Did you buy or sell your home in 1996? Guardian journalist asking.

Donna

<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm a journalist for The Guaridan, but also a local Stroud Green resident.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Guardian has commissioned me to write an article looking at case studies of people who bought and sold property in 1996.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Would anyone on here like to take part?</div><br>Could be your own home or a buy to let property - the key thing is that you bought or sold it in 1996.<br>Would involve being photographed, and talking about your property journey up the ladder - so how much you bought and sold that property for in 1996, and what happened next.<br>Particularly keen to find:<br><br>- someone who sold a property in 1996 which would now be worth a fortune eg one of the houses on Mount View Road or whatever<br>- someone who sold a property and began renting instead in 1996<br><b>- someone who bought a property in 1996 and is still living in it and can talk about how prices have changed over the years<br></b>- someone who bought their first buy to let property in `1996 and now owns a buy to let property portfolio</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>​- someone who bought a property in 1996 and it went up and they moved up the ladder, and it happened again and again and again​</b></div><br><br>Please email me with as much information about the case study as you can supply, including the price of the property in 1996, how much it might be worth now (rough estimate) and whereabouts in the country it was and how old you were.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My email is donna.freelancer+media@gmail.com<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Donna</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My Guardian profile is here: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/donna-ferguson</div>;

Donna

No one done this?

helen

Sorry, no. Bought my first flat in hanley road in 1990/91, moved to a flat in Wray Crescent in 1998, then to a house in florence road in 2001

conformable_kate

Me, both! Bought and sold, and still living in the house I bought. I sent you a message - check inbox?

Donna

Thank you so much. Have sent you a message - sorry I didn't see yours!

Donna

<div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I've found a few people who bought in 1996 - but very keen to find someone who sold a property in 1996 and has been renting ever since.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Can anyone help?</div>