Hi some of you may know im moving back in a couple of years time.
Would 300k be ok for a semi in LM ?? around Rochester close/Blackbrook Drive area

sure would. Hold on a little longer and you might get a detached

Hi some of you may know im moving back in a couple of years time.
Would 300k be ok for a semi in LM ?? around Rochester close/Blackbrook Drive area
Wish my semi (200yds from rochester) was worth £300k
I'd say that would get you a detached at the moment, £200k would get you a decent semi.

Wish my semi (200yds from rochester) was worth £300k
I'd say that would get you a detached at the moment, £200k would get you a decent semi.

Its just that my house at the moment, in Coventry, which is 10 mins walk from the town centre is a 3 bed small detached house (12 yrs old) and worth 200k.I would be looking idealy at the same sort of house in my old " Manor " of Lodge Moor for about 300 k .
My eyes did pop out though.My mates parents neighbours house in Fulwood (Hallamshire Drive ) is on the market for 235k for a 3 bed semi !! I know its a top area but the North/South divide seems to exist !

is on the market for 235k

and stay on the market it will at that price.

my parents live up there and nothing is selling especially around Barncliffe area......

I think you will get a good deal if you make cheeky offers.

however, the house will still be worth less than you paid for it in 2 years time (my opinion)

I think you will get a good deal if you make cheeky offers.

however, the house will still be worth less than you paid for it in 2 years time (my opinion)

yes make REDICULOUS offers....people will bite!!!! In some cases anyway.....prices are still falling, and dont let ANYONE try to convince you they are not....the market is crashing big time...

but hold out a while longer if I were you and u will get a substantial detached property for far less than you might believe at the moment, most property in S10 is in fact in 'negative equity' already......

A 3 bed semi opposite me has just sold in a few days for full asking price. It didn't even get advertised.
An old couple lived there for some years and the place needs modernising to say the least. We are just off Barncliffe/Crimicar Lane.

£200k.

I dont agree that 'most' properties up here are in negative equity, not that many have changed hands in the last 2 years.

I wonder where Sheffreject ended up, thier last post was a year ago on Friday ???

A 3 bed semi opposite me has just sold in a few days for full asking price. It didn't even get advertised.
An old couple lived there for some years and the place needs modernising to say the least. We are just off Barncliffe/Crimicar Lane.

£200k.

I dont agree that 'most' properties up here are in negative equity, not that many have changed hands in the last 2 years.

I guess someone was desperate to move into the area then and was prepared to pay the full whack...but its still cheap for the area, a few years ago that would have gone for much more......plus modernising is all great, I would much rather pay out for house I could restore and do up room by room than something that was out of a showroom catelog

[QUOTE=goldenfleece;5597051]yes make REDICULOUS offers....people will bite!!!! In some cases anyway.....prices are still falling, and dont let ANYONE try to convince you they are not....the market is crashing big time...
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I am interested in where you get your ideas from. It most certainly isnt from what is actually happening

I am interested in where you get your ideas from. It most certainly isnt from what is actually happening

he's been testing his stock :)

I wonder where Sheffreject ended up, thier last post was a year ago on Friday ???
hi all
im still in Coventry due to parents divorcebut house goes on the market after xmas.its been valued at 190k so i will sell shares to get it up to 200k.
I viewed houses in Shirecliff (the estate on the main rd on top of the hill opposite sufcs acadamy).Which were stunning (dodgy gardens) but its a crap area.S10,the prices seem to rise with the hill from Crookes upwards !! Peak district mean everything that backs onto it mean peak prices.
I have been looking furthur up north from Bridlington to Scarborough area.Eg im looking at Burniston a village 5 miles north of Scarborough on the edge of the moors.The similarity to Lodge Moor is amazing (location) .i can get a 4 bed detached house with a great garden for 200k which is my budgetso who knows-ive got to sell mine first.if sommat like that comes up in LM though i'll have it Lm is my first choice and i cant keep away from it.
Coventry's suburbs remind me of a prison camp,the town centre hasnt yet come out of the war,and the people go by impressions where yorkies take you for who u are.The surrounding areas the same and all roads lead to the pub !.The 1st morning when i eventually move i'll prob wake up in a cold sweat !!

Sheffreject
(Redmires til i die)

There's something about the place that draws you back. I was literally born up there so can claim to be a legit Lodge Mooron - much worse has been said?

There's something about the place that draws you back. I was literally born up there so can claim to be a legit Lodge Mooron - much worse has been said?

Everyone says its prob sommat to do with childhood memories ( i spent 9 years there with some great friends) but when im a lot older its much more than that.I wasnt born there but it feels that i was.Ive always wanted to go back since the day i left 25 yrs ago.If i move to Burnistone,great,but when the time comes i will go back home.We lived 416 Redmires Road opposite (more or less ) Blackbrook House.

Sheffreject

(Redmires til i die)

We lived 416 Redmires Road opposite (more or less ) Blackbrook House.

Sheffreject

(Redmires til i die)I can't remember the house number but if your name is Neil I might have been one of your friends. I was born an brought up in a house almost opposite the church on Blackbrook Rd.

I can't remember the house number but if your name is Neil I might have been one of your friends. I was born an brought up in a house almost opposite the church on Blackbrook Rd.
no my names Richard-my neighbours at the time were the Rickers,the Bowens,and the Winters.i was 15 when we left and 41 now

That puts you 5-6 years younger than me and non of those names ring a bell, so presumably my mate must have moved long before.

That puts you 5-6 years younger than me and non of those names ring a bell, so presumably my mate must have moved long before.

I did have one idea though-if it didnt work out between me and my partner (ive known her for 3 years),i could have joined a sheffield dating agency and find a girl who has her own house in LM !!