In message , at 16:03:14 on Thu, 10 Sep
2015, Basil Jet remarked:

Last week's property supplement has a 1 bed flat in St Matthew's Gardens
with an asking price of £260K.

Not sure if that's evidence of a high price (£260k a bedroom vs £125k)
or what.

Lord knows I go off-topic myself from time to time, but flat prices in
various named streets in Cambridge is taking things too far IMO.

It's not that bad, actually. We are simply raising typical prices for
typical ten-year-old brown fields developments.

The wider issue is why people feel compelled to buy a flat in Ely
because it's half the price of Cambridge [and commute] or buy a flat in
Cambridge because it's a third the price of Westminster [and commute].

The whole "South East" commuting thing where people claim to be "forced
to commute by train" is predicated on the proposition that you can't buy
a 4 bed family home with a garden and view over Hyde Park for a
realistic amount of money.
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Roland Perry