House for 200k?

[PeakyBlender]

What can you buy for £200k near you?

Where we are it'll buy a one bed flat

We can move anywhere in the UK, and it's got me thinking.

Is anywhere nice where it's possible to buy a house for that?

I am open to anything but ideally need 3 beds

You can afford Norfolk and good areas too but might be more of a doer-upper.

This one near Hunstanton (walking distance to beach) looks good:
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/93352109#/?channel=RES_BUY

This one too:
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/119538977#/?channel=RES_BUY

And lots around Norwich

@HunterHearstHelmsley prices seem to be going up and up here though. We bought this place in Feb last year. We had a budget of 175k and there were a few places around for that, this one has 3 beds (although one big had been converted into two, so we put the wall back and now it’s 4 beds), playroom, through lounge/diner, garage converted to one of the bedrooms, utility, big kitchen.

There is NOTHING comparable on the market now for under 200k, and nothing in the area we are in at all like it for under 220k.

It’s absolutely crazy how prices have gone up.

The people before us bought this house 5 years ago for 125k! They did no work to it.

A garage.

3 bed house in a Nice village in Doncaster

We bought our 3 bed semi (with a ground floor extension) and decent garden for that in Belfast last year, walking distance to parks, 10 min walk to train line that gets you into the city centre in 15 minutes.

Not the answer you want, but round here, it would buy you a garage!

Nothing you could live in in London, and not much in the SE or SW of England.

My cousin bought a two bed house for around £50K in Wales though, and it even has broadband. Needs a bit of work, but you can't complain for that price!

1 bed flat

nearby

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/115260785#/?channel=RES_BUY
Carlisle Cumbria

4 bed detached for 200kish in Ayr

@PeakyBlender

I would love to be near the sea but also like city life too!

We love Norfolk but think it's out of budget.

I've only been to Scotland once but it was beautiful there too.

Cardiff is a city by the sea!!

Trouble is the house might be nice, even the local area but the reason it’s ‘cheap’ is that opportunities for your kids are scant, public transport non existent, local town centre decrepit, schools poor. You can buy a decent 3 bed house for 150k here but would you want to live there ? Probably not.
To have a nice house in a nice area here you’d be looking at twice that but still the negative aspects too. People think it’s some kind of nirvana for cheap housing here but there’s always a pay off

PP in Wigan upthread - in theory a great idea but the actuality is that places like Wigan, Bolton, Oldham etc are cheap because they aren’t a patch on down south with regard to opportunities for your teens, jobs, etc

A one room studio on the third floor of a tower block without a lift 50km away - nothing nearer. We're in Germany outside Munich though (renting's actually sometimes better than buying here and it's definitely a better place to rent than the uk - excellent tenant's rights for the most part and still a solid rental market with landlords not put off by tenants having a lot of security).

I wouldn't say that about where I live @Languishingonthesidelines. Okay the town centre is shite, but I don't think that is much different to many now.
Schools are good.
Public transport exists in the same way it does in every other place bar London.
Opportunities for kids? Well mine is going off to uni to study engineering. I'd say he did fine with the opportunities on offer here.

I actually encouraged him to stay up north so that post uni, he has the choice. He can choose to stay if he has developed a life for himself in the uni town (his choices are Liverpool and Manchester, offers to both) and still afford to live/buy a home. Equally if the opportunities lie elsewhere, or he hasn't built a life for himself there, he is free to move. It's much harder to move away to somewhere cheaper if you have a partner/friends/work in the expensive areas.

I'm in the Highlands and for £200,000 you'd have a pretty decent choice of three bed properties.

www.hspc.co.uk/Semi-Detached-Villa-For-Sale-24-Pict-Avenue-Inverness-IV3-8LX

The only thing that comes up on rightmove near me for less than £200k is a pair of garages for
£30k.

3 or 4 bed semi near the coast, just on the outskirts of Lancaster

@ThisMustBeMyDream some young people don’t want to go to uni. My son tried to find an apprenticeship and it was nigh on impossible despite decent GCSEs and A-levels. Schools are not universally good, kids in the most deprived areas invariably go to the worst schools, the best ones are filled with the offspring of sharp elbowed middle class parents who find religion, our town centre had one in four empty shops, god knows what it is now, and I doubt you find that level of decline in the south east.
Your child may be fine. I guess like many kids round here (and like mine) they live in a nice little bubble. But thousands more don’t and that’s the issue.

My point was, you can't generalise about "up north".
There are many places "down south" you could say the same about.

@Languishingonthesidelines Carlisle and Cumbria on a whole is cheaper and has some great schools including private options. Great activities available for children etc
Trains go straight to London. Easy access to Scottish cities. The town centre may not be great but with online shopping these days...does that matter?

On a whole it's a lovely place to live in my opinion

Dundee: defo would get a 3 bed for £200k

I live in Aberdeen, it’s a small city but close to the countryside and is coastal. I bought a 3 bed semi in a nice area for £152,000 last year

I’m in west mids and have a three bed, two bathroom that I bought six months ago for £165000 and it’s a nice area, shops around and decent schools.