Manctopia on BBC2

Big-P said:
houses go up for sale in M6 and they’re gone soon afterwards. 3 bed semis with small gardens going for 230,000-260,000. It’s a joke.
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watching homes under the hammer early on today - 2 bed excouncil maisonette in Bow East London £375k !!
 
peoffrey said:
Can you name them? I know The Square Mile and Canary Wharf well. These areas are absolutely huge. Sky scrapers. I can't see where in Manchester these firms would go as Spinningfields is pretty full already.

I'd argue many firms can see workers can work from home easily and therefore don't need office space at all. That's a very confident prediction. Have you got Saturday's Lotto result?
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Build it and they will come. Debenhams is being converted to offices. Kendals will probably go the same way. There's lots of space to build more.

peoffrey said:
I've lived in London on and off for fifteen years and Manchester is sadly becoming the London of the North. Trust me, you DON'T want that to happen. It'll lose its soul and become all about the outsiders. Gentrification has killed London.

I'm house hunting at the moment and am struggling to find value in Manchester compared to Newcastle, Liverpool or Leeds as comparable cities in the north. It's daft what they want for a two up two down in Droylsden or Failsworth.

All my old friends from back in the day have left. Even if they're only in Preston or Stafford, their Manchester is dead to them. It's tragic.
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I was looking at the old Failsworth police station today as I am toying with a business idea. I checked the planning portal on the council website and someone from Saudi Arabia has put in an application!

Incredible.

Going to watch this now, forgot last night.
 
manchester blue said:
Build it and they will come. Debenhams is being converted to offices. Kendals will probably go the same way. There's lots of space to build more.
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CIS building is being emptied isn't it? 25 ready made floors for conversion to flats - with a car park
 
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Blue Hefner said:
I just started this. The rights or lack of, in the private rental sector for renters is a disgrace. Manchester City centre is ugly and only getting worse with these hideous glass buildings going up
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i once acted for Germans and they came to Manchester and we were walking to a restaurant and I was saying what do you think of Manchester . He replied

the only things that should live in glass houses are tomatoes
 
Cellarite said:
95% certain I was in the same year at school as the mum of two who couldn’t find anywhere to live in Eccles. When was this filmed?
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Presumably mid/late last year as there was absolutely no mention of the Coronavirus and the potential impact it could have on the people paying rent in the city centre and/or the need to rent in the city centre if people are encouraged to work from home

Maybe that topic will come in at the end but the world has changed so much in the past 9 months, the program seems out of date already from the perspective of the property developer, the city centre estate agent and the ‘fashion’ advisor who spent a lot of time travelling around Europe to places such as Italy
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I haven’t watched the programme, but surely it just depends on the area. People complain they’ve been priced out of Manchester, yet there quite a lot of affordable areas

can’t afford Didsbury, look at longsight, burnage. A lot of this is in the city centre and places like Chorlton/ didsbury - where richer people want to live

I don’t want Manchester to lose its character though and the people that make it what it is. So Londoners stay Out and ruin somewhere else ;)
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Didsbury has always been expensive and a desirable place to live. Amazed how it has extended it's borders recently in to Withington and Fallowfield. I didn't know Princess Parkway was now Didsbury lol.

Even Burnage is seeing ridiculous inflation. Fair play to those who live there and are selling but it doesn't exactly warrant the inflation, I lived there for 2 year stint not too long a go and it's not exactly a desirable area. I suppose a USP is that it's next door and is in walking distance from Didsbury.
 
manchester blue said:
Build it and they will come. Debenhams is being converted to offices. Kendals will probably go the same way. There's lots of space to build more.


I was looking at the old Failsworth police station today as I am toying with a business idea. I checked the planning portal on the council website and someone from Saudi Arabia has put in an application!

Incredible.

Going to watch this now, forgot last night.
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Made a great cannabis farm last year that place
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
get this....

estate agents are now calling Royton in oldham the new didsbury.
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I moved to royton 3 years ago, I think it’s because of the bars etc that are popping up, schools are good round here to, it’s probably one of the better places to live in oldham behind a saddleworth (ten bob millionaires) and that’s not saying much. There’s a metrolink not far away so I’m sure that’s a selling point.
 
Blue Maverick said:
I moved to royton 3 years ago, I think it’s because of the bars etc that are popping up, schools are good round here to, it’s probably one of the better places to live in oldham behind a saddleworth (ten bob millionaires) and that’s not saying much. There’s a metrolink not far away so I’m sure that’s a selling point.
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My family live in chadderton and I grew up there and Royton definitely is the best place in oldham now apart from The place those who live there think is still Yorkshire
 
I’d not live in Didsbury and I know it well. I was happy in Failsworth. The pub in walking distance of my house did the job and I was a stones throw from the tram in to Victoria plus the Oldham Road corridor. Perfect.
 
Blue Hefner said:
Presumably mid/late last year as there was absolutely no mention of the Coronavirus and the potential impact it could have on the people paying rent in the city centre and/or the need to rent in the city centre if people are encouraged to work from home

Maybe that topic will come in at the end but the world has changed so much in the past 9 months, the program seems out of date already from the perspective of the property developer, the city centre estate agent and the ‘fashion’ advisor who spent a lot of time travelling around Europe to places such as Italy
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Some of those shots of the Manchester skyline looked maybe early 2019, the last of the Deansgate square towers weren’t topped out. It’s horrible to think what covid has done to families that were struggling to make ends meet before March. Unemployment and furlough taking 20 percent off people’s wages will leave a lot of people destitute.
 
Blue Hefner said:
Presumably mid/late last year as there was absolutely no mention of the Coronavirus and the potential impact it could have on the people paying rent in the city centre and/or the need to rent in the city centre if people are encouraged to work from home

Maybe that topic will come in at the end but the world has changed so much in the past 9 months, the program seems out of date already from the perspective of the property developer, the city centre estate agent and the ‘fashion’ advisor who spent a lot of time travelling around Europe to places such as Italy
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The city centre estate agent, Jennie Platt, is actually based in Prestwich north of the city centre. Surprised me that she was marketing high end city centre flats. But I guess that's where the big commissions come in.
 
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