>>Has anyone got any idea of house prices in these nominated areas? We were looking around Brockley, Telegraph Hill and Nunhead last year and into the early part of this year, so I can chip in here. We were turned on to the area by some friends who got a bargain on Manor Avenue a couple of years ago (an end-of-terrace 5-bed, 3 recep plus 80' garden and mews garage for under 500k). Since then prices have lifted off and a similar house a few doors up the road went at auction in February for 100k more (and needing a lot of work, the external structure was sound but inside it was a wreck). Around the same time we saw a similar-sized semi on Tresillian Road with an asking price of 725k, a couple of slightly larger edwardian houses on St Margaret's Road at asking prices of 525k and 550k respectively (but needing work) and a smaller house (2 bedder plus a box room) for 450k. The top end properties are the 8-9 bed monsters you get on Tyrwhitt, Tressillian or Whickham - which are on for comfortably more than a million. This all relates to the pricier bits of Brockley, north and east of Brockley Road - in the conservation area between Adelaide Avenue and Lewisham Way; if you go west and south of Brockley Road (provided you aren't climbing onto Telegraph Hill) it's cheaper by 20% or so. Telegraph Hill (esp. Pepys, Erlanger, Waller, Jerningham, Ommaney etc) went bonkers about the middle of last year, but was excessively frothy IMO - still, we were priced out of it for the duration of the madness and we gave up looking around there; which was a shame because there are some great houses, the park is fab and the view from the top of the hill is one of the best in London. We only looked at a couple of places in Nunhead but the impression I got was that prices were comparable to the nicer bits of Brockley in terms of size of house that you got, but the schools weren't as good and transport links sparser - so on balance a bit more expensive. It had some nice shops, but the main through road is a bit bedraggled and gets very heavy traffic for what is actually a rather narrow carriageway. In the end we crossed north of Lewisham way and got a 4-bedder in St Johns (eeewww, Deptford...) for 525k. I reckon the same house would have been on for 75-100k more if it had been in SE4. We've got an excellent primary opposite, friendly neighbours and a choice of Lewisham centre and Deptford market for shopping. Transport-wise we have an overland station around the corner that gets us to Charing-X in under 20 mins or its a 5 minute walk for the DLR or a 10 minute walkd for the tube at New Cross. Regards Luke
