Surely sell before it crashes, rent, then buy after the crash. But then I'm a lousy trader.
T'will be interesting to see if people still want to live in plague-ridden post-brexit cities, rather that the nice safe hinterlands. Me? Four miles from the city centre, with a farm in between
If I was going to do that until I talked to an IFA. He suggested I wait for my mother to drop dead, sell her house and use that money to buy something, keep this place and rent it out. Over next 20 years it's still the best thing to throw investment behind even if it's on a dip now.
As for post-Brexit cities, yes indeed. The local estate has gone to shit already as most of the folk who weren't already unemployed and unemployable have been furloughed or disposed of entirely already. It has got pretty nasty.
I'm intending moving to a similar semi-rural location, in your direction, with moat (VK5RC is hired!), fibre, enough roof space to get a solar installation up and some pikey-proofing. Need to evaluate some suitably non Royston Vasey locations though.
Interesting, I'm such a grumpy bastard that I don't know what the rest of street does or their circumstances, once I'm in behind my front door, they can go to hell, I'm not bothered as long as me and mine are OK
So the location I found for you still has some merits, in the right sort of direction from you, plenty of roof space for that solar installation and the antenna, already has its own large moat and no near neighbours, just about right for a fellow grumpy bastard then
Replace the bridge over the moat with a drawbridge, fill the moat with sharks (with or without lasers) or at the very least piranhas should prove to be pikey resistant I reckon
Yeah I think I agree with your investment strategy, not sure of just where your Mother lives but assuming she is further in towards the centre then you are, so will fetch a better price ready for you new purchase and your current house is also in a good spot, close to Heathrow but not to close, equally not to far away from the countryside and has good road connections so getting a reasonable income from it should not be hard to do at all