Inner London Puns

Looking at 2 bedroom flats in Zone 2 with outside space at the moment. Lots of noise in the media about:

London Exodus, WFH/race for space, Leasehold/Cladding Scandal & Leasehold Reform, Impending interest rate rises.

What's your experience right now?

• Is supply really constrained?
• Is leasehold unpopular due to the all the noise?
• Are properties moving faster/slower/normal than usual?
• Are you finding lots of competition for properties that are share of freehold (as opposed to new build leasehold) with outside space, when compared with normal?
• Any opinion on the outlook for the next year for prices?

Thanks!

Hi gang,

I wondered if anyone is currently looking for an apartment in central London/has recently moved and can shed a light on how the housing market is at the moment? My lease will be up in November- I moved into my current flat (in Hoxton- I know, I know...) last year, and the rent was a "steal" considering the location due to the pandemic, though still ridiculous imo for a 1 bed flat. Well now the letting agent got in touch to ask whether I'd like to renew the lease- though upon asking about the price, they promptly informed me that the market "has recovered" and the apartment is tracking 18% below the market value right now... meaning they're asking for a £300 more a month, bringing the price up to £2k for a one bed flat (unfurnished).

Now, I won't be paying that out of principle for the silly increase, but doing quick research on rightmove data is showing that rents in inner London are down -3.2% in Q2 this year, but if I'm honest, looking at flats to rent right now, the prices are creeping back up.

So, anyone else moving right now? What's your experience been like/what's the market like atm?

So I’ve looked into it, and it so happens that this order is based in London. What are your thoughts on it ? Legit? Sketchy? Any testimonies or personal experiences in working with them?

Edit:

Reason for this post is that I recently applied to join, and I’m currently doing the one year supervised study course before getting initiated. For me it’s legit, but it can never hurt to get other peoples opinions. You never know, truly.

Today's map: Inner London by Geography Challenges (YouTube) (10k+)

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I’m curious to say the least. Would like to contemplate the possibility of applying for a supervised training, but it’s a little sketch given the whole “joining a magical society based of a website.” Lmao.

I’m a fan of Dione fortunes work, although it’s subjected & influenced to the mentality that was adopted back in the day. But since I’m based in London, it seems one of the few orders that is within my reach.

Any experience working with them ?

------EDIT---- Dion* goddamnit, I always butcher her last name for some reason.

I was standing in Crayford and it's quite a busy little place, still in the London zone, and I saw a lot of shops which would be doing a lot better if there were more people around (obviously).

Given how cramped and overcrowded London already is, and the absolute nightmare that is commuting in rush hour on public transport and now probably still a year until people will feel comfortable doing such a thing, would it make sense to just build modern office blocks in some suburbs, and more houses/flats?

The construction side of it alone would create a huge amount of jobs, whilst also increasing our nation's biggest export and the hundreds of thousands of jobs within it (service sector), and keeping Britain one of the financial capitals of the world after Brexit finally happens.

It may also reduce overall pollution, if people are travelling less distance to work. It would also give people more time to live their lives.

A lot of us spend more than 40 hours a month just getting to and from work. Covid19 has shown a lot of people that they simply don't need to do this, and it'll be practically impossible to get them all back to exactly how things were. But, there are also a lot of people who find working from home to cause a lot of mental distress; if you live where you work and work where you live, you're never truly doing either, so maybe this is an opportunity to kind of meet in the middle.

I'm by no means a city planner or anything, I've just been thinking about this for a few days and thought I'd put it out there.

Nothing I've said is groundbreaking, I just haven't seen it mentioned often in the news. They bring up the "Northern powerhouse" all the time, which is something that has to happen, but London and the South East is suffering a massive housing shortage as well as being the financial hub that props up the rest of the country, so why not get this working properly before we start fucking up the rest of the country.

The Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham have a large number (if not a plurality) of BAME people, in particular British Bangladeshi and Pakistani people. These areas were predominantly white previously. Is it true, or a myth, that the white people in these boroughs moved further east to the relatively very white Borough of Havering (Romford, Upminster etc) , to Dagenham (which also has a large number of BAME people now), to Bexley as well as to Essex proper?

This question came to mind when I realised that the crowd at West Ham home fixtures tends to be predominantly white (around 90%), which wouldn't be the case if it was representative of the population of Newham. So one possibility would be that white West Ham supporters have moved out of the borough as mentioned. Needless to say, football crowds aren't necessarily representative of the population of an area. But it's how I started thinking about the topic.

As a tourist, I often walked faster than some of the cars sitting in traffic...

(edit: grammar)

Will my experience be detrimented by the fact that I live in central London? I'll still join, it's just a question on my mind. Currently waiting to get called by the 204 Detachment Commander.

Edit - Primary

I've applied for a school and have a chat with the head, I also looked at the ofsted info. Its an inner London school with 90+ % Pupils with EAL and a high % of temporary children, who the head said will often be in my class for less than half a term and I will often get new children in quickly.

As an NQT will this high EAL % and constantly changing group of children be a corcern or is it not a big issue? I did my training in an area of very very low EAL pupils, and I want the children to have the best learning outcomes.