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[Carlos]

Bolton isn't booming. End of.

[DirtySanchez]

Except Horwich of course 

[fatolive]

This looks good, but, lost count of the number of “ artist impressions” I’ve seen over the years.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17427510.revealed-45m-plans-for-20-storey-tower-to-transform-boltons-skyline/

 

[stevieb]

8 hours ago, DirtySanchez said:

Except Horwich of course 

H is due to get a bottle bar/craft ale pub on Chorley New Road. 

To quote some councillor in the evening news a few years back it's 'the new didsbury'.

I'm goin Vegan and growing a beard. 

[bolty58]

2 hours ago, stevieb said:

 

I'm goin Vegan and growing a beard. 

 Fuck me! Not In Crawley 2.

[tyldesley_white]

18 hours ago, fatolive said:

This looks good, but, lost count of the number of “ artist impressions” I’ve seen over the years.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17427510.revealed-45m-plans-for-20-storey-tower-to-transform-boltons-skyline/

 

45 M seems cheap for a 20 storey building

[Boo]

41 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

45 M seems cheap for a 20 storey building

It's a pile of shipping containers.

[Horwich]

Just seen the plans for some new appartmenyd near bank street.

why would anyone want to live near Bolton town centre?

[bolty58]

5 minutes ago, Horwich said:

Just seen the plans for some new appartmenyd near bank street.

why would anyone want to live near Bolton town centre?

Why would anyone want to live in an appartmenyd?

[royal white]

Cost and location? Easy links into Manchester (when the trains and trams get sorted) 

 

Probably the only reason I can think of, unless they’re gambling/pastie shop addicts who like to dress in second hand clothes, if thats the case then there’s no where more appealing than town 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

If the area is done up well over time, it could well be quite an attractive place to live.

Got to start somewhere, and do it right and it could provide a boost to the town centre.

[bolty58]

10 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

If the area is done up well over time, it could well be quite an attractive place to live.

Got to start somewhere, and do it right and it could provide a boost to the town centre.

The lad speaks sense.

Perth city centre was a ghost town ten years ago. Since they decided to encourage city centre living, bars, restaurants, convenience stores etc. have popped up all over the place.

Used to be almost deserted with a few sparsely populated and grubby pubs open (owt decent was more aimed at the CBD workers at lunch times).

Huge selection now including one of my favourites, The Spaniard 

https://www.thespaniard.com.au/

[frank_spencer]

15 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

If the area is done up well over time, it could well be quite an attractive place to live.

Got to start somewhere, and do it right and it could provide a boost to the town centre.

With the Church Warf development at the other end of Bradshawgate it needs something doing to the rest of it to perk it up. 

The big investment jobs are hard to get once they are in the smaller places in between soon pick up 

[MickyD]

A lot of these new apartments are sold on a shared ownership deal. Half belongs to a housing association and half self-owned. 

Mate of mine had one of the ones at the old Lido cinema overlooking the Balmoral junction. Once he got married and had kids he needed to sell up and buy a house. That's when his problems started. He knew what he needed from his 50% of the sale to be put forwards into the next property. Unfortunately, the housing assoc. wouldn't let him sell. they wanted to maximise their profit and sell for more than the market value. They pretty much had him by the bollocks as they made his half unsellable.Eventually, he found a way around their stubbornness but he lost a couple of potential houses  on the way.

[miamiwhite]

10 hours ago, MickyD said:

A lot of these new apartments are sold on a shared ownership deal. Half belongs to a housing association and half self-owned. 

Mate of mine had one of the ones at the old Lido cinema overlooking the Balmoral junction. Once he got married and had kids he needed to sell up and buy a house. That's when his problems started. He knew what he needed from his 50% of the sale to be put forwards into the next property. Unfortunately, the housing assoc. wouldn't let him sell. they wanted to maximise their profit and sell for more than the market value. They pretty much had him by the bollocks as they made his half unsellable.Eventually, he found a way around their stubbornness but he lost a couple of potential houses  on the way.

Isn’t one on the market there for £20k ?

Sound investment to rent out to the students,etc.

 

 

[jayjayoghani]

I bought shared ownership, I became eligible to buy the remainder after 1 year. Had to get a valuation done. Piece of piss.

In effect that sale above had 2 vendors and is not ideal. For that reason alone, worth buying the remainder if you can. 

[Horwich]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47307865

[Zico]

On 20/02/2019 at 08:40, MickyD said:

A lot of these new apartments are sold on a shared ownership deal. Half belongs to a housing association and half self-owned. 

Mate of mine had one of the ones at the old Lido cinema overlooking the Balmoral junction. Once he got married and had kids he needed to sell up and buy a house. That's when his problems started. He knew what he needed from his 50% of the sale to be put forwards into the next property. Unfortunately, the housing assoc. wouldn't let him sell. they wanted to maximise their profit and sell for more than the market value. They pretty much had him by the bollocks as they made his half unsellable.Eventually, he found a way around their stubbornness but he lost a couple of potential houses  on the way.

I suppose it depends on what he was trying to sell for and how soon it was after he'd originally bought the property

how did he get round it in the end?

the housing association do shared ownership to help people get on the market, and generally want to sell their share asap and get it off their books and have a tick in the box of another person fully on the housing ladder - never known them not to take market value (everyone in my block was shared ownership and either sold as shared ownership, or bought out the other share)

it's generally a good way to get on the ladder (so long as you buy as much of it as you can), but seen some in london where you only get to buy 10% and pay rent on 90% - mental

[Carlos]

Those apartments in Bolton, with the gym and cinema. Roflcopter. They'll be bought by greedy cunts and rented out to dossers, thus rendered worthless like Marsden House.

[deane koontz]

24 minutes ago, Carlos said:

Those apartments in Bolton, with the gym and cinema. Roflcopter. They'll be bought by greedy cunts and rented out to dossers, thus rendered worthless like Marsden House.

 

Pretty much.

[Marc505]

Baltic Cellar has gone in Vaults, they're blaming high rent, a dead building and poor management.

Really doesn't bode well for the Vaults as a whole that, I'd be really sad to see it die a death.

[jmjhb]

Perhaps, but it is the third time they've had to move/packed up

[Casino]

I like it, but haven't been in for 18 months

I guess that's the problem

I do find it eerily quiet at night

Shame

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

See in the BN a 12 year old shot in the leg in town centre. An air rifle apparently, but ridiculous nonetheless.

[MancWanderer]

Saw that in the MEN. Dear oh dear that’s just horrendous