How much did your first house cost?

[Paulus]

I have just had to sell my Dad's maisonette that he bought for £2000.00 in 1958.

 

[Sara_H]

I bought my first house in 1998, tiny two up - two down terrace for £37000, 5% deposit.
Loved that little house. Sold it four years later as my family had tripled in size (from just me to me, husband and baby) and we were struggling to fit all our stuff in!
Sold it for double what I paid for it, which was handy for buying my current house.

 

[Illaveago]

Got married in 1976 and we bought a 1900s semi to do up, it was all we could afford at £7,900. The house didn't have central heating but had 2 coal fires. The walls were of wood and the house was full of woodworm. The mistake agent said that we would be able to do it up. Being young in our early twenties we believed him!
The first thing I did was to buy a saw and cut out the wooden walls, they were like aero, full of holes. The next thing was to get Rentokil in to treat the remaining wood. We were never bothered by flies for years, a bit strange as we lived next to 2 farms.
We struggled for several years before we managed to put the house right. As my wife says if we could have been given a bigger mortgage we could have bought a 2 bedroom masionnet and saved money whereas we ploughed money and effort in with little return.
I think we sold it in 1985 and bought a new house.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I noticed that it had been sold again in May 2015 for £565,000. This for a small, Victorian, 3 bed. terraced house.

I've noticed that the small two bedroom terraced like our first house we paid £10500 for are now going for £120000 - £150000

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I bought my first house in 1998, tiny two up - two down terrace for £37000, 5% deposit.
Loved that little house. Sold it four years later as my family had tripled in size (from just me to me, husband and baby) and we were struggling to fit all our stuff in!
Sold it for double what I paid for it, which was handy for buying my current house.

That was our problem, when we first brought the house there was just me and my Good Lady, by the time we sold it we had our two lads as well and needed somewhere with more room.

 

[Milkfloat]

3 Bed Semi in a slightly better part of Coventry than the norm. 1999 - £58K Sold it in 2004 for £125K

 

[robjh]

2 bed terrace in Narborough for £12,500 in 81 .........

Narborough Leicestershire (not Narborough Norfolk)?
Our first place was in Narborough (Leics), bought at the end of 1987 for £32800. It was a terrace with 2 main bedrooms + a micro-bedroom carved out of the old bathroom. Prices were rocketing at that time and the neighbours thought we'd paid too much.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

3 Bed Semi in a slightly better part of Coventry than the norm. 1999 - £58K Sold it in 2004 for £125K

Our first two houses were in Earlsdon

 

[Milkfloat]

Our first two houses were in Earlsdon

Cheylesmore for me.

 

[perplexed]

I think it was about £22,000 for a two bed terrace, back end of the 80s...

 

[ACS]

About 15 years ago, £68k + a bottle of malt for 3 bed semi in NE Fife. Still living in it.

The malt for the fridge / freezer and the curtains.

 

[PK99]

£14,000
2 bed modern estate house
Whitehaven
1979

 

[GrumpyGregry]

21.5k got you a single bedroom flat in the pretty seedy district of Kemptown in Brighton in 1985. Hip and trendy it was not.

Times have changed.

 

[Mrs M]

1987, I bought a top floor one bedroom flat in a conservation area. Cost me £19800. Didn't have central heating and came complete with a chocolate brown bathroom suite.
It had amazing views out to sea and over the city.

 

[Mrs M]

Oops, flat was in Aberdeen.
Very close to Pittodrie so I always knew the score by the noise and singing.