Which London commuter town?

[okgo]

If you had a max of say 900k ish, and needed to get into Waterloo everyday, and have schools in your locality, 3 or 4 beds where would you consider?

[BrabusMog]

Chertsey, East Molesey, Weybridge, Cobham, Esher, Ascot, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, Byfleet all spring to mind. Does it have to be Waterloo or can we look at Victoria?

[guffhoover]

Oxford and surrounding villages?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Jimmyarm]

You can get a nice house in Winchester close to the station for that money =)

[FourWheelDrift]

Woking (25mins from Waterloo) or nearby.

[jdw1234]

Hartley Wintney, Fleet "Blue Triangle" or surrounding villages.

Closer into London (Surrey) you will just end up on a plastic fantastic housing estate at that budget.

Exception would be Byfleet/Woking (villages nearby) as mentioned above.

[Magog]

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[ReallyReallyGood]

Epsom is a 30min train, every 10-15 mins in the morning to Waterloo.

Nice enough area, and some decent sized property available for that price.

Proposed to be part of Crossrail 2 (if it happens) which can't be bad for future prices.

Plenty of decent private schools in the area too. State, not so much.

[vescaegg]

Assuming London Bridge is as good as Waterloo....Reigate.

But im biased

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[okgo]

I'm in Surbiton currently and I've got the budget to buy a nice cottage where I want to live, but part of me thinks living in a 1000 sq st cottage with postage stamp garden for £700k isn't the way forward.

[Big E 118]

I'm in Oxted, Surrey. 35 mins train direct to London Bridge, 2 minutes from Junction 6 of M25 but head South and you're in some nice countryside.

£900k budget should get you something nice within a short walk of the train station.

[RizzoTheRat]

Depends how long a commute you want, but inside Surrey you're still paying a fair bit for the houses. Prices start to drop a lot around Basingstoke (1:05 to waterloo) or Andover (1:15)

[bompey]

Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, or Tunbridge Wells gets you into Waterloo East.

[furtive]

Salisbury
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Petersfield
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Edited by furtive on Thursday 22 January 13:32

[Yazar]

okgo said:

I'm in Surbiton currently and I've got the budget to buy a nice cottage where I want to live, but part of me thinks living in a 1000 sq st cottage with postage stamp garden for £700k isn't the way forward.

If you want to stay close to London physically, you could go north a bit and look all around Richmond park. North Kingston/Coombe/richmond/barnes. If Kingston commute is too much then New Malden, Raynes Park and so on have better links to Waterloo.

Yes 900k may only get you a decent sized house rather than huge detached with 10 bathrooms, and postage stamp garden too, but good schools, young family filled areas and the kids can use that nearby 2,500 Acre park when they outgrow the garden!

As other have said, have a look at crossrail2, if they get around to building it.

Edited by Yazar on Thursday 22 January 13:58

[Flanders.]

900K would go along way in Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire and you can get to Waterloo with in 1.30hr.

[princeperch]

3 hours commuting will be miserable every day...

[Harry Flashman]

BrabusMog said:

Chertsey, East Molesey, Weybridge, Cobham, Esher, Ascot, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, Byfleet all spring to mind. Does it have to be Waterloo or can we look at Victoria?

I'm from Virginia Water - as a young child we lived in Virginia Water, then moved to Wentworth, where the family home still is. Wentworth is very expensive, V Water still not that much I think. We used to live on Trumpsgreen Avenue, which is a short walk (albeit through dark woods at night) to Virginia Water Station, which gets you to Waterloo directly in 45 minutes or so.

As a child, I loved Trumpsgreen Road (loads of friends on the street, playing together weekends and summer evenings, big park just behind the house), and hated Wentworth (boring, everyone lives behind gates and ignores their neighbours). Schools were good, although I was at a local private school, so did not attend the state. Most of my friends on the street went to the local state school though, and they didn't turn out to be murderers...

I think the whole area has got pretty pricey, but the non-Wentworth bit of V Water may still be reasonable, and was a very pleasant place to grow up.

Hope that helps.

Edited by Harry Flashman on Thursday 22 January 14:10

[Ej74]

Walton on Thames has a fast train taking 27 mins
6 trains an hr a peak times

[Ultraviolet]

bompey said:

Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, or Tunbridge Wells gets you into Waterloo East.

Or Chislehurst, Bickley, Elmstead Woods or Petts Wood East are very nice and closer in..