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Title: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 11:45:26 AM: Passed an estate agent the other day where a new development was offering one bed flats from £895,000

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/02/02/in-worlds-best-run-economy-home-prices-just-keep-falling-because-thats-what-home-prices-are-supposed-to-do/#7574aac56ad0
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 11:59:37 AM: I heard yesterday that the Shard in London has several apartments at the top, which are for sale, for only £50,000,000 each. None have sold yet, I wonder why? :D
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 12:07:45 PM: Ah, yes The Shard apartments are an odd mystery, see the link

https://thetab.com/2016/02/03/someone-who-has-seen-the-shard-apartments-says-they-are-extraordinary-and-empty-70378
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 12:21:00 PM: People obviously have more sense than to spend that sort of money on a mere apartment even if it is in a famous building.
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 12:24:55 PM: Quote from: Floo on July 06, 2017, 12:21:00 PM
People obviously have more sense than to spend that sort of money on a mere apartment even if it is in a famous building.
Nope

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/02/one-hyde-park-worlds-most-expensive-140m_n_5251739.html
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 12:28:37 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 12:24:55 PM
Nope

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/02/one-hyde-park-worlds-most-expensive-140m_n_5251739.html

Flipping heck is it made of gold? :o
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 12:32:22 PM: We have this odd approach that a housing bubble is seen as good in this country.
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 12:38:52 PM: As they can't sell the Shard apartments, maybe they should be used to house people made homeless by the Tower Block fire. ;)
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Rhiannon on July 06, 2017, 01:16:06 PM: The Shard is south of the river. I sympathise. I get very antsy when I cross the Thames.
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 01:42:02 PM: Quote from: Rhiannon on July 06, 2017, 01:16:06 PM
The Shard is south of the river. I sympathise. I get very antsy when I cross the Thames.

Why?
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 01:45:21 PM: Quote from: Floo on July 06, 2017, 01:42:02 PM
Why?
Because Rhiannon is a north Londoner. They don't do sarf of the river.
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: floo on July 06, 2017, 01:50:32 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on July 06, 2017, 01:45:21 PM
Because Rhiannon is a north Londoner. They don't do sarf of the river.

How sad! ;D
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: ad_orientem on July 06, 2017, 01:59:39 PM: I never liked going south of the river either. Deeply suspicious of anything south of the river, confirmed by the fact that it's home to Millwall.
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: ippy on July 06, 2017, 03:36:44 PM: Quote from: Floo on July 06, 2017, 11:59:37 AM
I heard yesterday that the Shard in London has several apartments at the top, which are for sale, for only £50,000,000 each. None have sold yet, I wonder why? :D

Glad you said I'll have to go and have a look, hope they've got shaver points in the bathroom.

ippy
Title: Re: 'Do you know how little my house is worth!'
Post by: ippy on July 06, 2017, 03:53:52 PM: Quote from: Rhiannon on July 06, 2017, 01:16:06 PM
The Shard is south of the river. I sympathise. I get very antsy when I cross the Thames.

One of life's mysteries it's unexplainable, I hear tell those strange others that live on the wrong side of the Thames feel the same about people like us that live on the right side of the river.

Can't give a logical or rational reason why, I can only say south London feels wrong all of the time you're there.

ippy