Why don't you ask some pertinent questions like what happened to all the working class people who used to live here and took pride in their little homes ? Why did they move ? Where did they move to ? Who, exactly, is buying these houses ? Why is Burnley Council allowing such degradation and rubbish on the streets ? What plans have they got for improving the housing stock ? Any bets on who runs Burnley Council ? So much for the Tory's leveling up. Politicians make me sick !!!!!
It is not council who let rubbish on street. People litter everywhere. Northampton new estates looks like waste field, no matter what you do looks like people in UK just like to live in dirty areas. Having facilities that you can dump yours rubbish anytime we see fly tipping in rural areas anyway
@@jakubszott6394 The council is responsible for enforcing fly tipping laws and cleaning up hazardous waste. But you are right, there has been a general degeneration in behaviour and personal responibility in the UK
As a landlord there is no way I would renovate a house, spend loads of money and let it out to anyone and then not care? I think you’ve got your assessment wrong. Every landlord is only going to invest and improve an area if they can get good tenants. Is there enough good tenants to go around in Burnley who will look after the property, pay the rent and become part of the community?
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.!!!
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 lived in Burnley, my first two houses were there. The first house on Cog Lane was £13k in the 80's, sold for £35k in 2006, sold because the area was full of druggies, thieving scum - if it was not bolted down it was stolen, they kick your doors in to burgle you. When I got the opportunity to sell and move elsewhere I took it, unfortunately moving to Ightenhill was no better, the kids of scummy parents made our life hell so we moved away after a couple of years. The whole town is a shi tehole and I would never live there again - I hate going there as it has so many bad memories. Landlords will be rubbing their hands at your video thinking they will make a nice profit by renting to the poor. Areas used to be nice but they are now really bad because of the landlords. So if your encouraged by the idea of a cheap price for a house in Burnley, consider that the price may be low but the cost is high.
Cog lane and ightenhill yeah not the best of areas haha, brunshaw brownhill parkview a lot better there are nice areas in Burnley even bwood is getting better today.
I worked in Burnley for years, lived not far from there. Cheap housing attracts problems and I witnessed too much crap going on, I was glad to sell up and get away from it.
@@Theledge232 How is buying for £13k in the 80's, and selling for £35k in 2006 making 20 grand? Think about the effects of Inflation over a 20-year period.
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".
I am seeing a trend in my area for investors snapping up houses and turning them into rental houses. It is almost impossible for first time buyers to get on the ladder. Unfortunately, as was mentioned here, some Landlords are not fussy about their tenants. We had a Family nearby that caused misery to everyone in the street: Cars pulling up and openly dealing drugs, fights, rubbish everywhere, feral children, filthy language. One Christmas Eve, a lorry pulled up and the Mother and her children, all in pyjamas and a few bags bundled onto the back… and that was it! Peace!
@@LawrenceTimme I’m not sure what you mean, but you wouldn’t be able to buy a shed for £50 where I live. Prices have. Gone through the roof in the last 2-3 years.
He says average house in UK now is £292000 but that is outside London. For that price you will be lucky to even get a one or two bedroom flat , a house in London goes from £100 million to around may £500,000 so I guess he must be living in a very nice area to have such cheap houses but then what about the jobs?
I live in Burnley, and it saddens me to see whole areas like this, but it will never improve while there is a mixture of derelict, sub-standard houses, cheaply tarted-up buy-to-let properties with unscupulous landlords and owner-occupiers struggling to maintain their dignity among the squalor. To my mind the only solution is for the Council and a housing association to compulsorily purchase several streets at once, demolish half the houses to create parking and landscaped areas with lots of cul-de-sacs to eliminate through traffic, and refurbish the remaining houses to a high standard to make the whole neighbourhood a place people want to live. Better still, move a couple of Whitehall ministries into the town so there are worthwhile jobs for the people who live here.
Don't let council to run houses, there will be a lot of alcoholics and drugs dealers and area will became not only "not nice looking" but dirty dangerous. Council housing means no teants own it so if it's not their and most of they live for free, they constantly damage it, not working give the planty of time to erode place to the point you would avoid it using 100 miles radius.
sadly, that will not happen as councils need more people living there to collect their council tax. We have this problem currently with Lambeth Council trying to build 25-storey buildings for 400 dwellings on a tiny triangle of land in-between three railway lines that has been home to scaffolding companies (on land no-one else can use due to its location) for decades.
It's a great idea but it sounds awfully like levelling up. Which this lying and corrupt Tory government will never give the councils and housing associations the resources to do.
Best advice someone gave me years ago is but the smallest cheapest property in the best area you can find as opposed to the biggest most expensive house in the cheapest area you can find.
I agree.. I now live in a modest 2 bed bungalow in a really sought after Suffolk village. Im slowly getting the place done to a better standard. Very happy with the area
Just what my parents did in 1969 . Walked out of a Council House ( Sussex) owing nothing . Moved into a new build 2 bed terrace in a village - next to a main road with a factory opposite . So it was around £4k . Now the main road is bypassed and the factory has posh 4 bedders on the site . Apparently those little terraces are £300 k. now ! Funnily enough so are the ex Councils ones where they were. Can't beat a village though.
@@mystified1429 Back in 1969, housing could be bought easily in any area of the UK on average wages. People who are old enough to have done that are the lucky ones. It won't happen again.
Great video pal 🤗 I was born in Burnley in 1963, and at that time the population was around 125,000 people, it's now around 75,000 so that's why you have so many empty houses, most of those terraced streets used to have corner shops, but from the late 60s into the 70s they dwindled, along with the population, it's heartbreaking to see the town I grew up in change so much 😪 There are still some really nice parts of Burnley, but as you've pointed out, this has what's happened all over the town, in 1977 I used to live on Pritchard St and it was a place where all the houses were lived in and kids would play out without any problems that exist today. I'd like to see you do another video where you go around all the other places in Burnley that are really nice, I suppose it's like any other town or city that changes so much it becomes unrecognizable to its past. I live in London now, and I'd like to move back to Burnley to be with my friends as obviously I'm getting older, I've lived all over Europe, Ireland, Holland, Italy, and like I say I'm thinking about moving back there, but as you can see, some of the streets you've just been down who in thier right mind would live there 😪 But, and, obviously there's worse places in the world to live in 🙄
Hey cheers for this reply. And your right this is only a tiny part of Burnley, the video was just to see the areas where the houses are super cheap as that was the video so I didn’t go to any of the nicer areas. I love old big mill chimneys, and have made a few videos about them before, so I am planning another video in Burnley going to look at them as there as some beautiful ones still standing, so I’ll be able to show more of how nice Burnley is then as well. I lived in London for about 6 years and got fed up and moved back north 😂 up here will pull you back I reckon Thanks for your comment though, it was really good to hear about the history of Burnley back in the day
@@wanderingturnip although at 59 years old I could be classed as an old man, which I am I suppose, but the days I grew up in really were great days, but you don't think of it that way at the time, I'd class myself as and old school punk/raver, music was my first love along with Burnley FC so I'm quite young at heart 🤗 So like I say, those days there was still a community where people lived on those streets, it was vibrant, and like I say, there was lots of corner shops that were newsagent, chippies, haberdasherys, off licenses. I grew up on the Accy Rd area, but to look at how it is now breaks my heart 😪 I know Hebden and Todmorden are just over the border and lovely places as well, but also hard places to live as well, there's a video on RUclips that's also heartbreaking, I'll search for it and post it, maybe you have seen it, but it opens your mind on the double side of how the times have changed over the last 50 years or so 😳
@@wanderingturnipmaybe you've seen this, if not it will shock you, as you know there's beauty in those hills, but there's hardship that's so difficult to cope with 😪 ruclips.net/video/CzkAahsr5qY/видео.html
Theblurredcrucade2557 ,So your an Accrington road Man , yes ,that scene has changed ,it was a buzzing Community ,loads of shops ,chemists , butchers ,etc, Wood top pub is still standing , but remember , this was a mining town and a cotton town so you could go to any pub stand at the bar , then go to the toilet and you would be in the next pub , that's the old joke ? Because there was so many pubs and clubs here ? Vibrant it was ! But progress has ruined these pretty little Northern Towns ,just on Accy road itself you had foundries , ,engineering Companies like Bellings fires and cookers , but all gone ? It's like when the Council spends all this money the area becomes more ugly , and desolate ,? Moved to Manchester for 35 years , but really missed the Town Centre of Burnley , this was about the early 80s ? Came back and was disappointed , ,the road system is shocking now and the Town Centre is abysmal compared to what it was ,? Also the indoor market is one big eatery , just World foods that you can purchase from any takeaway ? With a big eating area that takes up the whole market , with empty units ,and tons of beauty shops for nails and eyebrows ? Well the Council are charging extortionate prices for the rent ? The Burnley market had every type of stalls you could imagine ? Now it resembles a shit hole , scruffy and dead with coffee shops everywhere but not one butchers on the high street and not one greengrocers ,((( in a Town Centre ,) terrible !
Just wow I grew up in Burnley in fact the house I lived in was one of the roughest spots you showed I left when I was 13 I am now 50 and have never returned not even for a visit which says it all. It was a sad traumatic experience living in such a deprived area and the only thing you can do if possible is to move somewhere else.
The local authorities should be snapping these up and using those on housing waiting lists and benefits to work with the council building teams to redevelop. That way they can learn some skills to get back into work and much better they are invested in the properties they live in.
To be honest, with so many properties boarded up, if a council were able to buy up loads of them they may as well build a huge fence and make it a gated community. It's not something I like to see but if it made people feel secure then why not? If it's near the train station make it a carless community and pedestrianise the streets within it.
I used to live in Todmorden, I couldn't afford Hebden, can no longer afford Todmorden .. but in my mind, it just takes people to change a place. The only thing I'll say is that, people are not happy without greenery, trees, gardens, plants. Back to back and side by side urban squalor. It's hard to work with that.
I'm originally from Wales. I went to Burnley to visit a mate for a weekend when I left the Army in 1989. I ended up staying for 8 years lol, and bought a house in Burnley Wood, not far from your first house on Pine Street. Burnley was awesome back then, great people and a fantastic night life. It went downhill a bit in the early to mid 90's as a lot of folk were made redundant and ended up skint. I eventually left to emigrate to Canada in 1997 but will always have very fond memories of my time in Burnley. I visited again in 2009 to catch up with some old friends and the decline was apparent then. Still fabulous people though, and there are some really nice areas to be honest. Thanks for the video.
The place has to be riddled with crime. There is no other explanation but nobody will go on the record about it. So it's apparently a mystery why so cheap...
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.
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.
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.
Cannabis was grown in the 12k house , the hole in the chimney wall was to let the extracted air out the hanger is still there to hold it up , there are even massive carbon filters in the other room and trays for cuttings still in there lol
I'm from Bradford (live in Leeds now) and these streets are EXACTLY like some of the poorer areas of Bradford. I expect the story of Burnley is very similar to that of Bradford too - Once a very successful mill town with a booming local economy in wool and textiles. In fact I remember even in the 1990s there was still a significant wool industry in Bradford. Terraces like these would have been full of the working class families that worked in the nearby factories and shops. They would mostly have been hard working salt-of-the-earth type people who made the best of whatever they had. Gradually that localised economy (and industry as a whole) in this country disintegrated and you ended up with so many cities and towns (especially in the north) loosing the economic lifeblood that once gave employment, income and sense of community to so many. And from there on in the social decay - Mass unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug addiction, crime and general social decay set in and it all ended up as we see it now. As that lad in the van pointed out, buying up of these properties by landlords only looking to make a quick buck who don't care what sort of tennants end up there only perpetuates the social problems. An area is only ever as good as the people living there choose to make it and even decent tennants who are only there for the short term roof over their head are never going to lift these areas back up to what they could be. The collapse of diverse and localised economies this country once (and not so very long ago) had in abundace is what set all this off and the London-centric policies of successive governments plus the ever growing problem of buy-to-let culture perpetuates it. With all that being said, I would much sooner pay £20k to live in Burnley with all its social/economic issues and crime than £500k to live in much the same social climate (probably more dangerous in fact) in or around London. You can also get similar kind of properties in the poorer parts of Leeds for £40k upwards.
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate you taking the time to write all that. I totally agree with you and it’s good to hear it written to articulately. In terms of the London thing as well, you are spot on. I lived down there a while back, renting, and i hated it. £700 for a tiny room in a horrible flat in rough area with loads of people I didn’t know. I move back up north and my first flat back in Yorkshire was a huge 2 bed in the centre of town for only £450, for the whole thing. I don’t even like going to visit London that much anymore 😂 Cheers again mate! 👍
@@wanderingturnip You can blame all this on the rotten lousy governments we have endured down the years. Not a shred of industrialism among them. Only interested in money-grubbing on stock exchanges or making weapons to sell to unscrupulous Arabs. I lived and worked in Bradford in the mid-seventies and sensed its former glory in the leafy avenues of Manningham Park.
Leeds would be better for proximity to London and not so bloody cold. At least you could get away for a bit. Northern England just looks miserable. I seriously thought about it for a nanosecond and then I looked at the climate figures. OMG.
Burnley has a great town centre, massive sports facility, a college, big park grounds including townley hall, a football stadium, a cinema, a lovely canal running through it. Just walk for a few minutes and you're up on the moors with amazing views and no end of bike riding or hiking trails. Its a real shame theres such dilapidated areas of housing as it could be a great place to live if people took a bit of pride in the area.
They need to be able to make a living and have some well-being! Poor people in the North are now excess to requirements for the rich who don't need them anymore.
I moved from the South West to rural Lancashire twelve years ago. For me, it was a no-brainer. I'd always holidayed either in the Lakes or Dales so I retired close by and found simple accommodation to be cheap and charming. Pennine England is stunning. Northerners are great people with gritty humour and down-to-earth values. If you need to work in the city, then half-hourly services run from places like Hebden Bridge and Todmorden to Leeds and Manchester. Forget all that M25 CRAP and breathe some air!
Yeah it is incredible up here. Only tiny parts that need some attention. I’ve lived in London but could never forgot my northern roots and got back as soon as I could
I’m from Burnley and still live here unfortunately, I sometimes convince myself it’s a nice place to live. you certainly do get blind to the squalor 😂 eye opening stuff, thank you for the reality check.
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.
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.
I am commenting before watching the whole video. The first house at £38k is a guide price for auction which could very well mean it starts at £70 and sells for much more.
Yeah I do mention that they are auction. I checked what some of them sold for after, and you are right, some go for more. But also the cheapest one I see didn’t sell at that price
Regarding the bars on doors and windows…That is a very common thing in Turkey. Not so much because people are frightened of being burgled, but because people leave their windows and doors open for fresh air, it’s just really secure. You can have every window open and not worry about anything except a stray cat. :-)
Speaks bound for their trust in each other and community cohesion lmfao Here in germany we also do that and I have never seen bars on windows ever in my life even once
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🤷♂️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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).
That last house was a grow house , the reason people have decent cars is they get them on tick/finance. Those sirts of streets want knocking down they will never recover.
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.
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.
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,
@@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 .
The Council has a LOT to answer for... My Dad owned ten houses to let in Burnley and as a local Landlord he was the absolute best you could wish for. All work always done ASAP, going WAY out of his way to make sure the houses and the people in them were all good. PHYSICALLY doing work any time day or night while also trying to run a near 40yr family business. The tenants and the Council on the otherhand... Burnley Council for example charged him ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY percent council tax any time a property was empty through refurbishment. They did this with my own home as well which I was bringing back from the dead. They made my Dad go through hell, making him join Landlords agencies etc, just so they could charge him an arm and a leg for literally NOTHING. He never got a single bit of help with anything although he was continuously ripped off by tenants and the Council. They are criminals, and they have played a large part in letting Burnley rot and go to ruin. Countless properties left derelict, it's a disgrace.
@@David-vn4qu Purely because the property was empty, it was set at the 'Councils discretion'. Mine was empty for quite some time (5 Years) as I was renovating and extending while suffering a debilitating illness... My Dad was the only one with a portfilio so to speak.
With all the hassle, I know people giving up renting property out. They are selling up and glad to get rid. Too many problems now unless you're very wealthy and can aim at a different market.
Well they want those little townd empty so they can privately buy the entire towns for pennies. Then rip it all down, built beautiful new modern towns like you see in NL and Germany. And then charge luxury prices for being sorts of a guided community for the wealthy in UK. Its pretty genius. In the future Uk will see the same overpopulation and giant housing crisis as we in germany with the increasing Massmigration. Trust me these shitty towns will be populated in ten years upwards again. Those in control know that and want to profit
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,
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!
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!!!!
You a very brave walking in them streets I bought a house in about 6 years a go and broken in about 3 to 4 times and then Burnley council get on your back they don't even help you but they start bullying you I am glad I got rid of the house
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.
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?!!!
@@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.
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
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.
@@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
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.....
I used to live in the area you were wandering round. By the way, Enzo's pizza opened by 3 Italian brothers in the 1980s and are amazing. "Duke Bar" as a general area is pretty poor but I wouldn't say dangarous.
The one's I always feel bad for are the people who try. Sometimes you see one lonely house on a road full of Pitbull dog shit and garbage and they've put little flower pots and garden ornaments around their front door.
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 👍
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.
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.
A lot of property in this area is bought by investors often from wealthy parts of the UK. They've never even seen the property. They have a team of builders to tart it up (basic level). Then rent them out to transient renters. They rent, run up debts, move on and repeat. The biggest shame is for the lovely, kind, community minded people who get stuck in these areas. Trying to make it pleasant and appealing. It is soul destroying. Often a handful of unpleasant, selfish people move into an area and drag it down.
This is the Tory legacy. A party of useless, incompetent and corrupt liars, that have no consideration whatever for poor people. As far as these over-stuffed elitists are concerned, the north is just a wilderness, not worth investment. No ready money!
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.
@@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
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!!!!
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.
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
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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 😂
I was born and brought up in Burnley in the 60’s and 70’s . At that time it was a thriving industrial town with many quality job opportunities. Sadly much of the decline you see in this film is due to those industries moving away and leaving few quality jobs for people. It slightly annoys me that films like this seem to focus on these deprived areas and give the impression that they reflect Burnley as a whole. There are many areas with well maintained quality homes and thriving communities.
This film isn’t a reflection of Burnley as a whole at all. It was just to look at the really cheap houses there, so the areas I went to were sadly in a bit of neglect
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
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.
Cheap houses with nice cars is usually attributed to lower income people buying luxury cars cars that suffer from heavy depreciation (old mercs, BMWs, Jags etc) to elevate themselves above the other low income people. The cars usually run OK to start but once the maintenance gets neglected (as it always does).....they can never afford the costs to repair their $100k car that they bought for $10k. Price depreciates, maintenance costs are still that of a $100k car.
See also Spennymoor, Stanley and Quaking Houses, Barrow-in-Furness, Shaw and parts of Dewsbury, Batley and Oldham, Blaenau and Bethesda. These are small areas of England and Wales (I'm sure there are others) which are being DELIBERATELY left to rot.
Dewsbury and batley being left to rot??? The councils have done up the kitchens and bathrooms up and I'm pretty sure they had their hearing replaced just before covid... most houses are private owned
True that. Burnley is one of many towns which lost all its traditional industry. That started the rot. Places like Merthyr Tydfil for example, they had a huge employer (Dowlais steelworks) which closed down. Thousands out of work. Nobody retrains, people go on sickness benefit, a spiral downwards into alcoholism and negativity.
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.
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.
The idea was to find out why the house prices are so cheap, so I went looking for those reasons. But as I said in the description, I really like Burnley, I think it a great town, in a great location, full of lovely people. This video is really about what happens when absent minded landlords buy up property with no care for the area.
I only found your channel yesterday and I’m really enjoying it. Cheers. Have you been to Hull? I think you’d like it. I used to work in the city centre. My office window looked out onto Blades ship yard where I think the HMS Bounty was built. If I head in the other direction I go into Wincolmlee which has some derelict mills that’d be right up your street. If you’re ever planning on coming this way to film I can point you in the direction of some cracking stuff.
That £12k house was an absolute tip! A lot of serious work would be needed to live there. In fact, it might be easier to knock it down and start again.
@@oddities-whatnot Not really. These are solid stone buildings. Just clean it on the outside, get the walls inside in clean condition again, some new pipes and thats it. You guys dont work much in construction do you? I could get that house looking like new with maybe 10k Its just the amount and especially the length and annoyancy of the work, that I dont get shit for but have to pay for, that would let me think twice as I have to do it all myself. The most expensive thing for me would be the steel bars and equipment to knock out the upper floor wall around a window, so I can put some steelbars and vertical strengthening bars in the outside wall and ground, so I could build myself a balcony. Whats it with you brits never having balconies?
Lol you came extremely close to my house, just off Lyndhurst Road right next to that Lidl you parked at. The area you were in is called Burnley Wood. It's known for being one of the roughest areas in Burnley. It has gotten a little bit better, but not much. Most of my mates growing up never got out and have become drug dealers and such. Super interesting to see.
A lot of these old Victorian houses need a lot of work doing to them. The cost of the work will obviously exceed the purchase price of the house. People taking on the work often feel like they are living under siege. A real indicator of an area is what it is like at night. Also the amount of fly tipping in an area.
I met a woman once in Burney, nice lady but very rough area of town. Mine was one of only two cars one the street. You can tell a poor area by the lack of cars outside houses at night. I was glad it was still in one piece the next day.
I lived in Hebden Bridge 20 years back and now I live on the outskirts of Burnley, and I have to say Hebden Bridge has changed, as there are very few local people who live there, because it's been predominantly taken over by outsiders and the LGBTQ+ community mainly from the wealthier south, and is nothing like the town it was when it was local people. Furthermore, drugs are rife in Hebden Bridge, and on the surface it might appear a lovely tourist town, but underneath there is a community of ageing hippies who doss around and have little respect for their surroundings. Just walk around the back streets and see the overflowing bins and old furniture and children's toys, and this is because families are too big for the little workers cottages. 2 days ago looking out across the wharf onto the canal, the area is full of weeds due to lack of care by it's residents. Don't be fooled into thinking Hebden Bridge is a paradise, as from experience I'd sooner live in a town like Burnley where the people or locally born and genuine, the parks are well know nationality for their excellence, and the football team is close to premiership level, and there is a range of mid & low cost supermarkets unlike Hebden Bridge. Burnley has a M&S and other leading shops, and Hebden Bridge has a scuffy overpriced very small Co-op. As a previous owner of a shop in Hebden Bridge, I can with authority say that its residents promote independent shops, but in practice they don't support them, as you only have to see the many Tesco & Asda delivery vans flying round. The maker of this video shows low value rented properties in Burnley that produce the weed, but its likes of Hebden Bridge just a few miles away that consumes it. It is the small surroundings towns of Burnley, Halifax & Rochdale that supply the drugs to the likes of tourist towns in and around the South Pennines, Hebden Bridge being an example.
Thanks for the video! I think you have done a good job of highlighting something very important in the 21st century!!! It maybe a catch 22 situation whereby either the area stays as is with affordable homes or it's regenerated with over priced properties that pushes out old communities & brings in new money. Sadly, there seems to be no middle ground anymore to balance fairness & justifiably cater for those that don't want to live in squalor but cannot afford anything more. At least when early council estate's were first completed they were both affordable & respectable looking. They were intended to be secure, affordable dwellings for any UK citizen that was on there way up or had fallen on hard times. Council properties were owned & built under council contracts, not agency's. A once steady flow of income for council's & government alike, council properties could help a young family climb the career ladder until they could afford move out & buy a property of there own, freeing up the council accommodation for someone else less fortunate & in need until the process repeated itself. Council flat's could also be a saviour for the older generation that needed to downsize as they no longer had family with them. This would help them be part of a community & make retirement affordable. This brings several questions... 1. Why aren't the government stepping in? 2. If the government say they have no budget for it why aren't they increasing taxes for the super rich like those playing football in there 20's receiving £2000,000+ p/m for example? 3. With migration into the UK being at crisis point with all time record numbers why is Burnley not being utilised at all? 4. With overflowing prison's & soft sentencing attracting human trafficking into the overpopulated UK, why not use the wasted spaces to build modern prisons? 5. Why not build much needed modern hospitals? 6. Why not turn it into one big reclamation yard for recycling building materials to create modern ecco friendly employment & build cull-de-sac's in place of the ''so-called'' too expensive to renovate houses? 7. And on the seventh day, if all that seems a bit overwhelming or too much like hard work or the government say is too unaffordable, raise it all to the ground & let nature take it all back or is that too eco logical or sensible??? At those sort of prices the 20 yr old footballer Kylian Mbappe could buy the whole town for a weeks wages & turn it around into a thriving community with hotels, business's & leisure facilities on his months wages!!!... Oh, that reminds me, I must get my 90 yr old dad to send the last £5 of his pension off to Water Aid. Bye.
Kylian Mbappe? He's not even English. I do feel sorry for the English -- I'm Asian myself, coming here with my family in the early 1960s where mum got a job as a junior doctor in the days when the NHS was superb. Our family never imposed our culture on the British -- we came to England to respect the British way of life. However, that's not the attitude of the majority of immigrants from the former Empire.
@@lanialost1320 I'm well aware that Mbappe isn't an England Player. I was simply pointing out the crazy financial divide between the two situations. There are plenty of examples of UK based football players that are over paid, along with heads of industry that could share their wealth & put an end to these eye sore's. .
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
Thank you very much for this video! A lot to think, and as someone that loves DIYS, I believe that is a great opportunity to have the first house, and transform in a lovely home. Really good video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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??
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.
Come to County Durham - you can still actually get some fairly nice properties in former mining villages with relatively low crime rates for well under £50,000. The problem is that the council actually seems to want these places to go to rack and ruin - they have been bussing in the dregs from the South in some cases and implanting them in these places that once had a really strong community. It's tragic.
Councils love the "dregs of society". The more problems they have, the more money can be extracted out of the benefits system. It's why councils loved throwing people in "temp accomodation" for so long. £300 a month council rents, became £300 a week "temporary accomodation" 🤷 Councils love these people. Every problem, is another council employee able to be hired to fix the problem they bussed in.
I was seriously looking at that area last year. Astonishing properties in what seemed like nice locations for not much money. A really nice terraced house next to the moors in Tow Law was going for about 55k. Didn't need anything doing to it. That was just one I looked at.
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.
Why don't you ask some pertinent questions like what happened to all the working class people who used to live here and took pride in their little homes ? Why did they move ? Where did they move to ? Who, exactly, is buying these houses ? Why is Burnley Council allowing such degradation and rubbish on the streets ? What plans have they got for improving the housing stock ? Any bets on who runs Burnley Council ? So much for the Tory's leveling up. Politicians make me sick !!!!!
Well said its awful the houses and areas what is going on.
It is not council who let rubbish on street. People litter everywhere. Northampton new estates looks like waste field, no matter what you do looks like people in UK just like to live in dirty areas. Having facilities that you can dump yours rubbish anytime we see fly tipping in rural areas anyway
@@jakubszott6394 The council is responsible for enforcing fly tipping laws and cleaning up hazardous waste. But you are right, there has been a general degeneration in behaviour and personal responibility in the UK
Burnley council is run by Labour .
As a landlord there is no way I would renovate a house, spend loads of money and let it out to anyone and then not care? I think you’ve got your assessment wrong. Every landlord is only going to invest and improve an area if they can get good tenants. Is there enough good tenants to go around in Burnley who will look after the property, pay the rent and become part of the community?
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 lived in Burnley, my first two houses were there.
The first house on Cog Lane was £13k in the 80's, sold for £35k in 2006, sold because the area was full of druggies, thieving scum - if it was not bolted down it was stolen, they kick your doors in to burgle you.
When I got the opportunity to sell and move elsewhere I took it, unfortunately moving to Ightenhill was no better, the kids of scummy parents made our life hell so we moved away after a couple of years.
The whole town is a shi tehole and I would never live there again - I hate going there as it has so many bad memories.
Landlords will be rubbing their hands at your video thinking they will make a nice profit by renting to the poor.
Areas used to be nice but they are now really bad because of the landlords.
So if your encouraged by the idea of a cheap price for a house in Burnley, consider that the price may be low but the cost is high.
Interesting this thank you
true, better live in a tiny box house in a good street than a pine box 6 foot under
Cog lane and ightenhill yeah not the best of areas haha, brunshaw brownhill parkview a lot better there are nice areas in Burnley even bwood is getting better today.
I worked in Burnley for years, lived not far from there. Cheap housing attracts problems and I witnessed too much crap going on, I was glad to sell up and get away from it.
@@Theledge232 How is buying for £13k in the 80's, and selling for £35k in 2006 making 20 grand? Think about the effects of Inflation over a 20-year period.
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".
I am seeing a trend in my area for investors snapping up houses and turning them into rental houses. It is almost impossible for first time buyers to get on the ladder. Unfortunately, as was mentioned here, some Landlords are not fussy about their tenants. We had a Family nearby that caused misery to everyone in the street: Cars pulling up and openly dealing drugs, fights, rubbish everywhere, feral children, filthy language. One Christmas Eve, a lorry pulled up and the Mother and her children, all in pyjamas and a few bags bundled onto the back… and that was it! Peace!
How can you complain it's impossible for a first time buyer when there are houses right there for under £50k. That means you only need £5k deposit.
@@LawrenceTimme I’m not sure what you mean, but you wouldn’t be able to buy a shed for £50 where I live. Prices have. Gone through the roof in the last 2-3 years.
It won't get any better with the government offering over the going rate for landlords to house dinghy divers by the thousand.
He says average house in UK now is £292000 but that is outside London. For that price you will be lucky to even get a one or two bedroom flat , a house in London goes from £100 million to around may £500,000 so I guess he must be living in a very nice area to have such cheap houses but then what about the jobs?
@@LawrenceTimme no first time buyer wants to live in a sh@thole surrounded by migrants
I live in Burnley, and it saddens me to see whole areas like this, but it will never improve while there is a mixture of derelict, sub-standard houses, cheaply tarted-up buy-to-let properties with unscupulous landlords and owner-occupiers struggling to maintain their dignity among the squalor. To my mind the only solution is for the Council and a housing association to compulsorily purchase several streets at once, demolish half the houses to create parking and landscaped areas with lots of cul-de-sacs to eliminate through traffic, and refurbish the remaining houses to a high standard to make the whole neighbourhood a place people want to live. Better still, move a couple of Whitehall ministries into the town so there are worthwhile jobs for the people who live here.
Don't let council to run houses, there will be a lot of alcoholics and drugs dealers and area will became not only "not nice looking" but dirty dangerous. Council housing means no teants own it so if it's not their and most of they live for free, they constantly damage it, not working give the planty of time to erode place to the point you would avoid it using 100 miles radius.
Good idea
sadly, that will not happen as councils need more people living there to collect their council tax. We have this problem currently with Lambeth Council trying to build 25-storey buildings for 400 dwellings on a tiny triangle of land in-between three railway lines that has been home to scaffolding companies (on land no-one else can use due to its location) for decades.
I used to live in the roughest part of Carlisle and they did just that. Demolished the slums and built "closes" with no areas to speed.
It's a great idea but it sounds awfully like levelling up. Which this lying and corrupt Tory government will never give the councils and housing associations the resources to do.
Best advice someone gave me years ago is but the smallest cheapest property in the best area you can find as opposed to the biggest most expensive house in the cheapest area you can find.
I agree.. I now live in a modest 2 bed bungalow in a really sought after Suffolk village. Im slowly getting the place done to a better standard. Very happy with the area
Just what my parents did in 1969 . Walked out of a Council House ( Sussex) owing nothing . Moved into a new build 2 bed terrace in a village - next to a main road with a factory opposite . So it was around £4k . Now the main road is bypassed and the factory has posh 4 bedders on the site . Apparently those little terraces are £300 k. now ! Funnily enough so are the ex Councils ones where they were. Can't beat a village though.
@@mystified1429 Back in 1969, housing could be bought easily in any area of the UK on average wages. People who are old enough to have done that are the lucky ones. It won't happen again.
Great video pal 🤗
I was born in Burnley in 1963, and at that time the population was around 125,000 people, it's now around 75,000 so that's why you have so many empty houses, most of those terraced streets used to have corner shops, but from the late 60s into the 70s they dwindled, along with the population, it's heartbreaking to see the town I grew up in change so much 😪
There are still some really nice parts of Burnley, but as you've pointed out, this has what's happened all over the town, in 1977 I used to live on Pritchard St and it was a place where all the houses were lived in and kids would play out without any problems that exist today.
I'd like to see you do another video where you go around all the other places in Burnley that are really nice, I suppose it's like any other town or city that changes so much it becomes unrecognizable to its past.
I live in London now, and I'd like to move back to Burnley to be with my friends as obviously I'm getting older, I've lived all over Europe, Ireland, Holland, Italy, and like I say I'm thinking about moving back there, but as you can see, some of the streets you've just been down who in thier right mind would live there 😪
But, and, obviously there's worse places in the world to live in 🙄
Hey cheers for this reply. And your right this is only a tiny part of Burnley, the video was just to see the areas where the houses are super cheap as that was the video so I didn’t go to any of the nicer areas.
I love old big mill chimneys, and have made a few videos about them before, so I am planning another video in Burnley going to look at them as there as some beautiful ones still standing, so I’ll be able to show more of how nice Burnley is then as well.
I lived in London for about 6 years and got fed up and moved back north 😂 up here will pull you back I reckon
Thanks for your comment though, it was really good to hear about the history of Burnley back in the day
@@wanderingturnip although at 59 years old I could be classed as an old man, which I am I suppose, but the days I grew up in really were great days, but you don't think of it that way at the time, I'd class myself as and old school punk/raver, music was my first love along with Burnley FC so I'm quite young at heart 🤗
So like I say, those days there was still a community where people lived on those streets, it was vibrant, and like I say, there was lots of corner shops that were newsagent, chippies, haberdasherys, off licenses.
I grew up on the Accy Rd area, but to look at how it is now breaks my heart 😪 I know Hebden and Todmorden are just over the border and lovely places as well, but also hard places to live as well, there's a video on RUclips that's also heartbreaking, I'll search for it and post it, maybe you have seen it, but it opens your mind on the double side of how the times have changed over the last 50 years or so 😳
@@wanderingturnipmaybe you've seen this, if not it will shock you, as you know there's beauty in those hills, but there's hardship that's so difficult to cope with 😪
ruclips.net/video/CzkAahsr5qY/видео.html
@@wanderingturnip btw, I've subscribed to your channel, I'll look forward to seeing more videos pal 🤗
Theblurredcrucade2557 ,So your an Accrington road Man , yes ,that scene has changed ,it was a buzzing Community ,loads of shops ,chemists , butchers ,etc, Wood top pub is still standing , but remember , this was a mining town and a cotton town so you could go to any pub stand at the bar , then go to the toilet and you would be in the next pub , that's the old joke ? Because there was so many pubs and clubs here ? Vibrant it was ! But progress has ruined these pretty little Northern Towns ,just on Accy road itself you had foundries , ,engineering Companies like Bellings fires and cookers , but all gone ? It's like when the Council spends all this money the area becomes more ugly , and desolate ,? Moved to Manchester for 35 years , but really missed the Town Centre of Burnley , this was about the early 80s ? Came back and was disappointed , ,the road system is shocking now and the Town Centre is abysmal compared to what it was ,? Also the indoor market is one big eatery , just World foods that you can purchase from any takeaway ? With a big eating area that takes up the whole market , with empty units ,and tons of beauty shops for nails and eyebrows ? Well the Council are charging extortionate prices for the rent ? The Burnley market had every type of stalls you could imagine ? Now it resembles a shit hole , scruffy and dead with coffee shops everywhere but not one butchers on the high street and not one greengrocers ,((( in a Town Centre ,) terrible !
Just wow I grew up in Burnley in fact the house I lived in was one of the roughest spots you showed I left when I was 13 I am now 50 and have never returned not even for a visit which says it all. It was a sad traumatic experience living in such a deprived area and the only thing you can do if possible is to move somewhere else.
Where are you now
@@theoracle7148 Ireland and its a lovely place to live 😀
@@anotherdayrepeat3283 fairplay
i don't know about levelling up some of the houses just want levelling , full stop
The local authorities should be snapping these up and using those on housing waiting lists and benefits to work with the council building teams to redevelop. That way they can learn some skills to get back into work and much better they are invested in the properties they live in.
To be honest, with so many properties boarded up, if a council were able to buy up loads of them they may as well build a huge fence and make it a gated community. It's not something I like to see but if it made people feel secure then why not? If it's near the train station make it a carless community and pedestrianise the streets within it.
You obviously not seen the workmanship of council worrkers?!?!
I used to live in Todmorden, I couldn't afford Hebden, can no longer afford Todmorden .. but in my mind, it just takes people to change a place. The only thing I'll say is that, people are not happy without greenery, trees, gardens, plants. Back to back and side by side urban squalor. It's hard to work with that.
White Middle class bring gardens, trees and all the soppy stuff that makes a nice environment.
I'd buy a smaller house if they had a garden, oh, lets go sit next to the bins!
I'm originally from Wales. I went to Burnley to visit a mate for a weekend when I left the Army in 1989. I ended up staying for 8 years lol, and bought a house in Burnley Wood, not far from your first house on Pine Street. Burnley was awesome back then, great people and a fantastic night life. It went downhill a bit in the early to mid 90's as a lot of folk were made redundant and ended up skint. I eventually left to emigrate to Canada in 1997 but will always have very fond memories of my time in Burnley. I visited again in 2009 to catch up with some old friends and the decline was apparent then. Still fabulous people though, and there are some really nice areas to be honest. Thanks for the video.
Ah nice one for this. Always good to hear from people who have lived there and seen the areas over time so cheers 👍
Canada is nothing like the country I grew up in. It’s becoming unrecognizable and unaffordable.
That £12000 house used to be a grow house😂you can see all the filters,fans and air ducts
Glad someone noticed. Imagine being in this game but not recognising when a property was a grow house. Good job we dont have meth kitchens.
Wtf is a grow house?
The place has to be riddled with crime. There is no other explanation but nobody will go on the record about it. So it's apparently a mystery why so cheap...
@@dlarge6502 I'm assuming it's where they grow weed
@@dlarge6502 where you grow drugs
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.
How bizarre to see several streets in UK with derelict and empty houses when the country has a shortage of houses. What a waste of resources!!!
And yet we’re in the top 10 largest economies in the world.
Makes you wonder where all that money is, in the pockets of the super rich.
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.
Cannabis was grown in the 12k house , the hole in the chimney wall was to let the extracted air out the hanger is still there to hold it up , there are even massive carbon filters in the other room and trays for cuttings still in there lol
Yeah people keep telling me. I wouldn’t know what to look for tbh 😂
Sounds like your experienced. 😆
@@How_to_613 you're*
I'm from Bradford (live in Leeds now) and these streets are EXACTLY like some of the poorer areas of Bradford.
I expect the story of Burnley is very similar to that of Bradford too - Once a very successful mill town with a booming local economy in wool and textiles.
In fact I remember even in the 1990s there was still a significant wool industry in Bradford. Terraces like these would have been full of the working class families that worked in the nearby factories and shops. They would mostly have been hard working salt-of-the-earth type people who made the best of whatever they had.
Gradually that localised economy (and industry as a whole) in this country disintegrated and you ended up with so many cities and towns (especially in the north) loosing the economic lifeblood that once gave employment, income and sense of community to so many. And from there on in the social decay - Mass unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug addiction, crime and general social decay set in and it all ended up as we see it now.
As that lad in the van pointed out, buying up of these properties by landlords only looking to make a quick buck who don't care what sort of tennants end up there only perpetuates the social problems.
An area is only ever as good as the people living there choose to make it and even decent tennants who are only there for the short term roof over their head are never going to lift these areas back up to what they could be. The collapse of diverse and localised economies this country once (and not so very long ago) had in abundace is what set all this off and the London-centric policies of successive governments plus the ever growing problem of buy-to-let culture perpetuates it.
With all that being said, I would much sooner pay £20k to live in Burnley with all its social/economic issues and crime than £500k to live in much the same social climate (probably more dangerous in fact) in or around London. You can also get similar kind of properties in the poorer parts of Leeds for £40k upwards.
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate you taking the time to write all that.
I totally agree with you and it’s good to hear it written to articulately.
In terms of the London thing as well, you are spot on. I lived down there a while back, renting, and i hated it. £700 for a tiny room in a horrible flat in rough area with loads of people I didn’t know.
I move back up north and my first flat back in Yorkshire was a huge 2 bed in the centre of town for only £450, for the whole thing. I don’t even like going to visit London that much anymore 😂
Cheers again mate! 👍
@@wanderingturnip You can blame all this on the rotten lousy governments we have endured down the years. Not a shred of industrialism among them. Only interested in money-grubbing on stock exchanges or making weapons to sell to unscrupulous Arabs.
I lived and worked in Bradford in the mid-seventies and sensed its former glory in the leafy avenues of Manningham Park.
what area of Bradford are you referring too
Leeds would be better for proximity to London and not so bloody cold. At least you could get away for a bit. Northern England just looks miserable. I seriously thought about it for a nanosecond and then I looked at the climate figures. OMG.
Burnley has a great town centre, massive sports facility, a college, big park grounds including townley hall, a football stadium, a cinema, a lovely canal running through it. Just walk for a few minutes and you're up on the moors with amazing views and no end of bike riding or hiking trails. Its a real shame theres such dilapidated areas of housing as it could be a great place to live if people took a bit of pride in the area.
They need to be able to make a living and have some well-being! Poor people in the North are now excess to requirements for the rich who don't need them anymore.
I moved from the South West to rural Lancashire twelve years ago.
For me, it was a no-brainer. I'd always holidayed either in the Lakes or Dales so I retired close by and found simple accommodation to be cheap and charming.
Pennine England is stunning. Northerners are great people with gritty humour and down-to-earth values. If you need to work in the city, then half-hourly services run from places like Hebden Bridge and Todmorden to Leeds and Manchester.
Forget all that M25 CRAP and breathe some air!
Yeah it is incredible up here. Only tiny parts that need some attention. I’ve lived in London but could never forgot my northern roots and got back as soon as I could
Northern rail are very bad 😂
M62, M60 and the A roads are still mare. But a nice area. Roads around Hebden are busy. I live in North Lancs, much quieter
I’m from Burnley and still live here unfortunately, I sometimes convince myself it’s a nice place to live. you certainly do get blind to the squalor 😂 eye opening stuff, thank you for the reality check.
Lot of sexy women in Burnley. I mean that, used to live there. Had a lot of good times !
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 am commenting before watching the whole video. The first house at £38k is a guide price for auction which could very well mean it starts at £70 and sells for much more.
Yeah I do mention that they are auction. I checked what some of them sold for after, and you are right, some go for more. But also the cheapest one I see didn’t sell at that price
Regarding the bars on doors and windows…That is a very common thing in Turkey. Not so much because people are frightened of being burgled, but because people leave their windows and doors open for fresh air, it’s just really secure. You can have every window open and not worry about anything except a stray cat. :-)
Fancy finding you here bestie!!!!
@@marinakaplais Great minds think alike, darlin!
Speaks bound for their trust in each other and community cohesion lmfao
Here in germany we also do that and I have never seen bars on windows ever in my life even once
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.
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.
Been to Todmorden. Yes, it's been gentrified with its excellent rail connections to Manchester. I'm still perfectly content here in Burnley.
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 😅
the bars on the doorway and lower windows are to stop people breaking in and destroying things inside while the house is empty.
I've just discovered your account and already your yellow North Face jacket is the most consistent thing in my life
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).
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
That last house was a grow house , the reason people have decent cars is they get them on tick/finance. Those sirts of streets want knocking down they will never recover.
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 😀
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.
Sunak stole their levelling up money and gave it to Tunbridge Wells.
Well it sure as hell didn't come to E Sussex.
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Tunbridge Wells doesn't need leveling up money ... so your argument is skewed.
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 .
The Council has a LOT to answer for...
My Dad owned ten houses to let in Burnley and as a local Landlord he was the absolute best you could wish for. All work always done ASAP, going WAY out of his way to make sure the houses and the people in them were all good. PHYSICALLY doing work any time day or night while also trying to run a near 40yr family business.
The tenants and the Council on the otherhand... Burnley Council for example charged him ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY percent council tax any time a property was empty through refurbishment. They did this with my own home as well which I was bringing back from the dead. They made my Dad go through hell, making him join Landlords agencies etc, just so they could charge him an arm and a leg for literally NOTHING.
He never got a single bit of help with anything although he was continuously ripped off by tenants and the Council. They are criminals, and they have played a large part in letting Burnley rot and go to ruin. Countless properties left derelict, it's a disgrace.
Why did you both get charged an extra 50%? Was this because you both had a property portfolio?
@@David-vn4qu Purely because the property was empty, it was set at the 'Councils discretion'. Mine was empty for quite some time (5 Years) as I was renovating and extending while suffering a debilitating illness... My Dad was the only one with a portfilio so to speak.
With all the hassle, I know people giving up renting property out. They are selling up and glad to get rid. Too many problems now unless you're very wealthy and can aim at a different market.
Well they want those little townd empty so they can privately buy the entire towns for pennies. Then rip it all down, built beautiful new modern towns like you see in NL and Germany. And then charge luxury prices for being sorts of a guided community for the wealthy in UK. Its pretty genius.
In the future Uk will see the same overpopulation and giant housing crisis as we in germany with the increasing Massmigration. Trust me these shitty towns will be populated in ten years upwards again. Those in control know that and want to profit
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
Another story well told and very thought provoking 👍
I liked how you noticed how crap the houses must be because of the iron gates and then looked at an expensive house and admired its iron gates ;) .
Haha yeah I didn’t actually like of it like that
I can see one guy doing ok in Burnley... Martin Collins, the name on all the boarded up windows. must be minted!
I know right. Killing it
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!
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!!!!
Great video , great delivery clean edit.
Hey thanks!😊
You a very brave walking in them streets
I bought a house in about 6 years a go and broken in about 3 to 4 times and then Burnley council get on your back they don't even help you but they start bullying you I am glad I got rid of the house
And its just going to get worse Much worse
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
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?
Just discovered your videos...Amazing. You are so professional and a joy to watch. I subscribed and wait for more of your adventures.
Hey thanks so much. I really appreciate that
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. :)
Martin Collins has a cracking business boarding all those homes up 😂
Hahaha I know right 😂😂😂 he is doing fine
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
Not that long ago that terraces houses in Salford were £6-12000...then it got BBCified.
BBCified. 😂
Often looked at Burnley on rightmove and wondered why so cheap, thanks for the walk round, really enjoyed your video
Hey cheers for this 😀
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
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 used to live in the area you were wandering round. By the way, Enzo's pizza opened by 3 Italian brothers in the 1980s and are amazing. "Duke Bar" as a general area is pretty poor but I wouldn't say dangarous.
Duke Bar is a bit cosmopolitan for my liking, its after dark it become very dodgy in areas like that. Not welcoming at all.
The one's I always feel bad for are the people who try. Sometimes you see one lonely house on a road full of Pitbull dog shit and garbage and they've put little flower pots and garden ornaments around their front door.
Regarding the Lidl, there was a video on Facebook recently of a security guard fighting with a shoplifter there
Oh really?!
Such a seriously honest video.... us renters know what a struggle renting is...and young or older renters have the same on going problem.
Really interesting video that mate,well done 👍
Thanks I appreciate it
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 👍
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. 😁
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.
Yes but what about job opportunities and transportation networks. Who wants to live in an area with not much nearby not even people
A lot of property in this area is bought by investors often from wealthy parts of the UK. They've never even seen the property. They have a team of builders to tart it up (basic level). Then rent them out to transient renters. They rent, run up debts, move on and repeat.
The biggest shame is for the lovely, kind, community minded people who get stuck in these areas. Trying to make it pleasant and appealing. It is soul destroying. Often a handful of unpleasant, selfish people move into an area and drag it down.
Hey cheers for this. Really interesting to hear. Thanks
Sad reality.
This is the Tory legacy. A party of useless, incompetent and corrupt liars, that have no consideration whatever for poor people. As far as these over-stuffed elitists are concerned, the north is just a wilderness, not worth investment. No ready money!
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
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.
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.
Nice video!
The cars out front are more expensive than the houses
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, RUclips 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.
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 😂
I was born and brought up in Burnley in the 60’s and 70’s . At that time it was a thriving industrial town with many quality job opportunities. Sadly much of the decline you see in this film is due to those industries moving away and leaving few quality jobs for people. It slightly annoys me that films like this seem to focus on these deprived areas and give the impression that they reflect Burnley as a whole. There are many areas with well maintained quality homes and thriving communities.
This film isn’t a reflection of Burnley as a whole at all. It was just to look at the really cheap houses there, so the areas I went to were sadly in a bit of neglect
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
Thank you for this tour. I had no idea such areas existed in Britain.
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.......
Lived in Burnley in the late 1980s. I was assaulted then in Woolworth’s car park so I left! A long term problem here, I would say
Sorry to hear that happened. I hope you feel safe where ever you are now
Lived there for 15 years.
You have to know the areas to avoid, best to keep to the outer villages if possible
Cheap houses with nice cars is usually attributed to lower income people buying luxury cars cars that suffer from heavy depreciation (old mercs, BMWs, Jags etc) to elevate themselves above the other low income people. The cars usually run OK to start but once the maintenance gets neglected (as it always does).....they can never afford the costs to repair their $100k car that they bought for $10k. Price depreciates, maintenance costs are still that of a $100k car.
See also Spennymoor, Stanley and Quaking Houses, Barrow-in-Furness, Shaw and parts of Dewsbury, Batley and Oldham, Blaenau and Bethesda. These are small areas of England and Wales (I'm sure there are others) which are being DELIBERATELY left to rot.
Dewsbury and batley being left to rot??? The councils have done up the kitchens and bathrooms up and I'm pretty sure they had their hearing replaced just before covid... most houses are private owned
True that. Burnley is one of many towns which lost all its traditional industry. That started the rot. Places like Merthyr Tydfil for example, they had a huge employer (Dowlais steelworks) which closed down. Thousands out of work. Nobody retrains, people go on sickness benefit, a spiral downwards into alcoholism and negativity.
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.
Do more property areas. It's a good series to start.
Yeah I think I’m going to
I'm glad you showed the best side of Burnley
The idea was to find out why the house prices are so cheap, so I went looking for those reasons. But as I said in the description, I really like Burnley, I think it a great town, in a great location, full of lovely people. This video is really about what happens when absent minded landlords buy up property with no care for the area.
@@wanderingturnip Burnley is a great place I'm from there myself.
Was pleased to see you still had a camera at the end of the video
I only found your channel yesterday and I’m really enjoying it. Cheers.
Have you been to Hull? I think you’d like it. I used to work in the city centre. My office window looked out onto Blades ship yard where I think the HMS Bounty was built. If I head in the other direction I go into Wincolmlee which has some derelict mills that’d be right up your street.
If you’re ever planning on coming this way to film I can point you in the direction of some cracking stuff.
That £12k house was an absolute tip! A lot of serious work would be needed to live there. In fact, it might be easier to knock it down and start again.
Spend 30k on it and it would be lovely.
@@rewind12354 yes! And a great bargain - the value would be way more than the house price + cost of work.
@@moiraatkinson And thats the problem. Nobody in their right mind would spend on those old houses anymore. They need demolishing.
@@oddities-whatnot I guess that’s the reality.
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Not really. These are solid stone buildings. Just clean it on the outside, get the walls inside in clean condition again, some new pipes and thats it. You guys dont work much in construction do you? I could get that house looking like new with maybe 10k
Its just the amount and especially the length and annoyancy of the work, that I dont get shit for but have to pay for, that would let me think twice as I have to do it all myself.
The most expensive thing for me would be the steel bars and equipment to knock out the upper floor wall around a window, so I can put some steelbars and vertical strengthening bars in the outside wall and ground, so I could build myself a balcony. Whats it with you brits never having balconies?
Lol you came extremely close to my house, just off Lyndhurst Road right next to that Lidl you parked at. The area you were in is called Burnley Wood. It's known for being one of the roughest areas in Burnley. It has gotten a little bit better, but not much.
Most of my mates growing up never got out and have become drug dealers and such. Super interesting to see.
Oh really, interesting to hear nice one 👍
A lot of these old Victorian houses need a lot of work doing to them. The cost of the work will obviously exceed the purchase price of the house. People taking on the work often feel like they are living under siege.
A real indicator of an area is what it is like at night. Also the amount of fly tipping in an area.
I met a woman once in Burney, nice lady but very rough area of town. Mine was one of only two cars one the street. You can tell a poor area by the lack of cars outside houses at night. I was glad it was still in one piece the next day.
What is fly tipping. I thought that word was kind of a joke
I lived in Hebden Bridge 20 years back and now I live on the outskirts of Burnley, and I have to say Hebden Bridge has changed, as there are very few local people who live there, because it's been predominantly taken over by outsiders and the LGBTQ+ community mainly from the wealthier south, and is nothing like the town it was when it was local people. Furthermore, drugs are rife in Hebden Bridge, and on the surface it might appear a lovely tourist town, but underneath there is a community of ageing hippies who doss around and have little respect for their surroundings. Just walk around the back streets and see the overflowing bins and old furniture and children's toys, and this is because families are too big for the little workers cottages. 2 days ago looking out across the wharf onto the canal, the area is full of weeds due to lack of care by it's residents. Don't be fooled into thinking Hebden Bridge is a paradise, as from experience I'd sooner live in a town like Burnley where the people or locally born and genuine, the parks are well know nationality for their excellence, and the football team is close to premiership level, and there is a range of mid & low cost supermarkets unlike Hebden Bridge. Burnley has a M&S and other leading shops, and Hebden Bridge has a scuffy overpriced very small Co-op. As a previous owner of a shop in Hebden Bridge, I can with authority say that its residents promote independent shops, but in practice they don't support them, as you only have to see the many Tesco & Asda delivery vans flying round. The maker of this video shows low value rented properties in Burnley that produce the weed, but its likes of Hebden Bridge just a few miles away that consumes it. It is the small surroundings towns of Burnley, Halifax & Rochdale that supply the drugs to the likes of tourist towns in and around the South Pennines, Hebden Bridge being an example.
I had to smile when you pointed out the barred door. Here in South Africa it’s unusual to see a house without barred doors and windows
Thanks for the video! I think you have done a good job of highlighting something very important in the 21st century!!!
It maybe a catch 22 situation whereby either the area stays as is with affordable homes or it's regenerated with over priced properties that pushes out old communities & brings in new money. Sadly, there seems to be no middle ground anymore to balance fairness & justifiably cater for those that don't want to live in squalor but cannot afford anything more.
At least when early council estate's were first completed they were both affordable & respectable looking. They were intended to be secure, affordable dwellings for any UK citizen that was on there way up or had fallen on hard times. Council properties were owned & built under council contracts, not agency's.
A once steady flow of income for council's & government alike, council properties could help a young family climb the career ladder until they could afford move out & buy a property of there own, freeing up the council accommodation for someone else less fortunate & in need until the process repeated itself. Council flat's could also be a saviour for the older generation that needed to downsize as they no longer had family with them. This would help them be part of a community & make retirement affordable.
This brings several questions...
1. Why aren't the government stepping in?
2. If the government say they have no budget for it why aren't they increasing taxes for the super rich like those playing football in there 20's receiving £2000,000+ p/m for example?
3. With migration into the UK being at crisis point with all time record numbers why is Burnley not being utilised at all?
4. With overflowing prison's & soft sentencing attracting human trafficking into the overpopulated UK, why not use the wasted spaces to build modern prisons?
5. Why not build much needed modern hospitals?
6. Why not turn it into one big reclamation yard for recycling building materials to create modern ecco friendly employment & build cull-de-sac's in place of the ''so-called'' too expensive to renovate houses?
7. And on the seventh day, if all that seems a bit overwhelming or too much like hard work or the government say is too unaffordable, raise it all to the ground & let nature take it all back or is that too eco logical or sensible???
At those sort of prices the 20 yr old footballer Kylian Mbappe could buy the whole town for a weeks wages & turn it around into a thriving community with hotels, business's & leisure facilities on his months wages!!!... Oh, that reminds me, I must get my 90 yr old dad to send the last £5 of his pension off to Water Aid. Bye.
Hey thanks for this. A really interesting read, I appreciate your time and comments. I’m left with so many questions still unanswered like yourself.
Kylian Mbappe? He's not even English. I do feel sorry for the English -- I'm Asian myself, coming here with my family in the early 1960s where mum got a job as a junior doctor in the days when the NHS was superb. Our family never imposed our culture on the British -- we came to England to respect the British way of life. However, that's not the attitude of the majority of immigrants from the former Empire.
@@lanialost1320 I'm well aware that Mbappe isn't an England Player. I was simply pointing out the crazy financial divide between the two situations.
There are plenty of examples of UK based football players that are over paid, along with heads of industry that could share their wealth & put an end to these eye sore's.
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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
Thank you very much for this video! A lot to think, and as someone that loves DIYS, I believe that is a great opportunity to have the first house, and transform in a lovely home. Really good video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Very enjoyable and interesting content..will look out for more of your vids. Thanks
Hey thank you!!
1980 I bought a Rundown, Ruff, I bought the old Farm house, £12,000,
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
Please make more content like this. Do more real estate property hunting videos. It's fun and interesting!
Hey yeah I am. I have one coming out about the abandoned hotels and BnBs of Blackpool. So keep an eye out for that 👍👍
Come to County Durham - you can still actually get some fairly nice properties in former mining villages with relatively low crime rates for well under £50,000.
The problem is that the council actually seems to want these places to go to rack and ruin - they have been bussing in the dregs from the South in some cases and implanting them in these places that once had a really strong community. It's tragic.
I’ll come check it out
Councils love the "dregs of society".
The more problems they have, the more money can be extracted out of the benefits system.
It's why councils loved throwing people in "temp accomodation" for so long.
£300 a month council rents, became £300 a week "temporary accomodation" 🤷
Councils love these people.
Every problem, is another council employee able to be hired to fix the problem they bussed in.
Looking at moving up that way potentially, whereabouts do you mean so I can have a look. Cheers
the dregs are the northerners
I was seriously looking at that area last year. Astonishing properties in what seemed like nice locations for not much money. A really nice terraced house next to the moors in Tow Law was going for about 55k. Didn't need anything doing to it. That was just one I looked at.
We live in a reasonable nice area My late father best mate put Steel Bars on every window now im old its a comfort 👍 Cheers Stephen 🤠✌️🍀
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