Exploring the RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP properties for sale in BURNLEY...£12,000 for a HOUSE???
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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I went to explore the Northern town of Burnley, to figure out why the house prices there are so low compared to some other areas near it. The video speaks for itself but I would just like to say that it is clear that it is landlords that have caused a lot of these issues. Landlords who do not care about the houses, don't care who is in them and ultimately don't care about Burnley. Everyone I met was lovely, the town is in a great location and the transport links are good. If these houses belonged to the people, the streets would take care of themselves. This video is not really about Burnley, but really about landlords who do not care
I am 55 and I lived in the last area you covered for 47 years until I moved south with work 8 years ago . I lived on the street with the 12 thousand pound house for all my childhood . Until 8 years ago I had lived within 5 streets of my childhood home all my life, living to begin with in a smaller terrace and finally living in the large “fancier” houses, I also owned a business in the area for a good few years.
Growing up it was a lovely area with a real sense of community and even in more recent times the long standing residents of the area still have a great sense of community and pride in their homes.
The problems are two fold , lack of investment by the powers that be and landlords as you said buying up property cheap to add to a massive portfolio. The landlords are not interested in who lives in the properties as on the whole they rent to people on benefits so their rents are guaranteed. The rental properties that make up the majority of the area have a transient population of residents who for whatever reason are not invested in their homes so don’t take a pride in where they live as they know it’s only a temporary place to live and they tend to move properties on a regular basis .
Stop the landlords monopoly, get some local investment and the difference I’m sure would be there for all to see.
Burnley is not a bad place it’s mismanagement on a grand scale. My elderly parents still live close to the last area you showed in the larger houses and the community is superb , everyone looks out for each other , the houses are well cared for etc .
It’s not rocket science to see that the houses and communities are good in the streets with the larger houses because they don’t incur the quick profits that the smaller ones do for the landlords so landlords don’t buy them .
Hi thanks so much for this. I think this is the most interesting comment I have read on this post, coming from someone who lived where I showed.
You also seemed to articulate well the issues with landlords and people with absent care for the area. Much better than I did in the video 😂
I appreciate it cheers 👍
I have heard it said that "residential landlordism" is the most destructive social force in the world today.. Note that houses in New Zealand have an "average" price of almost one million dollars, about UKP 500,000. We used to have a very high level of individual home ownership but that's been crashdiving for the last few decades. Yes, Tax incentives mean that Landlords can simply outbid first home buyers using their huge untaxed Capital Gains. If British central government really wanted to do something, they could, easy-peasy. Local council's like Burnley, could do "some" more but are often hamstrung by lack of finance and the laws from above governing them. If local councils wanted, then I'm sure they could insist on any houses which are joined as a Terrace or Duplex (Semi-detached) , must be kept in "good order" as a health and safety issue for the houses' residents on adjoining sides. Given there are so few, single stand alone houses in that part of Britain, it seems to me that'd give the council the ability to say "You've got 12 months to fix up your derelict, boarded up house, or we'll seize it from you".
Can you imagine in the 60s and 70s they were all nice houses, little gardens, good neighbours all working people. Probably nice parks, kids playing in the streets. Maybe a fish n chip shop a VG corner store a greengrocers, a daily milkman a Sunblest and Mother's Pride daily bread round, Ice Cream vans doing the rounds on the long summer nights, and a Corona pop van on a Friday night. Probably a Victoria wines off license and a few back street off the road little pubs all full on a Saturday night, it's enough to make you cry to see what's happening to not just Burnley, but our country as a whole,.
Nah.....I lived on Standish St Burnley in 1974/ 6 ...working couple 2 kids. No bathroom long drop toilet outside. Old scullery. Mice inside...rats... outside the Council gave local people nothing. They ran the town down and have continued to do so ever since . The best roads in Burnley are the Roads out of Town. The councils And powers that be have Ruined the place for years.!!!
well at least you have WOKE to make up for it
Sad but true!
Yup those days are gone forever maybe
In a country as small as the UK, u right. No reasonable sized town should be left to die... But towns do die.. The American west is full of ghost towns.. And a James bond film used a complete abandoned town of the coast of China. Semi derilict Detroit is struggling to make a come back but still failing.. If the jobs move elsewhere... What are you going to do? 🤔
I’m a builder, and years ago i used to know a property developer who used to buy houses like this for next to nothing, sit on them for a few years until the council decided to regenerate the area!
You would think the council would buy them considering the lack of social housing🤷♂️
Ha! You would think that but instead they'd rather line there own pockets the greedy pigs
That would make sense and be a solutions start
In the US developers buy the units, sit on them to control the supply & drive rents up, let the area become a slum, get neighborhood blight redevelopment incentives from the city/ township/ borough and then redevelop and flip or raze and sell as gentrification.
The UK needs to know these same predatory capitalistic practices are possible in some degree or form in the UK too.
The law of Unintended Consequences or How Councillors Vote to Enrich themselves and Their Families.
Very sad as stone terraced houses can make lovely cosy homes. Shame the council can't compulsory purchase them and join forces with a building firm to modernise them. They could then resell them to first time home buyers. The area then would completely change. Our first house had been on a notorious council estate which was sold to Barratt. They completely gutted them, making them look totally different. The name of the estate etc was changed and they were resold. Totally transformed the area.
They do, but the reason they're empty is because there is no demand for them.
12K for a block of land and 24K worth of work to clear the block! so 36K for the block!
The problem would be easy to solve. Build an iPhone factory, a top performing University and a fantastic night club all within walking distance.
That sounds like a good idea, with the shortage of housing stock in this country, these little terraces could be made habitable, and much more solid than gerry built modern houses. With the direct link to Manchester by rail, this could solve many housing problems. People would take pride in maintaining them.
@@tomconnor7786 There is a demand for decent housing. People just don't like living next to the dregs of society and derelict houses. If you change the whole neighbourhood in one swoop it works. Changed the estate we lived on.
Quite shocking areas like that exist in the UK in 2022. Most of those houses are probably completely unfit to live in, with things like mold, vermin, asbestose and just very damp in general. The city really should step in, buy these and either demolish or fully renovate before dodgy landlords take advantage of people in a desperate situation and actually rent them out in this state. This obviously would be terrible for the health of the occupants. One can only pray no children are living there now that we know what terrible things mold can do to them.
Yeah something needs to be done to get these properties out of the hands of landlords who do not care about the area, or who is in the houses
You haven't noticed what govts did to people? They don't care about anyone. Let alone their health.
Demolish the lot and build nice new houses with gardens.
Most of those old terraced houses, especially on streets where there are no foundations, just built onto ground level, the ones with the front door straight onto the pavement, they are all past their useful life. Even as an investor I wouldn't waste my money renovating one. You couldn't charge much for rent and no decent folk would want to move onto a run down street.
Lol have you not realised everything's been getting worse for decades? Quote shocking? You actually think things are getting better
I had a contract in offices on Elm Stree Burnley, out towards Brierfield about 10 years ago. At the time, there were loads.of boarded up houses for sale for 6k. It's only a short distance from glorious countryside,.Pendle hill etc I never felt threatened there. I really liked living there for the four months.
This was very illuminating, so thanks for doing this. From the front those houses looked quite good. It was only when you showed us the backs we saw the grim reality. By way of contrast, I live in Dorset in a 3 bedroomed ex council house. The going rate in my street is £300k. I have just sold my late brothers house in North West London for £450k. It is smaller than mine with no central heating. Madness.
The location seem to matter more to buyers than the actual property.
I just posted about the £300k ex council houses in Sussex.
Why sell a house in london. You got no children?
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti I have a daughter. She has her own house. I gave her most of the proceeds of the house sale so she can pay off her mortgage.
@@jinnbuster4753 oh that is nice 👍 london is turning into a trashcan anyway
2:20 puts north face on and Instantly starts swag walk & talking about the pub as he walks through Burnley - epic 😅
It's a shame, so many people homeless and these are just ruined. it needs a proper monitored housing association to buy them and then keep an eye on the tenants after they are let.
Yeah that’s exactly it
Isn’t it awful H.Assocs have to be monitored…!
@@liannegeorge2881 the tenants need to be monitored too.
If you repair the house and give it to a homeless, you will repair the house again in 6 months time
@@cjstubejackofalltrade1551 There was research done in one of the Scandavian countries where the homeless were given small but adequate new, purpose-built accommodation. The accommodation came unconditional with welfare benefit money. The homeless took responsibility for getting off drugs, looked after their money,paid their bills and became healthier. Unfortunately, the government have let the homeless and vulnerable down badly in the UK (even more so in the US).
I've been in Burnley 20 years and have never once felt unsafe. The majority of houses do not have bars on them. It's not at all unusual to see kids playing out in the street. There are some very pleasant areas not featured in this video and also some lovely parks. If you have a car, there is stunning scenery and pretty villages right on the doorstep. Finally, expensive areas next to run-down ones are not unique to Burnley - it was very typical when I lived in London, for example.
as an ex=postie literally one street could be the trouble street, just go away the corner in some places and very similar houses drop £££s, cause they got a bad name
I worked there for years, lived just outside Burnley but I know the area very well. There are some good parts like any other town, but the really cheap end is cheap for a reason.
@@localreviewking134 Yep it only takes a couple of scumbag families to turn a street/locality into an ASBO hellhole with dragged-up feral sprogs shouting, swearing & causing trouble all the time. I'll never understand why councils house feckless generational benefits scum next to hard-working decent families...I'm not saying that everyone on benefits is scum but the differences in lifestyle are poles apart & the chances that these families are anti-social is orders of magnitude higher. One demographic has no reason to be quiet or go to bed at a reasonable time & the other needs some peace & quiet to be ready for the next working day.
Incongruous. incompatible, irreconcilable!
It's not ridiculously cheap...the country has gotten ridiculously expensive. Where it's a case of selling your soul for a place to live. To keep you trapped on the hamster wheel. Within my life time it's gone from one person needing to work in a family to both parents working as well as having to claim money from the state to afford to live. How has this happened?!!!
You are completely right!
It’s sad to realise that even that £12,000 house i see in the video…I still cannot afford 😂
@@wanderingturnip I just know my mum and dad who have paid off their mortgage are going to get shafted when the time comes. But hey if you're rich you can pass all your money on via a trust fund. With no inheritance tax.
Happened through mass immigration and women entering the workforce. Driving down wages and benefiting the asset owning class.
@@wanderingturnip Of course you could afford to buy it even with a mortgage on minimum wage doing a 30 hour week there. Do the maths!
@@davidbentley6924 anyone can create a trust fund, no?
I bought a terraced house in Burnley today and will be moving in later next year. I'll report on my experiences after having lived here for a few months.
any update?!
I've been living in Burnley for about two months now, and I don't care what anyone else says, I love it. Friendly people, beautiful countryside all around, lots of interesting places to visit nearby. Not to mention the Leeds and Liverpool canal, which I have fallen in love with and am walking in stages - when I'm not walking in the Pennines instead - having already covered Blackburn to Leeds. I have yet to encounter a situation here where I have felt threatened or endangered. I do not at all think Burnley deserves the reputation it has, although everyone says the town has improved greatly from what it was a few years ago. I suspect this is so. It's part of a national trend, but rents have shot up here recently and the supply of cheap terraced houses seems to be drying up. For example, I went to the Healey Wood area when I first came to Burnley in December and there were "for sale" signs on about one-third of the houses there. I went to the area last week and could only see four "for sale" signs in all three streets. I suspect prices will move upwards soon.
As to the terraced house I bought, I have been persuaded to rent it out and have bought a one-bedroom flat for myself and am in a temporary house share until the purchase completes. I am in negotiations to buy another terraced house in need of renovation and even have prospective tenants who want to move in when it's ready. I believe in Burnley. A town 45 minutes from Manchester and just over an hour from Leeds by train cannot remain so cheap in my opinion.
@@timdrayton4956 I recommend jumping on the bus to Todmorden one day for a look around. If Burnley had better rail connections it could really soar.
How many grow houses did he just walk past
I saw at least two I know for a fact were
@@googlymoogly1741 how you know for a fact
@@googlymoogly1741 Used to live on a street where they dealed openly in Burnley. I was glad to move.
Plenty lol
@@Splixy if you know you know
Randomly came across this video/channel in my suggested and I'm glad I clicked! We moved around a lot growing up, and I actually thought the houses we lived in Burnley were knocked down, this was a throw back to nostalgia haha - thanks for that! Edit- i had a double check, and yep, one of the streets we did live on with terraced housing was knocked down.
Thanks for watching 😀
Burnley is not that cheap anymore, prices have almost doubled the last 2-3 years. The prices you show are auction starting prices, and even in the worse places you showed they don't sell less than 45-50k and no normal person would like to live there. It doesn't mean necessarily that you gonna get stabbed, but you'll have to deal with asb, burglaries, theft and vandalism constantly.
Hey cheers for this. Yeah I’ve been following a lot of the auctions with these houses. Some didn’t sell at all, and some went for, as you said, more than the price.
Yep got burgled in a hotel there
@@wanderingturnipits a good future investments seeing the many Millions of people crossing into europe yearly
@@DrRusselllol imagine walking through poor people areas without big folding knife in your pocket and pepper spray. Me big and buff weighing over hundred kilo but even I dont take the risk
@@AbuHajarAlBugattifanny
With the views you pulled on this it would be a great idea to do more like this. Travel to different cities and explore their cheap areas too. Over 130k views with only 9 videos out, that's very impressive
Hey thanks. Yeah I’m going to go explore more areas for sure.
@@wanderingturnip Wonder about a lot more, Turnip. :)
My family are originally from Burnley. I grew up in Nottinghamshire but I visit family there regularly, I don’t find the place to be scary and dangerous, I actually always comment on how friendly and down to earth people are up there compared to down here. I like Burnley. The only thing I don’t like about it is how cold it gets in the winter 😂
Yeah it is chilly up here 😂
This is the standard of 'government' and 'council' in the UK today, it's time for people to wake up and take control of their own areas and force the change required.
This is due to the cuts from central (tory) government of around 40% of councils' budgets, actually.......
I have done property up in Burnley to a good standard. I had break ins and one house gutted. Was very difficult but have a good agent and know better builders now. It has all settled down. I spent time doing up to a good standard and enjoyed bringing my houses back to life. Would be nice if people
Got together to do the same it is possible to do and have a good investment . But in places like Burnley it can be risky
How can I reach out to you? Do you have an agency? If yes, drop the name because if you leave your contact details, UA-cam will automatically remove it
Best wishes to you! You are very brave.
Where do I find these cheap houses which auction house? A casual search online and cheapest is £45k.
@@Anythingyoulike2013 back in the homeland, nice price
Easy if you have the money to do so. Not everyone can.
Right....all these houses in all areas in the uk.....some of them are in good condition....i was working for a building company in Birkenhead,Merseyside....we had to demolish two streets of house owned by the council...so they could replace them with "up to date houses"...there was nothing wrong with them....its like in Liverpool you can join a scheme to buy a house for a pound but comes with terms and conditions.....why dont they sort something out that people can afford,homeless problems sorted,things like that....the government have got the money to do this but make the rich,richer and tread down the poor.....come on people ...its time we stand up and dictate,how our government should do what we want.....they work for us....failing that...then lets just stand up and revolt....Cromwell and the french done it....why cant we!!!!
They did the 'house for a pound if you'll do it up' thing in Stoke on Trent in recent years too.
It's sad when a street is given up on. Once crime takes it over, everyone moves out and its a hard one to pull back. I'd love to be able to buy one or more and do them up to improve the area. But the risk of it getting vandalised and tools stolen is a big one. I watched the £1 houses of Manchester programme a while back, and they had the same issues. So much work was put into them, and throughout several were broken into, vandalised, and tools stolen.
I wouldnt buy a house in a cheap area again because even if mine is nice, there are too many problems surrounding me. Better off buying a run down property in a decent area. You cant fail really.
Drugs and organised crime. It's too much for one person to take on.
I live in west Yorkshire now (14yrs) I was brought up in burnley, it makes me sad these houses use to be someone's pride and joy 😞 there actually has been some improvements in some of the areas you have visited 👍
I live not too far from the latter area, in a decent house,and one problem is investors from outside the area buy them cheap,run out of money/patience,the leave them to rot until the council dose a compulsive purchase order buys the street or block and flatterns them,
Hey thanks for this. Do you think it will change due to the good location of this place?
@@wanderingturnip yes hebden used to be a mill town just the same but over the decades has become more tourist ie .since I moved over here from Sowerby Bridge 14 years ago I've seen investment in industry leasure and education,which are the foundations for future change for former Mill towns .
We got our 2 bedroom house in Burnley for 68,000 2 years ago. We love it here, very quiet compared to the vandalism and the druggies next door in Gainsborough. You get good and bad everywhere. We live near the footie ground and nothing like you are showing is here
Yeah for sure, I really like Burnley too, this is not a reflection of the whole place, just a few areas that have been neglected.
@@wanderingturnip Yes true. If these areas were improved it would be so much better
Peckham in South East London was viewed just as bad in the late 70s, 80s up until early 00s. Now it's all gentrified and the worst council estates back in the day have rents of 2k a month with sought after postcodes. I still can't believe the turn around its made. So Burnley has potential too.
My great grandfather was a farmer from Altham, just outside Accrington and he turned to building as a side hustle and built quite a few rows of houses in the area near to where he farmed. I don't live in Lancashire and I don't think Accrington is quite so run-down as the worst streets you showed us in this video, and the last of the houses was sold in the early 1990s. My eyes popped a bit when I heard how little they fetched at auction. I think the last one went for just a couple of thousand and the houses Joe built were generally quite a bit bigger than the very basic ten foot frontage houses you showed us. Interesting video.
Parts of Accrington are comfortably as bad as parts of burnley I'm afraid.
@@hughmacdonald1911 Correct. A lot of these northern mill towns are the same. Hundreds of streets of old terraced houses that are not worth renovating, they will need demolishing in the end. Nobody aspires to living in one, but of course some terraced are like cottages, its all down to the specific location. The straight out the door onto the pavement type properties, row upon row facing each other in undesirable areas, they need flattening.
Meanwhile here in germany even in a tiny farming town paying 300k is the normality. If you want a huge newly built house in a nice area of bigger city you gotta loosen 600k to 1.5 mil
Not that long ago that terraces houses in Salford were £6-12000...then it got BBCified.
BBCified. 😂
It's a pity about the state of the houses, it shows a divide between the rich and the less well off. It will take people to buy the derelict houses and completely gut them, right back to the stone or brick, replaster, rewire, new flooring the list goes on. It is doable, I think the Government should put their money where their mouth is and invest up north by offering property developers help to get people into affordable accessible housing. Boy does it need it!
Yeah that’s exactly it
How about cut out the middle man, the property developer who are in it to make money, and give cash direct to people to renovate the house. Put some caveats in place, eg, you have to stay in the property for x amount of years. And when and if the house gets sold later down the line a % of any profit goes into a pot to further the scheme.
Well presented. Interesting to see the crime warning sign stating that the area is patrolled - bet you didn't see one copper or camera during the several hours you were there. Sadly it's abandoned by every authority that should be building it up. Again, it's sadly the growing state of affairs countrywide.
Hey cheers. Yeah you are right actually. I didn’t
@@wanderingturnip try filming in one of the less deprived areas and watch plod show up. 😁
End houses are usually colder and outside walls can suffer with damp. Plus if you want to know what the area is like go back in the evening after schools turn out.
Yeah this was early tbf, I agree a late video would be totally different 😂
Vandalising cars etc. Not good
I grew up in Burnley and am familiar with all those areas, they're safe and good people. There's all sorts in all towns and cities, to go round the cheapest houses in the town, look at some fly tipping and bars on windows and say what do you think of Burnley? You could do that in Manchester or anywhere. Maybe not in Hebden Bridge because it's so small but most places in the North.
Yeah for sure. I just went to Burnley as it’s so close to Hebden Bridge and I grew up around both towns
Stop being a turnip then.
@@willyb3463 now that I can’t do I’m afraid
Hebden Bridge is a bit of an outlier- It used to be very, very run down, then a lot of artists moved in, it got fashionable, the yuppies moved in, and it is now somewhat gentrified and more expensive than similar places locally. (And now it would be difficult for artists to afford to live there....a bit like Wapping and other parts of London).
I still live in Burnley and it gets a lot of bad press which annoys me. Sure I had some rough times growing up but it really isn't too bad. I live in a nice little house with my wife and children, looking at what I'd get in Hebden for the same money no way I'd swap.
You could have told me that was Mogadishu, I would have believed it. Yikes
I used to work in Burnley. It was eventful to say the least, remember we kept getting pressure washers and machinery stolen. They kept running into the notorious Trafalgar flats, I didn't follow lol!!!!
I went to Maltby in south yourkshire to help some friends move to Someset , and the kids on the White Chapel estate would gut the local authority council house's for the copper pipe and wiring, cut the gas piping and light fires to blow the house's up, then when the fire brigade came they,d throw house bricks at them, they rebuilt them every 5 years and would move the same problem Tennant's out and back in again to repeat the process, it was like Beirut, pure insanity, gangs of 12 yr olds driving smashed up stolen cars around at speed, houses blatantly pulling power from Street lamps, ive never seen anything like it before or since
Great video, Government could buy those houses, do them up would be cheaper than hotels ( for migrants etc)
Yeah absolutely. We clearly have plenty of houses to be used
@@wanderingturnipBetter still make the bugger's work doing them up its called working for your upkeep.😠
There was grow equipment in that open house you went in, and a big hole in the wall for extraction.
Yeah people keep telling me 😂 guess the use of that house has been found
Mad that he in this game but doesn't know what agrow looks like. How tf?
I think the reason why they aren't selling is, they're too expensive!
I live in burnley myself and in fact the street next to the one you viewed the £12k house on was the street i grew up on, I spent 18 years of my life on this street before i moved to a different area, i used to live at the bottom of herbert street, the street you was talking with those guys in the van, and i thought it was a good area, but towards the end of me living there it went downhill, the house i lived in was eventually sold for very cheap,
Right but its not a warzone right? A 12k house in this country is still an absolute steal
Really interesting video that mate,well done 👍
Thanks I appreciate it
I noticed at about 13:30 that lots of houses had the same front doors, probably a job lot for a private landlord. Some things never change as most were probably not owner occupier anyway.
It's also the same in Greece, property values are sky high, rent is insane and at the same time hundreds of properties are empty
Oh really, very interesting
To be fair, you went to the most deprived part of the town. There are some really nice areas with stunning views of rural Lancashire. Lots of towns & cities have deprived areas, parts of London, Swindon, North East, Nottingham, Cornwall.....
Yeah but I was looking at the cheap houses, that’s where you find them
This really inspired me because I am from London. It is so much cheaper up there than here and much quieter, too. However maybe after dark it may feel unsafe. If they could refurbish more properties, it may work. If there were more jobs up there it would be perfect for us Londoners. Thank you so much for this.
Hey glad you liked it! I mean the north in general is amazingly cheap compared to London. I used to live in London, I had a room in a small flat for £700. I moved back north i got a 2 bedroom, huge flat in the centre on my town for £425. The entire flat 😂
@@wanderingturnipyes it makes so much more sense 👍🏼
@@monicanath4859 If you can work remotely, you could get a London paying job and live up north for a lot cheaper
Where up north is that?
If you have a profession that can relocate, you should move up north simply because of the good value properties compared to London. I dont mean Burnley but surrounding areas, lots of countryside and people are friendly.
I would consider buying a few if they are joined up together.Then I would sell as a portfolio or rent out if the initial investment isn't insane. By the looks of it the 40k houses 10 of those in a street at a time and you'd do the area up quite quickly with the amount of derelict bulldings. Securing funding of the actual refurb would be the 'insane' part. Slowly but surely if you managed to get a large volume of properties an area would grow. Maybe not avoid the riff raff of the night but whats a few bars on the windows until the area is brought up to a new social standard level, even the worst of areas can improve over time.
In many countries, people don't fool themselves and hope for the best.
Regardless of the neighbourhood, every window is barred, and very often the doors as well.
Liverpool sold houses like this for £1 and the purchasers had to do them up. Nice homes created.
Yes but they were in an area you wouldn't want to be in even during the day ! Don't be fooled.
good to see videos like this. you need to follow up with interviews with the local government, police, judiciary and central government as to why special measures cannot be applied to bring back the community love. good chatting to the local people. people must be treated as adults and rewarded or penalized accordingly, to take responsibility and ownership.
Was pleased to see you still had a camera at the end of the video
I grew up in these streets in the 80's and they were no way as bad as that, everyone parents worked at Lucas or at all the other engineering works and factories. The job's went so did the decent normal working class people. I was at a local primary school near by and can remember 3pm - 4pm on a Friday the factories emptied and the streets were full of people walking home.
Oh that’s really interesting to hear from someone who knew this area back then, cheers for getting in touch
I would close off the back end of the houses and make all the roads one way systems creating space for front gardens for each property that would create safety and appeal for the Burnley homes
The embedded glass on top of the wall to deter intruders is really old school. When I was a teen, studying in Mexico- glass was generally used on top of high walls… except it was colorful glass
I’m in my early 60’s.
Oh really. Thanks for this very interesting
That £12,000 house was very obvious a grow house 🤣 even left all the ducting behind
If they can get a bigger police presence there, people will move back and house prices will go up. Damn tories cutting police funding, nhs funding, education funding, ruining everything.
Really sad to see property in this condition 😞
I haven't seen Broken Glass fixed to the top of walls since my 1960's Northern childhood!
Burnley is not the greatest place in the world but i have worked in burnley many times. Its not a bad town and burnley people are great. Its simply like most northern former mill towns it needs investment. I was in burnley maybe four years it seemed ok to me and even the most expensive towns in the uk have bad areas.
Clitheroe is supposed to be posh, its very expensive and a lot of snobbery there but I had three cars vandalised in one year in a supposedly upmarket town !
@@oddities-whatnot it sounds very much like the area i grew up. Loads of wanna be upper class people but they never had the cash to back it up. Not that i judge people on class.
Oddly enough, your last house was 32 Pritchard Street and one that I viewed last week was 23 Pritchard Street. That was a lovely little house in reasonable condition. Of course, if a house is trashed it drops in value.
To add some context, a little terraced house in the posh village of Worsthorne on the fringes of Burnley will set you back £150,000.
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing this. I keep thinking of trying to buy a very cheap house somewhere and doing it up as I would like it and then retiring early. I think one of the 'advantages' if you can call it that of having a house that needs completely remodernising is that you can do it up to your personal specification & taste. I had never personally thought about Burnley. I am from Yorkshire so would consider that the 'wrong side of the Penines' myself. I am a bit rattled by the bars on the windows & the doors myself. But I have personally been thinking about Middlesborough, Peterslee or Hartlepool for myself. I like the idea of Hartlepool because it is by the seaside. What do you think of those towns??
Hey thanks for this 😁 I haven’t been to those towns so I can’t comment. Seaside would be lovely though
I don't know if you would want to retire to any of those towns. All are very poor and poverty abounds. I quess it depends on how much money you have to spend.
@@sandrafinbar yes that's it. If I get a cheap property then l can spend more on me or I can just retire earlier
These old houses need repairing and maintaining with the correct materials like lime mortar and lime plaster. A couple of feet of loft insulation makes all the difference being terraced they should be warmer than semi's or detached houses.
There are many places like this in the UK. We shifted all industry abroad to be done in slave like conditions hence there being no good jobs.
Yeah I remember looking down one of those streets about 8 years ago and literally every house was boarded up.
That area was bulldozed for new builds. They did it in Daneshouse and left the Victorian houses in better condition along side it, complete with backstreets.
I moved away from Burnley in 1989. I lived at 1 Thursby Square. It was a fabulous house & I had a good job at George Wilkinsons on Elm Street. I was young & moved to Worthing on the South Coast where salaries are higher & jobs were more plentiful. I seem to remember Burnley is a few thousand feet above sea level & is mighty cold with long winters, it also never seems to stop raining. Can't beat the local meat pies or fish & chips though, all at lower prices than down South. Our local was the Dukes Bar, I wonder if it is still there..Great & interesting video !
I live in Burnley and tbh the council have spent millions on regeneration the new university revamping abondened mills factories the streets although alot of history behind them each street 1 by 1 is getting demolished I can show you easy 4-5 streets that already have been knocked down for redevelopment it's a up and cumming area now but I'm moving back to rossendale and tbh it's absolute dive because everything everyware to much going on all at once the council builds new things nocks down other and forget about them I can show you atleast 7 new house sing estates due to be built including a Barret home estate not all Burnley is bad mostly near the bfc is the worse part
Cheers for this mate interesting 👍
I wonder if giving all manufacturing to China has anything to do with it.
Yes
Those stone built terraces were built to last and are easily 100 years old, unfortunately the people they were built for and the jobs and the industries they served have gone. The houses need a lot of work to meet any kind of modern standards such a heating (built for coal fires) insulation , sanitation …. Also the original dwellers had PRIDE, in their homes, communities and environment. Most of which are lacking here it seems. These houses could be great , you are in Hebden you see what jobs people have done with their stone built places-it can be done. I am with Johny Clarke regarding Burnley btw, but the houses could be sorted.
The last house you viewed was definitely used as a grow house. You can tell by the huge carbon filters and ventilation holes cut into the walls and chimney.
It’s the same back in São Paulo in Brazil where I’m from.
Some neighbourhoods have million pound properties, others have slums.
Some other areas mainly near the business hubs, have both, very expensive and dead cheap places. 🙁
I considered buying a house like this when I moved to UK. Eventually, I bought a flat in a nicer area although I had to pay more. Still, not having a yard (or a 'garden' as they say in Britain) is not a happy experience. I wonder whether I did not make a mistake.
Bad area can destroy your mental health, so probably you did not make mistake.
No, you did not make a mistake. Sounds like you are in a nice area. Low maintenance I guess without the external space but its definitely better for your mental well being to live in a nice place. Im hoping to do the same next year, cheap property but in a good area.
Imagine BUYING a friggin FLAT lmfao. You got ripped bro and still live in a cage. Not even a balcony? Sounds more like a prison cell that has more room. The fact you even ask that question shows you know you got ripped
Burnley? I would have to be desperate to move to that part of the world.
Instead you live in your own shit hole part of the world …
@@longside100 I live in the UK Kevin. Just nowhere near those depressing mill towns. I drove through there once. It looked like West Beirut after the war 😋
The countryside is fantastic and the vast majority of the people are very friendly. Your loss.
@@alisonwilson9749 I decide what is my loss Karen.
This is like a ghost town!
Can't remember seeing another living being walk passed him?
My goodness, absolutely shocking!
Not a single bird can be spotted or tweeting, nor the odd cat on a stroll.
Absolute GHOST OF A TOWN!
it's clear that the UK is not over populated, and it's just big cities like London, Birmingham, Manchester which are overcrowded.
So this was about 10am - 1pm when I filmed this, so a lot of people will have been at work. But still….you are completely right, clearly not overcrowded with a lack of property
This is on par with the old buy from the council scheme. I bought my home for £26,100 and my mom got her house for 5k! I wonder how it works now and how cheap you can buy your council house now? they did a scheme in Manchester years ago where they where selling entire streets of abandoned houses similar to those you saw, and they where selling them for as little as 10k, but you had to sign a contract to say you would live there for a minimum of say 8 years, and you could not sublet.
I think that’s the key really. Ensure the houses end up in the hands of people who need a home. I rent, I probably will for a very long time, I’d love to own my place and sort it out but it just seems out of reach due to prices these days.
Thanks for all this though 👍
I think that £20,000 should be the price of new build terraced homes and we should ban land lords. Property should be priced on materials and condition.
It's the land and the utilies such as water, gas and electricity connection that determines the price.
Land exists, it shouldn't be a factor unless it comes with the mining rights
@@Mark..Birchenough Of course it is a factor. That is what you are paying for. If it wasn't the case you could start building everywhere. On a small island like Britain land is a commodity.
It's also based on labour, availability...and banning landlords is silly because not everyone wants to be a homeowner. Some prefer the flexibility of being able to rent somewhere.
I think a lot of them were bought by people trying to make a quick buck and it didn't happen, instead of actually unloading them, they are keeping them, probably they can leverage them... in any case it isn't normal
Maybe people will start moving back there when all the working people are priced out of Manchester and they have to commute there for their jobs. People do commute further than the 30 miles it is from MCR to Burnley, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
I would happily pay 12 k for that house , spend another 15 to 20 slowly making it good , make the back yard into a secure covered parking and live there
But , on minimum wage , that's just a dream unfortunately
Yeah I know right. Funny that even one the cheapest houses around…I still cannot afford 😂😂
You wouldn't...really it's an absolutely horrendous area ...Google riots Burnley ..it started in Duke bar ..
It's full of drug dealers ..and absolute dregs ...rest of Burnley great just not there ..we say here it needs a big fence round it to keep all in ..away from normal society..
The area is very diverse , same as Bradford, Rochdale, Oldham, Blackburn etc.
I'd think these kind of places become starter homes in the upcoming decade, because working from home has become so common.
Lol...looks like south Africa on a good day!😂😂
This is being obviously allowed too happen, Councils should never of let scrupulous landlords too start buying to let without rules ®ulations be enforced,in an agreement has to how they have too keep the properties in good fit too live in Rules. And if there broken they have them took off them. But it never happened and so in no time at all this is what happens. There's places areas like this all over the Country. And when it gets like this the Government don't want too know, right back when it started everywhere,it's the Councils,if they never let it begin by making the landlords sign a Rules and regulations they have to stick too or have the property took off them,I think it would work. But is it too late now.?
There is a reason why certain areas of the Country have cheap housing,, Work, where is it? Like many towns in Lancashire the Mills closed decades ago, same applies in parts of Yorkshire, Mills closes, Steelworks, and heavy industry closed.
Not everyone can afford or contemplate commuting, so houses may well be cheap, no one is walking or getting 1 bus to work anymore. Would you live there and work away all week, come home to bars on all your windows and doors, live in a run down area, with people that dont care, don't work etc
It’s a shame the government couldn’t buy them and put ex squadies in them on the understanding they would do them up.
Get some good lads, and ladies, back onto their feet. And do up an area.
THE bars on the door's and window's are to STOP people geting out.
Seeing these properties makes me so grateful for my free standing house, double garage on a 1/4 acre section with trees and garden in NZ.
I enjoyed the video. Can you do the same thing for other towns/cities in your area.
Thanks
Yeah im going to go explore lots more so keep an eye out
1:11 No.9 Regent Street, Hebden Bridge was not sold until the following year, for £39k. Sold again three months later at a £9k loss. source: zoopla
Yeah not a hope un hells chance would i move down there its proper crappy,i thaught bolton was bad but compared to the areas u showed us nahh think ile stay in bolton.Thanks for sharing bro i appriciate that stay safe and see you in your next video.
Well you may say its ok, my advice would be check the area out in the evening, then you will get a real feel for what it's really like in the area.
Haha someone else can make that video 😉
@@wanderingturnip 😂😂😂 clever man 😉
The only person I know from Burnley is Matthew Delooze - and he got abducted by Aliens. This video completes the picture and makes up my mind where I'm NOT going to spend my modest share of the family inheritance.
Lived there all my life love it but your in some pretty rough areas there get yourself past the football stadium and up the hill totally different in Burnley there
Yeah for sure. I think Burnley is great with some lovely areas. Only went to check out the places with cheap houses for this vid
The 12,000 pound house, had a very nice back door, which seemed odd.🧐
Why not buy to let and do a decent job of it. Renovate property & vet tenants.
I live and rent in England and could barely get into a rented house from a rented apartment because I had 30 days notice.
They are letting to people who can move instantly. Pre covid. Properties were let on the day or within the hour of open viewing. If you couldn’t view on the open day, then it was a no-go as they knew it would let.
Nice houses, mind, but not much vetting.
The house next door to me was renovated over 4 months during covid even though they did the same 3 years ago after the previous tenant. Because soon after I moved in, the tenant moved out.
I got a bunch of flowers from the landlord & landlady, for “putting up” with the inconvenience.
I’m lucky with my agent who held further viewings because I said I wanted it, despite the 30days wait. That’s it, that’s why we live where we do. (Within the area we were looking)
There are decent agencies and landlords. Shame they don’t invest in Burnley - yet.
Maybe they will now after this video!
Thanks for making it.
I used live in Burnley 30 yrs ago in the area of Stoneyholme before the family decided to move to London. It was a really nice area, very safe with loads of families. As a child growing up there, I remeber it was a happy place with a really nice community. Sad to see the state of the town now.
These are just a few areas, but I’m with ya. The place has definitely changed
Find two for sale side by side and renovate and combine into one larger home.
That’s the dream
So sad to see these run down areas. What a waste and loss to communities.
Yeah it really is. Great location, surely at some point landlords will be restricted and these can go back to the hands of the people
I wouldn't want to live in these properties in Burnley. It'd cost a lot to put them right but would I feel safe? No.
As a kid we had terraced houses with outside tippler toilets but not as bad as these yards or empty houses. A lot were pulled down and replaced. There's a lot still standing and modernised.
Mine has a tiny garden and looks out onto council houses with large gardens but many streets here have just a back yard with a communal ginnel which the council gated all of them for security. It's not too bad here compared to a few streets away which just have a yard.
Further up from here the rear of the shops were a mess, with freezers and black plastic bags, the council cleared it away. I don't know why people living opposite looking at it from the street could keep looking at that for years. That's how it starts then other people start dumping stuff.
Strange how they're all fast food shops creating the mess. Bins with stinking fish and perhaps meat absolutely crawling with maggots out overnight on Sunday when I walked past on the main road ready to be collected on Monday. They stopped putting them out on Sunday after I complained to the health department.
16:10 this is the result of people being forcefully evicted from their homes
Seems to me there isn't going to be much demand for terraced housing built in another period of history, built well enough to outlast itself. Creating the demand would work as a first step on the property ladder but you'd need high well paid employment locally same as created it in the first place.
It's a shame Councils don't buy housing stock from the private sector of that type, some of those properties were boarded up decades ago like time froze? they seem to be just another missing owner or buyer, tenants may be grateful to get off the waiting list and avoid tower blocks, those streets could easily be re-thought and opened out a bit reducing the stark contrast with the semi's nearby.
We need more content like this! Please do more thank you 😅
Yeah defo going to do some more
It is incredible, there is supposed to be a massive housing shortage in the UK