13 July (Part 1) - Housing Associations selling off stock again
They are at it again. Housing Associations selling off low quality housing stock that is. Who buys them? Presumably not those who rely on the rental market to keep a roof over their heads.
If my records are correct, these are the addresses lost from the social housing stock over the past couple of years…
As you will have heard, the new Government has promised to build 1·5 million new houses in five years which sounds remarkably similar to the Conservatives’ 300,000 a year target.
Can it be done? Google suggests - and it is very country and building style
dependent - that it takes around 3,000 man-hours to build a house. Probably
Labour aspires to little more than rabbit hutches so maybe 2,000 hours would be nearer the mark.
1,500,000 houses in five years, 300,000 a year is about 1,150 per working day.
How long does a builder spend not brewing tea each day? Seven hours maybe? Taking the low
Google estimate of 2,000 hours to build a house translates into 286 man days
each. (2,000/7.) But Labour says they can build 1,150 houses every day so they
must be looking for 1,150x286 man days of labour every day. Have I got that
right? 328,000 (1,150x286) building workers, electricians, plumbers and roofers summoned up
from nowhere starting this week.
No holidays, no sick days, no need for training. Have you tried to get a
builder recently? Politicians are full of BS. Why do we need so many new houses
anyway?
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