Neo
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See I see £255k as an average quite cheap coming from Windsor initially and now living in an area where a 2 bed flat costs that much !
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mwg
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Its not 60k like you are all creaming over though is it That's my point.
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Neo
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
Do you not have any rough arse area's down south?
Course but house prices don't fluctuate as much as they seem to up north. Going back to the main point of this thread the OP bought a fair sized 3 bed semi for 60k.
In the shittest of area's near me, 60k would buy a caravan in an area that you would get mugged, 85k would get you a 1 bed terraced house with no garden or parking, 150k for a 2 bed semi, small garden and no parking etc.
Where I grew up however, £450k for a 3/4 bedroom semi was about average so seeing a 3 bed for 60k is shocking where ever it is.
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John
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Every single thread on this subject has ended up with people having that view of houses because they won't move outwith 2 streets away from their parents.
I could stay in a slum in Glasgow for 50k or I could go to an area where you aren't far off £255k for a flat, it's ignorance.
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pow
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I'd be very happy to move away from my parents but unless you want to live in multicultural Slough (which I am point blank not) it's 180k+ for a 2 bed flat
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John
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That's fair enough, wanting to live in a decent area isn't a problem, being totally oblivious to the fact that there are cheap houses everywhere is different.
It's easily 180k for a a 2 bed flat in nice area's of Glasgow, which as I've said before has ranked below Iraq in some surveys.
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pow
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I do understand its not black and white though:
South = Expensive, North = Cheap.
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deano87
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North if it's England is cheap. Scotland is another country, it doesn't count
But seriously - cheapest 'house' property (not flat) in my home town where there are posh, mediocre and rough estates is £100k.
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mwg
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FFS
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Nath
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Might sell me car and buy a few houses up North. Could be a laugh.
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Cosmo
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Can buy a country estate up here for cheaper than a packet of scampy fries down south tbh.
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neoquip
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in Nottm you can get a new studio flat.. never been lived in as it never sold... 5years ago they were £120k NOW £54K..... in london I think it might be more £100k or a bit more lol
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28319924.html
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Colin
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^^ Now that is cheap!!! Nothing like that up here for 55k!!
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pow
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quote: Originally posted by neoquip
in Nottm you can get a new studio flat.. never been lived in as it never sold... 5years ago they were £120k NOW £54K..... in london I think it might be more £100k or a bit more lol
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28319924.html
That would be over 150k in london
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neoquip
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quote: Originally posted by Colin
^^ Now that is cheap!!! Nothing like that up here for 55k!!
you'd get about £400pcm for it rentingit out too very good return
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Fro
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quote: Originally posted by pow
quote: Originally posted by neoquip
in Nottm you can get a new studio flat.. never been lived in as it never sold... 5years ago they were £120k NOW £54K..... in london I think it might be more £100k or a bit more lol
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28319924.html
That would be over 150k in london
Course it would be you cannot compare Nottingham to a Capital city
Outside the M25 and it would be vastly cheaper.
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sigibbons
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quote: Originally posted by neoquip
quote: Originally posted by Colin
^^ Now that is cheap!!! Nothing like that up here for 55k!!
you'd get about £400pcm for it rentingit out too very good return
The question is, as it's never been bought, who would actually rent it. Can't exactly be a demand for rental properties if those kinds of places haven't ever been bought.
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neoquip
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quote: Originally posted by sigibbons
quote: Originally posted by neoquip
quote: Originally posted by Colin
^^ Now that is cheap!!! Nothing like that up here for 55k!!
you'd get about £400pcm for it rentingit out too very good return
The question is, as it's never been bought, who would actually rent it. Can't exactly be a demand for rental properties if those kinds of places haven't ever been bought.
oh there is, £400 is cheap for students to have their own place, also council pay £91 pw housing benifit too for a single person in nottm, so there are always ppl wating to live in the city.
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sigibbons
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So your saying that place would rent for £400 PCM?
I may arrange a viewing. Is that a nice part of the city? Is it right in the city centre?
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sigibbons
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Looks like it was up for rent, makes you wonder why it wasn't let? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-15778542.html
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SAL
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quote: Originally posted by neoquip
in Nottm you can get a new studio flat.. never been lived in as it never sold... 5years ago they were £120k NOW £54K..... in london I think it might be more £100k or a bit more lol
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28319924.html
Thats like 3 for the price of 1, shit me
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neoquip
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quote: Originally posted by sigibbons
Looks like it was up for rent, makes you wonder why it wasn't let? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-15778542.html
there's over 350 flats in that bulding.
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taylorboosh
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for 255 up here you'd get a large private 4/5 bedroom detached house tbh
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