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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£110,300 in 2007

43k for a garden flat in SE London in 1996, sold it in 2001 for 120k.

77k for an extended 1930’s three bedroom semi in 1996. Sold it a year later for 93k and then purchased a 4 bedroom detached house with three reception rooms are 2 ensuites for 150k.

£284000, 3 bed semi in Greater London, bought in Feb 2013. Saved up for years.

£160k in 2015, 3 bed new build terrace, well it was built 5 years before we bought it but still would call it a new build.

We saved up to put a 10% deposit down as we didnt want to get involved in help to buy loans.

220k January 2020
It’s been a huge step to finally own on my own.

In 1975 we bought our first home, a three bedroom detached house for £9,000. We had to sell everything of value we had for the deposit. We lived with deck chairs and no carpet in the living room for a year. We were aged 23/25.

£65k, 2017, saved up using Help to Buy ISA

53k in 1987 terraced house

£470k for a 3 bed terrace in zone 3 london, 2018.

Mixture of inheritance, savings and mortgage.

2 years ago 3 bed semi detached with garage and large garden £117000. We got an inheritance from dh great aunt which paid for the deposit and the house was owned by dh dad so we got it for less than it was worth. We were very very lucky and extremely grateful

1971, £3250, Keighley Yorkshire, OH wouldn't pay an extra £250 for central heating though!

25k in 1990 3 bed mid Terrace in a northern deprived town I was 20!

£9995 bought in 1977 with £500 deposit and 95% mortgage at 10% interest. My net pay was 125 a month and DH's 180. Income tax at 33%. Took us 6 months to afford a 2nd hand fridge and a year for a washing machine. Beer 25p/pint and petrol 50p/gallon.

Forgot house price inflation was massive. 2 or 3 years earlier, our ndn bought their 30s semi for £3000. Yes, prices trebled in 3 years.

£9000 semi in a northern town 1978. Sold for £13,000 after a few months of diy.

Then moved to London and bought a tiny studio flat for £17,000 end of 1982.

240k for a 1 bed house in the southeast purchased 2019. Dont intend on moving ever.

24,000€ in 2018. It is in France though and needed work (We have spent about 20k renovating) but we now how a 4 bedroom house with a huge garden without upstairs being renovated. We would never have been able to buy in the uk

2 bed maisonette with garden in Wembley, £48,000 in 1987. Now selling for £340k.

I moved in with no bed, fridge or washing machine. Slept on the floor for the first 3 months.kept milk on outside windowsill (winter).
I loved it - it was all mine. I was 24.

£19k bought in 1985 on a 100% mortgage. Sold it 3 years later for £27k and bought for £45k. Then lost £10k on next sale less than a year later.

4 bedroom house on an acre of land in a posh NYC suburb in 1997, $395.000. Sold it in 2003 with a nice deck added for $475,000.

39,500 brand new 3 bed semi in Lincoln in 1995

£32k, 5bed, 3 reception rooms, huge Victorian villa in Plymouth. 1986. It was before they expanded the airport so things were cheaper then. It remains my favourite house.

70k in falkirk, 2006 and I saved up 10% deposit despite at the time the bank trying to throw a 125% mortgage at me with no deposit?! On 15k wage at the time and running a car. Hard at the time, lived on beans and toast but a worthwhile investment now as stood me in good stead for subsequent purchases. Now on 3rd home, joint purchase with hubby 3 bed semi which was 205k.

£90,000 in 2009 for a two bedroom flat with private garden in Kent. £5k deposit shared between me and my boyfriend (now husband) We got it right in the midst of the recession, had 4 mortgage offers withdrawn and it took just over a year from offer to keys but it was worth it - we’d also initially offered £120k but the value nosedived so we benefitted there.