The cheapest and the most expensive property within 5 miles...

[TheFridgeRaider]

Seeing so many threads about properties and the difference in prices reported I get why it can be so difficult for people to imagine the differences between areas.

Would IBU to be curious and ask you to hop on primelocation and see what are the cheapest and the most expensive properties within 5 miles of your home? Ignore shared ownership, retirement only and investment student studios. Obviously you don't have to post links, just say the area so you can keep anonymous.

I will start.
NW big city
The cheapest:
2 bed flat 35k. Fully livable! Just needs decorating. 15 min to city centre.
The most expensive: 😮
8 bed, oh so amazing, grade 2 listed £1,995,000. 25 min to city centre.

West Midlands - small city.

Most expensive: £6M with 11 bedrooms and a separate 3 bedroom house in the 18 acre grounds (and a swimming pool with sauna)

Cheapest: £70K studio flat in the city centre.

Cheshire cheapest £50,000 terrace sitting tenant.
Most expensive £3.9M modern footballers monstrosity.

Peak District. Most expensive: £3,000,000 6 bed manor house with swimming pool, tennis court and helipad (!)
Cheapest (once you get passed plots of land, and shared ownership): £100,000 2 bed flat with terrace.

East London suburbs.
4.6m 7 bed detatched with pool
120k 1 bed flat in a pretty grim area, outside the borough.

Large town in Shropshire £105k for 2 bed flat just around the corner
£850k 4 bed grade 1 listed house 4 miles away.

Both nice in their own way. The flat is very neutral throughout and the 4bed has lots of dark wood panelling.

Village in the south:
Lowest £130k 1 bed apartment, liveable but v dated, short lease
Highest £2.25m 8 bed Victorian house with stables pool and 4 acres

East Anglia 95k 1 bed apartment small market town to 1.25 mill 5 bedroom, last century, detached in a small village.

NW

Studio Flat - £20,000
2 Bedroom Penthouse - £2.5 million (My dream house is only £2.95m, 7 bedroom in 3 acres.)

South Wales £54,950 2 bed flat

£1,700,000 7 Bedrooms 5 en-suites 2.5 Acres of Mature Grounds 4 Reception Rooms grand stair case and marble hall leisure suite with swimming pool 2 Cottages and stable block

Germany Baden-Württemburg, near black forest.

€4.3m (£3.87m) - 5 storey villa from 1902 with 11.5 rooms (that means 11 rooms excluding kitchens, bathrooms and corridors, and one is extra-large, usually an open plan livng/kitchen kind of thing.) 5 bathrooms but only one parking space. It is gorgeous to be fair but no photos of outside which makes me wonder about the condition. It's currently split into two flats but could be combined.

€209k (£188k) - 3 bedroom detached house in dated but good condition (no installed kitchen though) - comes with barn halfway through a conversion, four cellars, three garages, attic, decent garden and driveway too.

People don't buy individual flats here very often, they rent and when you buy a house you live in it for 40-60 years generally then it is sold when you die or move into a home. Because there are such high costs/fees/taxes for buying I've heard it's economically cheaper to rent unless you're definitely going to be in a house more than 10 years.

Outskirts of the Lake District...

Most expensive: £925,000 - 4 bed, 4 bath detached house with 2 acres of land and a balcony.

Cheapest: £110,000 - 1 bed, 1 bath ground floor apartment. Good condition, but pretty tiny.

[Side note - I had to trawl through 3 pages of static caravans, wood cabins and retirement properties to find the first house that met your criteria!]

Berkshire

Cheapest - £115k (1 bed flat)
Most Expensive - £3.25m (11 bed 'lifestyle property')

Jeez that's quite a divide isn't it?

The most expensive is a £2m six bedroom detached new build. The cheapest is a £63k one bed flat. There are 1,100 properties for sale and only three of them are over £1m. This is on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border.

Somerset seaside town.

Cheapest non-auction, non-park home is a 1 bed flat (needs new kitchen) for £67,500.

Most expensive non-farm is a 6 bed house for £2.2 million (adjoining paddock available for extra cost)

NE town:

1.2 million
15k guide price for an auction property
Next cheapest "offers over 25k"

Excepting land only, the cheapest actual house (for renovation!) is €10,500 and excluding hotels and commercial property the most expensive is €750,000. Central Portugal.

within 5 miles

this www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83470151.html is £2,250,000
Its beautiful and tasteful and I'd move there in a heartbeat if I had a spare two mill. I don't of course.

The lowest is www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71499620.html £58000 and that's for a houseboat.

Hertfordshire.

Most expensive £11million. Mansion.

Cheapest: £54k. 1 bed flat.

Near Leicester
Cheapest 1 bed flat in city centre £60K, nice condition
Most expensive - 8 bedroom detached house in countryside near nice village with 12 acres, pool, sauna, spa, gym, cinema, lake, tennis courts.... utterly stunning - £2.95 million

South East Wales:
Highest- £3,750,000 (3.75 million) Manor House
Lowest- £29,000 1 bed falling apart flat

Talk about a rich/poor divide!!!

Mid-Cornwall

Ignoring the park homes and shared ownership, the cheapest is a 3 bed for £70k, but it's got issues so cash only.

Most expensive says POA! The next is a 5 bed house for £3.75 million.

On the wirral.
Expensive: £1.9 million 5 bed detached house
Cheapest: £16000 2 bed flat

£3.5 million 6 bed detached with 27 acres, swimming pool, paddock and tennis courts.

50k 1 bedroomed park home - within 5 miles but in a different country!

East England, commuter belt to London, Market Town.

Most Expensive £2,995,000 - 5 double bedroom, country house

Cheapest Flat in next town/large village over £135,000 1 bed

Or £39,000 for a narrow boat moored locally!

Highest

£800k
9 bedroom detached house

Lowest (excluding plots with planning)

£125k
2 bed flat.

Town in Southern Scotland