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

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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?

Ely - just voted best place to live in Cambridgeshire! This one is in a village 5 mins outside of Ely itself but ticks all the boxes:

Cross Lane, Little Downham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6
www.rightmove.co.uk/property/78577260

Plenty that meet the criteria within Ely itself but they tend to be new builds.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/66589156#/
This is a 5bed for £400k fairly close to where I live in Merseyside

Wales: I probably couldn't get a job there because I don't speak Welsh.

DH was WFH at least 3 days a week pre-Covid, when we're back to normal we would expect him to WFH between 3 - 5 days a week.
To get back to his work DH will stay over when he's in the office.

I have family in Scotland and would love to live there. DH won't consider this, even though he will consider a much longer road commute from say, Cheshire or similar, rather than an hours flight from Scotland.

I've wanted to move away for ages, DH wasn't keen until now.

We don't need good schools and we want to stay rural but not too far from a city. We've looked at Cornwall but DH is put off by the influx of tourists in the summer.

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

Surely it is possible in the majority of the UK? Not where I live, but I am aware that is not the case for most of the country.

@Hadenoughofbloodycovid maybe not city centre but Musselburgh, Gilmerton etc will definitely have what the op has stipulated. I appreciate being Scottish so much when this kind of thread pops up (many other reason too).

@MichelleScarn

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/74239549?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard

This is near me

Dalbeattie is beautiful

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/103657964#/

@KerfuffleShuffle

All the lovely parts of Sheffield (bar Whirlow and some parts of Dore and Ecclesall). Fab access to peak District, 2 great theatres, loads of lovely bars and restaurants and fantastic schools of you choose the nice areas, even pretty good schools in less nice areas.

lol you cannot buy a 4 bed detached house for under £450,000 in any part of Dore, Fulwood, Ranmoor etc. I just checked /

Wales: I probably couldn't get a job there because I don't speak Welsh.

Neither do lots of Welsh people,

Jaywick- North Essex Coast. In fact its £200,000 for a 4 bed!!!

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/89246701#/

The quiet (unfashionable) parts of Suffolk. Forget the bits by the coast or with Harry Potter cottages or National Trust properties.

Although I live within 4 miles of both, my village is unknown beyond its locality- even the hospital where I gave birth thought it was somewhere else. It has transport links to good secondary schools, a good primary school, a shop and a pub. We have local clubs and groups (in normal times)....and no-one wants to buy a second home here. It's great!

@BashfulClam me too 😂

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85114285#/

North Yorkshire. Thirsk. Market town with beautiful countryside train station has good links to big cities.

@Hankunamatata

Northern Ireland

Just not in south Belfast or Holywood / Cultra... I know from bitter experience 😂

[quote Ro198]@FilthyforFirth where in Hampshire? I was looking there previously and struggled to find anything[/quote]
Well the less pretty parts. You’d be in housing sprawl rather than a nice village or town.
Something like this detached new build in Havant?
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104174162#/

Any of the housing developments on the outskirts of the towns will have something. Whether it’s where you’d chose if you didn’t have to though is a different matter..

It's not a stupid question at all, London? the majority of the SE, the fashionable parts of the SW and many others besides, e.g The North, you can't find a 4 bed, 2 recs detached with a garage for £450k.

The difficulty is in knowing where is a nice place to live and where is cheap because it isn't as desirable.

True, lots of Welsh people don't speak Welsh. When I have looked at my job in Wales all adverts say that I would need to speak Welsh. It's a shame because I love Wales.

Well under budget!

All over the bloody place!

There are over 1,300 within 40 miles of Central London:
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E91991&maxBedrooms=5&minBedrooms=4&maxPrice=450000&radius=40.0&propertyTypes=detached&secondaryDisplayPropertyType=detachedshouses&includeSSTC=true&mustHave=&dontShow=&furnishTypes=&keywords=

Rightmost search of 4 bed detached for my area is £625k for cheapest, but average about £1.2m. But in London you'd barely get a flat for that, whilst up North you'd get much more. It's all relative!

Worcestershire. Easy access to both the countryside and to Birmingham.

I'm in a 4 bed semi-detached, with parking for 3 cars, a big garden, two reception rooms and a huge conservatory. I'm in Cornwall.
When our house was valued 18 months ago, it was valued at £250k.
We live in a chocolate box village, but ours is an old council house, so to look at it's nothing special. But it's big, and has lovely views, and we don't look at the outside of it when we are inside!
Add another £200k and you could easily upgrade to a detached which also has a garage.

Currently 184 detached houses in Leicester with 4 or more bedrooms under £450,000

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E789&minBedrooms=4&maxPrice=450000&propertyTypes=detached&secondaryDisplayPropertyType=detachedshouses&includeSSTC=false&mustHave=&dontShow=&furnishTypes=&keywords=

Staffordshire.

We are near beautiful countryside. Half an hours drive from Manchester and 1.5 hours train from London (though you have to add on about 30 mins to get to the station from the local one)

We paid 325k last year for a 5 bed with garage and garden.

Northern Ireland - you get a heck of a lot more value for money here, and plenty of people moving from England lately. Some commute to London every so often if needed (flights only 45m). School system is good and cost of living low.

Even in Holywood area just outside of Belfast (which is one of the most expensive areas and listed in The Times last week as the best place to live in NI www.thetimes.co.uk/article/holywood-co-down-best-place-to-live-northern-ireland-uk-ttrzjfqxh) you can get a decent detached 4 bed with garage for £270k, so for £450k you can get a lot more/higher finish! It’s close to Belfast city airport and also only 2 hours from Dublin airport for highly connected international transport (it’s the only place in Europe that you can do U.S. customs ore clearance before you leave).

NI can get a lot of negative press at times but it really is an amazing place to live with so much on your doorstep!

@MichelleScarn

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/74239549?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard

This is near me

Couldn’t work out what it was I liked about that house, then realised it was the windows! Lovely light in the rooms.