Sydenham Town Forum

I've no intention of buying a house !!!!

But my point is simple

If you are a first time buyer, beware of people who only talk up the market. Taking on to much debt can seriously damage a person’s future.

If you're on the ladder it doesn't really matter if they go up down of sideways

Now, Being ...

Well I remember viewing this site long before the estate agents "pulled the plug"

http://www.propertysnake.co.uk/site/news

The properties on that site are ONLY the ones that have been advertised on line by an estate agent and then had their prices lowered. Some clever dick wrote a program that ...

I think you need to look harder m8

There are places to be found

http://www.propertysnake.co.uk/site/postcode/se26

The general consensus of economists is that this year they will max at 5.75 or perhaps 6% - I’m taking my lead from them ..............

........ and this forum is not the place to discuss inflationary effect of a strong currency.

But it seems to be a place where people are able to express their ...

If you look objectively at what Sydenham has to offer you can see why it is becoming more attractive.

I fully agree with where you are coming from, If you compare Sydenham with ANY town towards London travel zone 1 on a comparison basis Sydenham measures up very well... ok it's never going to be ...

There’s a lot more intelligent people would could advise you regarding Currency speculation than myself, and I’ll openly admit that I only have a basic understanding of it, if I had a comprehensive understanding of it... I'd be working in the City

My grasp on it is it makes our country bad for ...

kster - May I ask why you think why the Interest rate will "max out" at 6%

Our currency is over valued, and the national debt is the highest it's ever been. Speculating on things like interest rates is a dangerous thing, but I'm confident in saying that the current trend is most definitely UP ...

In answer to the title of this post, NO!

SD

If they are not stagnating, which way would you say they are going then ?

I assume that you think they will continue to rise, so i would like to ask this

jwright has paid just shy of a 1/4 of a million for a 2 bed garden flat in Penge.

Compared to ...

It was actually Leah who was tragically killed. If I’m correct that happened just before my arrival on Carlton Terrace. My best friend (Jonathon) who grew up with me on the estate was actually there when the accident happened. Even though he himself was still very young, he can still remember it.

I ...

was she the daughter of Bart and Jean ?

I left Carlton Terrace in early 1988 (if memory serves me correctly)

I was aged 16

I moved there aged 4

did you know of anybody who lived there during that time ?

Well, playing on building sites and the occasional shoplift, sounds to me like a very true reflection on what life was like growing up in Sydenham as a child

Well that building site that you was playing on ended up being my home for the best part of my life, can you remember the VERY big tree in ...