Yes, Raks, it is, especially with 2 bed houses out of the immediate London radius. Middlesex is in the Greater London area, places like Hounslow, Feltham, Twickenham, Isleworth, Southall, Hanworth, etc., being near to Heathrow Airport and handy for the M25 motorway.
The properties are mixed housing stock (ie various ages), a lot of maisonettes and apartments too, but the houses and maisonettes in particular are shifting fast because of their prices - average £175,000 for a 2 bed maisonette with parking and a private garden up to £250,000 for a 2/3 bed house with private parking and garden - about the same as a mere apartment in London and its immediate boroughs. Richmond is classed as a London Borough but it's not in London, it's in Surrey but pretty close to London and the A205 north/south circular and has always been wickedly expensive (is the town where Henry VIII's Richmond Palace once was - gone now). Tulse Hill where I currently live is just up the road from Brixton and borders with West Norwood (I live that end) and is definitely in London - the borough is Lambeth. Prices are high in comparison to the Heathrow area and places are up for sale for longer. In the Heathrow area of Middlesex, places are hardly up for sale and they receive offers. People are becoming wise that if they are prepared to commute to their jobs from just that little bit further they can get way more for their money.
The Hamptons - Hampton Wick and Hampton itself (where the Hampton Court Palace is located) are on the Middx/Surrey border and are also wickedly expensive but very nice, and at least small 2-bed properties occasionally come up for sale that we can afford.
We revisited the house in Hanworth last night. John and Jane really liked it and John's going to negotiate an offer on it today. He suggested I did the negotiating (since I have good negotiating skills) but I didn't really want to. I'm doing enough of that in my job and my getting involved in the negotiating when it is John's money buying the house and Dan ringing the agents for viewings (and as father and son they both have the same surname, whereas mine is different) will only confuse the agents. For once I'm letting the men carry on doing what they're doing - I'm usually in the "driving seat" such a lot because Dan suffers from anxiety and can't handle stress very well. It's nice to see him taking the lead and ringing for properties - the trade-off is that I surf the net and the papers for properties for Dan to organise and I go to his letting agents with him to negotiate him out of the rest of his tenancy agreement without him losing too much money in penalties.
The properties are mixed housing stock (ie various ages), a lot of maisonettes and apartments too, but the houses and maisonettes in particular are shifting fast because of their prices - average £175,000 for a 2 bed maisonette with parking and a private garden up to £250,000 for a 2/3 bed house with private parking and garden - about the same as a mere apartment in London and its immediate boroughs. Richmond is classed as a London Borough but it's not in London, it's in Surrey but pretty close to London and the A205 north/south circular and has always been wickedly expensive (is the town where Henry VIII's Richmond Palace once was - gone now). Tulse Hill where I currently live is just up the road from Brixton and borders with West Norwood (I live that end) and is definitely in London - the borough is Lambeth. Prices are high in comparison to the Heathrow area and places are up for sale for longer. In the Heathrow area of Middlesex, places are hardly up for sale and they receive offers. People are becoming wise that if they are prepared to commute to their jobs from just that little bit further they can get way more for their money.
The Hamptons - Hampton Wick and Hampton itself (where the Hampton Court Palace is located) are on the Middx/Surrey border and are also wickedly expensive but very nice, and at least small 2-bed properties occasionally come up for sale that we can afford.
We revisited the house in Hanworth last night. John and Jane really liked it and John's going to negotiate an offer on it today. He suggested I did the negotiating (since I have good negotiating skills) but I didn't really want to. I'm doing enough of that in my job and my getting involved in the negotiating when it is John's money buying the house and Dan ringing the agents for viewings (and as father and son they both have the same surname, whereas mine is different) will only confuse the agents. For once I'm letting the men carry on doing what they're doing - I'm usually in the "driving seat" such a lot because Dan suffers from anxiety and can't handle stress very well. It's nice to see him taking the lead and ringing for properties - the trade-off is that I surf the net and the papers for properties for Dan to organise and I go to his letting agents with him to negotiate him out of the rest of his tenancy agreement without him losing too much money in penalties.
That'll be the "driving seat" again, ho-hum . . .
Brightest blessings,
Cat xxx
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