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Old 12 February 2003, 01:50 AM
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In this current climate of spiralling house prices, it seems that we are getting less and less house for our money!

Where I live (Glasgow) the average price on a new build 4 bed detached with garage can be anywhere between £140k (not such a great area) up to £300k (better area)

£650k + for a penthouse flat in Glasgow city centre is not uncommon and 3 or 4 storey townhouses can fetch the best part of 7 figures!

Which town/city do oyu live, and what style/size of house do you get for your dough and rough cost?

[Edited by talizman - 12/2/2003 1:51:12 AM]
Old 02 December 2003, 07:58 AM
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I'm looking at the moment and all I can get for 150k down here in Portsmouth is a 2 bed terrace new build! Think yourself lucky
Old 02 December 2003, 08:05 AM
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currently living in a 1.5 Million pent house over looking the river thames.

for the money its crap

for pulling the birds its great
Old 02 December 2003, 08:52 AM
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Barge:

You mean the pidgeons?

You don't need to be at the top of a tower block for that, just wander down to Trafalgar square.

Steve.
Old 02 December 2003, 08:57 AM
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2 bed semis in a suburb of Tunbridge Wells are going for £255k - WTF!

Edited to say:

And penthouses opposite where I work going for c£1M

here

[Edited by Scooby96 - 12/2/2003 9:03:50 AM]
Old 02 December 2003, 09:53 AM
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3 bed semi with garage in Bicester, Oxfordshire - £133k

Mind you it did/does need a fair bit of work.
Old 02 December 2003, 11:14 AM
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3 bed semi, gargae, good space, nice area £120k bought exactly 1 year ago for £87k

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Old 02 December 2003, 11:19 AM
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3 bed detached cottage (no garage or drive) village location.

£81.5K

Needs about 4-5K spending on it though.
Old 02 December 2003, 11:20 AM
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2 Bed Flat in South London

235k!!!
Old 02 December 2003, 11:43 AM
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5 bedroom townhouse in slumbernauld payed 28000 2 years ago going for over 40,000 now

couldnt buy anything better for 40,000 though
Old 02 December 2003, 01:04 PM
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Just sold two bed flat in Bristol for 250k, bought 4 years ago for 106k

Old 02 December 2003, 01:51 PM
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Try living in Edinburgh! My 2 bed flat on the outskirts of the city cost £85k!!! I could move over the forth to Fife and buy a 3 bed house with a garage for that
Old 02 December 2003, 01:59 PM
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Brand new build 4 bed detached circa 210-300k

2 Bed terrace (new ish) £120k

2 Bed terrace (victorian) £100k
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1-2 bedroom flat - £160-200k!

Semi-detached 3 bedroom/1 reception room (integral garage) with 10' garden about £300k

Detached 5 bedroom/3 reception rooms/garage with 50' garden about £550k

All in the same street! (sorry, tree lined avenue!! )

Old 02 December 2003, 02:06 PM
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3 double bedrooms
living room
dinning room
reception
80ft garden + room to put a double garage on as well
dead end street so no though traffic
+attic convertion(spelling)so if u want its a 4 bedroom
all payed for
£25k

now they are £60k not to bad an area as well dont you just love not having a mortgage

stanton hill,mansfield 2 mins then iam in the countryside

[Edited by scooby-si - 12/2/2003 2:08:06 PM]

[Edited by scooby-si - 12/2/2003 2:13:34 PM]
Old 02 December 2003, 02:33 PM
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Our 2 bed with Garage, decent size garden, good area, in close (so no traffic), cost £128,000 in Lancing (20 minutes from Brighton) the same thing could cost about £180,000 in Brighton. Crazy!!

Darren
Old 02 December 2003, 03:15 PM
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3 bed flat £339,000

But then we are snobby enough to have our own website

www.elvethamheath.co.uk
Old 02 December 2003, 03:30 PM
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This is one of the reasons I'm happy I moved to Canada. My rather nice 1 bedroom lakeside condo appt would cost aprox $300,000, which is about 133k, which aint too bad actually. A nice 3 bedroom house would be around the same price (my place is by the lake, plus 10 mins from downtown Toronto, hence the price).

For the price of my parents place, circa 200k for a 3 bedroom semi, you could get a rather nice, big, four bedroom place, and that includes a basement the size of the house, so you could no doubt add a pool room, or another bedroom or whatever.

My problem is that if I do have to come back to the UK, unless there is a price crash, I am fooked! won't be able to afford a place
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