Can you buy a 3 bed house with a few acres for under 200k anywhere in the UK?

[SomebodyandNobody]

Have been searching but I cannot find a thing - does such a house exist?

you must be able to. i am in SE and paid 170k for a 3bed house with erm, hardly any garden.

so up northerly you MUST be able to.

any particular areas you are after? i guess finding somewhere with the land is the difficult bit

3 bed .. yes
with a few acres... erm very much doubt it

good luck !

yes it does we found one the other day here

I don't care if it's a run down bungalow but I neeeeeeed land! I could cry, we looked at a house on the Northern Ireland/Eire border with 3 acres for £50,000 a few years back but bought a bloomin' appartment in Bulgaria instead. We being my mum really. But I would have pinched the house in Ireland off her now!

Oh Excellent! Perfect. Off to search job prospects in Durham now. Where is it?!

where is durham? way oop north, jsut south of newcastle...what line of work are you in?

Stay at home mum - me, I mean poor DH! He can probably get re-located easily, it's just the wage difference. We are near London now so he gets London wages. I have text him at work to get looking I have looked on the map - it's soooo north! DO they have accents up there?

I bet you could in Somerset

register with some agents

You could go to the fens, we looked there in the summer

there are banjoes playing mind

I'm a relocated southerner and I can just about understand them I've been up here 13 years though - lower wages compensated by lack of traffic and lower property prices

Try Lincolnshire, it's mostly rural and still fairly cheap so you may get lucky. If you live fairly close to Newark then commuting to London is still a possibility. Train is direct to Kings Cross in 1hr 15m.

My OH does the commute a few days a week and whilst it is a long day, it's better than us having to live in the very expensive bit of countryside just outside London.

Righty-o looking in Somerset now. Where is the Fens? There is no way he could/would commute - his job is easily relocated but obviously at a loss i'd say. He already commutes 30 miles, so 60 miles a day and that is about the max he would do now.

look near bridgwater or north of Taunton

You want to try Wales you do. They have accents AND a whole different language in certain parts!

I'll bet you can get something to fit the bill in South Wales somewhere.

do they have accents doesn't = are they a bunch of bastards. It was a mild joke.

Hmm, struggling for you on rightmove I'm afraid. Saw some very big gardens, but I don't think any of them would be your requested "few acres"

Try the south Wales valleys. You won't be able to understand a word they say but I bet you culd get a good size house with land (albeit a slag heap perhaps!) for less than 200k