How much did your first house cost?
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SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Not sure as her indoors does all the financial stuff ...
about 34,500 > 35,500 in 2003. Bought off the Council & may need to sell before long & due to fiance's & fiancee's not finances.
Not sure I would get another mortgage now.
about 34,500 > 35,500 in 2003. Bought off the Council & may need to sell before long & due to fiance's & fiancee's not finances.
Not sure I would get another mortgage now.
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Midlothian Edinburgh
One bedroom semi in Derby, bought for £17k with a £16k mortgage in 1988, less than 6 months after leaving uni. Sold 5 years later for an £11k profit 
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
2 bed terrace in Narborough for £12,500 in 81 then split with fiancé but made £2000 each in 3yrs (so got the mortgage payments back)
GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
In 1976 a one bedroom flat in Bush Hill Park for £12,500. Which I knew then what I know now!
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
House I'm in now. £129000 in 2001. Welling was still known for its BNP connections back then so was cheaper than surrounding areas.
graham bowers
Guru
- Location
- NW Leicestershire
2 year ish old 3 bed terraced in Stockton on Tees, 1981, £12,595 if I remember correctly. Moved in on my 25th birthday!
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
I bought my first house for £18000 in an East Yorkshire village in the 80s. It was a shoebox and recently sold for £99,000, totally insane.
My last house in the UK was a 4 bedroom new build. I sold it less than a year after moving in for over twice what I paid for it.
My last house in the UK was a 4 bedroom new build. I sold it less than a year after moving in for over twice what I paid for it.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
£18K for my ex corparation house in a modest estate.
That was circa 1995. Still live there now.
Money in the bank month after month. Ive seen a good few do similar to me, but then remortgage and buy better houses...then lose them due to circumstances or overstretching.
We want safety...might not be a brilliant area but its just ok.
What its worth now is irrelevent. I cant ever realise the profit it has in it while I need somewhere to live.
That was circa 1995. Still live there now.
Money in the bank month after month. Ive seen a good few do similar to me, but then remortgage and buy better houses...then lose them due to circumstances or overstretching.
We want safety...might not be a brilliant area but its just ok.
What its worth now is irrelevent. I cant ever realise the profit it has in it while I need somewhere to live.
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1982 tiny two bed edwardian two up two down for £10500, I was earning £50 a week as a storekeeper at the time and had to raise a £500 deposit and take out a £10000 mortgage that had me paying back £114 a month. We sold it 15 years later for £35000, unfortunately we out grew the house.
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HertzvanRental
Veteran
1966. Originally went for new terraced house on an estate in Maidstone. These were £3750 but there were none left. Offered the cheapest semi for £3950 and remember many sleepless nights worrying about how I could afford the extra mortgage!!
I noticed that it had been sold again in May 2015 for £565,000. This for a small, Victorian, 3 bed. terraced house.Ha ha .....£21k in 1981 for me
