So where can you buy a 4 bed detached for less than £450k?

[ArtistInResidence]

Inspired by the previous thread.

Where in the UK can you buy a 4 bed, 2 receptions detached house with a garage & garden?

We were all set to put our house on the market last summer to upsize... and then we didn't.

Now there's a huge influx of people from the SE moving here, which has pushed up prices. In a way this is good because our house is worth more but we want to upsize so we would have to take on a larger mortgage than originally planned.

Are there any areas left in the UK where a 4 bed detached is £450k or less?

I assume that you're being facetious, but even Mumsnet must be happy with some of these, all with BD postcodes.

Only one of those looks like it is actually in Bradford! I have a BD postcode and I live in the Yorkshire Dales - it stretches quite a long way.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

But we’re they detached?

Yes, both detached - the one I sold, and the one I bought. We viewed a lot of houses in those areas, certainly weren't struggling for choice. And we weren't looking in the dodgy bits of those areas either. (Although even the 'dodgy' bits of Ilkley are hardly bad!)

It actually really gets my goat when people make sweeping statements like "you can't buy for under X in this town, not a house you'd actually want, anyway". Because it rarely stands up to scrutiny, it's just snobbishness and people wanting to believe that prices are higher than they really are.

The one I sold actually went for £350k. It wasn't in need of any renovation (newly built less than a decade ago), 3 bathrooms plus downstairs toilet, 1.5 size garage (between single and double), small garden, but in a good area with good transport links.

Oh, and 3 of the 4 beds were large doubles. Two with en-suite.

But yeah, there's nothing available in York at that budget at all...

OP, I am on the East Yorks coast. For that money there is a 6 bed detached, double garage and stables in 3 acres on the outskirts of town.

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Oh, and 3 of the 4 beds were large doubles. Two with en-suite.

But yeah, there's nothing available in York at that budget at all...

I think you’re absolutely right in that there are 4 bed detached homes available in the York area, but I think people would be surprised at what their money would get them. It’s not as much as you’d think. You certainly can’t get a house with two en-suites (happy to be proved wrong on this if you can send me a link!) As previously posted, most areas nationwide offer 4 bed detached options, just not city centre and this is the same for York, Harrogate and most parts of Leeds.

You certainly can’t get a house with two en-suites (happy to be proved wrong on this if you can send me a link!)

You could in 2019. For £350k.

Oh come on, people are being ridiculous. Now the 4 bed detached in the right area, near the right schools must have two ensuites.

Mumsnet really is a different world sometimes.

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable hate to point out that it’s not 2019......prices have gone up significantly,

Also RTFT and keep your knickers on, my response was to people making the sweeping statement ‘the whole of Yorkshire’ that’s just untrue also, there are pockets in those areas where you won’t and others Sheffield as someone said has some very expensive pockets and yes York has some cheap areas but I don’t care what anyone says those are rough as anything and you wouldn’t really want to buy a family home there.

You’ll also have seen if you’d read the thread that I said there’s plenty where I am in Yorkshire on lovely streets but you might compromise on room size as it’s a new build style house. Do read the thread!

@BarbaraofSeville

Oh come on, people are being ridiculous. Now the 4 bed detached in the right area, near the right schools must have two ensuites.

Mumsnet really is a different world sometimes.

I agree. I only mentioned the 2 en-suites because I actually sold a house which had that, for £350k, in one of the areas mentioned.

Also, apparently if you're not city centre then it doesn't really count? Bizarre.

I'm not even sure where in the city centre of Leeds there would be any 4 bed detached housing stock? The centre of Leeds is primarily retail, arts, offices and flats. Same for York - lived there for years and I don't recall seeing lots of detached housing stock in the city centre.

So it's not that the city centre detached houses are too expensive - they doesn't really exist. For most cities, if you want a detached house and garden/garage you will always be looking a couple of miles out from the centre.

[quote WalkinginMemphis2]@ReceptacleForTheRespectable hate to point out that it’s not 2019......prices have gone up significantly,

Also RTFT and keep your knickers on, my response was to people making the sweeping statement ‘the whole of Yorkshire’ that’s just untrue also, there are pockets in those areas where you won’t and others Sheffield as someone said has some very expensive pockets and yes York has some cheap areas but I don’t care what anyone says those are rough as anything and you wouldn’t really want to buy a family home there.

You’ll also have seen if you’d read the thread that I said there’s plenty where I am in Yorkshire on lovely streets but you might compromise on room size as it’s a new build style house. Do read the thread![/quote]
I've done a search on Rightmove this morning. There are plenty of nice houses in nice areas of York for

The houses currently on sale are in places like Upper Poppleton, Fulford and Copmanthorpe FFS! Hardly areas which are "rough as anything and you wouldn’t really want to buy a family home there".

Or maybe you really think that about those areas - if so, bonkers!

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

The houses currently on sale are in places like Upper Poppleton, Fulford and Copmanthorpe FFS! Hardly areas which are "rough as anything and you wouldn’t really want to buy a family home there".

This is what 450k gets you in Upper Poppleton www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79346730#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage

Absolutely nothing in Fulford. Not sure where you’re looking @ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Hi, we are selling our house in Clacton on sea, Essex. Four bed detached double garage..

Chester/ North Wales/wirral

You could get a 5 bed for that.

This is what 450k gets you in Upper Poppleton
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79346730#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage

Yes - a house that needs redecorating but has a reasonable size garden, a tandem garage (room for a workshop as well as a car), and is in a lovely area. The kitchen might need replacing but the bathroom looks very recent. The house doesn't quite back on to fields, but it's not far off - it's not a noisy or polluted location. I know the streets at that end of Poppleton and they are very 'naice'. The decor may not be to the buyer's taste, but none of it looks in poor condition or poorly maintained.

Are people really so fussy that they're not prepared to even decorate a house when they move in? Anyone who looks at that and declares it to be so dreadful they couldn't even contemplate living there has problems IMO.

It's also only about 2 mins walk from the Poppleton amenities - pubs (The White Horse is the best of the two at that end of the village IMO), Co-op etc, and about 5 mins walk from the 'outstanding' rated village school.

I am genuinely baffled as to why that is deemed to be insufficient.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88067695#/

Basically, if you want a house that is show-home ready, decorated to your exact taste, in the most expensive part of town, preferably next to the city centre, and next door to an outstanding school, then yes, you will struggle with £450k in many areas.

If, like most people, you are happy to walk or cycle a shortish distance to the local amenities; aren't obsessed by the need to live in the trendiest/priciest couple of streets in town (e.g. Bishy Road) as long as the area is safe and the community friendly; and are happy to gradually decorate your house to your own taste (providing the house is in decent liveable condition) then there is plenty - even in the expensive towns and cities up north.

Manchester.

We have a beautiful 2000 sq foot 5 bed 1930s detached with double garage and garden in a nice area of Manchester. We paid £400k 2 years ago/

@ionlyasked

Where in Manchester?? I live in manchester and can't find anything bar a very ordinary 3 bed semi fir much less than 500k

Perhaps you are looking in Didsbury where I agree with you. We are in Monton