Someone was asking about her house. I've turned stalker (joke, her house is distinctive and I found it when it was for sale and remembered the road name for a particular reason...) Rightmove lists them as having bought it for around the 485k mark at the end of 2013. That was before it was extended. Zoopla now suggests the market rate is somewhere north of 875k (obviously, it's only worth what someone will pay for it - could be lots less, could be lots more).
The point is, claiming to have "lost" money on a house because you have to reduce its asking price is only accurate if you buy solely as an investment (not a home) AND you sell it for less than you bought it for plus the fees and costs of renovations etc. Even allowing for a huge renovation budget of 200k (I know a few people who have renovated in London in the last year or two... I'd be surprised if it was much more than half that amount IRL but we know she's crap with money...) and for the bottom end of Zoopla's suggested market value, they'll have still made a packet of profit on that house when they come to sell - almost as much as my whole house would sell for.
The whole situation is laughable at best and offensive at worst. How anyone can live on London - on Peckham of all places - in an almost £1m house that they own in their 30s when they piss about on Instagram for a living (and do that in a totally slapdash manner) and not see the phenomenal privilege they have astonishes me. Absolute fool.
Seriously?! I’d honestly add on another 10 years
I'm the same age as her, and a lot of my peers seem to have aged rapidly in the last couple of years. Anecdotally, it tends to be the people I know who've had plenty of hot or ski holidays and had a lot of sun damage who look the oldest.