what can you buy for £300k in your area?

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In terms of housing. I live in the pretty part of a big Scottish city and you can get a 80 square meter 2 bed flat for that here.

4 bed detached or a larger 3 bed semi. Both with 2 bathrooms and decent gardens. Greater Manchester/East Lancs border.

Maybe a nice shed

2 bed flat in a nice part of South London

Nothing. Garages, that's all. My daughter and her boyfriend had to move out of the area to find a flat.

Brand new 3 bed 2 bath townhouse or 4 bed 1970's semi.

centre of very expensive south coast city. At the moment you can get a 2 bed flat. Nothing amazing but decent. A couple of years ago it would have been a one bed for that money.

South east also covers a lot

Nothing.. west London

Modest 3 bed semi, North

A three bed semi, quite a nice one. Just north of the midlands.

3 double bed townhouse with 2 bathrooms, cloakroom, kitchen diner and conservatory in my very lovely and pretty affluent village with good schools nearby. Oh and money to spare after stamp duty.
You could get a detached 3 bed as well but the 3rd bedroom is a single. Although the gardens are a bit bigger.
Up north, obviously.

Probably a garage. I live in north London.

Within 5 miles of where I live in the Midlands £300k could buy a 4 bed semi (although it backs on to the west coast main line so you need to like trains!), a 3 bed detached in need of work further out of town or a 2 bed flat in the centre of the city.

The cheapest house (that isn't shared ownership or a retirement flat) is a studio in a nice part of the city for £85k.

A 2 bed detached bungalow or a 3/4 bed semi detached house, largish “sought after village” East Midlands.

Three-bedroom 3 bath terraced cottage, but it’s bigger than you’d imagine a terraced cottage to be because it’s double fronted. No driveway though, if you had a driveway then the house would be a lot smaller for the same money. Relatively affordable rural town in Somerset.

its interesting as I would have though that, but if I look up Notting Hill, Chiswick or Kensington in rightmove for example, it does bring up flats for under 300

Well of course it does, the idea you can buy 'nothing' but a garage is nonsense. People love to big this up

3 bed terrace with a garden and garage. Cornwall.

A decent 3 bed semi in my part of the East Mids

I’m in the South East (Bromley) and could get a decent sized 2 bedroom flat, there are more but the areas aren’t that great. Could definitely find something though.

In and around Aberdeen you could get between a 3-5 bed detached in decent areas.

Modern 4 bed detached in ok areas, 3 bed detached in nice area in desirable school catchment etc, decent looking older properties. North West.

Lots of new builds around.

2 bed apartment in Surrey

thats about what my house is worth.

3 bed end of block townhouse, garden, built 1980, nice to live in, Kent, 15 minute walk to both an amazing beach, & train station to London.

You could get a one bedroom flat or studio. As I said before prices have dropped and many landlords are selling flats so ideal time for FTB. Although still expensive.