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To wonder just how much rent you people are paying?

317 replies

sezamcgregor · 09/04/2014 13:48

I often see posters commenting on how much rent they are paying to live in nice areas/near good schools etc. and I can't help but wonder how much you are all paying!

I am lucky that I live in a Housing Association house, and that I live in the North where rents seem to be cheaper.

My rent is £420 a month for a 2 bedroom house - how much is yours?

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Llareggub · 09/04/2014 18:41

£650 per month for a large 4 bed Edwardian semi with sea views, double garage and a big garden. I'm in south Wales. DCs go to an outstanding primary school but the local primaries are full - I have to drive them there.

I also have a 10 minute commute. I am very lucky.

I'll buy once I start working full-time again.

Birdinthebush · 09/04/2014 19:55

£1250 for one bed in zone 2 London

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DomesticSlobbess · 09/04/2014 20:01

£110 a week two-bed HA maisonette in South East.

Grotbagstwin · 09/04/2014 20:04

£575 a month for a 3 bed newish build that has been extended, worth £220k in a nice village. Other houses on the road that are smaller go for £675pm but we know the landlord.

Benchmark · 09/04/2014 20:07

1450 - 2 bed south east london

DiePeppaDie · 09/04/2014 20:10

We live in the east Midlands in one of the cheapest areas in the UK, but we pay 750 rent for a spacious 3 bedroom, 3 storey new build. We could get a lot cheaper but we wanted a specific location which is a bit pricier.

magnoliamom · 09/04/2014 20:13

1800 for an outdated, small 2.5 bed terraced house in a less-than-great part of Oxford and we were lucky to get it (have a dog). Can't figure out if the landlord is tightfisted or the agency is crap, probably both, but nothing ever gets fixed. Only going to be in Oxford 2 more years, doesn't make sense to buy but prices here are insane.

broodyhen2014 · 09/04/2014 20:14

£400pcm 2 bed apartment in a nice quiet area its the bills that are the problem though british gas charge a fortune and the heaters eat electricity Angry

Featherbag · 09/04/2014 20:16

£575pcm for a 3 bed semi with front and back gardens plus garage and driveway, 10 minutes drive from the city centre, 15 minutes from the beach, 2 minutes walk from open countryside. Good primary and secondary schools nearby and very close to the region's major road so great for commuting (DH works about 30 miles away). I live in the North East.

Featherbag · 09/04/2014 20:17

The house next door but one is on the market for £150k and will probably go for £140-145k.

BertieBotts · 09/04/2014 20:58

Please don't attack me for my naivety! I just meant that I could not see a day where DH and I could afford 1400 on rent so to me someone who can pay that much has vast riches and must be able to get a mortgage (even on a smaller property).

Just makes it even more terrifying to hear you can't, TBH. And I hate not being able to decorate, having to put up with cheap shitty fixtures that the landlord/agency put in and it would cost you twice to replace, not being able to buy furniture which goes with the house because you don't know how long you'll be there anyway. I'm sure people must have lovely houses when renting but it never seems to be the case for us.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 09/04/2014 21:01

Oh, god, no! I'm so sorry. I didn't at all mean it as an attack, bertie. I thought exactly the same as you until we tried to get a mortgage.

I think what is shocking is just how much it costs in some places to rent. The fact there are one-bed properties costing over a grand, and not even in London, is pretty scary. And yes, some places you can move further away, but then you have transport to figure in. It is just depressing.

SallyMcgally · 09/04/2014 22:30

Just bought, but before that £750 on small 3 bed cottage with tiny garden in Devon. Picture postcard village though.

MsIngaFewmarbles · 09/04/2014 22:41

We pay £1270 ish a month. The house next door to us sold for £320k. We worked out that with a 10% deposit our mortgage would be anywhere from £990-1100 but with our combined income we wouldn't be offered a mortgage for even 1/2 the residual mortgage figure. I'm not sure how we'd save £32k for a deposit either. It's a really common problem sadly :(

MiloSimpson · 09/04/2014 22:46

£1850 per month - 1 bed apartment by river, central London

MissHC · 09/04/2014 22:49

£1200. Private, 2 bed semi. Friends of ours own a place 10 min walk away, it's worth about the same. They pay less than £800 on their mortgage.

MissHC · 09/04/2014 22:51

Forgot to say that's just outside north west London. Very good schools and nice village. Quite a posh area really.

Weegiemum · 09/04/2014 22:53

We moved out of rented 2 years ago but then it was £750pcm for a 3 bed detached house in a good area of Glasgow.

teenagetantrums · 09/04/2014 22:54

£420 a month for two bedroom flat in london, but it is a council flat so good value would never be able to afford going rent around her which is about £1900 a month.

whois · 09/04/2014 23:03

Don't think anyone's attacked you BertieBotts (or I hoped not) just pointed out that if you earn a decent wage in an expensive area and want to love somewhere nice it can still be very hard to save for a deposit which you need for a house. The actual mortgage repayment wouldn't generally be a problem, although probably worth reminding ourselves we are still in an all time historical interest rate low.

I think we are really lucky with oir landlord. We seem to have the benefits of renting (he sorted the heating out pronto when it packed up, fixed a leak pronto) with the benefits of owning in terms of furniture. It was sparsely furnished anyway and we got him to take his stiff away so we could make the ace look better with our own stuff. Decor was fine anyway, all painted off-white just before we moved in.

To be honest I'm loving renting at the moment, I'm at the stage in life where it is fun to live in a vibrant area if never be able to afford to buy in!

Also obviously if want to buy something a bit more long term (eg 2. Ed flat without outside space) so cool as this 1 bed might be for dinner parties and drinks back at mine, it's not a super long term thing.

TheSydenhamSet · 09/04/2014 23:08

£1300 pcm for a three bed semi in SE London Hmm

BlueSeren · 09/04/2014 23:16

£1700 per month. On someone else's mortgage...

bookishandblondish · 09/04/2014 23:36

£1250 2 bed flat in zone 3 se london. Previous flat was £1960 in SW London with an automatic 5% increase each year.

I hate renting and crave wallpaper due to overload of white and magnolia walls. However, deposit is an issue - my current flat is worth over £300k and my previous flat was worth over £550k - even on a good salary, I have no way of affording either flats.

PatrickStarisabadbellend · 09/04/2014 23:46

£405 per month for my 3 bedroom HA semi in a village just outside of Chester. I got this around the time when they only gave the houses to locals. Now nobody local can get them sadly.

It's lovely with big gardens and it's in the catchment area for brilliant schools. I don't think I'll ever leave.