Pistolpete2

We are staying in Tunbridge Wells for four nights in the middle of July. We usually stay at the Travelodge on Mount Ephraim which can have reasonable rooms at around 20 - 25 pounds a night (for a family room) if you plan ahead non-refundable.

Location is nice above the large park/green, about ten minutes walk from the action and some good reasonable places to eat or maybe enjoy a pint. So if you are on the property hunt it is well-located.

We use the public library for internet connection and there is an express laundry so the hotel plus these items makes T-Wells a good base, particularly when transiting Gatwick and parts of East Kent (Canterbury 1h 25m) through Tonbridge and at the same time having fast access to Charing Cross in London.

cheers

Deezs are old prices?

johnh009

Off topic, went into Birmingham city centre today, very impressive. What a magnificent job they have done. There are restaurants and bars along the canal network and many of the old buildings have been preserved and fit in well with the new. Not the Birmingham people used to sneer about.

johnh009

Here is one way to go, get a council house in Wandsworth first and then collect 50,000. I wonder who really pays?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13864237

cheers

This maybe another case of the UK imitating the US.
See what happened to the US housing market when they tried this? The people moved in and then they couldn't make the payments so they moved out. It wasn't their, the homeowners, fault because they lost their jobs.
We should give visas to all the Brits who want to come here if they agree ahead of time to buy a house.
If they have £50K that is $80K so they could look at hundreds of thousands of homes in that price range in the US.

Side note. When I came to the US in 1955 all you had to do is want to come here and you got a visa in a matter of weeks providing you had good health and had a sponsor in the US. We can thank President John F. Kennedy who hated the Brits, I think, for putting an end to that program.

cheers

The prices of homes have fallen 30% in real terms in the UK, whatever that means.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance...in-real-terms/

cheers

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-2303317.html

Demand for homes jumps with prices being realistic.

cheers

This is a nice find @ £199,950 I think and its in Wiltshire

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...?premiumA=true

Pistolpete2

I love the bit:

"Situated in a well established residential area off of Wingfield Road"

Is nice but very urban, just house after house.

This is low wage Wiltshire. I wonder where the folks go to make that dollar. I hear the local pork is very very good and that is clearly an important segment of local industry. Trowbridge is closer in to Bath and Bradford than I envisaged and links to all points NEWS should be pretty good from there. Bristol 32m, Bath 18m and Dorchester West 1h 23m.

A lot of house. Offer 185,500 and it looks even more.

cheers

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...e-2303865.html

So they say.

The Independent seams to be all over the place with what is happening on the property scene. Not a biggy.

nethead

That's a nice looking house for the money, but some parts of Trowbridge are nicer than others. It has a good town centre with a nice variety of shops, but a bit of reputation as being a bit chavvy.

Pistolpete2

You'll love this!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...down-fukushima

bandrui

The first words that come to mind are unprintable here . Of course, had concerned environmentalists talked about collusion in government concerning cover-ups and mis-information prior to the Guardian's article, they would have been labelled conspiracy theorists, the popular put-down for those not buying the party line or, heaven forbid, not trusting government's word.

johnh009

Back in the 1960s, the Harold Wilson government issued a D-notice (censorship notice) on Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria for reasons in their best interest. They even changed the name to Sellafield for the same reasons.

Pistolpete2

Today's LET'S MOVE TO:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011...northumberland

I had already read that there will be significant impact from public sector cuts in Morpeth. This could provide some opportunity. Sorry to see positives in others' negatives but then everybody else is guilty of that on here.

Look out for Salisbury which must be coming soon.