13 September - The housing Merry-Go-Round
There
are a whole load of things wrong with this country which our billionaire Prime
Minister apparently fails to recognise but one of the worst and
most longstanding is that young people and even middle-aged people are unable to buy their own home.
How many UK problems could have been fixed if the clown had not
given away
nearly two billion US dollars of our money to solve other countries’ climate change issues
without seeking agreement from any of us, including MPs?
I have said this or something like it before. In 1961 I was earning £403
a year including London weighting and commuting daily from Hampshire.
By the beginning of 1963 after a change of job I was on £820 a year but two
years later had saved enough cash to attach myself to the bottom end of the
housing ladder with a two bedroom ground floor flat with its own garden.
I am not sure who put an end to that happy state of affairs but it was
definitely a politician. Looking back over the past 60 years one can only
conclude that every last one of them who rose above back-bencher has been
either useless, incompetent, self serving or corrupt and probably several of those things.
Young family men such as Mr. Murky (see adjacent Tweet/X
which is one of many similarly themed) are unable to fully provide for their
partners and children and for some that will be soul-destroying.
Some in his situation seem to think that Mr. Starmer will be their salvation which
65 years of political awareness makes me think is Cloud Cuckoo Land but we
already have incompetent Socialists ruling the country so it probably doesn’t matter much any more.
Mrs. Thatcher allowed Council house tenants to buy their homes at a huge
discount and by and large they weren’t replaced. Those that remained Council owned were
eventually taken over by Housing Associations who are themselves
doing
something of a Thatcher on them. Selling them off to the highest bidder. Below is
yet another one.
Maybe I am too old and demented to see any merit in this. If Mr. Murky is
good for a quarter of a million pounds maybe the likes of him can
grab the bottom rung of the ladder but I fail to see how yet another Housing
Association sell off helps anyone; except perhaps the buy to let landlords and the HMO profiteers.
List of auctioned Housing Association addresses with links to original blogs. Hover over address for date. (Revised 1st December 2025.)
Bexley
30 Bourne Mead - £165,000
2 Eynsford Crescent - £190,000
15 Marden Crescent - £300,000
Pengarth Road - £160+,000
34 Pengarth Road - £300,000
53 Pengarth Road - £310,000
Rye Close - £320,000
44 Stansted Crescent - £170,000
44 Stanstead Crescent - £140,000
Bexleyheath
Grove Road - £145,000
94 Halcot Avenue - £195,000
121 Halcot Avenue - £210,000
33 Oakhouse Road - £360,000
Parkside Avenue - £260,000
80 Pelham Road - £260,000
Crayford
Crayford Road - £270,000
Dale End - £139,000
1 Dale Road - £295,000
38 Dale Road - £270,000
65 Dale Road - £295,000
60 Heath Road - £249,000
83 Heath Road - £260,000
22B Iron Mill Lane - £275,000
179 Iron Mill Lane - 155,000
187 Iron Mill Lane - £135,000
235 Iron Mill Lane - £320,000
176 Maiden Lane - £255,000
191 Maiden Lane - £160,000
191 Maiden Lane - £160,000 (2nd auction)
206 Maiden Lane - £250,000
230 Maiden Lame - £250,000
234 Maiden Lane - £250,000
234 Maiden Lane - £175,000
4 Medway Road - £210,000
4 Medway Road - £270,000
4 Medway Road - £225,000
Russell Close - £155,000
44 Stansted Crescent - £170,000
20 Stour Road - £205,000
Erith
21 Athol Road - £220,000
Hilden Drive - £285,000
52 Jennington Road - £250,000
Springhead Road - £255,000
Sidcup
Burnham Road - £190,000
11 Diana Close - £275,000
Ellenborogh Road - £149,000
Ellenborogh Road - £155,000
Ellenborough Road - £269,000
5 Ellenborough Road - £210,000
63 Foots Cray Road - £325,000
2-48 Heron Crescent - Not priced
Ladbrooke Crescent - £220,000
Maddocks Close - £255,000
50 Mallard Walk, £180,000
Maylands Drive - £320,000
56 Maylands Drive - £200,000
56 Maylands Drive - £180,000
17 Partridge Road - £300,000
Pembury Crescent - £129,000
Pembury Crescent - £135,000
30 St. Andrew’s Road - £240,000
Welling
29 Beal Close - £250,000
19 Berwick Road - £275,000
39 Burnell Avenue - £300,000
18 Burnell Avenue - £280,000
79 Darenth Road - £275,000
47 Denton Road - £145,000
17 Ridley Road - £235,000
77 Tyrell Road - £290,000
2 Wycliffe Close - £310,000