To ask how much your first home cost you?

[redwinegulper]

What year was it in, and how did you afford it
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meant to say though, it had lots of work needing doing, not just cosmetic and it had an illegal extension we had to sort out with our solicitor, cost not much more on top of purchase fees though.

3 bedroom end of terrace.
2014
£21,500 deposit (mostly savings and gifted money from both sets of parents)
£210,000

Worth around £300,000 now.

£99k one bedroom flat in Hampshire in 2006. Was incredibly lucky to take advantage of 100% mortgage with Northern Rock then switched to another provider after the fixed rate ended, just before Northern Rock crashed.

£122k, 1992.sw London.
My parents gave me the £13k deposit, and guaranteed my mortgage and I had 3 flat mates paying me rent to help me pay it off.
Sold it 6 years ago for £600k

£50,000 in the year 2000. Sold it in 2004 for £115,000.

We saved like mad for a deposit, no nights out, no fancy clothes/eating out/holiday/treats.

My soul and sanity

Most people of my age, now late 40s ( early 20s in the 1990s) did well out of property. It was just being able to buy at the right time. I also remortgaged just before Northern rock in 2008.
It was absolute pure luck,

£230,000

3 bed house, link detached in a village on the outskirts of york

Bought in 2018

£220000, in 2017.

It’s a big 4 bed terrace in a less than fancy part of Bristol!

The deposit was our savings and 10 grand from my husband’s family

1 bed tenement flat £28,500 in 1996, 100% mortgage and added fees to mortgage. Had no furniture, they left a washing machine - I bought a fridge and borrowed a TV and a sofa bed.

£28,500 in 1994/5 for end terraced 3 bed. No central heating but otherwise sound. No deposit either, back then houses were advertised "5% deposit paid" or "cash back on completion". We both used the same advisor who made sure the cash back could be used as the deposit.

£81k 2 bed flat in London in 1995. Expected to move once kids happened but they didn't and we're happy with it so still there. Not sure how much it's worth now....I think about £500k.

£40k for a detached 3 bed in 2015 with garden. Paid for outright with inheritance

2 bed flat bought in 2011 for £150k. We had a 20% deposit as DH had lived with his parents all through his twenties so was able to save.

Last year, 235k we were given some money towards it (15k) and had a 35k deposit

3 bed end of terrace in Essex

£21,000 for a one bedroom flat in South London in 1984. My parents paid me to leave home gave me £3000 for the deposit.

£34900 for a new build one bedroom flat in the Midlands in 1991, I was 21.

1983, 1 bed flat in Surrey. £24k.

1971, a 4 bed roomed house with a very large garden in the south, £5,200, Took us 5 years to save the £800 deposit on our £18 a week income.

£28,500 -and I can remember quibbling over that £500 😂

2 bed terrace in Leeds in need of some work!

1998 and sold it in 2002 for £87k

£168K, zone 6 London in 2007. We had a 100% mortgage, both worked full time. Sold last year for £270K

2 bed flat in North London, 2004. Bought for £212k. Sold in 2007 for £272k. So we did really well for owning it for 3 years.

Forty three thousand in 1994 in NI just before the Good Friday agreement. I sold it four years later for over one hundred and twenty thousand. Tiny deposit of two grand thanks to dps.

£16,000. In 1976 in Teddington. Sold it 5 years later for £45,000. Now worth nearly £1m.

We borrowed the (10%) deposit from the bank.