House prices around the UK

missbiggles1

SailorSam wrote: »

You buy a house as a home to live in. I can't see the point of having to work so many hours having to pay for it that you're having less life now. Just so that you'll be able to say in 25yrs i'll make a bigger profit.

It's little different from paying a decent chunk of your earnings into a pension, with the bonus of living somewhere pleasant as well.

ukcarper

20 miles from Guildford http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34249710.html

Bart1

I'm looking to buy in Lowestoft Suffolk...... Budget of £80G which will buy me a 2/3 bed terrace

WeAreGhosts

I'd give Rotherham a wide berth.

The east coast of Yorkshire is relatively cheap. Scarborough, Whitby, Bridlington. Nice scenery on the coast and inland on the Yorkshire Moors and Wolds.

System

hcb42 wrote: »

Of all the places in the UK, why did you pick Rotherham? :P

I didn't 'choose' Rotherham.....it's just that I was browsing Taylor Wimpey's website and saw that mansion for a ridiculously low price compared to around here.

Those house £184,000 and £210,000 in Rotherham would cost at least £650,000 around the Guildford area.

The prices make it enticing. I mean look at those houses - they are very nice.

I have no idea what Rotherham is like - hence why I asked.

Sounds like it's bad - for whatever reasons.

To be honest - I'd rather pay the prices for those mansions in Rotherham, than the houses people have linked to in Coventry and Liverpool.....to be frank most of those houses look nasty. And I'm not sure Liverpool and Coventry are much better (if at all) than Rotherham?

Just looked - top 10 'crap towns' on Google - Coventry = 7th....

though I'm not surely how seriously I can take that list.

ManuelG

dburford9 wrote: »

Just looked - top 10 'crap towns' on Google - Coventry = 7th....

Honoured

All cities have good and bad areas... much as London, in fact (which seems to magnify it!). Was kind of relieved the office of the company I joined was in a decent area of London, as I just set up within walking distance. Now imagine if that had been one of the classier bits...

Depends what you want from a place tbh. As mentioned above by someone, houses are usually cheap for a reason, but it's finding those areas that are actually decent within the flotsam and jetsam that will get you the 'bargain'.

ukcarper

dburford9 wrote: »

I didn't 'choose' Rotherham.....it's just that I was browsing Taylor Wimpey's website and saw that mansion for a ridiculously low price compared to around here.

Those house £184,000 and £210,000 in Rotherham would cost at least £650,000 around the Guildford area.

The prices make it enticing. I mean look at those houses - they are very nice.

I have no idea what Rotherham is like - hence why I asked.

Sounds like it's bad - for whatever reasons.

To be honest - I'd rather pay the prices for those mansions in Rotherham, than the houses people have linked to in Coventry and Liverpool.....to be frank most of those houses look nasty. And I'm not sure Liverpool and Coventry are much better (if at all) than Rotherham?

Just looked - top 10 'crap towns' on Google - Coventry = 7th....

though I'm not surely how seriously I can take that list.

In Guildford Borough
https://www.taylorwimpey.co.uk/find-your-home/england/surrey/guildford/tongham-copse

Kat88

Absolutely nothing wrong with Rotherham. Good and bad everywhere and plenty of nice places in Rotherham, not far from city of Sheffield and commutable to Leeds/Manchester. I have to say being from the South originally and having many friends who have bought houses down there (including one in Guildford) i can't understand the house prices and why people buy there. Having moved to Yorkshire I can purchase a house in a nice area that I can actually afford, rather than a 1 bed flat and it allows me to grow into it. Access to the countryside and Peak District coupled with slightly cheaper house prices, personally I wouldn't chose anywhere else.

System

I googled murder rates too....

ok...

South Yorkshire (where Rotherham is) is the 2nd worst area in England/Wales for getting murdered.

Maybe I don't want to buy a mansion in Rotherham for £183,000 as I might get shot.

sebadee

I am in the same position as you. I am tech worker and I work from home, so as long as my internet is good, then all is good for work. The only other thing is that I occasionally need to travel to the airport (Heathrow) or London (less, but every now and then).

We went west. There was no way we could afford to stay in Surrey. I am on a pretty good wage, yet we were well priced out. We could have gone silly and borrowed a lot of money, but we wanted to stick to the budget we have of 200 to 230k max as I won't get lulled into borrowing more then we are comfortable with, so we stress tested ourselves first. 250k would have got us a low par ex council house in a not so good area where I am now. Now that might sound a bit snobby, but I want to live somewhere nice to bring up my kids.

We eventually settled on just outside Chippenham. You have some beautiful countryside, really good schools and I can hit the M4 and get to the airport in just over an hour. Another little overlooked fact with down that way - train line electrication making trains into London paddington a lot quicker and more comfortable (hitachi bullet trains).

This is the cheapest 3 bed in the area where I currently rent. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52463705.html - by no means a bad house, but I can't bring myself to pay 290k for that, especially when I don't have to. That house has gone up by 130k in nine years.

The only bummer is my kid will need to be pulled out of school, but he will get over it pretty quick.