Where in the England can I buy a decent 3 bed house for £200,000?

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Just that really, I would like it to be in a nice area as well.
Is it even possible?

Lots of people saying Yorkshire
'Tis a vast county my friends. You couldn't buy a run down garage for £200k here!

North east is very very good value. An uncle of mine sold a fabulous farm with outbuildings and plenty of land for £500k.

Hull is also good. Plenty of bargain properties in beautiful villages and a great city.

Goodness me so many places, thank you.
We currently live in Berkshire with easy access to London so property prices are stupidly high and I don’t know much about prices around the country except from property tv shows.
When I say nice, I mean somewhere that my teenage children can walk to the town centre safely and the town centre has some shops & places to eat with their friends also has good secondary schools.
We have £200,000 equity in our house so could potentially live mortgage free.
Will definitely look into the many places suggested.

Another vote for the north east.
Darlington 3 bed semi, or four bed town house. Eaglecliffe gorgeous flat, or Sedgefield or Barnard Castle.

Both of these are in the best area of town too!

Leicester / Leicestershire.

@LST not in my part of Staffordshire unfortunately!

Yep to Hull and surrounding villages.

Liverpool. My first property was there. 3 bed and I paid 100,000.

Notts, but I wouldn’t call it safe. My dh refused to transfer there due to the crime stats.

Somerset which is lovely. I moved here a year ago and have a three bedroom home for that in a lovely quiet town with virtually no crime. I's avoid all the big towns though. Only a couple of hours from London, I am always going to London for meet ups - well before covid anyway.

Gorelston-on-sea, Norfolk

Norfolk.

@Shizzlestix

Notts, but I wouldn’t call it safe. My dh refused to transfer there due to the crime stats.

But that won't apply to all of Nottinghamshire though? Probably a couple of isolated inner city areas or 'rough' estates. Most of Nottinghamshire including some of the city areas will be absolutely fine, certainly safe for teens to walk around without getting recruited into a gang.

If it's anything like Leeds, you have the A1 prime areas like Horsforth and Chapel Allerton that always get mentioned on threads like this where you probably can't get a 3 bed house for £200k, then there's the areas where houses are very cheap and some do have crime problems but many don't and many are mostly inhabited by low income families of often non UK heritage and are perfectly safe.

And then you have the majority of the city and surrounding towns and suburbs, many places are perfectly nice and safe to live in with good schools and amenities but are not overpriced because they're not the inexplicably 'desirable' places.

Villages of Lincolnshire (not the city itself).

It’s where I grew up, and each time we visit DP says ‘oooh we could live mortgage free here...’

Cumbria

@theriverrunsdeep I always thought Littlehampton wasn’t a very nice area - happy to be told otherwise!

@Shizzlestix bit ridiculous of your DH. I live in Nottingham and bring up my DS here. Yes, there are areas with high crime rate, mainly in the inner city, mostly drug related, but that's no different to any other city. There are also some lovely areas in the suburbs and outskirts.

@Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel

South West.

Really? 200k here gets a 1 bed flat.

Loads of places in the South West where you can get a 3 bed for 200k.

Look north, Teeside/County Durham for instance. There's really nice bits. I found cottages for under £200k when I looked last year. In Somerset there is some cheaper properties if you look in places without train lines, a friend just bought a 3 bed semi for £240k which I know is more than you said but there's cheaper than that, tend to be further from Bath, Bristol, coast, trains and the m5.

@PhilCornwall1

Away from transport links Somerset is reasonable. Closer to Bristol the higher the price (alas, we need transport links!)

OP where you can afford and where you would like to live are two very different things, so exercise caution.

Some of the places suggested are rough as fuck.

Definitely the North East. Durham, Gateshead, Sunderland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, even south Northumberland will definitely be doable.

Northumberland is an absolute forgotten gem! Lovely sandy coastline, woodland, hills, and not far from Newcastle city. Friendly people too.