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?

There are 56 detached 4 bed houses under £450k on Rightmove in Manchester.

They don't all have garages and most are in areas I wouldn't live, mainly due to proximity to the motorway.

Not in Chorlton in Manchester either.

Isn’t Monton in Salford?

Monton is Salford Greater Manchester

I'll let you off with this one, but surely some of the other 55 are bearable if you can only spend £450k

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/74830290#/

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/103471301#/

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/78650892#/

I think to live in a highly desirable area anyway you aren’t going to get a 4 bed detached for under £450k.

You may get a doer upper, although these can go through the roof.

You can probably get one in a desirable area though.

I have a 4 bed semi for £185k. A detached would be about £50k more and a detached new build another £50k again. Although when we were looking we did see a 4 bed detached for £180k - lovely house but we didn't like the area. This is all in Northumberland.

Some of those Manchester houses are in slightly dodgy areas

God forbid anyone has to live in an area that's only desirable, not highly desirable.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Some of those Manchester houses are in slightly dodgy areas

I'd go a bit further than slightly dodgy

I live in Ellesmere Park which is near Montonwhich is very desirable. The house for £400k must have needed work doing to it.

Well yeah!

BarbaraofSeville,

I’m only pointing out why it’s hard to find one under £450k. People can live where they want, but with housing you get what you pay for. Especially in terms of schools.

Well Yeah !!!!!?

That was to Africa2go

ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Sorry.

skeggycaggy Rightmove classes "Manchester" as anything within the M60.

16:11BarbaraofSeville

I'll let you off with this one, but surely some of the other 55 are bearable if you can only spend £450k

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/74830290#/

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/103471301#/

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/78650892#/

First one, yeah hideous!

Second one is a student area, as in practically every other house. As well as having a very high crime rate.

3rd one is ok

4th one is not an area I would live, poor schools and bad transport links.

Dashdashdash, those were my thoughts.

Prestwich has is OK, but l wouldn’t choose to live there.

Everywhere in Scotland!

You can get a 4 bedroom detached, huge garden, driveway...in a beautiful area for less than £200,000

Ridiculous statement. Couldn't even buy a decent flat for that in the West End of Glasgow.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Some bits of Prestwich are lovely but that bit down agecroft road and south of sheepfoot lane are okish. I personally wouldn't live there but would live around heys road sort of part.

I know it is, but l wouldn’t choose to live there.

Most of East Anglia.

Our lovely 1950s house in the NW it has 4 bedrooms,a large kitchen/diner family bathroom and my bedroom has been changed so I ( disabled ) have an en-suite shower room .
Because of this we go down a council tax bracket .
The house is in a cul de sac in the most desirable area of our town , has large gardens , front and back but you could probably buy it for around £350,000

This thread is crazy. So many of the areas mentioned simply do not have this type of stock available! I just looked up Chorlton in
Manchester as I used to live there and there are 6 properties that meet this criteria at ANY price! You can’t readily buy a 4 bed detached because they are not a substantial part of the stock not because they are outside the 450k price band. The houses there are Victorian terraces, ex local authority semi’s, 1950’s semi’s, flats... 4 bed detached was a common build later part of twentieth century and early 21st. If areas were built up by then, they simply havent been built in any numbers.