{"id":99346,"date":"2018-10-08T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-rent-in-brixton-should-we-move-out-of-london-to-buy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T06:03:31","slug":"we-rent-in-brixton-should-we-move-out-of-london-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-rent-in-brixton-should-we-move-out-of-london-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"We rent in Brixton \u2013\u00a0should we move out of London to buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe\u2019ve been looking at places around the south-east, but they seem dull and boringQ I rent a two-bed flat in Brixton with my husband and two daughters who are eight months old and two. Rather reluctantly we have been thinking about moving out of London to buy a house somewhere in south-east England that is commutable to London for work. It makes sense for us to move south as we both grew up in East Sussex and both sets of parents still live there. We have been visiting places down south to see if we would want to live there but everywhere seems really dull and boring. We have been to Tonbridge, Horsham, Haywards Heath and Hastings. The only place we liked was Hastings but have ruled it out as it would be a two-and-a-half-hour commute door to door to work in Islington. Also, we love living in Brixton. It\u2019s diverse, vibrant and busy so we\u2019re very worried wherever we move to we\u2019re going to be miserable. Our budget is \u00a3375,000 and ideally we\u2019d like a house but would consider a big flat if it\u2019s somewhere cool.BDA I wonder whether your views of Tonbridge, Horsham (ranked last year the 19th best place to live in the UK in the Halifax quality of life survey) and Haywards Heath \u2013 have got anything to do with your discovering \u2013 as so often happens on the BBC\u2019s Escape to the Country \u2013 that you don\u2019t get as much property for your money outside London as you thought you would. Or maybe it\u2019s the feeling that you don\u2019t actually want to move away from Brixton that is colouring your judgement so that anywhere that isn\u2019t Brixton is going to make you miserable. It\u2019s probably also pretty depressing feeling that, to be able to buy somewhere big enough for you all, moving out of London is your only option. Except that it\u2019s not if your annual household income is less than \u00a390,000 and you are prepared to consider shared ownership rather than buying on the open market which, with your budget, you can\u2019t afford to do. You can find out where there are shared ownership properties by going to www.sharedownewrshipweek.co.uk which pointed to two developments in Brixton at www.sw9apartments.co.uk \u2013 eight minutes\u2019 walk from Brixton underground \u2013 and www.electricquarter.london which is a 12-minute walk. Both developments are flats rather than houses but if you are prepared to compromise on the type of property, you could buy a 25% share in a three-bedroomed apartment for \u00a3156,250 plus monthly rent of \u00a31,075. At \u00a3312,500, a 50% share would still be well within your budget. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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