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.

£38.7m, but actually that's a block of flats. (Called apartments obviously with that price tag.)

The most expensive house is an £11m modern 7-bed mansion at 16,000 sq ft in an area with lots of other mansions. It's ok, I like the hall and the gym but most of the decor including kitchen and bathrooms are not to my taste, lots of dark and hard edges. There are also some quirky decisions for the room set-ups. Obviously I wouldn't turn it down if someone gave it to me, but I would definitely redecorate and if I had the money it wouldn't be my choice given some truly fabulous dream home options in the £7m bracket. Actually I'd probably sell it to get one of them and use the excess for stamp duty.

At the other end is a garage for £22k. More and more garages... moving on to actual homes...
Does a 2-bed houseboat count? £40k, described as light and airy, actually thin and dated. Then more houseboats, a bunch of shared ownership flats...
Ah, a proper flat at last! £85k up for auction, studio with a fabulous big terrace, not a great location as it's a busy road and also quite far out but looks liveable and apparently rents for £9k/yr.

Cheapest £120k not the nicest area and a flat in quite a tall tower block

Most expensive that isn't POA! £6.25M 5 beds, 5 baths with an indoor pool and equestrian facilities!

Hertfordshire St Albans

Sorry, I hadn't noticed you said no studios.
£190k cash only, one bedroom 500sq ft, not nice, big block.

(SW London)

SE London here

Most expensive - 7 bed country pile just within M25 - £4.75M

Least expensive (excluding the 1000s of shared ownership and retirement properties) is an £80k mobile home on a campsite very near the expensive one.

Least expensive permanent property is a 25sq metre studio with Murphy bed in Cheam for £85K

Southwest cheapest is a 1 bed flat at £85,000. The most expensive is £12.5million for a 7 bedroom farmhouse.

SouthWest

£99,950 1bed ground floor Maisonette looks ok actually nice little garden.

£3,250,000 5 bed farmhouse with OMG its got EVERYTHING... and its stunning!

One of those is less than a mile from me the other is 4.8 miles

South Yorkshire
Most expensive 1.4m 5 bedroom detached
Cheapest 45k 1 bed flat

It’s amazing to see the price difference in areas, a 2 bed end of terrace has just gone up for sale on my street for only 80k which is in a decent area near some excellent schools

North Wales

Most expensive is a 4 bed farmhouse with 54 acres and a cottage as a holiday let at £875k.

Cheapest is a 2 bed terrace house for renevation at £35k.

Most expensive. Land and Manor House for sale in Epsom. POA
Least expensive. 1 bedroom flat in Redhill town centre £58,000 shared ownership.

South Glos. Cheapest is £90,000 for 1 bed flat, most expensive is £2,250,000 for a 6 bed mill house with land.

Constable Country

Most Expensive offers above 1.5 million for a 7bed 4reception rooms
Cheapest £135000 for a 1bed bungalow

go a little further out and theres several over 2 million

(we are in the middle of nowhere so no major towns within 10 miles

Central London - most expensive - just shy of £30million for a 7 bed without a garden.

Cheapest without shared ownership - £230k for a studio flat.

Rural west Suffolk - £895k for a large detached house. Cheapest £165k for a two bed terrace cottage.

£1.5 million 17C manor with 2 acres. Rural. Says 7 bedrooms but only 2 bath so needs a refurb. Must be something amiss as seems undervalue for location.

Lowest is 2 bed maisonette £90K in small town. Complete do-upper (wiring ripped out etc).

Norfolk coast

Cheapest : £70k 1 bed flat above a shop in town
Expensive : POA Historic Windmill with 11 bedrooms. OR a £1.7million 9 bedroom Georgian Country House.

The reason I can't afford to buy or rent here and live with family instead.

East Midlands city

Most expensive: £1.25 million 4 bed detached in prime area
Cheapest £40k 1 bed flat in city centre

That £40k is the outright asking price; I've ignored all the 25% shares, auction guide prices, etc.

Hertfordshire area

Most expensive - 8 bedroom detached house, £2,800,000

Cheapest - 1 bedroom 'Caravan' (Park House) £78,000
Next Cheapest - 1 bedroom flat £110,000

Cheapest is a one-bed apartment for £115k. It's alright, nothing special, pretty small.

Most expensive that isn't POA is £3m, 6-bed 14th Century manor house with a swimming pool, tennis courts and a heli-pad.

Peak District.

Cardiff:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69682408.html

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72285721.html

I discounted one flat because it was a retirement place, and one with only 8 years left on the lease, so while both were cheaper, they were not really an option for many people.

London- £60m for a 6 bed house in SW1

Cheapest is a houseboat for £75k.

London suburb.

Cheapest: 1 bed flat in a block in a pretty rundown area with high crime rates: £145K.

Most expensive: 7 (en suite) bedroom, 6 reception room mansion with a lift and ‘staff quarters’, on a highly desirable road: £39,950,000 .

Edinburgh:

most expensive is offers over £2.9 million for a very swanky six-bedroom house in posh area near city centre - offers over probably means they want well over £3m for it

the cheapest is £73,000 for a one-bed flat in a small town outside Edinburgh itself - the flat looks in reasonable shape based on what you can tell from the pictures, but the outside looks very depressing

City in South Wales.

Cheapest (ignoring a couple of small building plots, garages and a flat that's "only suitable for cash buyers due to the short lease") is a 2 bedroomed flat for £65,000. It looks OK-ish, to be honest.

The most expensive (unless one of the "POA" ones is actually dearer) - £2.5 million. Six bedroomed 1920s country house, grade II listed, with a large orangery, three imposing reception rooms, stables and 12 acres of gardens/paddocks.

Worcestershire:
Most expensive: £1,100,000
6 bed, 4 reception detached in large grounds
Cheapest: £34,000
1 bed flat in high-rise block