Reply to: Pimlico Pied-à-terre

[scooterscot]

You short a house by borrowing it behind their back, selling it without telling them, waiting for it to fall in price and then secretly buy it back at at a lower price and pocket the difference.

This is remarkably close to the truth of the situation.

[DimPrawn]

For the sake of clarity, you mean you don't have a house right? You're not shorting someone else's.

You short a house by borrowing it behind their back, selling it without telling them, waiting for it to fall in price and then secretly buy it back at at a lower price and pocket the difference.

How hard can that be?

[WTFH]

Hell.

Well, at least they won't be in Surrey.

[Zigenare]

If London is pedestrianised, where will all the cyclists go?

Hell, it's in the bible, probably.

[WTFH]

If London is pedestrianised, where will all the cyclists go?

[b0redom]

Feeling good about me short position.

For the sake of clarity, you mean you don't have a house right? You're not shorting someone else's.

[scooterscot]

Flippen heck... agent of this place got in touch this morning with another £100k off. Not even a full week later.

Someone is bricking it.

[scooterscot]

That would be awesome. And more trees with proper irrigation.

[BrilloPad]

a couple of years and London will be completely pedestrianised.

[Old Greg]

There must be something going on in the U.K., there’s no money left for critical repairs to Hammersmith Bridge.

Between this and ULEZ, give it a couple of years and London will be completely pedestrianised.

Hammersmith Bridge 'closed indefinitely' after faults found - BBC News

Wasn't that going on 30 years ago?

[scooterscot]

Ha! Agent just got in touch with me regarding said property, owner has dropped price from a guide Price £3,250,000 to £2,900,000

£350,000 in the space of what 1 week 2 weeks? Someone is panicking. Feeling good about me short position.

[scooterscot]

Now looking around Notting Hill.

[redgiant]

If you could you yah? Asking for a friend like...

I like this one:

3 bedroom terraced house for sale in Tachbrook Street, Pimlico, London, SW1V, SW1V

I used to live in Pimlico a while ago. Excellent central location and it is very much a mix of rich and poor (similar to Kensington & Chelsea). Dolphin Square is full of MPs & Civil Servants and right next to it is Churchill Gardens which is one of the largest council estates in London.

As one of the other posters mentioned Tachbrook Street is near Vauxhall Bridge Road so it is quite noisy & polluted and there is a street market on it at least once a week so you will have an Eastenders scene outside your front door

[NickFitz]

Isn't that where Alan Sugar sends the losing team?

If that's the case, I'd lose on purpose - breakfast there is better than any other possible reward

[meridian]

Hope in the years ahead that'll change. Have got used to the fresh air up here in the alps. Returning to Auld Reekie on occasion causes my nose to twitch where it once did not before.

There must be something going on in the U.K., there’s no money left for critical repairs to Hammersmith Bridge.

Between this and ULEZ, give it a couple of years and London will be completely pedestrianised.

Hammersmith Bridge 'closed indefinitely' after faults found - BBC News