Affordable Housing

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Here's a decent 3 bed terrace in a nice enough area, within easy commute of Aberdeen and it's higher than average salaries......

Price?

£92K.

http://www.mortgageandproperty.co.uk/Property/Details.tpl?cart=12811011631619466&sku=108423

I rather suspect most regions of the country have their own equivalent of this, within a reasonable commute of major employment hubs, as indeed our FTB thread proved a few months ago.

Why is it all housing bears are afflicted with the "champagne taste on a beer budget" syndrome?

Davesnave

Sorry, mate, I could get a Park Home type thing at a push for £90k, but 3 beds here means at least £120k, and then it's ex-council.

Here's the cheapest 2 bed that's a real house, except it's shaped like a cheese triangle and, unfortunately, the agent hasn't a fancy wide angle lense like yours....

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26432272.html

Wages here are low, but the scenery's nice. Can't live on a view though, can you?

chris_m

ExploitationIsFun wrote: »

*Sigh*

When will people start understand that Scotland/North England/Central England/Farm areas DO NOT count as decent (or nice enough) areas to actually live a proper normal life in!

That does rather depend on your definition of a "proper normal life"

drc

a) Firstly, it doesn't look very nice and
b) Most people wouldn't want to live in Aberdeen anymore than they'd want to live in Azerbaijan so not really helpful in the real world.

Davesnave

drc wrote: »

a) Firstly, it doesn't look very nice and
b) Most people wouldn't want to live in Aberdeen anymore than they'd want to live in Azerbaijan so not really helpful in the real world.

I'm afraid I would prefer to live in Aberdeen rather than Azerbaijan, but I'll admit I had to think about it for a while!

phil_b_2

drc wrote: »

a) Firstly, it doesn't look very nice and
b) Most people wouldn't want to live in Aberdeen anymore than they'd want to live in Azerbaijan so not really helpful in the real world.

That seems to epitomize the bear mentality unfortunately... turning their nose up at a decent and cheap house because it doesnt look like buckingham palace . You guys will be waiting for those £80k 5 bed mansions until hell freezes over I'm afraid.

I thought the house looked like a good base. A bit of minimal decoration and it would be as well presented as anything else really. I know nothing about the area though.

FOURCANDLES_2

ExploitationIsFun wrote: »

*Sigh*

When will people start understand that Scotland/North England/Central England/Farm areas DO NOT count as decent (or nice enough) areas to actually live a proper normal life in!
They are cheap, tacky, rural and rundown areas and/or farm areas, and that is why they are so ridiculously cheap to live in!


In even just cheapish-average quality areas the cheapest you can get a 3bedroom house for is 500k ultimate min, and would find it very hard to find a nice 3bedroom house in the actual nice posh areas like here for under 800k.

Rural run down areas BARN CONVERSION 2BED DOWN THE ROAD FROM ME 850K
EX local authority 3 doors from me 190k RUN DOWN RURAL FARMING AREAS?? THE ONLY THING CHEAP BY US IS THE BIRDS CHEAP CHEAPING

Davesnave

FOURCANDLES wrote: »

Rural run down areas BARN CONVERSION 2BED DOWN THE ROAD FROM ME 850K
EX local authority 3 doors from me 190k RUN DOWN RURAL FARMING AREAS?? THE ONLY THING CHEAP BY US IS THE BIRDS CHEAP CHEAPING

Please warn me next time and I'll switch my hearing aid off.

PS. I think there was a clue in the username.

ess0two

ExploitationIsFun wrote: »

*Sigh*

When will people start understand that Scotland/North England/Central England/Farm areas DO NOT count as decent (or nice enough) areas to actually live a proper normal life in!
They are cheap, tacky, rural and rundown areas and/or farm areas, and that is why they are so ridiculously cheap to live in!


In even just cheapish-average quality areas the cheapest you can get a 3bedroom house for is 500k ultimate min, and would find it very hard to find a nice 3bedroom house in the actual nice posh areas like here for under 800k.

Welcome to London,in fact your're welcome to it.

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Here's a decent

Decent?

Looks like some kind of portacabin inside.

And the walls look really thin. Either that, or they are some seriously thick windows. The windows seem to stick out on the outside, and stick out on the inside...thats without a windowledge.

Leads me to wonder what on earth the walls are made of. As I said, it's like a caravan type window.

Edit: No recess for the doors either. So it IS caravan / portacabin material used.

Hardly my definition of decent!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Edit: No recess for the doors either. So it IS caravan / portacabin material used.
!

Wrong.

It's actually Ex MOD officer/family housing. These are not portacabins, they are proper construction houses, built in the 60's, and eligible for mortgages.

But.....

If you'd prefer something else, here's a detached stone built 3 bed nearby for 130K.

http://www-t.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/281340?ID=FMALADDC#picture

Or a flat in a period property for 50K..... Needs redecorating but perfectly livable.
http://www-t.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/282050?ID=FMALADDC#picture

Or an ex local authority traditional 3 bed terrace for 95K....

http://www-t.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/276203?ID=FMALADDC#picture


Or a recently renovated early 1900's traditional terrace for 120K.

http://www-t.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/281061?ID=FMALADDC#picture


Or a 4 bed semi for 140K......

http://www-t.aspc.co.uk/cgi-bin/public/LiveProperty/282457?ID=FMALADDC#picture

Point remains, nobody says you have to live in London or the South East, and once you get outside that small area, where only 20% of the population live, housing is perfectly affordable within a reasonable commute of most major cities in the UK.

Unless you have champagne taste on a beer budget.....:cool: