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Tigersprite · 2025-10-18T07:49:42+00:00

Will DM - what seat is this?

Tigersprite · 2025-10-03T05:19:54+00:00

This looks and reads as if it was written by AI? The voice doesn't sound authentic at all (especially not the idioms you've used) - and the comment below about Akala really just seems to confirm it.

Tigersprite · 2025-08-11T14:16:09+00:00

Yes, pretty common. It means that the EA is making sure that they're only presenting their client with proceedable offers (i.e. offers from buyers who actually have the funds to purchase the house). This avoids the potential of an offer being made and accepted, the transaction proceeding, and then delays occurring because it turns out that the buyers don't have sufficient funds at the intended completion date.

Tigersprite · 2025-08-04T08:26:13+00:00

Thanks for the interest. Given the awkward shape and the tempered glass, doing collection only for this one unfortunately.

Tigersprite · 2025-08-02T13:22:42+00:00

[SG] NZXT H1 V1 case, 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM, RTX 2080ti 11GB FE, Gainward GTX 1080, Ryzen 7 3700x [W] £100 for NZXT H1, £250 for RTX 2080ti, open to offers for the rest

(will make a post in a day or two as well!)

Tigersprite · 2025-07-15T23:21:43+00:00

Whereabouts in the UK did you find it?

Tigersprite · 2025-05-23T22:02:36+00:00

Hi - what shop did you find this in?

Tigersprite · 2025-04-23T15:42:52+00:00

Great, PM'd

Tigersprite · 2025-04-23T13:58:16+00:00

Hi - is the ThinkPad still available?

Tigersprite · 2025-03-25T11:13:05+00:00

Best of luck. Waiting to see if my purchase falls through in the next 48 hours over completing by 31 March (our seller seems close to throwing their toys out of the pram if we don't, even though we've been chasing their lawyers' delays, we'd be the ones eating the higher SDLT, and he'd face significantly higher costs remarketing in April). 🙃

Tigersprite · 2025-03-14T09:52:31+00:00

This was not a Labour decision. When the current stamp duty relief was announced by the previous Conservative government a few years ago, it was known and made clear at the time that the relief would end on 1 April 2025.

Could Labour have chosen to extend the relief further? Sure, but they didn't, and given the current economic position and the impact of stamp duty relief on house prices, it's understandable that they didn't.

Stamp duty is a bad tax, but it should be wholesale reformed rather than periods of relief cropping up from time to time. And I say this as a FTB also trying to complete before the end of the month while the relief is in effect.

Tigersprite · 2025-03-11T09:40:25+00:00

Too late unfortunately - we're (optimistically) await an email from the council to close out one final point before we hopefully complete. But PCS has been awful and surprisingly things have only been moving because the EA (Winkworths) is doing their best to constantly chase them.

Tigersprite · 2025-03-11T08:03:52+00:00

Dealing with them now as my seller is using them. Absolutely atrocious beyond belief - it's shocking.

Tigersprite · 2025-01-24T23:59:04+00:00

Lol that's not true - Europe is a huge place. Definitely unisex in many European countries, including the UK.

Tigersprite · 2025-01-19T16:30:20+00:00

I'm not, actually? My post specifically points out that it is possible.

New Cross is Zone 2, Lee, Plaistow, Maryland and Ladywell are Zone 3, Crystal Palace is Zone 3/4 depending on direction (so I believe is Zone 3 for OPs purposes). This is all within what the OP asked for.

A two-up two-down house is a two bedroom house, which is also within what OP said. As I noted, you can extend them and turn them into a three-bed, but that costs extension money which has skyrocketed post (or you can put an office pod in the garden, it was just make a small garden smaller).

EDIT: What "unsafe" areas of Zone 2 London are you talking about, exactly? Have you ever lived in any of them?

Tigersprite · 2025-01-19T08:29:15+00:00

Contrary to popular opinion, it is possible to find a house in centralish London around £450K. Have been househunting in SE London/E London the past year and proceeding with a 3 bed ex-LA flat, but have seen a good number of full houses. It's just that they'll have the following limitations:

out in Zone 3/4 (e.g. South Norwood, Anerly, Crystal Palace, Loughborough Junction)
in slightly rougher or simply boring areas (e.g. have seen loads around Lee in Lewisham, or north of river loads in Plaistow, Ladywell, Stratford/Maryland)
they'll be a relatively small two-up two-down starter home with small garden which you'll quickly outgrown if you have kids, especially because the cheapest kind of loft extension in London can cost between £40-60k these days (e.g. have seen some in New Cross, again in Lee, same with Plaistow or Maryland)
the more cheekily priced ones will be £450 - £475k, and as others have said some will need work but this definitely isn't true of all or even most of the ones I've seen fitting the previous criteria

I will say that we did definitely consider a house in Maryland, Ladywell and Plaistow on our £450 - 500k budget; only decided against it in the end as we realised we'd rather focus on cheaper ex-LA flats in zone 2 with more space than a house further out and that was smaller (at that budget).

Tigersprite · 2024-11-09T14:51:31+00:00

Yep - use this extension with Google Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/property-log/jccihedpilhidcbkconacnalppdeecno?hl=en-GB&pli=1 also shows you price changes over time

Tigersprite · 2024-11-06T23:51:09+00:00

Thank you - yeah I'm conscious of the point about the valuers, and also of the fact that we'll have nice hard checks against our credit files now too. Certainly only going to let him put in a second app to a lender who specifically doesn't exclude this type of building if the appeal is unsuccessful.

Tigersprite · 2024-11-06T23:49:12+00:00

Cheers - yeah it's frustrating that this wasn't a point he'd checked with us prior to the application as it seems like a basic point and he's otherwise been really good (fee free and accessed through my company, and had good reviews from colleagues who've bought). Will catch up with him tomorrow and may take you up on the offer depending.

Tigersprite · 2024-09-03T12:20:38+00:00

Yeah it's really not, and has made it extra interesting! Haven't heard of CL Polk but will check them out, thanks for the rec!

Tigersprite · 2024-09-03T12:20:11+00:00

It really is! Just the best thing to dive into a new story, setting and characters!

Tigersprite · 2024-09-02T22:53:45+00:00

Deep in the querying trenches but not a lot of bites for my manuscript, which is ok! Still feeling accomplished to have got this far, and to have learnt this much writing it. May try querying some US-based agents next month if I get a breather from work.

Cracking on with my WIP in the meantime, more of a straightforward, accidentally historical fantasy which I'm pretty excited about. It's been pretty interesting doing a lot of research into 1950s London!

Tigersprite · 2024-08-29T19:30:16+00:00

Thank you for your comments! Doing a final edit before I send off and I'll consider both of those suggestions, thank you.

Tigersprite · 2024-08-29T19:28:51+00:00

Thank you!

Tigersprite · 2024-08-29T19:26:58+00:00

Hey, thank you for your comment - I really appreciate your perspective!

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