The first house on the list - we live in the next row over (and just for info, we purchased here for £35k twenty years ago!) - we knew the guy who lived here, used to occasionally see him walk around the park with his dog. As far as we're aware he had some kind of breakdown / severe mental illness, turned into a recluse and disappeared from view. Barely left the house, and lived there for several years with no maintenance on the property and with it generally going to rack and ruin around him. It's not long been bought at auction, and there's a family now ripping out the internals and refurbishing it. A lot of the trees have been chopped down, and they're having to gut the internals - seeing the state of the place in the video, it's not surprising why there's piles of rubble and plasterboard up level with the top of the ground floor windows!
If it was a one off in the neighbourhood, it's good that someone has taken it on. I guess it could cost £100,000 just to get it back to brick, tidy the garden back to grass, put a new roof on and fix the chimney, and waterproof the house from roof to door. And then you have to put in new floors on every level, totally rewire and replumb it, and put in a heating system. I guess that's another £30,000. And _then_ you've got to replaster the whole place ( with period detail to keep its value ), and put in a kitchen a bathrooms. Little change out of £50,000 I imagine. And then you've got to decorate it, and put in floor coverings and light fittings. That's £5,000. And then furnish all the rooms. Another £10,000. And then .... relax :) So you'd be all in for £300,000. Note : I know nothing.
There is nothing wrong with being objectum-sexual or an objectophiliac. Whatever floats your boat. It's most probably more likely to be a rubber dinghy.
I remember leeds market in the 80's and 90's it was incredible, people coming in by coach from other cities just to visit! Plus, just walking through Leeds in the 90's early 2000's when I was younger, was a sea of people and bustling. I do miss the vibe of both.
I'd pay 140 for that house if all the structural work had already been done and just needed a small amount of DIY, but 140 for that bomb site as is, made my jaw drop.
I just looked on rightmove and there's a very similar sized house on for £170k but it's perfectly done up and ready to move straight in. Renovating that dump will cost at least £100k. Madness.
@@THEPete_ Yup, pull mortgage, "tenants" pay "rent" until people start asking questions and it burns down, then you get insurance to pay out and claim business losses.
That was the most bonkers promotion in a youtube video I have ever seen - props to you! Also, good for you for pushing back at comments slagging off your Leeds high street video.
Congrats on closing down the Patreon mate, you definitely deserve that add revenue… hopefully we’ll see a revival of the high street in the UK within the next five years, fingers crossed it’s independent businesses verses corporate masters. P.s I’ve used your videos as great references for mold on the next season of “The Last of Us”, I’m a scenic painter in film. Thought I’d mention it given you highlighting the variation in mold. 😊
That last house is about 5 minutes walk from where I used to live for 15 years. Someone once tried to ambush me in the next street over to it one night after living in the area for a few months. He didn't say anything just tried to take my head off with a metal bar. I managed to duck it and ran off up the street. I'm a fast runner so I turned round mid run whilst he was chasing me up the street. I said "You ain't catching me now fucker". At which point he threw the metal bar which hit me in the elbow refracturing it after it was nearly healed from me falling off my skateboard down the playhouse steps trying to impress some lass I liked. I continued running and got home intact. Side note I bought my 2 bedroom house nearby fully furnished in pretty good condition for £20k in 2002 (turns out the owner needed a quick sale as he fled the country with the coppers turning up at my door looking for him a few weeks after completion). I sold it in pretty rough condition in 2016 for £80k. God knows why you'd want to live round there it's absolutely mental as was I when I bought it;]
I bought my house in Leeds for just over 60k around 10 years ago, at the time i was lucky to find a property in my area of the city for that price. Going to auctions properties were selling for crazy money, doesn't supprise me that one went for such a high price. I'm currently renovating and it's a similar style property so i can give a rough idea of costs/time involved with taking on one of those. Bearing in mind i've done all the work myself aside from a full rewire and having new windows installed and i've had no structural issues to deal with (not guarateed with those ones though) but i've stripped each room back to brick. So far it's taken around 2 years (along side working) i'm around 70% complete and managed to stick within my budget of 15k, currently expecting to have a couple of grand left once it's complete
I loved the way despite that terraced house being left to rack and ruin, it looked like the last occupant did at least do the washing up before they left, as evidenced by the plates etc in the draining board rack.👍
My hubby and I love watching,your advert is fantastic,the funniest unique advertising we've ever seen.at first we both said hasn't he got a gf.then we realised 😂😂. We live in ilkley,even shops in ilkley are closed,and thankyou,we love watching were in our mid 50s so yes Fred dibnah we remember,brought back memories,
Next time you're in Leeds, park at Woodhouse Lane near the uni. £8.65 for 12h, two pound odd for two hours, very decent value. Or get a park and ride bus, even more convenient!
Another great video, turnip. Some of those houses should skip the sale and be knocked down. They have to be hazardous, surely? The sponsor ad for Level 8 suitcases is one of the funniest I’ve seen from any creator. Really inventive. It definitely made me chuckle.
The empty bank made sense. Halifax had 3 branches in the city centre and they consolidated into one. All the Trinity Centre has done is moved shops from one part of town to another (though its much nicer and safer for kids). Replacing the ones that aren't needed with mixed residential and bars/cafe developments is the way to go.
christ, i paid £50,000 for a 3 bed link detached house in Peterlee, county durham, in a nice area and a house which just needed painting, all this scare talks when buying it about a 30 year old boiler etc, but it all works fine so it can stay perfectly good house and has been a lovely home for me for the past year, i can't believe that is 10k more than what i paid! literally mine was perfectly liveable as it was
That little bit of acting was fun. I remember in one of your videos saying you once wanted to be an actor. I reckon Corrie ought to snap you up, you could play an old schoolmate of Kirks, 😄.
We should abolish Business Rates, Stamp Duty and Council Tax. Replace those with a Land Value Tax. This will incentive people to sell properties before they become derelict.
I used to live in Skelmersdale 30 years ago. If you aren't familiar with it it's a 60's new town not far from Wigan where all the least employable Scousers that even Liverpool didn't want were shipped to. When I lived there unemployment was over 70% and people would break into your flat to steal your kitchen units.Half the population was on smack. The outside wall of my council flat there was completely black with mould and eventually just fell sideways out of the building into the open space below. The shop and GP surgery were basically in armoured bunkers with razor wire fences around them because of the endless robbery attempts. You should go to Skelmersdale, or "Skem" as it's called. Kudos to you on your patreon decision, that's a rare and decent thing to do.
One of the shops in the queens arcade is listed for rent 30,750 pa, 16,500 rates, then you will have services and wages on top. The running costs are the reason one of the reasons the high street is dying.
i lived and worked in leeds in the 70s ,i remember a mate buying his first home about 1977 a back to back ,2 bedroon for one thousand 500 pounds,i bet its been demolished by now it was in a rough area then and those you showed would be as well ,i was lucky i live far from leeds now and bought my house for 60k 6 years ago nothing wrong with it even had new carpets nice views and very quiet .
Often, houses are repossessed by the banks, the home owners evicted. If the water is not shut off then pipes will burst, flooding the place. I bought a repossession, and the toilet plumbing had burst, destroying the downstairs ceiling, plaster on the walls, etc. it cost me about £15k to put the house right, and bring up to standard.
Hey @wandering turnip when you go to these cheap houses you should bring a builder with you who could estimate how much it cost to fix these up that could be a nice idea.
The Core has been low traffic for decades, it’s got nothing to do with the location because it slap bang in the centre of Leeds, but it has everything to do with the actual building itself. The way they designed this building was stupid. Most of the time people would walk past and didn’t even know you could go in it. It was just a very strangely designed place with nothing good inside really, and the food court was hidden on the top floor. Personally, I think that tearing it down is a good idea but replacing it with student accommodation isn’t, but it’s par for the course with the LLC, it’s all they seem to do. What they should do is redesign and rebuild into a completely new shopping complex that is actually customer friendly, make it open and light inside with large windows and inbuilt greenery. But no, let’s just slowly turn leeds into a student village.
But is there a demand for retail space that's the problem. All Trinity did was move shops around the city it didn't bring new ones in so there are loads of vacant shops. The city centre is being killed by crackpot net zero policies which make it practically impossible to drive into town, without giving the city a metro first.
The Core shopping centre before it was redeveloped and relaunched as The Core in 2009 and again in 2014 was formerly The Headrow Shopping Centre a busy and successful shopping centre with a food court on the top floor with a range of cuisines and a range of shops. Since becoming The Core the shopping centre has had large spaces vacant inside even with a food court near ground level. Yorkshire Evening Post has images of the inside of the Headrow Shopping Centre in the 1990s.
@@safirahmed It was a decent, good looking shopping centre as the Headrow Shopping Centre - would still be okay if it was like that today. No idea why they made such a mess of it by redeveloping it as The Core.
@@barbaracartlandmuseum8096 One possible reason could be the Headrow Shopping Centre was sold and the new owners made the changes though this is speculation. Meanwhile 42 The Headrow, the former Direct Line Offices have had approval by Leeds City Council to convert the former offices into 230 co-living homes a step below studio apartments. Co-living is the equivalent of the gig economy for housing where renters have their own living space but share amenities such as kitchenettes, bathrooms and laundry facilities.
@@PeacockRhino I think there is, there’s always new businesses popping up in Leeds unfortunately they go down just as fast as they go up because of how Leeds City Council deal with business rates. Think Trinity proves that fact, still busy on daily basis. I think, if you build new architecturally inviting clean spaces, people will come. Simple as that. If people feel like they want to be in that space for a prolong period, they will spend money. If money on mass is spent, then it’s a success. Leeds 20 years ago used to be filled with brutal architecture and horrible prefab looking in buildings from the 60s, one by one they’ve got knocked down and replaced with something nice, over what is really a short period of time and Leeds has grown into something quite impressive. Architecture is more important than people realise.
If the worst comes to the worst I wonder what the impact will be on towns and cities where so much student accommodation has been built. Nealry half of HEIs are in deficit, loads are cutting jobs, courses and even departments, and some are forecast to close.
Another great video Turnip, even the ad! £140k for that first place is madness. I was listening to the song "Theodolite! Part 1" from the album "An Unnatural History" by LYR recently and the lyrics almost exactly describe what you're doing in these videos. It's sort of spoken-word poetry over electronic beats and here's a snippet of the lyrics, as he's describing walking down Eldon Street in Barnsley: "No-one's done this gumshoe stock-take before, No-one's taken this kind of notice I'm wearing my psycho-geographer's thermal vest I'm trekking through deep detail" You should give it a listen, I think it'd be right up your (Eldon) street!
7:50 re purposing retail units for "student accommodation" will quickly switch to general population accommodation when people are taxed out of their private homes ie 'stack 'em & pack 'em. You're welcome
a quick google says there is 676,304 houses abandoned in England in October 2022 with some organisations like action UK putting it at 1 million in solely England. we need a national action plan of renovation and job creation to sort all these houses out. It needs to be done, it wont be easy, but its achievable.
Just look at the Amazon Warehouse Square footage multiply that by 5+ to include the amount of racking in those units. Compare that to the total retail space across the County and Country as a whole, with out looking at Third party sellers and eBay etc.
That first house is just up the road from me in Beeston. The area is rapidly turning into bedsit land, everything that cones on the market sells to a landlord and gets split into letting rooms. It will have been bought by an investor who will turn that lounge into a bedroom, out two more in the basement and top floor, shared kutchen and bathroom and rent each room for £400+ PCM and be laughing all the way to the bank.
The first house was very close to my old house in Woodlea Place, these houses were strange as you had the front door on one road, the back was on another in Parkfield Mount, giving you two postal addresses and two lots of credit history. We paid £43,000 for our 3 bedroom in 1996.
Those are "Lath-&-Plaster"-walls,& ceilings'--really "old-school"work,--you have to know what your doing,-to put that kind of work-up !!-now its "Speed-wall'-or "Rendered brick"-plastered over ,--I used to work with a "plasterer"50 years ago,-I left,it was too frigging hard for me !!--but I really admire,that "Old-School"tradesmans work.
There's a place near me like this, about eight people are doing it up, i think it's a mix of builders, and landscapers but i imagine back in the day a lot of these problems were worth a lot more, but were left derelict for whatever, like a lot of old pubs, which end up being empty for years, decades even, and at that point they basically need to be knocked, as they are beyond repair.
Not bad. It just needs completely gutting. A few skips, fix roof. First fix electrics and plumbing. a lot of plaster board, dot and dab all walls, once all ceilings are down re board. Plaster all. Paint all. Install new kitchen and bathroom, 2nd fix electric and plumbing. Carpet.
You need to come to Barnsley. There are often super cheap houses to review but also the town centre has undergone massive regeneration and although there are empty units it has changed so much
That was actually the best advent I’ve seen on RUclips. I don’t need a suitcase the only exotic holiday I can afford is in my back garden (which to be fair could be a jungle as I’ve not cut grass for weeks) But if I did need one it would be them.
I can't remember the last ad on youtube I didn't instantly skip over, you definitely had my full attention with that quality ad, made even better by the absolute confusion on the mans face in the restaurant
Nobody can cope with adds though. Im only 12 minutes into the video and have already watched 3 adverts 😮 got to admit i loved the suitcase add though 😂
Hats off to you, sir, for dropping Patreon... their was no reason you had to do it, we as fans of your channel want to support you, but that decision really shows your character and makes me a proud Northerner. Oh and btw, that sexy little suitcase got a sister? ;) x
Being from Leeds its a terrible sight to see all those shops empty. Every city is the same isn't it. Most people buy online now which I reckon is a big part of high streets retail decline. I'm sure you've commented on that before. I'm guilty of taking the easy option of mostly buying from Amazon Prime and such which of course is cheaper generally too. Sad thing is for me is I remember Leeds being an absolute packed out thriving city centre when I was a kid. Out of town centres like the White Rose aren't helping either of course. Great vid. 👍
Great video David keep the content rolling. What were you doing in that video with the suitcase? Going on a date with a yellow suitcase is a new level 😂. Hope you are feeling ok? 😂. Glad you’re doing so well. 🥰
*TIMESTAMP **12:20* : I was in Leeds this time last year, and went into Boots. I think it was in that now empty premises. It was closing down, and the lady behind the counter said that she'd worked in Boots for 30 years, but they were told (with little notice) that they were "merging" the another Boots branch half a mile away. She said that a lot of the employee perks had been cancelled. I think Boots is owned by a US multinational that hasn't been performing that well, so they are tightening the purse strings.
Wow your 100% correct mate . You only show it as it is and that's why your cannel does so well. Our government has turned a blind eye re our small bossiness . Most of who are retail . So yes go to your local councils and ask them why the tax rates so high . Ask them why does it cost so much to rent an outlet etc . Government greed tax tax tax . Give us all a break and listen to us before theres nothing left . Great stream one of your best .👍👍👍
Online shopping has its own buzz but for me, nothing can compare to a bricks and mortar shop. Particularly for clothing. I like to try clothes on before I buy them! When they attack you, they are shooting at the messenger. Thank you for the video!
Really surprised you didn't go down Briggate and see the major redevelopment where House of Fraser used to be which incorporates student accomodation and new retail spaces. Great ad, that was really well done.
I need to confess, I skipped the level 8 advertisement AGAIN! BUT! after reading the comments, I went to watch it, and I did find myself LOLz, and you have a talent there for humour! so if all your adverts were this funny, I would watch them! always love your content, best wishes from a Yorkshireman living in Sydney 🦘
You would think in a modern society people would at least have a roof over there heads .yet the heart and souls been ripped out of the community so this is justc one part of the knock on effect of destroying your community .it's bloody sad
Allowing millions of non culturally aligned people into the country has destroyed any form of community cohesion. Lots of people who used to care, don't care anymore, we are just going to watch it burn under Starmers two tier Britain.
@wanderingturnip come down to derby. We got come shops to let and not getting filled up soon, their's some that's been to let for 5 or more years. their is a lot of history that be can be found at the museum of making which was an mill.
It's amazing to see how far you have come as a creator. The turning off the patreon is a big move and a lot wouldn't do that. Looking a this particular video, last time I was in leeds was pre-covid and honestly it was way better then, so all this talk from politicians about levelling up and so on is proven to be nonsense. I love the high street and where I live I have reached out to local politicians and council officials to try and tidy up our high street because it looks so tired and run down and honestly I am hopeful for change but will not hold my breath on it happening. It used to bring so much attention because it had a great market on a Tuesday and Saturday but in recent years they opened up the river (which was needed because of flood risks) but they didn't make a new space for this amazing market that once was. so part of the death of the high street here is not just the rent but the lack of people coming from the surrounding areas like they once did.
Question to ask. It would be interesting to ask the people that own. These commercial buildings that vacant if they are purposely keeping the rent high- so the buildings are more valuable to lend from the bank position.
That will be exactly it. Ask for high rents, and retail units make juicy collateral for business loans. The trouble is that a load of those units havn't made a cent in years so an economic bubble is going to burst sooner or later.
When you watch the TV property show "Homes Under The Hammer" you do come across people who manage to pick up a massive "bargain" at a property auction; only to discover, that they should have read the legal pack and maybe paid a visit to the hovel they've just bought. I do think there are rather too many cash-rich buyers who buy property unseen; and then can't even begin to make the repair of the property pay. You see this in properties which have a tiny bit of repair done; before the task overwhelms them. It is tempting to take a bit of malicious pleasure in seeing them being obsessed by greed before they realise that they've bought a real money pit that they can't afford to fix. The real shame though is that there are entire blocks of properties and streets which COULD provide decent places for people to live. I wish there was more of an obsession with getting slum properties made habitable. Don't know if local or national government could use compulsory purchase for these impaired properties and train willing volunteers to add value to them. Instead of being like a "self-build" scheme, it could be a "self-repair" scheme for people who need new skills and better more-suitable homes than hotels, B&Bs and hostels. Anyway, I've never thought any of your videos were about trying to rubbish an area; they were more about highlighting the issues around property and retail to show where we are as a society. I'm pretty sure you could find properties and shops in wealthier areas which we also in need of improvement and not just confined to the areas you have videod from. You have a great channel - you have a real journalistic insight into many of the UKs problems that deserve a wider audience.
There is a lot of controversy about luxury student accommodation as a FRONT for avoiding having to offer affordable housing by developers. Student housing can be “” alternative “” accommodation.
When people say there is a housing shortage it can be misleading, lots more could be done on these old houses, but then they become more expensive and worth more then the houses around them are worth and cant be sold so they are left to just fall apart leading to run down estates. As for the High street ,Leeds had really good shopping at one time, blame Brexit/Amazon for the decline.
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You need to wear a respirator Man, seriously, get yourself a 3m respirator that black mold is a killer. Those houses are tear downs.
Closing down your Patreon because you can now support yourself without it is a class move and hats off to you.
Just proves that this guy deserves our love
I came to the comments to say exactly this.
A lovely touch, seeing the morals in making money from advertisers rather than the average YT user.👍
That's an epic move. I only stumbled upon it recently. YT gold
Rare to see a RUclipsr give up Patreon, shows you the wandering turnip is about the quality of shows and not money
100% quality over quantity and it's worth it waiting a week or two for a new video.
nah he abt money,, its all money shit show,,,,, leeds i live there once was great
You should write a book about your experiences of viewing these dilapidated properties
You could call it "50 Shades Of Mold "
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which could be the title for the US market but you wouldn't sell many here.
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I did wonder when I posted it
Also apologies to anyone living in Mold , Wales !
The first house on the list - we live in the next row over (and just for info, we purchased here for £35k twenty years ago!) - we knew the guy who lived here, used to occasionally see him walk around the park with his dog. As far as we're aware he had some kind of breakdown / severe mental illness, turned into a recluse and disappeared from view. Barely left the house, and lived there for several years with no maintenance on the property and with it generally going to rack and ruin around him. It's not long been bought at auction, and there's a family now ripping out the internals and refurbishing it. A lot of the trees have been chopped down, and they're having to gut the internals - seeing the state of the place in the video, it's not surprising why there's piles of rubble and plasterboard up level with the top of the ground floor windows!
If it was a one off in the neighbourhood, it's good that someone has taken it on. I guess it could cost £100,000 just to get it back to brick, tidy the garden back to grass, put a new roof on and fix the chimney, and waterproof the house from roof to door. And then you have to put in new floors on every level, totally rewire and replumb it, and put in a heating system. I guess that's another £30,000. And _then_ you've got to replaster the whole place ( with period detail to keep its value ), and put in a kitchen a bathrooms. Little change out of £50,000 I imagine. And then you've got to decorate it, and put in floor coverings and light fittings. That's £5,000. And then furnish all the rooms. Another £10,000. And then .... relax :) So you'd be all in for £300,000. Note : I know nothing.
Brilliant advert with the suitcase, so funny.
There is nothing wrong with being
objectum-sexual or an objectophiliac. Whatever floats your boat. It's most probably more likely to be a rubber dinghy.
I remember leeds market in the 80's and 90's it was incredible, people coming in by coach from other cities just to visit! Plus, just walking through Leeds in the 90's early 2000's when I was younger, was a sea of people and bustling. I do miss the vibe of both.
I'd pay 140 for that house if all the structural work had already been done and just needed a small amount of DIY, but 140 for that bomb site as is, made my jaw drop.
At 140k it's an opportunity for money cleaning for some, nobody with any genuine money would see a decent return on investment on that
@@THEPete_ Do you not need to provide evidence where the source of funds came from like you do up here in Scotland?
I just looked on rightmove and there's a very similar sized house on for £170k but it's perfectly done up and ready to move straight in. Renovating that dump will cost at least £100k. Madness.
@@THEPete_ Yup, pull mortgage, "tenants" pay "rent" until people start asking questions and it burns down, then you get insurance to pay out and claim business losses.
@@FONASDeadlock For the purchase yes, but not really for the renovations. Tradesman will snap up an opportunity to work for cash in hand.
That was the most bonkers promotion in a youtube video I have ever seen - props to you! Also, good for you for pushing back at comments slagging off your Leeds high street video.
Congrats on closing down the Patreon mate, you definitely deserve that add revenue… hopefully we’ll see a revival of the high street in the UK within the next five years, fingers crossed it’s independent businesses verses corporate masters. P.s I’ve used your videos as great references for mold on the next season of “The Last of Us”, I’m a scenic painter in film. Thought I’d mention it given you highlighting the variation in mold. 😊
That last house is about 5 minutes walk from where I used to live for 15 years. Someone once tried to ambush me in the next street over to it one night after living in the area for a few months. He didn't say anything just tried to take my head off with a metal bar. I managed to duck it and ran off up the street. I'm a fast runner so I turned round mid run whilst he was chasing me up the street. I said "You ain't catching me now fucker". At which point he threw the metal bar which hit me in the elbow refracturing it after it was nearly healed from me falling off my skateboard down the playhouse steps trying to impress some lass I liked. I continued running and got home intact. Side note I bought my 2 bedroom house nearby fully furnished in pretty good condition for £20k in 2002 (turns out the owner needed a quick sale as he fled the country with the coppers turning up at my door looking for him a few weeks after completion). I sold it in pretty rough condition in 2016 for £80k. God knows why you'd want to live round there it's absolutely mental as was I when I bought it;]
I bought my house in Leeds for just over 60k around 10 years ago, at the time i was lucky to find a property in my area of the city for that price. Going to auctions properties were selling for crazy money, doesn't supprise me that one went for such a high price.
I'm currently renovating and it's a similar style property so i can give a rough idea of costs/time involved with taking on one of those. Bearing in mind i've done all the work myself aside from a full rewire and having new windows installed and i've had no structural issues to deal with (not guarateed with those ones though) but i've stripped each room back to brick. So far it's taken around 2 years (along side working) i'm around 70% complete and managed to stick within my budget of 15k, currently expecting to have a couple of grand left once it's complete
I loved the way despite that terraced house being left to rack and ruin, it looked like the last occupant did at least do the washing up before they left, as evidenced by the plates etc in the draining board rack.👍
2:30 so, so happy to see you wearing a mask with all that mould!
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@@MikoSquiz I knew not that you were a watcher of The Burnip!
My hubby and I love watching,your advert is fantastic,the funniest unique advertising we've ever seen.at first we both said hasn't he got a gf.then we realised 😂😂. We live in ilkley,even shops in ilkley are closed,and thankyou,we love watching were in our mid 50s so yes Fred dibnah we remember,brought back memories,
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Next time you're in Leeds, park at Woodhouse Lane near the uni. £8.65 for 12h, two pound odd for two hours, very decent value. Or get a park and ride bus, even more convenient!
Should be a law against letting houses get into such a state. Councils should have some pride in their area.
You're talking about Leeds City Council, now. They have no shame!
Your videos are always very fair. Keep up the brilliant work Mr Turnip.
Thanks
Please always show the garden of every property .
Another great video, turnip. Some of those houses should skip the sale and be knocked down. They have to be hazardous, surely?
The sponsor ad for Level 8 suitcases is one of the funniest I’ve seen from any creator. Really inventive. It definitely made me chuckle.
The empty bank made sense. Halifax had 3 branches in the city centre and they consolidated into one. All the Trinity Centre has done is moved shops from one part of town to another (though its much nicer and safer for kids). Replacing the ones that aren't needed with mixed residential and bars/cafe developments is the way to go.
Didnt that big halifax have a fire or flood years ago? I recall it shutting suddenly and not opening again.
@@Fury9er Not the one in the video. It was a planned closure when they consolidated to Commercial Street.
“I don’t need your support anymore” was a swerve I wasn’t expecting, not gonna lie 😆
christ, i paid £50,000 for a 3 bed link detached house in Peterlee, county durham, in a nice area and a house which just needed painting, all this scare talks when buying it about a 30 year old boiler etc, but it all works fine so it can stay
perfectly good house and has been a lovely home for me for the past year, i can't believe that is 10k more than what i paid!
literally mine was perfectly liveable as it was
Fantastic video as usual, your advert for cases is one of the best I've seen. Brilliant stuff
That little bit of acting was fun. I remember in one of your videos saying you once wanted to be an actor. I reckon Corrie ought to snap you up, you could play an old schoolmate of Kirks, 😄.
By nice to see how your relationship with your suitcase develops over the next few months...planning on taking it to the next level?! 😲😂
Carpet in the bathroom is crazy
We should abolish Business Rates, Stamp Duty and Council Tax. Replace those with a Land Value Tax. This will incentive people to sell properties before they become derelict.
Becoming iconic, keep it up mate, class as always
I used to live in Skelmersdale 30 years ago. If you aren't familiar with it it's a 60's new town not far from Wigan where all the least employable Scousers that even Liverpool didn't want were shipped to. When I lived there unemployment was over 70% and people would break into your flat to steal your kitchen units.Half the population was on smack. The outside wall of my council flat there was completely black with mould and eventually just fell sideways out of the building into the open space below. The shop and GP surgery were basically in armoured bunkers with razor wire fences around them because of the endless robbery attempts. You should go to Skelmersdale, or "Skem" as it's called. Kudos to you on your patreon decision, that's a rare and decent thing to do.
Never seen a RUclips sponsorship that made me want to buy a product so much! I know what I'm buying next payday ahahaha
My horrible flat isn't far off some of these houses. But it's better than being on the streets.
One of the shops in the queens arcade is listed for rent 30,750 pa, 16,500 rates, then you will have services and wages on top. The running costs are the reason one of the reasons the high street is dying.
Really like you to come to Doncaster again and see the amount of empty shops that are now foreign off licenses of sorts
Turnip is back! Sunday tea time sorted.
i lived and worked in leeds in the 70s ,i remember a mate buying his first home about 1977 a back to back ,2 bedroon for one thousand 500 pounds,i bet its been demolished by now it was in a rough area then and those you showed would be as well ,i was lucky i live far from leeds now and bought my house for 60k 6 years ago nothing wrong with it even had new carpets nice views and very quiet .
Often, houses are repossessed by the banks, the home owners evicted. If the water is not shut off then pipes will burst, flooding the place. I bought a repossession, and the toilet plumbing had burst, destroying the downstairs ceiling, plaster on the walls, etc. it cost me about £15k to put the house right, and bring up to standard.
the biggest problem with the high street shops and markets across the uk is councils charging crazy rents and business rates
Love your videos, and your unique style of comparing different moulds, long may it continue. You have the whole world to bring to our screens.
Hey @wandering turnip when you go to these cheap houses you should bring a builder with you who could estimate how much it cost to fix these up that could be a nice idea.
The Core has been low traffic for decades, it’s got nothing to do with the location because it slap bang in the centre of Leeds, but it has everything to do with the actual building itself.
The way they designed this building was stupid. Most of the time people would walk past and didn’t even know you could go in it. It was just a very strangely designed place with nothing good inside really, and the food court was hidden on the top floor.
Personally, I think that tearing it down is a good idea but replacing it with student accommodation isn’t, but it’s par for the course with the LLC, it’s all they seem to do.
What they should do is redesign and rebuild into a completely new shopping complex that is actually customer friendly, make it open and light inside with large windows and inbuilt greenery. But no, let’s just slowly turn leeds into a student village.
But is there a demand for retail space that's the problem. All Trinity did was move shops around the city it didn't bring new ones in so there are loads of vacant shops. The city centre is being killed by crackpot net zero policies which make it practically impossible to drive into town, without giving the city a metro first.
The Core shopping centre before it was redeveloped and relaunched as The Core in 2009 and again in 2014 was formerly The Headrow Shopping Centre a busy and successful shopping centre with a food court on the top floor with a range of cuisines and a range of shops.
Since becoming The Core the shopping centre has had large spaces vacant inside even with a food court near ground level.
Yorkshire Evening Post has images of the inside of the Headrow Shopping Centre in the 1990s.
@@safirahmed It was a decent, good looking shopping centre as the Headrow Shopping Centre - would still be okay if it was like that today. No idea why they made such a mess of it by redeveloping it as The Core.
@@barbaracartlandmuseum8096 One possible reason could be the Headrow Shopping Centre was sold and the new owners made the changes though this is speculation.
Meanwhile 42 The Headrow, the former Direct Line Offices have had approval by Leeds City Council to convert the former offices into 230 co-living homes a step below studio apartments. Co-living is the equivalent of the gig economy for housing where renters have their own living space but share amenities such as kitchenettes, bathrooms and laundry facilities.
@@PeacockRhino I think there is, there’s always new businesses popping up in Leeds unfortunately they go down just as fast as they go up because of how Leeds City Council deal with business rates.
Think Trinity proves that fact, still busy on daily basis.
I think, if you build new architecturally inviting clean spaces, people will come. Simple as that.
If people feel like they want to be in that space for a prolong period, they will spend money.
If money on mass is spent, then it’s a success.
Leeds 20 years ago used to be filled with brutal architecture and horrible prefab looking in buildings from the 60s, one by one they’ve got knocked down and replaced with something nice, over what is really a short period of time and Leeds has grown into something quite impressive.
Architecture is more important than people realise.
If the worst comes to the worst I wonder what the impact will be on towns and cities where so much student accommodation has been built. Nealry half of HEIs are in deficit, loads are cutting jobs, courses and even departments, and some are forecast to close.
Another great video Turnip, even the ad! £140k for that first place is madness.
I was listening to the song "Theodolite! Part 1" from the album "An Unnatural History" by LYR recently and the lyrics almost exactly describe what you're doing in these videos. It's sort of spoken-word poetry over electronic beats and here's a snippet of the lyrics, as he's describing walking down Eldon Street in Barnsley:
"No-one's done this gumshoe stock-take before,
No-one's taken this kind of notice
I'm wearing my psycho-geographer's thermal vest
I'm trekking through deep detail"
You should give it a listen, I think it'd be right up your (Eldon) street!
7:50 re purposing retail units for "student accommodation" will quickly switch to general population accommodation when people are taxed out of their private homes ie 'stack 'em & pack 'em. You're welcome
a quick google says there is 676,304 houses abandoned in England in October 2022 with some organisations like action UK putting it at 1 million in solely England. we need a national action plan of renovation and job creation to sort all these houses out. It needs to be done, it wont be easy, but its achievable.
I know! Why isn't this being done??
That's the first time I've ever watched a sponsor clip *TWICE!* 🤣👍
First time I didn’t skip though a RUclips advert
Nicely done David 😂
That happens everywhere with retail units. Ah I love Leeds, so much
The ad for the case is brill 😂
Just look at the Amazon Warehouse Square footage multiply that by 5+ to include the amount of racking in those units. Compare that to the total retail space across the County and Country as a whole, with out looking at Third party sellers and eBay etc.
That first house is just up the road from me in Beeston. The area is rapidly turning into bedsit land, everything that cones on the market sells to a landlord and gets split into letting rooms. It will have been bought by an investor who will turn that lounge into a bedroom, out two more in the basement and top floor, shared kutchen and bathroom and rent each room for £400+ PCM and be laughing all the way to the bank.
Good on you for checking up on the commentators - they are unreliable keyboard experts.
Just shows trolls in general are utterly thick,the kicker is, it creates more content thus more income.
The first house was very close to my old house in Woodlea Place, these houses were strange as you had the front door on one road, the back was on another in Parkfield Mount, giving you two postal addresses and two lots of credit history.
We paid £43,000 for our 3 bedroom in 1996.
Those are "Lath-&-Plaster"-walls,& ceilings'--really "old-school"work,--you have to know what your doing,-to put that kind of work-up !!-now its "Speed-wall'-or "Rendered brick"-plastered over ,--I used to work with a "plasterer"50 years ago,-I left,it was too frigging hard for me !!--but I really admire,that "Old-School"tradesmans work.
I love the back to backs, as long as you don't have noisy neighbours. I would happily live in a back to back that's in good nick
There's a place near me like this, about eight people are doing it up, i think it's a mix of builders, and landscapers but i imagine back in the day a lot of these problems were worth a lot more, but were left derelict for whatever, like a lot of old pubs, which end up being empty for years, decades even, and at that point they basically need to be knocked, as they are beyond repair.
Not bad. It just needs completely gutting. A few skips, fix roof. First fix electrics and plumbing. a lot of plaster board, dot and dab all walls, once all ceilings are down re board. Plaster all. Paint all. Install new kitchen and bathroom, 2nd fix electric and plumbing. Carpet.
You need to come to Barnsley. There are often super cheap houses to review but also the town centre has undergone massive regeneration and although there are empty units it has changed so much
That was actually the best advent I’ve seen on RUclips. I don’t need a suitcase the only exotic holiday I can afford is in my back garden (which to be fair could be a jungle as I’ve not cut grass for weeks) But if I did need one it would be them.
You've got a garden???!!!
@@itchyviking I don’t mean to brag…. But…. Yeah. 😏
I can't remember the last ad on youtube I didn't instantly skip over, you definitely had my full attention with that quality ad, made even better by the absolute confusion on the mans face in the restaurant
Nobody can cope with adds though. Im only 12 minutes into the video and have already watched 3 adverts 😮 got to admit i loved the suitcase add though 😂
Great video and great ad spot lad, can't say there's ever really been many I've watched all the way through even with no intention to buy
Hats off to you, sir, for dropping Patreon... their was no reason you had to do it, we as fans of your channel want to support you, but that decision really shows your character and makes me a proud Northerner. Oh and btw, that sexy little suitcase got a sister? ;) x
Back in 1977 I worked nights installing the CCTV security system in Schofields. Used to be quite a posh department store. #goodolddays
yayyy i love your cheap house tours!!!!
I would love to see the process of mould remediation. Some before/after content of the rehabilitation of properties!
Being from Leeds its a terrible sight to see all those shops empty. Every city is the same isn't it. Most people buy online now which I reckon is a big part of high streets retail decline. I'm sure you've commented on that before. I'm guilty of taking the easy option of mostly buying from Amazon Prime and such which of course is cheaper generally too. Sad thing is for me is I remember Leeds being an absolute packed out thriving city centre when I was a kid. Out of town centres like the White Rose aren't helping either of course. Great vid. 👍
Great video David keep the content rolling. What were you doing in that video with the suitcase? Going on a date with a yellow suitcase is a new level 😂. Hope you are feeling ok? 😂. Glad you’re doing so well. 🥰
*TIMESTAMP **12:20* : I was in Leeds this time last year, and went into Boots. I think it was in that now empty premises. It was closing down, and the lady behind the counter said that she'd worked in Boots for 30 years, but they were told (with little notice) that they were "merging" the another Boots branch half a mile away. She said that a lot of the employee perks had been cancelled. I think Boots is owned by a US multinational that hasn't been performing that well, so they are tightening the purse strings.
Good on you for being an honest decent youtuber. 👍😀 Different shades of mould 😂 number 3 house is tiny!
That last house was so tiny even the video makes me claustrophobic.
Funny ad 😂. Stubbing wharf looks nicer from when I went years back. Keep on keeping on. 👍🍻
Wow your 100% correct mate . You only show it as it is and that's why your cannel does so well. Our government has turned a blind eye re our small bossiness . Most of who are retail . So yes go to your local councils and ask them why the tax rates so high . Ask them why does it cost so much to rent an outlet etc . Government greed tax tax tax . Give us all a break and listen to us before theres nothing left . Great stream one of your best .👍👍👍
New turnip. Yay
Online shopping has its own buzz but for me, nothing can compare to a bricks and mortar shop. Particularly for clothing. I like to try clothes on before I buy them! When they attack you, they are shooting at the messenger. Thank you for the video!
Really surprised you didn't go down Briggate and see the major redevelopment where House of Fraser used to be which incorporates student accomodation and new retail spaces. Great ad, that was really well done.
i do miss working in Leeds cos of the street venders with the cups of butter sweetcorn was the the highlight of having to go up to work there
I need to confess, I skipped the level 8 advertisement AGAIN! BUT! after reading the comments, I went to watch it, and I did find myself LOLz, and you have a talent there for humour! so if all your adverts were this funny, I would watch them! always love your content, best wishes from a Yorkshireman living in Sydney 🦘
You would think in a modern society people would at least have a roof over there heads .yet the heart and souls been ripped out of the community so this is justc one part of the knock on effect of destroying your community .it's bloody sad
Nothing left but revenge.
Allowing millions of non culturally aligned people into the country has destroyed any form of community cohesion. Lots of people who used to care, don't care anymore, we are just going to watch it burn under Starmers two tier Britain.
Tories.
@wanderingturnip come down to derby.
We got come shops to let and not getting filled up soon, their's some that's been to let for 5 or more years.
their is a lot of history that be can be found at the museum of making which was an mill.
great adspot you made, i usually skip theese but that was cool.
Romantic meal at Old Gate 🤣❤️👌
It's amazing to see how far you have come as a creator. The turning off the patreon is a big move and a lot wouldn't do that.
Looking a this particular video, last time I was in leeds was pre-covid and honestly it was way better then, so all this talk from politicians about levelling up and so on is proven to be nonsense.
I love the high street and where I live I have reached out to local politicians and council officials to try and tidy up our high street because it looks so tired and run down and honestly I am hopeful for change but will not hold my breath on it happening.
It used to bring so much attention because it had a great market on a Tuesday and Saturday but in recent years they opened up the river (which was needed because of flood risks) but they didn't make a new space for this amazing market that once was. so part of the death of the high street here is not just the rent but the lack of people coming from the surrounding areas like they once did.
02:18. Ten grand would be a tall ask.
Re -roofing and stripping back to brick doesn't come cheap.
Love the apple tree song.
Now added to my RUclips playlist ❤
Question to ask. It would be interesting to ask the people that own. These commercial buildings that vacant if they are purposely keeping the rent high- so the buildings are more valuable to lend
from the bank position.
That will be exactly it. Ask for high rents, and retail units make juicy collateral for business loans. The trouble is that a load of those units havn't made a cent in years so an economic bubble is going to burst sooner or later.
Just watching the mould is making me ill.
When you watch the TV property show "Homes Under The Hammer" you do come across people who manage to pick up a massive "bargain" at a property auction; only to discover, that they should have read the legal pack and maybe paid a visit to the hovel they've just bought. I do think there are rather too many cash-rich buyers who buy property unseen; and then can't even begin to make the repair of the property pay. You see this in properties which have a tiny bit of repair done; before the task overwhelms them. It is tempting to take a bit of malicious pleasure in seeing them being obsessed by greed before they realise that they've bought a real money pit that they can't afford to fix. The real shame though is that there are entire blocks of properties and streets which COULD provide decent places for people to live. I wish there was more of an obsession with getting slum properties made habitable. Don't know if local or national government could use compulsory purchase for these impaired properties and train willing volunteers to add value to them. Instead of being like a "self-build" scheme, it could be a "self-repair" scheme for people who need new skills and better more-suitable homes than hotels, B&Bs and hostels.
Anyway, I've never thought any of your videos were about trying to rubbish an area; they were more about highlighting the issues around property and retail to show where we are as a society. I'm pretty sure you could find properties and shops in wealthier areas which we also in need of improvement and not just confined to the areas you have videod from.
You have a great channel - you have a real journalistic insight into many of the UKs problems that deserve a wider audience.
Liked the suitcase ad 😂😂😂
Interesting video as always. I’d love to see you cover a video on The Medway Towns, specifically Chatham. Think you would cover it really well.
Great ad with the suitcase!😂❤❤❤
How can people complain because you said empty shops were empty ! You don't have a time machine and can't predict the future !
Amazing advert 😂
I live in leeds and will be looking for a house soon. Doubt ill be going with that one
There is a lot of controversy about luxury student accommodation as a FRONT for avoiding having to offer affordable housing by developers. Student housing can be “” alternative “” accommodation.
I love your vids mate. Sod the haters. It is obvs that you would love to see the high street full of life again and you are not just being negative.
When people say there is a housing shortage it can be misleading, lots more could be done on these old houses, but then they become more expensive and worth more then the houses around them are worth and cant be sold so they are left to just fall apart leading to run down estates.
As for the High street ,Leeds had really good shopping at one time, blame Brexit/Amazon for the decline.
Convid accelerated it - all by design
Awesome turnip! As always light-hearted joyous and informative!😊😊😊= Positive
Thank you
Exorbitant business rates = empty retail spaces.
It's such a shame. We're in a housing crisis, and houses are rotting like this.