2-bed hse, UK, �20k. Where?

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Need cheap bolt-hole. 'Rough' area OK. (Am rougher.)

Constructive sugg'ns, please.

I.T.

Northumberland looks cheap. No idea what it's like though.

Oh or a lot of places in Wales

I don't think you can do 20k anywhere! 50k maybe

Am I typing in invisible font again?

Motherwell - flats not houses though, but under 20k

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30220008.html for example

You can buy a flat or house for £20k in the UK? I had no idea.

North East? See here

A lot of houses priced that low are mobile homes/shared ownership/retired etc. Or auction prices/offers in excess of, which will probably sell for higher. Some v cheap houses out there though!

£25k Burnley
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44351999.html

£10k Wales (needs renovation)
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44192581.html

£25k Wales
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42636305.html

OIEO £20k NE
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30042171.html

£20k Cleator Moor
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45781436.html

£25k Scotland
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30265443.html

£25k Grimsby (needs refurbishment)
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45387452.html

Thanks, all, for replies so far. It looks as though it can be done.

Anyone actually ever lived below the radar? (Don't be shy.)

I.T.

Are you fleeing the law?

I lived on a traveller site, I paid council tax etc. it was an illegal site but the council still needed to know all comings and goings.

Are you in a hurry?

Can you tell us what's happened?

There were flats going near Sunderland for £12k when I lived nearby. Prices might have gone up without me dragging the area into disrepute though

I'd have thought that renting a room or staying in a B&B - paying cash - would be more effective than making a big splash by buying a place. It would also be easier to move on quickly if you needed/wanted to.

You could buy a narrowboat to live on for under 20 k if you want to stay under the radar. here

Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Crewe, Winsford.
Hanley in Stoke on Trent (Cobridge to be precise) had houses for £5,000 if you agreed to live in them for five years.

Agree with the narrowboat suggestion and would also add a static caravan park. There is a lovely one at Stableford, near Stone, Staffordshire. Near to the M6 (Midlands) but lovely rural setting and only a limited number of units allowed. Market towns all around.

I know somebody who lived 'secretly' and he lodged with someone and paid for everything in cash. The thing is not to own anything if you don't want to be found. Anti-money laundering laws now mean that all property transactions are scrutinised by all sorts of agencies.

It's possible in areas of Stoke

Where is OP? I want to know the back story!

Buy a boat. Do it up. This way you can get more off grid if that is what you want.

Think the back story was the journo cutting to the chase.

I'm confused slightly. Do you want to buy a house, which is possible in parts of the country. Or do you want to love undetected & off grid, which is hard if you own a house.

I know someone who lives under the radar, he's a friend of my dads

Always done everything cash, always worked cash in hand, stayed in informal living arrangements etc, never been married, never got a driving licence, never registered to vote, etc basically never done anything "official"

He's a right character and he's got some stories to tell. But he's in his 60s now and my dad worries about him ie re getting a pension, access to healthcare, housing etc

There are 2-bed flats for sale in Blantyre and Hamilton (not far/commuting distance to Glasgow) on offers over 20k. Advertised on rightmove (can't link on phone)

Thank you, everyone who has tried to help; and those who seem intrigued!

All I can tell you is what I'm not: no journalist I, this is ain't research for an article/book/series on Stealth Subsistence. Nor am I a Tory MP who sleepson the street for one mid-summer night and thereafter can speak with authority on homelessness.

I'm not out on the lam but am on the hoof: I'll not be in any one place for long. I'll be buying a prioerty for a friend with whom I'll lodge, occasionally.

But, mostly, I'll be on the move. The bolt-hole's for when it snows, etc.

I. T.