johnh009

What about this for a retreat? £3000 for a house - no mention of the cost of the land:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/ar...ust-3-000.html

bandrui

Now we're talking!

sallysimmons

Hmm, I wonder how he got planning permission for this.

Cute house though.

Edited to add: Oh I see from his website that he didn't get planning permission and had to leave. Although he does seem to be building a legal house now.

bandrui

Even better! A whole ecovillage.

bandrui

This was a great link John. I have actually explored their website and other links and this is certainly something that I would consider doing, buying into a development and building off-the-grid low-impact housing.

It is so refreshing to hear that there are people doing this. I see that it has the support of the Welsh authorities and has received grants for funding. This is certainly the way of the future.

Thanks .

bandrui

These stats certainly seem to reinforce the idea of an ever-widening gap between rich and poor in the property market:

http://www.primelocationblog.com/uk/...rce=newsletter

dunroving

It irritates me to read the Home section of the Sunday Times each week. The houses they feature, and home fittings (a £4,000 sofa? a £270 table lamp?) are inaccessible to 95% of the population.

sallysimmons

I think they do it because that's what property porn fans like me want to see. We know we can't have any of it, but it's fun to look. And you get ideas for how you could replicate the looks for a lot less money.

I love shows like 'Location, Location', but I always enjoy it less when they're helping people on a small budget. I've seen hundreds of two-bedroom terraces in my time - I'd much rather drool over a 5 bedroom converted barn in Norfolk with a £40,000 kitchen

cheers

I wouldn't!

Location, Location, Location. Clean, attractive, adequate living area.

I use to rub shoulders with some very affluent people and I was impressed with how conservative they were with their loot (that's how they got it I suppose, by holding on to it) and it seemed only the newly rich who want to flaunt it.

Yes you can drool over a converted barn (I get so tired of all the converted barns) and the kitchen but would you like to have to clean them?

I want something practical and cozy.

This is not a posting that is saying "I said it so it is" Some have said on here they want a home to be close to the earth or something like that.

Cheers

cheers

I agree and I wonder what effect it has on the readers.
I'm have an interest in cars, maybe because when I was young in the 1940's people didn't have cars but now when I look at magazines here in the US they are always featuring the expensive and exotic cars and I'm thinking why? Is it because the manufacturers of expensive and exotic cars wine and dine the auto journalists or is it because the journalists get to ride in something they would otherwise not have access to? The same with the houses.

The way the world economy is going, people with wealth may have to live in fear if the masses who are unemployed and hungry rise up. My point is wealthy people may have to tone down their exhibition of wealth in the very near future or risk violence in their direction. There is a weakness in my argument though because what the powerful do is build up the army and police forces to keep down the masses. Can we compare the situation in Greece and the Middle East countries who are having a go at it? What are the indicators in Britain? Cut backs and the resulting strikes by workers. In my opinion this is a whole new ball game because the government doesn't have the funds to help out the economy as they have in the past.

Irish Guinness

I have just spent 2 weeks in the Cotswolds,really beautiful,but very expensive,we stayed in Bourton on the water, the weather was great,have to say though the amount of tourists including myself was so so busy.

sallysimmons

I will be rich enough not to have to - and I will flaunt my cleaners (Just kidding before everyone jumps on me!)

I just love interior design, so I love seeing what the best designers do and getting ideas for cheap ways to do the same. I think that's why people like seeing aspirational homes in the papers - plus we're all nosy

btw - I seem to remember you have a pretty flash home ;-)

cheers

Shush.

I think I told you that my property tax went down again for the next year and I think there is less corruption on the local level so I think that's why.(why is there so many "I's" in this sentence?)

DDL

A north Devon village has been named the the best place in the country to bring up children.

An analysis of factors including crime rates, earnings, house prices and access to good schools revealed Winkleigh to be the ideal location for young families to set up home.

See the rest of the list here: http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/No...ail/story.html

cheers

Yes I liked this one at £129,950

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-29285072.html