eastdulwich_dweller

Lorries/ building trucks keep hitting it I think. Wonder what the M&S delivery van is going to do to that corner on a regular basis?

Hi We're looking to sell our 4 bed 2 bath terraced house near east dulwich and denmark hill stations, does anyone have any advice on which estate agent to go with? We are pricing it reasonably with a view to selling quickly rather than the usual price reduction/ offer shannigans. Most agents are pricing in the same ball park, so it just comes back to who is actually motivated to sell it and has clients who can come to view it. I think our choice is between Wooster & Stock, Winkworth and KFH. Any thoughts on these or other agents welcome. Anyone can PM if they are interested in cutting out the middle man! Westnorwoodboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We sold ours at the beginning of the year. The > range of estimates we received from agents was > interesting - 100k difference between lowest and > highest. We knew honestly what it was worth and > opted for the middle and listed it with > Purplebricks. We then found the local agents were > "suddenly" willing to negotiate their fees as well > as telling us that it would never sell as PB > didn't have the portfolio of people wanting to > view property in the area.....it sold within a > couple of months. > > Maybe it's worth the fixed fee placing it with PB > for two reasons; 1. it might give your local agent > a kick up the butt knowing they will potentially > miss out on the commission 2. if it does sell via > PB, you save yourself several thousand pounds.

setup a shopify site which advertises products well and ships them from other distributors so you don't hold any stock.

Large trading floors pay for the service to be done quickly as they lose more money each day things aren't running. Retail banking (where more and more people are banking online and businesses are taking cards) is a lot slower on the refit front.

Lots of people reported the leak but the scaffolding next to the leak has made it impossible to repair. Its on Thames water's radar though.

Hi TFL don't autocomplete your journey, they charge you the maximum amount they can for that day regardless of what journey you took i.e if it was off peak time travel, only journey to and from zone 2 etc. They charge you effectively the price of a 1 day travel card from zone 1 to 2. That is why the tannoy asks you to touch in and touch out - otherwise there would be no need!? Also, You can only claim for a refund 3 times a month for an incomplete journey on contactless

Another day.. Another dangerous overcrowding situation at Denmark hill. It's obvious we need two entrances and exits. Preferably another exit on the other side of the station. Any thing to say Councillors?

Every day Denmark hill station becomes dangerously overcrowded. It's obvious it wasn't built with any expansion in mind. You need another entrance and exit..And it's still more obvious that no one observes or enforces the current exit from platforms because they can see their train departing. We spend so much money on the tube and rail, yet continental Europe offers a cheaper cleaner service that's on time more often. In the picture attached,there are 5 year old separated from mothers trying to get them to school; ladies with prams; pregnant women jostled by the crowd. Someone is not delivering, and yet we wait for a fire or stampede with injuries for anyone with power to do anything about it

The main reason house prices have been static is the new rules created by the mortgage market review. These new processes at banks have at least doubled the time it takes to get a mortgage. You would have read about the silly questions some of them are asking to understand affordability (e.g How many steaks do you eat in a week?). It will take time for brokers and banks to circumvent the system like they did in 2003 with liar loans and now in 2012 with help to buy. House prices in central London will always be a function of bank credit, rising foreign demand and to an extent planning restrictions. Wealthy people buy property when times are uncertain. Why put money in a bond or equites and take the risk when you can pay 4% stamp and less than 0.1% regular tax and watch your capital grow at an average of 6%+ a year? This is why you see decrepit mansions in West London. Consequently a halo effect occurs on factory worker Victorian terraced houses, which are the ones the middle class can afford. They generally need to go into more and more debt to afford the same life style - effectively robbing their future and any inheritance to just keep living a reasonable lifestyle. In the days where EU governments have stated that anyone with over ?100K in the bank will have up to 40% of it confiscated if the bank fails its just not worth keeping a lot of money around. Read your new bank T&Cs...welcome to a new world, you own the bank but you have no say in how it is run and no payments from its profits, you only take on its losses when it fails.

Can I just ask - totally honestly - what are these "odious policies" everyone keeps speaking off? I've never voted UKIP but it seems every time they are mentioned people think they are the BNP or member of a fascist right wing party? Is that what UKIP is? So far all I know is: They aren't really a party ready for government as they don't have wider policies on defence and Government budgetary spending. So most people are voting UKIP as a protest vote like they voted for the Lib Dems because the two main parties so obviously don't care what most people want and are pro-corporation due to donations from the wealthy. They don't want too many immigrants into the country who don't have a good education so they want to control who comes in and out from Europe - the same policy we had in the 80s/ early 90s. i.e They want people from Europe to have the same rights as people from say india for china to enter Britain. They want local communities to decide how to spend money in their regions rather than central government. I'd be grateful if anyone here can point out, objectively, what is odious about this? For instance, if we follow through and let in people from any country into the UK, say the philippines, unskilled labour and tradesmen rates would fall through the floor and a "lower class" would be formed with no ability to have what most people would equate to a british lifestyle (i.e families living in one room, no weekends off, no money on leisure activities, few luxury purchases). I don't think anyone wants that. Economically, the average global wage is $2/ day, given that most people can do most jobs if we create a larger pool labour, salaries will fall, that's just obvious. Not everyone can be a doctor or a lawyer or another job which provides essential services for the wealthy. I'm probably not going to vote UKIP but I find it fascinating how people just believe the media hype, either that or I'm missing something.

Not sure if people realise this but the Bank of England will find it difficult to raise rates quickly. The most indebted creditor is the UK Government. They have taken on all the debts from the banking crisis and implemented pretty much zero austerity despite the rhetoric. The analogy applies that we have simply slowed down spending on our credit card whilst making the minimum payment each month. When the minimum payment rises the government will not be able to pay it and extra QE (the only reason most people can't see a difference between "austerity" and pre-2007) will make the bond market very nervous to lend money to the UK. We have to stay in a low interest rate environment for years to pay off this debt overhang and Mark Carney knows it. More and more money will move into lower yielding assets such as property as there is less incentive to take risk in this environment. The stock market will soar and people will wonder why, but if pension funds don't get assets at yields of 4-5% soon they will start going bankrupt so they will need to move more money into risky assets like property and equities.

Hi Wiggie, if you don't mind me asking, how much is it to refurb per open/close sash window?