what could £140,000 buy you within 25 miles of where you live

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Inspired by million pound thread, I thought what if anything could you buy with 4 x the average full time salary (32,000) so 128K mortgage and a 10% deposit 13K = 141K call it 140 to allow for fees
90 minutes is considered the longest reasonable commute . So I thought what is the biggest accommodation you can get near you that is liveable ie no renovation just re-decorating the electrics and plumbing are safe not necessarily modern

3 bed semi within 20 miles

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142451693#/?channel=RES_BUY

A studio or 1 bedroom flat somewhere you don't actually want to live. Probably with shared owndership.

I am in Northern Ireland and there’s lots of houses on the market around that. New builds and older houses that need work.

3 bed semi

Has to adjust it to 20 miles but basically either the teeniest of one bedroom flats, although the building is lovely. Or a couple of places where you really really wouldn’t want to live….

Blidworth is the first place I thought of too!

Probably an allotment.

A beach hut.

Very little!

Maybe a garage?

I've just looked and actually there are some retirement flats and static caravans in that price range.

And an actual flat, sorry, maisonette, in a garage in Luton!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141983768#/?channel=RESBUY

Where I used to work: a parking space

Where I now work: a 3 bed house with a garden

Apart from a freehold of a block of flats where the lease holds have been sold off, nothing.

After that there is a four bedroom flat with a leasehold that expires in 2.5 years. That’ll be £200k.

Cheapest property is a 2 bed mobile home. £140k would get a one or two bedroom flat depending up if you wanted a naice area or not.

A studio flat somewhere you wouldn’t want to live or a park home

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144757301#/?channel=RESBUY

Loads of small family houses in that price range here 😊

I'm in he north and it's flats or 2 bed terraces where you very much wouldn't want to live

If you go towards our nearest city you're more likely to just get a 1 bed flat but in the towns around us there are a bunch of 3 bed terraced and semi-detached houses.

This one isn't too far from me. A very black and white house.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141312263#/?channel=RES_BUY

Much more interesting thread (to me anyway!) than the million pound one.

near me that’s brought up some retirement properties and several 1 bedroom flats with no parking and no garden.

You could buy a lot round here

But the average salary round here is 8 to 10k lower than you have assumed

Shared ownership one bedroom flat or studio.

Bugger all......well maybe a garage or beach hut!

One bed flat.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/135354803

A houseboat!

Lots of houses at that sort of price around here- within a 20 mile radius, a 4 bed semi detached house with front and back gardens and 3 reception rooms. Closer to my address it would be a 3 bed terrace with 2 or 3 reception rooms and front and back gardens

Ha! Exact same house was at the top of my rightmove list as well 😆 not particularly close to us though.