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Jacqueline
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Thanks for all your replies to my post. To explain i do not regret not buying my house but i DO regret the attitude of the council and the amount of red tape...or is it lack of interest? :
When i was in the larger house i asked them to give me a transfer to a smaller property. After much form filling i received a reply saying i did not have enough points to move. WHAT A JOKE!! I was offering a four bed house to exchange to a two bed and they did not want to know. I finally found my own exchange with a family with two children. At first they said the exchange family did not have enough children. : Yet it was ok for two people to live there??? When they finally agreed i was told i should have asked for a transfer as they would have been only too happy to help. THE RIGHT HAND DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE LEFT HAND IS DOING IT SEEMS.
I also thought these purchase/sale prices of my parents homes cost over the years might be of interest [found a bunch of old documents and sale tranfere's]
These are for private three bedroomed houses over the years.
Purchase - Sept 1946 - a three bed recently built semi in Kings Heath......£750.00
Sale - 1954 - a three bed vVictorianterraced house in Kings Heath......£1,350
Purchase - 1954 - a three bed semi in Stirchley £1,800
Sale - 1973 - same three bed semi in Stirchley £7,000
Purchase - 1973 - two bedroomed first floor maisonette Kings Heath £9,950
Sale - 1977 - same two bed maisonette £9.000
Purchase - 1977 - two bed ground floor maisonette Kings Heath £9,750
The ground floor maisonette is now worth between 100k and 125k. Interesting the market seemed stagnant in the four years in the 70's.
When i was in the larger house i asked them to give me a transfer to a smaller property. After much form filling i received a reply saying i did not have enough points to move. WHAT A JOKE!! I was offering a four bed house to exchange to a two bed and they did not want to know. I finally found my own exchange with a family with two children. At first they said the exchange family did not have enough children. : Yet it was ok for two people to live there??? When they finally agreed i was told i should have asked for a transfer as they would have been only too happy to help. THE RIGHT HAND DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE LEFT HAND IS DOING IT SEEMS.
I also thought these purchase/sale prices of my parents homes cost over the years might be of interest [found a bunch of old documents and sale tranfere's]
These are for private three bedroomed houses over the years.
Purchase - Sept 1946 - a three bed recently built semi in Kings Heath......£750.00
Sale - 1954 - a three bed vVictorianterraced house in Kings Heath......£1,350
Purchase - 1954 - a three bed semi in Stirchley £1,800
Sale - 1973 - same three bed semi in Stirchley £7,000
Purchase - 1973 - two bedroomed first floor maisonette Kings Heath £9,950
Sale - 1977 - same two bed maisonette £9.000
Purchase - 1977 - two bed ground floor maisonette Kings Heath £9,750
The ground floor maisonette is now worth between 100k and 125k. Interesting the market seemed stagnant in the four years in the 70's.