Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Hull Live used my trip advisor review on The Sandringham in todays announcement. It is a unique little one bar pub in this day and age and appears to be quite popular during the limited opening times. I'm sure it has potential to do better too, but the £200k asking price is a wee bit optimistic. I think the old Bernie Inn across the road, which is also an hotel is about the same price bracket and that has been on the market for years. Someone took a gamble in re opening the pub because it had been closed for a while but it seems as the gamble hasn't paid off and it looks as though it wont see it's first year out. Sign of the times?
Sadly it looks as though it is going to close unless someone is mad keen to stand behind the bar themselves seven days and nights a week to make it pay. Not many of them about.

 

Location, location, location did a hatchet job on the Hull housing market when they filmed in the city a few years back. One of my daughters was working at an estate agents in Hull when channel 4 rang asking for the cheapest property on the books. They could have done the feature on some lovely properies in the area that on price put the North/South divide into prespective, but no , they wanted cheap, dirt cheap.
They chose a run down two up,two down **** hole off Newland Avenue, and I remember they even managed to get a pile of dog 5hite into the opening shot, and a puddle with an empty beer can floating in it. It was one of the most depresssing episodes I have seen and that Kirsty Allsop and Phil Whatisname seemed to take delight in saying what a depressed state the Hull market was in.
Which makes my blood boil when every other programme seems to be about a young professional couple from London 'with only £750k to spend' after selling their garden shed in a London suburb 'with character' who want a cottage or coverted barn 'with land for the pony' somewhere in the New Forest with a near million pound price tag.

 

Friends of mine were distraught that their first marital home was a mortgaged garden flat in "dodgy" early 1980's Wandsworth. Before the end of the decade, they returned to the countryside, paid cash for a house and put money in the bank. It has been ever so moving from London to elsewhere.

 

Ah, Phil Spencer.
"A cheeky shot. I'm chuffed to bits. It's been my ambition to shoot a deer for a long time".
What a ****.
Yep, I know culling of deer is necessary, but it's beyond me how someone can think the above.

 

Kirstie should stick to crocheting kittens and decorating Xmas trees with random **** and Phil’s just a snotty nosed ****.

 

When I lived in Tottenham in the late 80s I could have bought the large shared terraced house I was living in a single room of from the housing Co-op that owned it for £30K (N.B. I couldn’t have, I was a 19 year old student who wouldn’t have got a mortgage, but the deal was there to be had). They were keen to get rid and offered it to the residents first, but at what was then market value.

I remember that it was valued about the same as my parents’ 3 bed semi off Beverley Road.

Fast forward 35 years or so and my mum’s house is worth about £150-£160K, and looking just now on Rightmove similar houses that haven’t been demolished to make way for apartments in Tottenham are now about £750K.

As I said I couldn’t have got a mortgage anyway so I’m not regretting not doing it, but it does demonstrate what a wild ride the last few decades have been for the housing market (and the north-south divide).

 

Kirsty Allsop daughter of Baron Allsop .
She was really gonna big Hull up

 

My parents bought our house in Ferriby for ten grand in 1967. Its currently on the market for 66 times that! (We sold it ages ago for a lot lot less)

 

Ten grand was a fair wedge in 1967. You would have had to have had a deposit of £2,000 for a £10,000mortgage and been earning around £60 a week when the average wage was less than £20 a week.

 

Interesting, I've no idea what my Dad was on but he had a decent job.

 

I started work in 1967. The office manager had a Volvo estate and a detached house in Rawdon near Leeds He was on £25 a week.

 

Location Location Location is notoriously southern biased. We fair much better in the other property shows like Sarah Beany and her family who still occasionally wear City stuff in the programmes, George Clarke did a good one in Hessle and Grand Designs have filmed in Swanland and half the current series is from York.

 

it’s a little more than that now…gone crazy in the last 2 years

 

Yep, my room in the house I got offered was £30 a week in 1989. Hard to believe now, as Chelsea says

 

My last employer down there was paying £2000 a month for a flat and it was a complete dump on a rough estate in Roehampton. I moved into a hotel for less money per week in Picadilly.
Prices are mental on property at the moment. I went down last week and had a beer with my old boss who reckons that flat is now £2400 and the player they tried to put in it refused to move in it was so bad so you can imagine you're not getting much for your money.

 

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Is remodelling Queens Gardens the best way to spend 10 million on Hull city center ?

 

I'd rather they invested something into getting rid of Americanisms.