Looking to first time buy in East Ham.....

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Is it very stabby? Going for a mooch about tomorrow with the misses to see if it's nice (read; to see if she thinks it's nice), as with our measly combined income we can just about afford a terrace project around there, circa £300k give or take.

I basically love the yellow/red London stock and a small terrace would be viable in those ends, example;

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Naturally a clear skied Saturday won'g be best for getting a day to day goings-on impression but it's a first step, so if it passes the test then a Friday night stabby pubs mooch would have to be conducted..

It's just whenever I see properties like that all that goes through my head is "knock that wall down, extend over the rear, bi-folds to rear, en-suite loft conversion, veluxes, man shed in garden, full insulate all voids, strip out all M&E and refit with cutting edge services inc. hvac, walk in shower, strip chimney breasts back to brick, etc, etc, etc.... ( I work in construction project management and learned the old fashioned way by rebuilding Minis, Land Rovers and mates extensions.

Just looking for experiences, intel, suggestions etc, hopefully this can then develop into a build thread!

PS it would be a stepping stone property to a garage property next ( to buy more Minis, Land Rovers, etc etc..)

Beers!!

HH

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Thanks for the comments, but you've got me looking at Leytonstone now! And that place called Clapton which must be turbo stabby based on the yellow brick to affordability matrix (Rightmove).

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putonghua73 said:

The critical aspects will be:
- how much modernisation is required
- you and your partner's commute

All the best whatever you decide.

Full reno! I'm talking silhouette of the OAP previous owner still melted into the floorboards from 3 months of decomposition before the milkman finally caved and bashed the door in to see what's up.

As long as we can get to central within an hour door to door

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Thanks for the replies. To close out this topic, I now WFH and am looking in Bournemouth, Dorset. My £300k now gets me a 3 bed detached Edwardian..