How much is your rent?

Money_maker

aggypanthus wrote: »

My first bedsit in 1980 cost me £8 ,cant remember if it was weekly or monthly.

Can anyone remember rents so far back?

My first bedsit in 1986 was £26. Perhaps mine was monthly and yours weekly? Mine was in Eastbourne.

Candy53

My first bedsit in 1975 was £8 per week, but that was nearly half of my wages! I was in full time work and earned £18 per week.


Candy

cooltt

Cardiff city centre 2 bed £500. Cardiff got loads of new empty apartments so greedy land lords cant rip you off .

gingergee

3 bed semi, two houses in own grounds, quite large inside, 80m * 90m garden, parking on exmoor in tiny village where average house price to buy is £400-750k costs me £300 pm. And i have to pay £6 pm as im in a parish? Don't quite get that bit, but love my home with a passion, even if i am 10-15 mins from nearest main road and shops etc!!! X

kjp

£695 per month for a 3 bed/2 bath (1 ensuite large double, one small double, one single) winter let with 1 allocated parking space in west Cornwall, ground floor flat with small decking area and fully furnished. 7 other flats, all holiday lets so infrequent neighbours. 5 mins downhill to the beach. Miss that place! Round here, 500-550 will get you a small newishbuild 1 bed flat, occasionally with parking, places bigger rarely come up.

lika_86

£953 a month for an ensuite room in a shared house just outside Zone 1 London

TopQuark

celyn90 wrote: »

That's beautiful; must be amazing to wake up to that every day

*makes mental note to send CV to ETH*

Better to send it to EPFL as that is about 20 mins drive to the left in the picture and they have a more impressive view of the Alps! And there is always CERN too :D

abankerbutnotafatcat

englishrose19 wrote: »

I'm not from Portsmouth, moved here for uni, but it's a lovely place to live (especially Southsea & the seafront!)

Glad you like it, I think a lot of students stay in the area after graduating. I'm from Pompey although I grew up 'off island'. I left to go to Uni in London 20 years ago so visit almost with the eyes of a tourist and it has visibly changed for the better so much. Gun Wharf is obviously the jewel in the crown but when I do that seafront millennium walk from GWQ to Southsea I'm so ridiculously proud as it's got world class historic sites particularly in the Sallyport/round tower areas. I think it's really under-rated as there are Brits who would do a walk like that in some foreign town and be gushing but would probably laugh if you suggested visiting unfashionable Portsmouth. Add the historic dockyard, Portchester castle, the D-Day museum etc etc to the equation and it has a lot to offer the visitor.

I wouldn't live in Summerstown either but I'm extremely glad to hear it's enjoying a bit of regeneration. Southsea and Old Portsmouth are probably the only places on the island I would live but I would LOVE to live in either, unfortunately work for me is in London and that's a commute too far!!

Seems wrong to write so much about Portsmouth without acknowledging yesterday's historic achievement in the high court in London. PUP

M_AJS

Im in the West Midlands we were paying £700 a month for a 3 bed. We have just moved to another 3 bed and its £600 per month.

Reue

£695 for a small ground floor flat in a village just outside of Reading.