A good time to be buying a house?

[MrMarkyMark]

Trowbridge is lovely.

Compared to the rest of Wiltshire, I don't think so monkey boy

[Gumbo Robot]

I'm out of the running now. What do the panel think though?

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Wingfield, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 , BA14

Been to look at it already.

A lot of property for the money but just too big / needing too much work for me.

I'm after a home not an investment.

That said, I'm surprised it's still on the market.

[vetran]

Trowbridge, chav central, full of wannabe gangsters, according to someone local, we met in Bradford on Avon, recently.

HTH. BIDI.

Apart from that, the rest of Wiltshire's great, my old man has properties in Mere.

its a bit pokey and needs a lot of work. they were too afraid to show the kitchen.

[ChimpMaster]

It's misleading. It's got on the edge of BOA but in the Trowbag post code. It's on the BOA road in.

It's worth at least 650k. Done up it's a 1M property in that area with that land. Oh well, least it's one less hassle

You're thinking too small. That place is a goldmine and a bargain at £500k.

[AtW]

You're thinking too small. That place is a goldmine and a bargain at £500k.

Only it's not £500k now ...

[MrMarkyMark]

its a bit pokey and needs a lot of work. they were too afraid to show the kitchen.

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/trowbridg...-all-evil.html

Sounds really lovely

Choice of activity – going down to Mcdonalds car park, or parking in the middle of the one way system. They smoke fags, and love picking up girls in the age range of 10-14, who have lots of girlfriends who can also sit with them. They like to talk about other boy racers, and drive around town repeatedly. They play very loud music ear drum bursting stylie. They spend enormous amounts of money on usually very cheap cars, cuh as novas, saxo’s and fiestas. They like to beeb their horn to get attention and do wheel spins.

And

As you can gather, the small town of Trowbridge, near Bath, is not peaceful, picturesque and the centre of happiness. It is riddled with chavs from all disciplines, and is to be avoided at all costs.

[PurpleGorilla]

Compared to the rest of Wiltshire, I don't think so monkey boy

I was being ironic.

[AtW]

Trowbridge – the root of all evil! | iLiveHere - Britain's worst places to live

Sounds really lovely

And

Sounds like a big upgrade for MF...

[MarillionFan]

Been to look at it already.

A lot of property for the money but just too big / needing too much work for me.

I'm after a home not an investment.

That said, I'm surprised it's still on the market.

its a bit pokey and needs a lot of work. they were too afraid to show the kitchen.

Needed a lot of work doing, somewhere between 150-200k.

Replace the back single story, go into the roof with a dormer, front extension two story, balcony to the front and again, bring forward oak beams, knock through open plan kitchen, re-landscape the gardens, new driveway, do up the office, replacement garage etc.

It's a blank canvas, slap bang in the middle of a large plot, hardly any neighbours. you could do a complete grand designs job, or be like AtW and sleep on a sofa in the shed.

[jamesbrown]

Global recession causes many investors to start looking at alternate places/countries to invest in. Isn't this what happened in 2008 when global recession did not really cause property crash in London because a lot of foreign investors were investing in properties. So even in recession, I doubt prices in London/SE would fluctuate much - maybe 2-3%

It depends on your definition of crash, but prices fell by 20%+, including in London, but they recovered fairly quickly (even by early 2010). However, in some areas outside of London and the SE, they haven't recovered at all. In London and the SE, valuations are more stretched than they were in 2008, so any correction would be substantially larger IMO. But it needs a major catalyst, a Lehman moment.