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

This for me too.

A park home.

Flat with a sea view.

5 miles, however...not even a parking space. 😐

9 pages of properties once I filtered out all of the retirement and shared ownership properties.

Biggest properties are 3 bed flats, no houses, lots of nice ones.

A park home or a 1 bed retirement flat .

I tell a lie there are 4 houses.

A single garage.

Though as they do as the crow flies you can get shared ownership of a one bed, a retirement flat or a park home.

Oddly they all cost exactly £140k....

1 bedroom flat, building plot or a mobile home.

Really?

A parking space or a garage.

Or, having checked on rightmove, this freehold of a property where all the constituent parts have been sold off on long leases: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141810509#/?channel=RES_BUY

Sadly nothing except a plot of land.Cornwall

In St Ives you would get a parking space but in Camborne you could buy a two Victorian terrace which needed work and probably no parking. Or a two bedroom flat.

Two bedroom that should say.

£140k - A studio apartment on a 125yr lease, with one parking space and a pocket handkerchief garden with room for two chairs, a couple of pots and a barbecue.

Three bed semi, if you’re not too fussy about location.

A small garage

Same

3 bed ex-council semi in need of updating but you could live in it as is.

Wow I think I need to move cities!
Here in North west it would get you a 2 or possibly 3 bed terraced in an ok area or a 3 bed semi in a very very bad area

Studio flat

Round my way, you can get a 2 bed house in decent condition or a 3 bed that needs a lot of work (but would have services, be safe etc) for that.

Detached 3 bed. Lots of character. Very nice.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120947618#/?channel=RES_BUY

2 x 5 beds and 3 x 4 beds.

All decent enough internally, NOT auction (so actual sale price £140k and under) and within 20 miles of my postcode.

All in fairly undesirable areas that I wouldn't want to live in even if they cost £14k tbh.

Many, many 2 and 3 beds in slightly better areas for £140k and under (but that I still wouldn't personally want to live - average areas but awful schools).

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142741778

Open fields to the rear!

A project (e.g. unconverted barn, plot of land, or derelict house) or a park home, if you want something detached:

e.g. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144748985 with £40k for making it habitable.

A terrace in Llanidloes, Llandrindod Wells, or Newtown:

e.g. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143971502

Haha, you can really only buy a lockup here for that much. They start at a mere 65k