garage and decent garden. A beautiful town on the east coast of Scotland. I don't understand the English system either, freehold, leasehold etc what's all that about? In Scotland you buy the property, it's yours and the ground it stands on. What's the appeal about London anyway? no thanks.

the thing to remember is that in london you're paying for the location/ land. No matter how damaged the house is, you still have the option of bulldozing it and doing something else with the land that sets a minimum price.

You are so brave. All of those homes was so dirty. I would have burned my shoes when I got home 😅 Another note. Being born in London and seeing the prices go up and up and up. And rent doing the same, whilst wages and travel is diabolical. Its just heartbreaking.

I bought a 3 bed small Victorian terrace house in a place called Addiscombe in SE London in 2010 for £190k, Admittedly as i was thinking i was never gonna move, i went overboard with it, put in an upstairs bathroom, replastered all the rooms, wooden floors, rewire, knocked all the downstairs rooms through and put an extension out the back with bifold doors, i mean it was very nice by the time i had finished with it. But i sold it 8yrs later for £435k....😳

This is a fantastic video. I moved up north 5 years ago from the south east because I wanted to be able to have more time with the kids and better family life so glad I did. I used to work over 60 hours per week my hubby was as well, never really saw each other as when one was working and the other was looking after the kids. It's not good for children they need time with their mum and dad. I have friends that have chosen not to have kids as they can't afford it, and feel angry at the situation.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rebecca. Yeah the north does offer you a much more comfortable lifestyle. I know a lot of people that have just made the move to get out of London, and none of them regret it

I've lived in London for narly 50 years. Every friend I meet up with nowadays talks about getting out (either within the UK or abroad). The house we've lived in for nearly 20 years is all we can afford as moving up from a starter home is no longer possible, (we live in zone 4). And, we're in a MUCH better financial position than most (DH works in finance). My parents where 'just' in their 20's when they bought their first house (secretary and shop assistant). That wouldn't be possible today.... However, my area is much friendlier than the areas you looked at, I live on a long road and know about half my neighbours, a walk to the shops usually involves a lot of stops to chat. But, I guess being a more family friendly area, it's a lot less transient so people get to know eachother....

@MeiinUK

2 ай бұрын

I think you can afford an actual house up North to be honest... It is now a mere pound. So who cannot afford a pound ? Come on. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2ths9NmZJSzZ7Q.html

The second reception room in most of the terraced houses is the dining room. The kitchens aren't usually big enough to eat in. Those houses are more than 100 years old and designed before indoor plumbing was common. It's amazing how they've been adapted over the years as technology has advanced. London prices are insane. But no place in the world is like it.

@billwilliams328

Жыл бұрын

Like what, exactly?

@bethenecampbell6463

Жыл бұрын

London is unique. For centuries people representing every corner of the known world lived in London. There are places where you can look out on Roman era ruins from a very modern office building. Some people can't imagine living anywhere else.

@sallybrite1530

9 ай бұрын

London is the most fascinating city in the world and it makes sense that it would be the most expensive.

Thank you for drawing attention to Grenfell. We must never forget and hold those responsible to account. Great video

I bought a 5 bed house in London in 1999 for 100 k, It was a doer-upper, I rented out a couple of rooms to help pay for the referb, which I did myself (with the help of the Readers Digest DIY manual. I extended into the loft (did the work myself) and now its worth about 900k. That was the best single investment I ever made !

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Fair play! You gona sell and buy else where?

@helenrushful

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip sheffield probably, my ancestral home.

@simonyip5978

Жыл бұрын

How long did it take to refurbish your house? I imagine it would take a long time to fully refurbish a 5 bedroom property.

@janesmith9024

Жыл бұрын

We bought two buy to let (I call them buy to lose) flats in the 1980s and ended up selling them at about 50% losses in the 1990s crash in London. It has not always been a one way bet on London. We also sold our family home in 1990 at a big loss too although put the money into my current one where I hope I will live for 50 years in outer London.

@Martin-88

Жыл бұрын

@@helenrushful Same here. You'd probably be able to buy a nice house at Dore, Whirlow or Ranmoor and still have a few hundred grand left.

Most people I know in London are starting to plan leaving, or have already left. Most of them grew up in the city as well, but it's just too expensive to stay. I'm nearing my tenth year in London and after watching friends experiences trying to find new places to find a new flat in London, I think I'm going to have to leave as well.

@mariotaz

7 ай бұрын

Same. Maybe to Japan

Great film. It brought an awareness to me which I was unaware of on the level that you expressed. I discovered you after the County Durham film. Very disturbing, all those rows and rows of houses with fake doors and handles 😒 It's strange how we're all in this massive melting pot and all having different experiences. The whole Grenfall thing was beyond disgusting and as those people say, no charges 😢 the other thing that made me emotional in this film, is the fact that everybody as a right to live somewhere that sparks joy, happiness, community and wellbeing and this film highlights the fact, that these simple things in life are being treated as though they are a luxury. So sad. Keep doing what your doing, great stuff. 💚

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for watching! And you are spot in there, we should have the rights to those things and they shouldn’t be so stupidly priced

@chriswalford4161

Жыл бұрын

There’s been terrible buck-passing and arse-covering over Grenfell, starting with Kensington. These days it seems you can do what you like, chisel cash, skimp n your job (I’m thinking of sewerage) and you still get rewarded.

Lived in London all my life and always loved it but in the last couple of years it has just become more and more unaffordable and just a general cesspit. There are huge swathes of housing that has been bought up by foreign investors and is left empty. They just simply buy it then sell it on without anyone living there. Just walk along the embankment and you will see empty luxury appartments. Whilst ordinary people from London are being forced out. I intend to move out of London or even abroad.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I can’t see the appeal at all. Once you’ve spent a bit of time away from there as well, you can’t figure out why you ever liked it

@micharein2213

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip Spare a thought for us who are from there and have all our families, histories and friends there. Rock and a hard place.

@estbg5147

Жыл бұрын

@@micharein2213 Agree. Just can't understand why the powers that be are hell bent on turning London into a place for the super rich and the super poor.

@patrickmurphy3048

Жыл бұрын

Answer: because it suits the super rich!

@estbg5147

Жыл бұрын

@Mike Treneere-Kernow This! I wonder where it will stop? I have seen recently a few videos of people in portugal complaining about all the brits coming over and driving up prices there.

Funny that you should mention the early 70s when the houses were £5000. That was EXACTLY what my parents paid in 1973 for a semi detached on a bus route in Crouch End. Would probably be 2 to 3 million now 😮 I have a council tenancy otherwise I could NEVER afford to live in the city of my birth and 200+ years heritage!😳

@3ZPaNH0L

10 ай бұрын

Quick Google search for an inflation calculator, that £5000 would be around £99000 today, which while a significant number is nowhere near what we are expected to pay nowadays

I move to London 10 years ago from the Azores. I got redundant recently, out of the negotiations I could keep my job but I don't accept the pay cut on my salary. How can I accept that with the house prices in London? I end up loosing my job and I'm done with London. I'm going to move up north or move to a completely new country. No point in staying in London I had enough!

Wow, I’m speechless at the prices. I live in Perth, Western Australia, and the £500 thousand is $1 million in Australia It would get you a 5-6, mansion on the Beach. I live on the beach in a gorgeous 4 bed house, just ordinary working class background. It’s so sad uk has changed in the 25 years I have been living here, I do miss some things lots of family in uk, but housing wise 😮

Great contrasts with your content...love it. I bought in 1997, doubled my money and got out. A little ashamed as I don't believe in houses as investments now. To be fair I used half the profit to fund university and subsequently work in the NHS. As such, I've never been able to afford to buy a house since. It's all a game with the money... Grenfell was a horror, your respect was very genuine. Keep them coming 👍

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

I’d say you’ve used that money fairly and not just for pleasure. Good on you 👍

@Jablicek

Жыл бұрын

Don't be ashamed, you took that money and turned it into a public good, for which the government's more than made you atone over the last 15 years. Solidarity.

@johnathandaviddunster38

Жыл бұрын

Yeah total madness a feeding frenzy that causes ABJECT misery, IVE never meet a ESTATE agent with morals bloody LANDSHARKS

@skrespect90

Жыл бұрын

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Your feed is interesting, though most of those types of properties end up with dry rot, rising damp and woodworm. Most need new or refurbished roof, plaster, rewiring and plumbing. So never think London property is just cosmetic. Plus the trades prices are ridiculous to boot. London is now the largest slum city in Europe and has the smallest rooms in Europe and poorest health and safety control. I've been advised is also the largest for money laundering, which is rarely checked for illegal activity through the government's actual regulatory controls. So thank any ruling governmental power who choose to ignore the law.

London is also perfectly situated flight time wise between the US and Asia. It attracts wealthy art collectors for that reason too.

I spent most of my working life in Stevenage, which is only 30 miles from central London. House prices there were only slightly more than large parts of the Midlands and the north of England but massively less than places only slightly nearer to London like St Albans or Potters Bar. However the rising cost of house prices in inner London since about 2000 has created a bow wave that means that people brought up in North London couldn't afford to live there and so many moved to Stevenage, making Stevenage more expensive relatively for those of us working there. Having grown up in Edinburgh, I know the house prices there are also unaffordable for many people from elsewhere in Scotland wanting to move there but the differential is not as great as in London.

@NTL578

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, as someone who was born in St Albans people used to move to Stevenage because it was affordable, but not really anymore. I moved to Plymouth with no plan 3 years ago and within a year I have my own flat. I never would have been able to buy property if I had stayed.

We loved the video. We used to live in Halifax and moved up to Scotland in 2015. Prices for houses up here are so reasonable and for people who love the countryside and dry stone walls like yourself, plenty of that up here. Keep up the good work your videos are brilliant.

What would be even more intriguing is knowing what happens to those houses afterwards, are they ending up as family homes, or having walls put in everywhere to create as many bedrooms as possible. Also another thing to bare in mind a few of those properties were ex council owned, which adds more to it. Great video

@antonyjones8172

Жыл бұрын

I can tell you that around me, one run-down house with a large garden got converted into 7 houses, and the one next door which was a 3 bed terrace, got converted into an 8 bed HMO. So, both!

@beingatliberty

Жыл бұрын

They'll probably get turned into houses of multiple occupation, and then guaranteed rented to serco to accommodate ever more immigrants in london at taxpayers expense. who them and their descendants will then garner most of the job opportunitys in london - its a vicious cycle.

@janesmith9024

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the area. He went to some typical student housing type pretty nasty bits of London on the video where my son's recently students friends might live, rather than nicer bits (whichare more expensive) where people tend to buy a family home. My road is family homes in outer London - quite expensive ones, last one to sell was over £2m but they are large and detached with big big gardens and rules which means they can never be divided into flats or gardens sold off.

@sparagmos4748

Жыл бұрын

My guess is that these will never be family homes again. My son rented a conversion in Tottenham a few years ago. 3 flats out of a 3 bedroom family house. Horrible cheap conversion housing 9 adults.

@russellpengilley5924

Жыл бұрын

It's a good question, the borough councils can and do set planning rules to try to retain family size housing, it's not as easy to get permission to split houses up as it used to be 20 years ago. They are in a bit of a bind though as splitting houses up does count as increased housing supply which is also encouraged and potentially desirable.

Loved the banter, spot on! So glad I made the move to get out of London, been there for over 10 years but I now also enjoy woodlands and a quieter life.

Truly spectacular ending! And it was so damn sad and heart-touching that you stopped by Grenfell... (Such a terrible and sad event that could have been easily avoided). I love the North so much and I hope at some point to be able to move up there with my family! Your video just reemphasized why I should do that! :)

Fascinating video and a really classy tribute to Grenfell. Please keep the videos coming…

I don't beleive it, I moved a friend out of the house next door to the one in Brixton you viewed, about 15 years ago, amazing

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

No way. I wonder what the price was on that 15 years ago

My parents lived in a basement flat in Chelsea in about 1970. Apparently it looked like one of the places ypu go round back then. The woman who owned the house lived on the ground floor and tried to sell it to them for a decent price but they were young and didnt want to got bogged down. They came back up north and flats on that square are going for a couple of million now. Mad.

Parents bought a 3 bed semi in Buckhurst Hill (just over the London border but on the tube) in 1970 for £5k. Sold in 2004 for £470k. That house was on the market for £900k but has dropped back down to £560k in 2011. I grew up here and couldn't afford to live in my town, so I moved to the East Midlands and paid £93k for a two bed terrace which 20 years later is worth £180k. But what I have now is a house, the value is relative to what I buy next.

@yasminx16

11 ай бұрын

I live in Buckhurst Hill. Prices seem to be coming down a bit - I’ve seen £350k ish for some 1 bed flats.

@nothereandthereanywhere

8 ай бұрын

@@yasminx16 350k for one bedroom flat? Not a good deal. Not at all

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but the holes in the ceiling are test/inspection holes for surveying asbestos etc

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Oh that makes sense. I guess the sound thing to do would be to fix it up before selling it on 😂

@amandajane8227

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip Could have been made by someone viewing the house. One house I sold I found holes in the fabric of the house after a viewing, Very annoying but i could understand why someone might do that.

Watching for a while. Your delivery is excellent and brilliant information too. Keep up the good work!

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! 👍

The native population of England, and of London, is declining, and London's population was declining between the '50s and '80s. But in the 20 years after 2001, the population of London grew by 23%. The main policy making housing unaffordable in London is migration.

I love your video ,I use to live in London in1987different story...use to oay £ 50 for a bed sit...quite a similar process is happening in Milan at the moment ....but big building are growing everywhere no parks or new pubblic garden areas are been developed.Thank You for your job and report.

Great to see a working class property show 👌 The state of decline is clear in the both the lack of concern for the state of housing and the increase in shared accommodation.

Great content, very well done 👏🏼

First video I've seen of yours and just love how well it's been done, great video really entertaining. Gained a sub!

Wandering Turnip, I really love your segment that you do. I liked the last house for the size of the rooms, it’s a shame about the train in the back. Thank you so much. I’m from Essex, my mum and dad came from East End. I now live in Perth Australia. Thank you so much for you kindness. I really enjoy watching your other segments you do. Xx

Wow! Just watched your video from Australia. I've always watched shows about the UK property market and really enjoyed seeing the houses you toured. Had a laugh at the holes in all of the ceilings. I've subscribed now. I'm hoping to get to North Yorkshire one day amongst many other places but good to see grounds roots London without the glossy tourist shine. Thanks

My grandpa bought a house in Mayfair in the 70s for £12k , it’s worth around £800,000 today .

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Madness 😂 but decent for your grandpa…

Really enjoy you’re videos, you’re such a nice friendly lad.

My husband recently found your videos on here & what an eye opener they have been, property where we live are a lot more affordable than London prices but still expensive for average couple. Our town is similar to the High street shops closed apart from nail bars, hair salons charity shops etc. Look forward to watching all your videos now. Thank you.

Great video. I liked that you were able to pay respects to those who died and lost loved ones at Grenfell Tower.

‘ a bit of a clean up ‘ lol you would make a good estate agent. Great video 👍

Loved your video! Renter here in Bromley London in my early 50s it’s looking more and more hopeless trying to get on a rigged property ladder. Keep them coming!

@skrespect90

Жыл бұрын

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Great video and what a contrast to the properties featured on Escape to the Country!

Crazy and no longer geared for the average person, geared for rip off landlords and “investors “ it’s totally obscene. Good video 😅

That pub in Tottenham the Railway Traven closed down over twenty years ago not recently

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Oh really. Thanks for this. As if nothing has been done with it since

Thanks for this - REALLY helpful!

You know, I’ve been feeling really down about moving back to Blackpool three years ago, and regretting my decision not to return to London where I spent eight years in the late 80s and early 90s…until, that is, I started watching your videos earlier this week. You’ve actually shown me that I’m really not missing a great deal by living here as opposed to the “bright lights” and amazing culture of our nation’s capital. It seems that, like Blackpool, a huge proportion of London’s shopping areas are in steep decline and it’s becoming increasingly impossible to afford the cost of living there, so thanks a lot for the wake-up call. It’s very much appreciated (whilst simultaneously being incredibly sad for the entire country)

Thanks David, that was fascinating! I lived in London from '72 until '85, it was a completely different city, almost a bit dowdy but nicer compared to how flash it is now. I sold up in '85 and I really don't want to know what that flat is worth now! An idea for a video for your American subscribers - a walk (with Ted) through a bluebell wood, any minute now. They don't have them in the USA.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

I’ve just had another comment from someone saying they sold a 2 bed in the 90s for 130,000, and last year it just went for 600,000 😂

@janesmith9024

Жыл бұрын

Amazingly opposite my outer London house is a 200 acre wood, currently covered in bluebells..... so not just in outside London but within its borders you can find nice woods... expensive though to buy near there.

They would have to pay me to live in one of those houses. But I thoroughly enjoyed your tour and umbrella story. So cute.

Love your channel. Thanks for doing all the hard work. 👌😊

This was really enlightening

The Lionel Messi of house hunting. Keep up the good work mate !

I viewed a property recently in London and the agent was originally from Manchester and moved to London 3 years ago. I suggested that Manchester was on the rise as a city location and she agreed but said 'it's not London though'...

Great channel , i also live near Crystal Palace (not a shared flat), 2 bed , quiet with lovely views ,, £1300 p/m, with a great landlord who hasn’t increased in 5yrs

@wanderingturnip

11 ай бұрын

I reckon you might be one of the lucky ones. A good honest landlord is hard to come by these days. Thank you for watching mate I really appreciate it 👍

@alanbaxter8100

11 ай бұрын

@@wanderingturnip welcome mate , good to see a channel like this , I know I’m well lucky to have a decent landlord, But I’m also a Landlord too , so we both know what it’s like , so I take care of the place , so he takes care of me too All the best with your channel

The ending was class. Thank you for doing this. Great video and a super Channel. That coat is also essential to the brand

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Cheers for watching! I made a film today when the jacket had to come off but far too nice outside for a coat 😂😂

Loving these videos fella. Keep it up!

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate it 😂

Our house is a solid three bedroom terrace, bigger than all the ones you see and a lovely garden. We literally live on the outskirts of London, on the central line and I’m pretty sure our house wouldn’t go for more than £500,000. Next to what you saw, our house is a palace so maybe if you went just a tiny bit out, you would get better for slightly less, but I do agree with most of what you said. Stay up North mate 😊

@skeen878

5 ай бұрын

Agreed, houses on the end of the underground lines are still reasonably affordable and quite large/renovated. Morden, Sutton, South Croydon in the south are still affordable and Barking etc in East are even more so. I do suspect they won't be affordable in 10 years though.

i live in Tottenham just up the road from your first property.. pay over £1000 to live in a warehouse, no heating, no bathroom.. just a sink, shared toilet...been here 15 years, thought i was just passing through! lol.

Thank you, nice tour.

I immigrated to London from Santa Monica in 2019. I bought a freehold terraced home with a garden for £2.7mm in Notting Hill in 2020, and am currently doing a major renovation to my property. Another property on my street sold the next year for £3.75mm unrenovated. My saving grace is my 1.49% mortgage rate. I plan on living here forever and I’m only 54. I feel very lucky as my street is a safe distance from Carnivalle, yet walkable to Portobello Road. Love your tours. Ty for your reporting. 👍🏼

@Daria_Adani

5 ай бұрын

I'm going to live with you. 😄

Very interesting tour of "budget" houses in London. I can only imagine how much the house in Brixton next to the railway line would shake! I was in a car driving past the Grenfel tower after it burned and before it was covered up- it was shocking to see the fire damage to the outside of the building. I lived in London (many places from Southall to Hanwell to Plumstead and to Mile End) but managed to find low rent when I was a student back in the early 90's and ealy 00's. I had friends lving in a squat in a high rise block- the flats were being cleared out so that the whole building could have asbestos removed but as it took so long to rehouse people, flats were empty and the caretaker was cool with peoole squatting if they didn't upset the rent paying neighbours. He realised that people living in a flat kept it in better condition than it being empty. Most of the people squatting were working and respectful and their was a community of the people who squatted. I do remember visiting and we could go onto the roof (of a 15 story tower block) via the fire exit and someone would play a guitar as we'd drink and enjoy the views over London at night!

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting this cheers! I also remember nights at uni when we would make it onto a roof top in London, good times they were with great views

I was lucky enough to get a council flat 20 plus years ago and still live here, paying 430 pm for 1 bedrokm flat

The 'holes in the roofs' you describe are not holes in the roofs at all, they are holes in the ceiling. Quite a big difference.

Very interesting. I live in outer London on the other side, north. The reason prices are so high here is people want to live here. It is like New York, Sydney, Berlin - they are all the same. Part of the reason is many many many more people (18m more in the UK than than when I was born with so many wanting to work where jobs are), another reason is I was paying 17% mortgage interest in the 80s and my current rate (paid the mortgage off last week - I am an old person now) was 1.34%. London is not for everyone but it is vertainly a great place for a first job and to have fun with your friends. Outer London is a perfectly decent place to live

I lived down in London for a year; like you I found it too noisy, and far too expensive. Couldn't really afford to do anything, beyond living costs. Rent was £2k per month. The prices in some areas of London were; if not elevated above average, at least far above the prices in our area quite a while ago, my granddad moved to Hebden from Ealing in 1969, and had a choice of buying an entire street of run down houses in town, or an acre of land with some run down mill cottages on it near Hardcastle Craggs for the same price as he'd gotten for selling a small 2 bed. Nice to see your channel flourishing; you're a natural presenter.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Damn imagine what those streets in Hebden are worth now 😂 Thank you, I appreciate that 👍👍

Great channel, keep the videos coming!

My parents came from India, bought our family home in the late 70's for £25k. They then bought one in Wimbledon for a little more in 1990. Both are now valued at over £1m. Kept them both so far.

@harrypike731

7 ай бұрын

Literally just a case of being born at the right time. Absolute madness. The wealth-disparity between the middle class British people born pre 1980s vs the middle class (if you can even call it that, anymore) British people born post 1980s is massive. Completely different existence purely based on how early-on you were able to buy property.

@masudahmed6029

3 ай бұрын

Wimbledon Richmond Kew Gardens very affluent areas

Don't be amazed, This is happening in Canada. I was born in London, UK and my parents were offered to purchase their rental end of terrace house from Waittes in the 70's for about $7,000. I am glad they bought the 3 bedroom house. They would be amazed today. In Toronto and Vancouver rents and house prices are OBSCENE. My son bought a house in Brampton, Ontario about ten years ago for $360,000 and today it is worth just under a million. It is a small semi-detached 3 bedroom house with a small garden. If the house was in Toronto it would be worth much more, Rents for 2 bed apartments start at least $2,000 a month. Vancouver prices are much higher. Vancouver has started putting tax on all non-resident purchasers and you cannot leave the house or apartment empty or you pay more tax. SOME THING HAS TO BE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@nauxsi

Жыл бұрын

I think London will adopt that approach in the near future.

@speaksthis

11 ай бұрын

Friends bought on corner of 54th and Knight Street( a very busy 6-laner) in Vancouver for C$350,000 in 1990. It sold this year for C$1.8 million. It needed a remodel.

Well done, this was such an interesting watch.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate you watching 😀

For what our parents bought, for the same price adjusted for inflation we can get a cupboard with a matress in it. Cities suck.

I really feel for the young people wanting to live in London these days. When we first left college and came to London in the Seventies we were house sharing, rent was £30 each, yes £30 each, a MONTH. Total rent was about 260 a month for a decent sized semi detached property. Taking into account wages were much lower then, the rent was about 25% or less of earnings. There are a lot of properties in London that are owned by the rich as investments - but no-one actually lives in them.

love your channel mate, super underrated.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate it

People living in the surrounding buildings from grenfelll had to relocate due to the trauma of watching it happen. It happened on my birthday 14th of June that guy got the dates wrong. It was a warm night so windows was open and all you heard was sirens 🚨 all night in Kensington.

amazing video mate

"I'm talking about central London - Zones 1-5." Lol! Zone 5 is almost out of the London suburbs! I knew one Londoner who said "there's nothing after Zone 2". Not true, of course, but Zone 3 is more or less where outer London (suburbs) begins.

Nice video, thanks, first time watching. People in London are weird, very private and sometimes neurotic. I lived there in the 90s and it was the same then.

You have a way of putting things, and do it very well.

Great vid, mate, really informative and shocking house prices

I've had to move out of London purely because of prices (was raised there my whole life). Can't afford to buy anywhere and god forbid you try and find a single bedroom to rent that won't set you back less than 1/1.1k and isn't caked in mould/tiny. Oh and railway pub has been closed since I went to college nearby which was a long while ago.

The holes in the ceilings (at least the large ones that were clearly created on purpose) are likely to be for the purposes of surveyors assessing the structural integrity of the joists.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah someone else mentioned this. I guess the sound thing to then do would sort it out before selling 😂

@JamesPetts

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip Not necessarily: it could either be done by the seller and the property sold for a higher price, or done by the purchaser and the property sold (earlier) for a lower price. It is really about cash flow and (from the purchaser's perspective) control of the works.

Enjoyed the umbrella story. British weather will always find a way to screw you over, haha

Amazing video - thanks so much. Liked and subscribed :)

I lived in London for a while when I was a lot younger. Could only afford a grotty one bed flat in East London. Never again! We live in rural West Wales now, and will be retiring to the Forest of Dean. Our budget will get us a lovely detached bungalow with plenty of space around it.

@davefish8107

Жыл бұрын

I was brought up in East London in the early 60s ,moved out in 83 , you could not pay me to live there now