Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road

£420 admin fee?

They can shove it up their arse for nothing and fuck off while they're doing it.

 

channel 4 news bit on foxtons (and one or two other agents) this evening - not very complimentary...

mainly seems to be news since it's now landlords claiming they are being ripped off.

Although one or two tenants' viewpoints as well, and some pictures of the brixton office as it was 'remodelled' a month or so back - C4 will probably put up a video chunk some time in the next day or so

 

'Kinell

petition on change.org
Foxtons have anti-homeless spikes at the Holborn site ...


Please sign !

trying get link ...

https://www.change.org/p/foxtons-re..._Y0Jwoy1rTchSXlAJ5Js7xXHHRGlWwfQKvXJwv4ngMDY=

 

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/17/is-foxtons-the-estate-agent-london-deserves

 

Wonderful quote from that article: A former sales negotiator added: “It becomes exceptionally difficult to maintain bonds and relationships with people outside [Foxtons] EVEN IF YOU LIVE WITH THEM.”

 

Given the staff are working 60 hours a week plus alternate weekends, I'm not convinced that Foxton's are meeting minimum wage levels if the basic salary is £10k per annum for many of them.

 

My patents live in one of the cottages there. You'll see the millwall sticker in the car wimdow!

 

Anyone have any views on this charming 3 bed house in Elm Park SW2 at £899,950 featured in yesterday's Evening Standard.
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/property-for-sale-in-brixton/chpk2578404
Some nice original fireplaces I see.
Is it a snip? Does it indicate prices are stabilising or still going up?

 

£773/sq ft.

Suggests prices are stabilising despite the much-vaunted election bounce.

One can only hope that Osborne's surprise attack on buy-to-letters and non-doms will see prices actually fall.

 

How weird. I checked the map for Elm Park and spotted Leander Rd close by. All this time, I've thought of Landor Rd, not Leander Rd, every time I've seen leanderman's nick

 

Seems rather expensive for what looks like a pretty standard house.

 

Luxury flats are so last year.

We have now joined the world of 'boutique collections' and 'lateral apartments'.

(Josephine Avenue)

 

I bet the writer creamed his/her pants as they wrote that.

 

Where will they fit all that housing on Josephine Ave?!

 

Old job centre

 

bungalow?

 

I think it means across the front of a building.

 

Apparently Londoners are discovering it

http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/architecture/londoners-discover-lateral-living

 

It means an apartment where the sale price knocks you sideways.

 

Low ceilinged small windowed pokey modem flat aka "luxury flat"

 

They are a response to the housing we have in London which is a legacy of the anti-socialistic tendencies intrinsic to the English. They insist on having their own front door so we end up with terraces of tall narrow houses instead of apartment buildings as is normal in the cities of culturally superior nations such as those on the continent or to take a random example Scotland.

These houses become particularly inefficient when they are split into flats vertically, so as that article explains if there is a possibility to run apartments horizontally it's often the best solution.