| Posted by IIVQ |
8/28/2005 9:07 PM | remove |
cheapy!
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| Posted by tgsongs |
1/19/2006 3:56 AM | remove |
Good god, that costs nearly as much as my victorian home here in the states. What the heck?! Looks like that needs plenty more restoration than my house did.. not to mention it's about half the size of mine.
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
1/19/2006 9:16 PM | remove |
Britain is a crowded island, remember, in comparison to the U.S. and, as such, property is far more highly priced. Average price for a 3 bedroom house here is about £150,000 (roughly $300,000). Tough for young couples trying to buy their first home.
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| Posted by tgsongs |
1/20/2006 3:08 AM | remove |
That's totally outrageous. We built a house about 8 years ago which was 6,500 sq. feet sitting on 8 acres and we sold it for 350k. Full walk-out basement, three floors, full granite counter tops in the kitchen with custom cabinets. Plus a custom bar built in the basement. We should have airlifted the property to britain and dropped it on 32 houses, then sold it.
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| Posted by wooble |
1/22/2006 1:55 AM | remove |
The house I live in about 20 miles from London is a standard 4 bedroom family house on a street of identical houses built in the early 80s. It's architecturally uninspiring, has no land (unless you consider a 15-foot garden 'land'), no basement, and it's not going to win any interior design prizes. It's within earshot of a busy motorway, and will require underpinning within 5 years due to subsidence. It's valued at £300,000 (about $530,000) dad bought an a 3-bed simply because of it's location. Less than 5 miles away you could double the price if you threw in another 15 feet of garden and a 2-car garage. In central London, that price would get you an average 1-bedroom apartment, maybe a shabby 2-bed if you go for a bad area. Prices are absolutely through the roof, because land is such a valuable commodity.
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| Posted by wooble |
1/22/2006 1:59 AM | remove |
I dunno where that "dad bought a 3-bed" came from, I think I accidentally pasted it from something I was posting elsewhere! ignore it and the sentence makes more sense!
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| Posted by lost |
1/22/2006 3:27 PM | remove |
Bahaha, I'm glad I live nowhere near London. You can buy perfectly reasonable two-bedroom accommodation around here for £15,000, it's rising though...
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
1/23/2006 8:54 AM | remove |
TGR - You gotta realise, when you build a house here, you can't build it out of wood and chewing gum like you can in N.America.
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| Posted by cdp181 |
4/20/2006 3:02 PM | remove |
Land is about 70% of the price of new build UK homes afaik.
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