To ask how much your first home cost you?

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What year was it in, and how did you afford it
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Current house was £90K back in 1995. We've since extended it quite a bit and it's now worth upwards of £480K

£140k in 2005 in south east market town
It was a 1 bed flat
I think I earned around £15k a year at the time and my then boyfriend earned a bit more
We were 20 and we took out a 97% mortgage

We sold it 5 years later for £185

240k in 2009. I was 28 so was hubby.
Deposit was £60k. £15k from parents the rest astonishingly I saved I also paid the stamp duty and conveyancing fees.

I also put £20k towards our wedding that year!

I worked in sales I think in 2009 I was on £70k - I should have stuck with it!

34k in 1984. It was a brand new 1 bed flat about 30 miles from London.

I’ve just looked on Rightmove and they are around 175 to 200k now, in the same street.

We afforded it with a 100% mortgage, the same as everyone in those days.

2018 - 3 Bed detached in Manchester. House was on the market for £220k but the owners wanted a very quick sale. We were really cheeky and offered £185k which surprisingly they accepted. Parents gave us £5,000 towards deposit and we paid £4,500 ourselves for 5%

My first born child

£450,000 4 bed in 2015.

3 bed terraced house in Teddington, 1976, £14,500. Sold 3.5 years later for £44k. Now worth almost £1m! Crazy.

£750k 2019 two bed flat in North London

The other similar sized flats in the building are quite a bit more expensive, this one had been completely trashed so that hugely reduced the price. There is no way I could have afforded to buy it if it had been decent inside. The landlord who owned it paid £150k in 1999.

100% mortgage on 3 bed house bought for £208k in 2007. Now worth £400k.

Three bed terrace for £13,500 in 1980. I worked seven days a week for a year to save the deposit.

£238k in 2017. It hasn't increased in value at all

$900K Australian dollars: two bed inner city townhouse in Melbourne. $200k deposit of savings and sold shares.

33,000 pounds in 1983- sold it for 34,000 6 years later when we moved.

202k in 2010. Ex council 3 bed semi in village cul de sac. Built in the 50s we have a utility room and huge garden plus the box room is twice the size of my friends new build box room. It was valued at 340k last month. We paid 50k deposit 150k was mortgage with repayment at 920pcm. Inheritance has meant we now only owe 46k and pay 320pcm. Not too bad but really want to move to neighbouring village where the same house would be at least 80k more. We could just afford it but not the stamp duty and fees on top. Annoying.

1.25m 2019 mortgage with large deposit from savings

£246k in 2007- south east expensive city. I was 24, dh was 30. My first house, his 3rd. Still here, though we've recently extended.

£60k. 3 bed detached farmhouse with huge garden 1992. Sold in 2019 for £375k.

1996 3 bed semi £59995. A 30 min commute from London.

We took out a 90% mortgage having saved up for the deposit for about 18 months. We were earning about £14k a year each back then and had both still been living with our parents. I was 26 when we completed the purchase.

It wasn't the struggle it would be for a young couple starting out now.

2013, £205k, 2 bed terrace

Clifton OP? Very nice!
250k on the south coast 2010

@PieceOfMaria 100% mortgages are great, if you can get them on your wage...
average wage round here approx £25000.
Average house price approx £300000.
Most lenders only offer 4 x salary. Impossible

2001. Studio flat in west London - £49k!!