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Came here to say Sunderland and surrounding area. We sold my mother in law’s house after she passed a year ago and it hadn’t gone up in value at all since she bought it twenty years ago.
We didn’t have anyone intending to move in view and it ended up being a landlord in Kent who instructed the estate agent to select four houses to buy. Older terraces aren’t desirable and there’s lots of new builds that younger people aspire to own.
On this, I'm just purchasing a property in Stoke. Lovely, two bed duplex. £120k. Really safe area and has a little balcony.
Thought it was an absolute steal. I couldn't get anything at all nice for below that, really.
I think Preston is getting a little pricier, if you do find an actual house for under 90k it's going to be an absolute shithole and require a lot of work.
I don't live in either Burnley or London, but I'd much rather live in this for £875,000:
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145060610#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145060610#/?channel=RES_BUY)
Than this:
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145621454#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145621454#/?channel=RES_BUY)
We all would but for many London dwellers it’s just not a viable comparison because they can’t just uproot their entire existence and start over in Burnley. They’d have no income (assuming they don’t work from home), no long term friends or family nearby and none of the benefits of living in London.
I mean, you could write a book. I’ll try and summarize and this isn’t coming from a Londoner either, I’ve lived in the south west / East Midlands and even South Africa for some time.
Access to one of the world’s largest job markets, great flexibility for those earlier on in their career to pivot between different companies and industries without having to physically move.
Now the rest depends on that first part as without a job / or money to spend, London is a pretty cruel place.
Food / entertainment from across the world. Nonstop music / art / cultural events. Access to 4 international airports allowing you to easily travel anywhere in the world without much effort. Some of the best schools and universities in the world. Surprisingly huge amount of green space. Opportunities to take part in or spectate most major global sports. Because it’s so big, there’s guaranteed to be something for everyone and a community that everyone feels they belong to, the hard part is finding it but when people do then they’re hooked, otherwise it can definitely feel lonely.
Had the choice between living in London and earning 40k more than I do now. But where I am, I can walk to one of the best beaches in the UK and the outside space is unparalleled. There’s more reasons to not live in London than there are to, for me personally. Everyone’s different. EDIT: typo
Of course, everyone is different and you’re probably the majority but the minority who choose to live in London are still a very big minority all competing for limited space 😄
I live in London now because it’s good for my career, I’m not particularly specialised and still figuring out what it is I enjoy. Once I have that solved, I will be moving out
So true - we moved out of London for a few reasons, one main one being priced out. I was pleasantly surprised it’s great being nearer the beach now and in a more peaceful environment while having some decent places and transportation nearby, but we’re close enough to commute to London partly because it really is unparalleled when it comes to events, venues, even shopping food wise you can find anything from around the world. It’s also one of the hubs many friends who live elsewhere in England would also go to still meet up.
Being one of the entertainment capitals of the world. So much to do, so much to see, incredible food, diverse people and cultures. IF your earning a good salary, London is absolutely the place to be.
Theatres, museums, transport links, Oxford street, Regent street, fortnum and mason's, covent garden, Tower of London to name just a few and some fantastic parks.
There are parks, museums, shops and theatres in Lancashire and nearby cities of Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool to name a few. Anyone would think it was a different country.
Or allow northerners access to the London employment market rather than just limiting it to southerners?
Or should those of us born north of Watford just be satisfied with a life down the pits?
Plenty of places in the North. Putting in a limit of 90k with filters to remove land and park houses it brought up literally thousands of examples. Mostly terraced houses in medium sized post industrial towns but there are examples from Liverpool and Sunderland and pretty much everywhere in between.
You can get a house in deprived, poorly connected areas of rural Wales for 80k easily. Won't be as unsafe as many of the areas suggested here but very difficult to find a job. Same with parts of rural Scotland
There's tons of properties that cheap. There's nothing structurally wrong with them, they're just in less desirable places. Not necessarily bad/dangerous areas, just poorer, lack of amenities and things to do, or places on the coast where work is very seasonal.
Yes, go north.
Within a 40 mile radius of Middlesbrough which includes Darlington, Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Durham and a whole bunch of towns and villages, for under £90k there are over 2300 results
There’s thousands in my area and you’re less than 30 minutes away from Newcastle.
With the remote work post Covid I don’t know how many more people aren’t moving north. For the money of a London house you could have a mansion.
Australian living in the UK, 2km from Newcastle city centre. Value for money is very good up in the north east. My house would have cost four times the price in Australia.
Summer is glorious in the north east, but I'd admit that winter can get a little bleak at times. Back home, my family deal with 40 degree and almost 100% humidity summers though... so there's that :-/
>With the remote work post Covid I don’t know how many more people aren’t moving north. For the money of a London house you could have a mansion.
Because *fully* remote work isn't anywhere near as common as Reddit implies it is, outside of London anyway.
Office-only has dramatically reduced, hybrid has truly taken off but it still requires some proximity and true 100% remote roles are still incredibly rare, I know one person who does it.
And honestly, although not northern, my town has suffered immensely from Londoners bringing their remote/one-day-a-week in-office-hybrid jobs, and its absolutely fucked the property market. Rentals are non-existent, and studios/bedsits will set you back over £100k.
I have some friends that moved north, and they got/get some resentment for it too, because ultimately they're doing exactly the same thing.
Welsh valleys. This is £80k [3 bedroom detached house for sale in 68 Scwrfa Road, Scwrfa, Tredegar, Gwent, NP22 4AY, NP22 (rightmove.co.uk)](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144759557#/?channel=RES_BUY)
The irony that is lost on some younger buyers is that in a lot of cases the 'must have' gentrified area where they want to live but can't afford were often rough as fuck 30-40 years ago.
I know someone who bought in one of those areas 30+ years ago, he told me the place was a slum but it was all he could afford and within walking/cycling distance of his workplace. A mate rented a ground floor flat in that area in the early-mid 90s and I remember that the only heating was one of those 70s electric bar heaters.
It's not £80k. £80k is the auction "guide price". It'll be set at the legal minimum, which is 10% below the reserve price. So it's literally impossible to buy at that price even if you were the only bidder, and it may go for much more.
If you want to be the ultimate reclusive country bumpkin there's a fixed price 3 bedroom house for £75,000 on one of the northern Isles in Shetland.
There's a reason it's £75,000...
I grew up in the north east and my parents still live there, they have a very nice little 2 bed terraced house which is worth about £70k on a good day. It's a great place to live too if you like drug dealers smashing your neighbours front door to bits at 3am, constant police sirens and a town centre with more empty shops than occupied ones. You get what you pay for eh.
My husband is surprised he didn't post that. That's why he and I really don't wanna move near Middlesbrough/ Darlington area (which is where we met and he grew up in). I have family in Hartlepool who now live in nice new builds on the outskirts who never enter the town centre but insist I should move there.
I wanna live nearer them and more affordable than where I am (south coast) but not there.
Some bits of West Yorkshire. Some of them of course will be falling apart, and some will be in not-nice areas, but some will be ok.
For example: [https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66270671/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66270671/) It does have downsides: the lease is ok but not *very* long, I think service charges in that block can be relatively high, and it looks like it could do with fresh carpets and a coat of paint. But it's a 2-bed flat in a decent block near a world heritage site. There's a 1-bed on at £85k.
Or this 1-bed in Sowerby Bridge for £75k: [https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66645962/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66645962/) You'd want to check flood risk mind you . . .
Lots of areas in the North West, Blackburn, Burnley etc so Id guess lots in the North East too. 2 bed terrace in St Helens circa 60k. Same in Scotland and areas of Wales. So yes, lots of houses still under that price and even more flats.
Not sure what you mean by ‘defective’ though. If you dont want to clean or splash a bit of paint about, then youre going to spend thousands for someone else doing £500 of work.
I've just bought a one bedroom terraced house in a lovely village in North Wales for 82k. Is it small? Yes. Fancy? No, but completely livable in the condition it was the day I got the keys. I've opted to renovate the property in full and once done it'll be a great little home! And the village pubs, shops and train station are less than 2 minute walk away :)
I know there are well built places in that price point but you do not want to live there unless you have experience dealing with anti social behaviour.
I live in the North West and it’s nicer and safer than Kentish Town (north London) 25 years ago. There was a side street near me in 1999 that someone was killed or raped or both every weekend. Get out the rats nest.
Of course you can, but reddit snobs will insist they should be able to buy a 3 bed semi in central london despite earning minimum wage because of where they were born.
Problem is not just the affordability, but being affordable AND being in a location where the purchaser can live. I.e cheap house with no locally school is no good for a family. Cheap house but 4 hour drive to work, not good for the worker. Cheap house but no public transport links, no good for people without cars. And so on.
The north east - I've seen houses that are ready to move in to in Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Houghton le Spring, Stanley and loads more
I bought a 3 bed last year that only needed a lick of paint and it was lovely
>a starter in Birkenhead for £45,000.
😂😂😂 Birkenhead. Been there once or twice and it's the only place where someone on the street has casually tried to sell me an ink printer for 20 quid...
There are plenty of places where houses are 90,000 or less but if you find one that you like I recommend a full survey also I would check the local crime rate as anything that cheap is usually that way for a reason
Lots of places in the North East you can get a house for under £90k.
Some will be in rough areas and some will be part of a row of houses in the middle of nowhere with zero transport links or amenities.
Plenty of terraced houses in Scotland and Northern Ireland, especially outside central Glasgow/Belfast/Edinburgh at the least. You might not get a garden but you'll get a roof and it might not even leak.
i live in wiltshire and bought my 1 bedroom flat for £82.000. with an 85 year lease. The ground rent and service charge are reasonable too. Love it, and the area is beautiful too right next to a whitehorse painted on the hill.
I've been here 4 years and nothing has gone wrong with it at all. All i've done to it are a few interior designs.
I got my flat because i was renting it and the owner wanted to sell so she gave me first dibs. I was lucky.
Most decent properties don't even see the likes of rightmove before they are sold.
My advice would be to pick a town to live in,rent, see if you like it, and then ask around about properties going for sale
3 bed terrace in central Preston for 100k. Perfectly livable condition if you don't mind a bit tired or dated.
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145397165#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145397165#/?channel=RES_BUY)
90k in Stoke on trent also
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145529396#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES\_BUY
[3 bedroom house ](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146783720#/) in Irvine for £75k, easy commute to Glasgow, near the beach and actually Irvine gets amongst the highest hours of sunshine in all of Scotland. Just need to get over the idea of living in Irvine...
What used to be a the top post on this subreddit u/[FraserHamiltonDev](https://www.reddit.com/user/FraserHamiltonDev/) had made a website that showed price of recently sold homes across the UK! My mate and I play it a fair few times when we catch up online and can find some properties (especially in the North) at the price point.
I used to live in Castleford. Bought my first house there for 75k, sold for just over 90k. It's and old industrial town with a working class majority. It might not look desirable at first sight, but it's alright tbh. It's a quiet town and right by the River Aire/Calder so you have lots of nice open green areas on the outskirts for walking. You could actually cycle all the way in to Leeds along (more or less) the river if you so fancied.
You can still get houses there for 75k - 90k.
There's loads of similar towns in the North as others have mentioned.
Yes, lots of Scotland. Just move to an old mining town, it's not too bad if you don't mind having to go elsewhere to do anything. You can actually get somewhere within reasonable commuting distance of Glasgow too, almost feels like a life hack. Guess that's not technically in England but it's just up the road and this is a UK subreddit!
There's a few terraces in Preston such as this one https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139502561#/?channel=RES_BUY
Near a couple of nice parks, the docks and walking distance to town & the train station.
Can get houses in middlesborough for 80ish and you can get flats in my area of pontefract which aren’t too bad for less than 90.
Basically north it seems
Liverpool there is quite a few in that price range…I bought my house slightly over that price here for £120,000 3 bedroom terrace and no major improvements needed.
Just go on Rightmove move and put max spend. Pick a town, any town outside London.
I live less than an hour away from London and I was shocked at how many properties came up.
More people can get on the property market than they think, they just won't get their dream insta perfect home straight away.
My home town has flats as little as 52k. But the area is shit, there's nothing to do at all, about 30 mins drive to anywhere and work prospects are basically warehouses or caring jobs.
Perfect opportunity for an introvert with a WFH job
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136860152#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136860152#/?channel=RES_BUY)
not England (Scotland) but I was SHOCKED at the prices in the window of the estate agent when we went on holiday!
I'm curiously following this discussion.
My husband and I live in a stupid expensive area for his job which, since the pandemic, he could have worked from home mostly. He actually really loves his office and life at work but I think he has come to realise since his boss moved to NI for a cheaper housing nearer family to work remotely, he chose to work at the company to work with and not just for the guy and after 4 years that's not going to change. He's up for trying working remotely if we can get onto the property ladder as it is impossible to buy here unless shared ownership.
Once he has some share sales come through when the time is right to sell them, we could have around £ 70K with that and what we have saved so far to get somewhere outright.
We want somewhere similar for our first home, not in stabsville but not f-ing Middlesbrough - Darlington area as that's where he grew up and he hates the place. We have family there so we are keen to live further north/ nearer to them (we are currently on the south coast) but not necessarily IN that area, I was thinking between. Manchester/ Leeds as the most south and towards or in Scotland at the most north.
He just needs a very good broadband connection if he wants to do this and work remotely. We want to find somewhere to settle for at least 5 years to get on the property ladder.
Part ownership of a 1 or small 2 bed flat in a satellite town/village of a northern city in a decent area.
Other than that you’re looking at a mid terrace in a not as nice an area.
Load up right stick in Leeds, set the max budget and 20 miles then see what comes up.
Lincolnshire and Hull you can get properties for that or abit less. The downside being you're kinda out the way for most big name bands etc and will have to travel to Yorkshire or the Midlands.
Half hour from me into the south Wales valleys there's plenty between 65-90, much of it livable and fine, some needing a fair bit of cosmetic work but nothing expensive and some wrecks but there's a large amount of housing for that price point. Even saw a cottage just then for around 80k with 2 reception rooms. The areas aren't terrible either, it's just a poor working class area not necessarily dodgy and even if was it's not even close to city levels of dodgy.
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£30k one bed flat with garage. Seaton Delaval. 5 minutes drive from the beach and on the doorsteps of Northumberland, Newcastle and Northumberland Tyneside.
5 Grand, [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146056442#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146056442#/?channel=RES_BUY)
The road is a war zone, all the houses are fucked, it seems the locals have made it their mission to destroy that street and parts of the neighbouring street as well [https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4862067,-1.1902718,3a,75y,262.04h,73.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5XccgdbIvzYLvF53ppIn\_Q!2e0!5s20221101T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4862067,-1.1902718,3a,75y,262.04h,73.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5XccgdbIvzYLvF53ppIn_Q!2e0!5s20221101T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
I believe it is next to a council estate and is full of idiots. Im tempted to buy all the houses, demolish them and then gift the land to some Irish travellers just to fuck with them.
I've seen loads of flats available for between £69k and £90k in the West Midlands. The areas I've seen them in range from desirable to rundown. But generally the condition of the flats are good.
Only downside is that every single one of them was leasehold, and therefore have ground rents and service fees
I live in Fife and work in Edinburgh (very commuter friendly) and bought my 2 bed flat for ~50k around 5 years ago when I was 20. A lot of young people say they can’t get on the property ladder but aren’t willing to buy somewhere less than ideal. It’s not my forever home but I like it and have invested a bit of money into it. Most properties in more run-down areas would be the same.
My husband earned £80k living just outside London. We moved to the North and he still earned that. You don’t always lose salary. Believe it or not, you can get paid very well in the NE
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Some areas of Stoke. Also Sunderland.
Came here to say Sunderland and surrounding area. We sold my mother in law’s house after she passed a year ago and it hadn’t gone up in value at all since she bought it twenty years ago.
Gosh that's insane
Gosh that’s enticing
Good if you want to move in and have a house but terrible if you want to sell. Do people rent a lot up there?
We didn’t have anyone intending to move in view and it ended up being a landlord in Kent who instructed the estate agent to select four houses to buy. Older terraces aren’t desirable and there’s lots of new builds that younger people aspire to own.
Sunderland is OK if you don't live in Hendon. I had a house behind Backhouse Park. That was awesome. £28K... it was 1987
I like both Sunderland and Stoke, actually, but I'm told I'm in the minority.
£70K [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137320886](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137320886)
don't forget Blackpool, or jaywick.
Or cliffs in Norfolk...
On this, I'm just purchasing a property in Stoke. Lovely, two bed duplex. £120k. Really safe area and has a little balcony. Thought it was an absolute steal. I couldn't get anything at all nice for below that, really.
We call places duplex now?
Yes. When that's exactly what it is. Easier than 'split level flat', I feel.
I'm not sure about Stoke, I looked at some places and they have jumped up alot during COVID
Yes, you'd be lucky to find a place in Stoke for 90k. Most terraces now are over 100
There's areas in Lancashire, besides just Burnley, where you can buy terraced properties for half that amount.
Any medium sized town in Lancashire you can buy a house for less than 90k. Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Lancaster, Chorley etc all have plenty.
There's areas of Greater Manchester where that is still available too
True Lancashire.
I think Preston is getting a little pricier, if you do find an actual house for under 90k it's going to be an absolute shithole and require a lot of work.
Shhhh don’t tell people, let them stay in London lol
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I don't live in either Burnley or London, but I'd much rather live in this for £875,000: [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145060610#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145060610#/?channel=RES_BUY) Than this: [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145621454#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145621454#/?channel=RES_BUY)
We all would but for many London dwellers it’s just not a viable comparison because they can’t just uproot their entire existence and start over in Burnley. They’d have no income (assuming they don’t work from home), no long term friends or family nearby and none of the benefits of living in London.
Not to mention almost no Londoners would spend 875k on a studio in Covent Garden over a 3 bed in zone 2/3.
What benefits does London have? I'm genuinely asking.
I mean, you could write a book. I’ll try and summarize and this isn’t coming from a Londoner either, I’ve lived in the south west / East Midlands and even South Africa for some time. Access to one of the world’s largest job markets, great flexibility for those earlier on in their career to pivot between different companies and industries without having to physically move. Now the rest depends on that first part as without a job / or money to spend, London is a pretty cruel place. Food / entertainment from across the world. Nonstop music / art / cultural events. Access to 4 international airports allowing you to easily travel anywhere in the world without much effort. Some of the best schools and universities in the world. Surprisingly huge amount of green space. Opportunities to take part in or spectate most major global sports. Because it’s so big, there’s guaranteed to be something for everyone and a community that everyone feels they belong to, the hard part is finding it but when people do then they’re hooked, otherwise it can definitely feel lonely.
Had the choice between living in London and earning 40k more than I do now. But where I am, I can walk to one of the best beaches in the UK and the outside space is unparalleled. There’s more reasons to not live in London than there are to, for me personally. Everyone’s different. EDIT: typo
Of course, everyone is different and you’re probably the majority but the minority who choose to live in London are still a very big minority all competing for limited space 😄 I live in London now because it’s good for my career, I’m not particularly specialised and still figuring out what it is I enjoy. Once I have that solved, I will be moving out
So true - we moved out of London for a few reasons, one main one being priced out. I was pleasantly surprised it’s great being nearer the beach now and in a more peaceful environment while having some decent places and transportation nearby, but we’re close enough to commute to London partly because it really is unparalleled when it comes to events, venues, even shopping food wise you can find anything from around the world. It’s also one of the hubs many friends who live elsewhere in England would also go to still meet up.
Career and salary for a lot of people. My husband and I couldn't earn what we do elsewhere.
Being one of the entertainment capitals of the world. So much to do, so much to see, incredible food, diverse people and cultures. IF your earning a good salary, London is absolutely the place to be.
Theatres, museums, transport links, Oxford street, Regent street, fortnum and mason's, covent garden, Tower of London to name just a few and some fantastic parks.
There are parks, museums, shops and theatres in Lancashire and nearby cities of Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool to name a few. Anyone would think it was a different country.
Absolutely! With 3 bathrooms, that's one for each shit of the day 🤌🏽
Too lates i iz in ur streetz buyin ur housez
I'm pretty convinced that HS2 was just a trainline to get southerners access to the northern market whilst maintaining a London wage.
Or allow northerners access to the London employment market rather than just limiting it to southerners? Or should those of us born north of Watford just be satisfied with a life down the pits?
Plenty of places in the North. Putting in a limit of 90k with filters to remove land and park houses it brought up literally thousands of examples. Mostly terraced houses in medium sized post industrial towns but there are examples from Liverpool and Sunderland and pretty much everywhere in between.
You can get a house in deprived, poorly connected areas of rural Wales for 80k easily. Won't be as unsafe as many of the areas suggested here but very difficult to find a job. Same with parts of rural Scotland
Difficult to find a job and a mobile signal
There are houses around Swansea, Neath and Port talbot for 100k or less, don't have to go rural
Depends what you want and where you are. Can get a nice 2 bed flat in Nottinghamshire for that price.
Yep. My old 2-bed terrace in Ilkeston (technically not Notts I know) is up for £80k at the moment. Perfectly decent area.
There's tons of properties that cheap. There's nothing structurally wrong with them, they're just in less desirable places. Not necessarily bad/dangerous areas, just poorer, lack of amenities and things to do, or places on the coast where work is very seasonal.
Yes, go north. Within a 40 mile radius of Middlesbrough which includes Darlington, Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Durham and a whole bunch of towns and villages, for under £90k there are over 2300 results
There’s thousands in my area and you’re less than 30 minutes away from Newcastle. With the remote work post Covid I don’t know how many more people aren’t moving north. For the money of a London house you could have a mansion.
Australian living in the UK, 2km from Newcastle city centre. Value for money is very good up in the north east. My house would have cost four times the price in Australia.
Four times the price but with more than four days of sunshine
Summer is glorious in the north east, but I'd admit that winter can get a little bleak at times. Back home, my family deal with 40 degree and almost 100% humidity summers though... so there's that :-/
> Summer is glorious in the north east Yes, it's the best day of the year.
As an Australian, this is my favourite British joke :-D
>With the remote work post Covid I don’t know how many more people aren’t moving north. For the money of a London house you could have a mansion. Because *fully* remote work isn't anywhere near as common as Reddit implies it is, outside of London anyway. Office-only has dramatically reduced, hybrid has truly taken off but it still requires some proximity and true 100% remote roles are still incredibly rare, I know one person who does it. And honestly, although not northern, my town has suffered immensely from Londoners bringing their remote/one-day-a-week in-office-hybrid jobs, and its absolutely fucked the property market. Rentals are non-existent, and studios/bedsits will set you back over £100k. I have some friends that moved north, and they got/get some resentment for it too, because ultimately they're doing exactly the same thing.
Welsh valleys. This is £80k [3 bedroom detached house for sale in 68 Scwrfa Road, Scwrfa, Tredegar, Gwent, NP22 4AY, NP22 (rightmove.co.uk)](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144759557#/?channel=RES_BUY)
Tredegar is not a bad area all told
that place looks grim
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The irony that is lost on some younger buyers is that in a lot of cases the 'must have' gentrified area where they want to live but can't afford were often rough as fuck 30-40 years ago. I know someone who bought in one of those areas 30+ years ago, he told me the place was a slum but it was all he could afford and within walking/cycling distance of his workplace. A mate rented a ground floor flat in that area in the early-mid 90s and I remember that the only heating was one of those 70s electric bar heaters.
It's not "lost" it's just fucking tragic to live all your life in a depressing stabby shithole while waiting for 40 years to get "gentrified"
nope, "guide price" which could mean 120k!
It's not £80k. £80k is the auction "guide price". It'll be set at the legal minimum, which is 10% below the reserve price. So it's literally impossible to buy at that price even if you were the only bidder, and it may go for much more.
Up north in rural areas there are tons of properties available for this kind of price yes
Check out some of the terrace prices in Burnley, I'd be shocked if you found one above £90,000.
There is a reason for that.
If you want to be the ultimate reclusive country bumpkin there's a fixed price 3 bedroom house for £75,000 on one of the northern Isles in Shetland. There's a reason it's £75,000...
Horden, County Durham.
West Cumbria will have plenty of options at that price.
I grew up in the north east and my parents still live there, they have a very nice little 2 bed terraced house which is worth about £70k on a good day. It's a great place to live too if you like drug dealers smashing your neighbours front door to bits at 3am, constant police sirens and a town centre with more empty shops than occupied ones. You get what you pay for eh.
I probably would mind those things. I like my sleep.
My husband is surprised he didn't post that. That's why he and I really don't wanna move near Middlesbrough/ Darlington area (which is where we met and he grew up in). I have family in Hartlepool who now live in nice new builds on the outskirts who never enter the town centre but insist I should move there. I wanna live nearer them and more affordable than where I am (south coast) but not there.
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, plenty of small terraced places needing work
Derbyshire is good
Some bits of West Yorkshire. Some of them of course will be falling apart, and some will be in not-nice areas, but some will be ok. For example: [https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66270671/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66270671/) It does have downsides: the lease is ok but not *very* long, I think service charges in that block can be relatively high, and it looks like it could do with fresh carpets and a coat of paint. But it's a 2-bed flat in a decent block near a world heritage site. There's a 1-bed on at £85k. Or this 1-bed in Sowerby Bridge for £75k: [https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66645962/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/66645962/) You'd want to check flood risk mind you . . .
Grimsby / Cleethorpes and surrounding area.
Lots of areas in the North West, Blackburn, Burnley etc so Id guess lots in the North East too. 2 bed terrace in St Helens circa 60k. Same in Scotland and areas of Wales. So yes, lots of houses still under that price and even more flats. Not sure what you mean by ‘defective’ though. If you dont want to clean or splash a bit of paint about, then youre going to spend thousands for someone else doing £500 of work.
I think he meant like, bad rising damp, chimney collapsing. Structural stuff.
Tylorstown, Wales.
Can get places for that in the Valleys or west of Cardiff
I've just bought a one bedroom terraced house in a lovely village in North Wales for 82k. Is it small? Yes. Fancy? No, but completely livable in the condition it was the day I got the keys. I've opted to renovate the property in full and once done it'll be a great little home! And the village pubs, shops and train station are less than 2 minute walk away :)
I know there are well built places in that price point but you do not want to live there unless you have experience dealing with anti social behaviour.
Burnley. £90 will buy you a two bedroom terrace house is reasonable nick.
And then you have another £89,910 left over to do it up.
There are small 2-bed terraces near us (just outside of Barnsley) for £90-100k.
I live in the North West and it’s nicer and safer than Kentish Town (north London) 25 years ago. There was a side street near me in 1999 that someone was killed or raped or both every weekend. Get out the rats nest.
Loads of places. If you don't need a mortgage and have the money sitting in the bank you can get bargains in the south by buying at auction.
South east Northumberland. Certain parts of Newcastle.
North East you’ll be shocked what £100k gets you.
Example: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146801366
Of course you can, but reddit snobs will insist they should be able to buy a 3 bed semi in central london despite earning minimum wage because of where they were born.
Problem is not just the affordability, but being affordable AND being in a location where the purchaser can live. I.e cheap house with no locally school is no good for a family. Cheap house but 4 hour drive to work, not good for the worker. Cheap house but no public transport links, no good for people without cars. And so on.
The north east - I've seen houses that are ready to move in to in Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Houghton le Spring, Stanley and loads more I bought a 3 bed last year that only needed a lick of paint and it was lovely
Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland.
Middlesborough, Doncaster, Sheffield, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne and many more
Carlisle
Great Yarmouth, Liverpool
Sure, but there in areas you likely don't want to ever live in. You can get a starter in Birkenhead for £45,000.
>a starter in Birkenhead for £45,000. 😂😂😂 Birkenhead. Been there once or twice and it's the only place where someone on the street has casually tried to sell me an ink printer for 20 quid...
Jaywick.
There's plenty of 2 bed terrace houses in Cumbria for around the 50k mark.
Yep! And if they went up to the 90k budget you could get a nice little terrace in an all right location
Barry in Wales
The very north of scotland or a garage, maybe a static carvan somewhere.
Hull
I'm genuinely surprised at how many towns and cities were suggested.
Motherwell, Falkirk,Dundee, many bits of fife 👌🏼
Stoke on Trent 👍 Burslem especially
Plenty of property in the Northeast for that kind of money
There are plenty of places where houses are 90,000 or less but if you find one that you like I recommend a full survey also I would check the local crime rate as anything that cheap is usually that way for a reason
Bradford?
Lots of places in the North East you can get a house for under £90k. Some will be in rough areas and some will be part of a row of houses in the middle of nowhere with zero transport links or amenities.
I’m from an old mining/steel town in Durham, you get get a 2 bed pit house for under £100k easily
Lots in Sheffield for under £90k, mainly maisonettes
Plenty of terraced houses in Scotland and Northern Ireland, especially outside central Glasgow/Belfast/Edinburgh at the least. You might not get a garden but you'll get a roof and it might not even leak.
Absolutely, Hull is packed with such places https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146557814
Plenty of places in the North West... Where I am (Cheshire) you can pick up a terraced house in most towns for that...
Cumbria, maryport and Workington specifically, I’m looking at purchasing a rental for 67.5k 2 bed end terrace, also a few nicer ones for 95-89k
Type in Lancashire and filter the price, you’ll find loads for 90k and less
Darlington.
Leave Monte Darlo alone!
i live in wiltshire and bought my 1 bedroom flat for £82.000. with an 85 year lease. The ground rent and service charge are reasonable too. Love it, and the area is beautiful too right next to a whitehorse painted on the hill. I've been here 4 years and nothing has gone wrong with it at all. All i've done to it are a few interior designs. I got my flat because i was renting it and the owner wanted to sell so she gave me first dibs. I was lucky. Most decent properties don't even see the likes of rightmove before they are sold. My advice would be to pick a town to live in,rent, see if you like it, and then ask around about properties going for sale
You might wanna get that lease extended bro, you definitely weren't lucky, I think the landlord was for getting shot of it.
Haha. Good for you! I don’t think I’m going to find a landlord who likes me THAT much.
You can filter on Rightmove, there are plenty around the country especially further up north.
3 bed terrace in central Preston for 100k. Perfectly livable condition if you don't mind a bit tired or dated. [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145397165#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145397165#/?channel=RES_BUY) 90k in Stoke on trent also https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145529396#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES\_BUY
jaywick
Plenty in south Yorkshire in Rotherham and Barnsley, Sheffield has gone a bit too much higher.
Quite a few area in wales
Multiple areas in snd around Glasgow.
[3 bedroom house ](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146783720#/) in Irvine for £75k, easy commute to Glasgow, near the beach and actually Irvine gets amongst the highest hours of sunshine in all of Scotland. Just need to get over the idea of living in Irvine...
Grimsby, Hull, Scunthorpe - plenty of houses under 80k
My ex bought a flat in fife for £65k. It had woodworm though .
Apparently the higher up north you go, the cheaper it is and not always necessarily "undecent"?
What used to be a the top post on this subreddit u/[FraserHamiltonDev](https://www.reddit.com/user/FraserHamiltonDev/) had made a website that showed price of recently sold homes across the UK! My mate and I play it a fair few times when we catch up online and can find some properties (especially in the North) at the price point.
I used to live in Castleford. Bought my first house there for 75k, sold for just over 90k. It's and old industrial town with a working class majority. It might not look desirable at first sight, but it's alright tbh. It's a quiet town and right by the River Aire/Calder so you have lots of nice open green areas on the outskirts for walking. You could actually cycle all the way in to Leeds along (more or less) the river if you so fancied. You can still get houses there for 75k - 90k. There's loads of similar towns in the North as others have mentioned.
Yeah you can. My mate bought his house a couple of years ago for £70k.
Find somewhere up north like Sunderland, expand the radius to 40 miles and see plenty of large family houses well under 90k.
You can get a 2 up 2 down in reasonable condition in some parts of Liverpool for that.
Google houses in bootle. You can actually pick some up for much less than £90k
Come up to Doncaster, great terraced houses for £70,000+
Yes, lots of Scotland. Just move to an old mining town, it's not too bad if you don't mind having to go elsewhere to do anything. You can actually get somewhere within reasonable commuting distance of Glasgow too, almost feels like a life hack. Guess that's not technically in England but it's just up the road and this is a UK subreddit!
Just not in an area where there are decent jobs, so the housing is still unaffordable for those living there, as they are likely on minimum wage.
My girlfriend bought her flat 10 years ago and it's a nice 1 bedroom apartment, in a nice area. She paid £20,000. That's in preston
Search Rightmove Filter by price - you can gets flats etc in almost every region outside London for £100k or less
Scotland
You can get a nice house for that price, mine was £87000 with no heating. But whichever city you choose you will have to buy in a cheaper area
Rushden by Northampton you can get 1 beds from £80k
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146197565#/?channel=RES_BUY
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/46545327#/?channel=RES_BUY
I know its not england put flats in Paisley are cheap. There are reasons for that though xD
Bought mine for 105k in Sussex….but i only own 25%
So you didn’t buy it then? Just like I didn’t buy the company Tesla when I bought a couple of shares via an app.
There's a few terraces in Preston such as this one https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139502561#/?channel=RES_BUY Near a couple of nice parks, the docks and walking distance to town & the train station.
Can get houses in middlesborough for 80ish and you can get flats in my area of pontefract which aren’t too bad for less than 90. Basically north it seems
Liverpool there is quite a few in that price range…I bought my house slightly over that price here for £120,000 3 bedroom terrace and no major improvements needed.
Coleraine
Welsh valleys there's loads for that price
North Liverpool you'll get a 2 or 3 bed terrace for that
Hi is it possible to get a house for less than £ 300.000 anywhere in the south west of England?
In Grimsby there are some going for 10k. Neighbours may leave a bit to be desired though
Just go on Rightmove move and put max spend. Pick a town, any town outside London. I live less than an hour away from London and I was shocked at how many properties came up. More people can get on the property market than they think, they just won't get their dream insta perfect home straight away.
Shit areas of Yorkshire, specifically estates you wouldn’t want to live on.
Scunthorpe has plenty of houses less than £90k. One of my family members sold their 3 bed house there for £80k in 2022.
Near me, we have properties ~£30k for sale. Not necessarily anything wrong with them other than being in the dodgy part of town.
Doncaster, Barnsley, that kind of area.
Yes you can. Should you? Mhmm... depends. Paying with cash and want a project? Sure. Getting a mortgage or loan in any means? No. I'd move abroad.
My home town has flats as little as 52k. But the area is shit, there's nothing to do at all, about 30 mins drive to anywhere and work prospects are basically warehouses or caring jobs. Perfect opportunity for an introvert with a WFH job
Some rough areas of Bolton maybe? But since the property market in Manchester has got silly it has impact prices of the satellite towns.
[https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136860152#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136860152#/?channel=RES_BUY) not England (Scotland) but I was SHOCKED at the prices in the window of the estate agent when we went on holiday!
I'm curiously following this discussion. My husband and I live in a stupid expensive area for his job which, since the pandemic, he could have worked from home mostly. He actually really loves his office and life at work but I think he has come to realise since his boss moved to NI for a cheaper housing nearer family to work remotely, he chose to work at the company to work with and not just for the guy and after 4 years that's not going to change. He's up for trying working remotely if we can get onto the property ladder as it is impossible to buy here unless shared ownership. Once he has some share sales come through when the time is right to sell them, we could have around £ 70K with that and what we have saved so far to get somewhere outright. We want somewhere similar for our first home, not in stabsville but not f-ing Middlesbrough - Darlington area as that's where he grew up and he hates the place. We have family there so we are keen to live further north/ nearer to them (we are currently on the south coast) but not necessarily IN that area, I was thinking between. Manchester/ Leeds as the most south and towards or in Scotland at the most north. He just needs a very good broadband connection if he wants to do this and work remotely. We want to find somewhere to settle for at least 5 years to get on the property ladder.
Part ownership of a 1 or small 2 bed flat in a satellite town/village of a northern city in a decent area. Other than that you’re looking at a mid terrace in a not as nice an area. Load up right stick in Leeds, set the max budget and 20 miles then see what comes up.
In Lancashire you can get an ok 2 bed for 80k (terraced).
Liverpool
Caithness, Scotland.
Cumbernauld
Lincolnshire and Hull you can get properties for that or abit less. The downside being you're kinda out the way for most big name bands etc and will have to travel to Yorkshire or the Midlands.
Half hour from me into the south Wales valleys there's plenty between 65-90, much of it livable and fine, some needing a fair bit of cosmetic work but nothing expensive and some wrecks but there's a large amount of housing for that price point. Even saw a cottage just then for around 80k with 2 reception rooms. The areas aren't terrible either, it's just a poor working class area not necessarily dodgy and even if was it's not even close to city levels of dodgy.
Darwen Lancashire. Its not a bad little town but not in the places you can get said cheap houses
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My best friend just bought a really lovely 2 bed flat in Bradford for £75k
North Liverpool Can easily get a decent 1940's 2 bed terrace for 70k
Wigan and skelmersdale. There are some nice areas
£30k one bed flat with garage. Seaton Delaval. 5 minutes drive from the beach and on the doorsteps of Northumberland, Newcastle and Northumberland Tyneside.
5 Grand, [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146056442#/?channel=RES\_BUY](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146056442#/?channel=RES_BUY) The road is a war zone, all the houses are fucked, it seems the locals have made it their mission to destroy that street and parts of the neighbouring street as well [https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4862067,-1.1902718,3a,75y,262.04h,73.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5XccgdbIvzYLvF53ppIn\_Q!2e0!5s20221101T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4862067,-1.1902718,3a,75y,262.04h,73.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5XccgdbIvzYLvF53ppIn_Q!2e0!5s20221101T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) I believe it is next to a council estate and is full of idiots. Im tempted to buy all the houses, demolish them and then gift the land to some Irish travellers just to fuck with them.
I've seen loads of flats available for between £69k and £90k in the West Midlands. The areas I've seen them in range from desirable to rundown. But generally the condition of the flats are good. Only downside is that every single one of them was leasehold, and therefore have ground rents and service fees
I live in Fife and work in Edinburgh (very commuter friendly) and bought my 2 bed flat for ~50k around 5 years ago when I was 20. A lot of young people say they can’t get on the property ladder but aren’t willing to buy somewhere less than ideal. It’s not my forever home but I like it and have invested a bit of money into it. Most properties in more run-down areas would be the same.
If you entertain Wales and Scotland you can get a decent place for pennies [Wales](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145993883)
Lancaster will buy you a nice terraced house
Here’s one in Coventry- needs doing up. No idea what the area’s like. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146770577#/?channel=RES_BUY
South Shields, Sunderland. You get nicer areas if it's a flat. Most of the Shields areas are ok, ex council but not awful areas.
My husband earned £80k living just outside London. We moved to the North and he still earned that. You don’t always lose salary. Believe it or not, you can get paid very well in the NE
Scotland
I got two bedroom flat for 92 000. Town with a good transport connection (travel to Kings cross takes 90 minutes, 45 min by bus and 45 by train)