Average house prices?

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Hi H&H ERS,

I have not posted for a little while but have been lurking about the forum.

Have read a few posts lately regarding the supposed weath of forum users. So as honestly as you can - and nobodys obliged to tell us the price of the property you live in. Or if you dont own your own property, there is a box for that too.

Just want to get to the bottom of are you a toff or not [lol] I read that post recently . But lets be honest- its not as cut and dry as that is it?
 
Our house was bought 2 years ago for just over £265,000... we've done some work on it and reckon it's currently worth in the region of £360,000. With more work done on landscaping the gardens (this year's project) and redoing the bathroom we reckon it'll be worth in the region of £420,000.

Edited to say- I'm in Cornwall and house prices in small villages are rocketing
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What the house is worth NOW and what it cost to buy are 2 major factors in polls like this!

My property is worth well over your top figure - and it is a only a 4 bed, 1 bath period detached property with a small garden.
 
We bought our house in 2001 & paid 140k for it, it is now worth about 240k, we havn't done much to it apart from decorating. Its a 3 bed detatched, on an estate, on the edge of a large town. Its in an ok area but not where I want to be forever. We will move when we can afford to buy our 4 bed detatched with enough acres to keep my ponio at home with us
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House prices here are rising very steeply. A 2 bed flat is now well over £200,000 and yet 6 years ago we bought our old farm house with 7 acres for just over £350,000 and it is now worth somewhere around 2.5 times that, lovely thought but we have to live somewhere and we just love it here although the house can be eccentric.
 
LOL house prices round here are ridiculous too, you can't even buy a flat around here now for 140k
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and I know that our house prices are not anywhere near as high as in other areas
 
Yes, that is what I am looking to do know. Yes it is so that house prices rise but there is also a correlation between what you paid and what they are worth now. It is relative as wealth is. The cost of living has risen now. Maybe I should do a post- By what percentage has the house you own increased in value by? I am looking at equestrian property at the moment - that is ideal home.[lol]
 
My ideal home will only be up the road in the village where I keep Cropi now. Its a really beautiful village, you would think that you are in the depths of the country yet you are only 10 mins from town. The hacking is amazing too, I just need an extra half and million and I'd be sorted
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We bought ours 6 years ago and paid £70k for it have been paying extra chunks off our mortgage as and when we can and our last mortgage report said we had £59k to still pay off. However house has just been valued at £140k.
would have loved to be able to tick the 251k+ and home paid for boxes though!
 
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Yes, that is what I am looking to do know. Yes it is so that house prices rise but there is also a correlation between what you paid and what they are worth now. It is relative as wealth is. The cost of living has risen now. Maybe I should do a post- By what percentage has the house you own increased in value by? I am looking at equestrian property at the moment - that is ideal home.[lol]

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The thing is tho, £251k is NOTHING for a property anymore. Equestrian properties, well the one I am looking to buy, and it only has 1.5 acres, is £795k. There is another for sale locally that has 3 acres, but that is £950k.
 
Around here £251k won't get much of a house, and there is nothing under £100k, even the mobile homes are more than that!

No way I could afford to buy my house now and we only bought in 2002, it's gone up by over £100k in that time.
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We purchased our home for a song though it was a significant gamble at the time. Nobody wanted it because aof a crack. What I saw was the potential to extend and create space within the original floor plan area, it is worth around £275-300K when finished. However, as my lecturer always told me it doesn't matter what it's worth it only matters what you owe on it - based on that my last mortgage payment is set for my 40th birthday
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Toff, nah I am scum, but I'm good scum lol
 
We own our farm outright and have no outstanding debts anywhere in the world.

When we sold our property in Hampshire it sold for significantly more than your top figure. Where I lived, you couldn't really pick up a little cottage for anything like as low as £250K and that was a few years ago.....dread to think what the costs are nowadays.
 
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Around here £251k won't get much of a house, and there is nothing under £100k, even the mobile homes are more than that!

No way I could afford to buy my house now and we only bought in 2002, it's gone up by over £100k in that time.
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SNAP!!
 
Please dont read anything into the top figure given - because its the top figure I am not speculating that this is a large amount of money for a home. I simply underestimated my tick boxes [lol] how dumb is that.

Thats why I live in a trailer - I am dumb, blonde, white trash [lol]



Only joking
 
Yes that is definitely a flaw in the Poll set-up....I've had that happen too......not enough boxes so the poll doesn't go the way I had hoped; or too many that I have to fill them up with drivel, LOL!!
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Yes

I think to do the polls properly we would have to be very studious, sit down with a pen, pencil, paper and ruler and concentrate, but that would take all the fun out of being on the forum and we would be very, very serious individuals indeed. Not that Im not serious and boring. Just sipping my hot cup of tea now and about to put curlers in my hair before I go off to sleep - its past nine now YAWN
 
Just up the road from us they are selling 6 building plots - the prices range from £250,000 to £325,000 just for the plot
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WEve got a 4 bed detached house with a huge landscaped garden, lots of off road parking and gorgeous views. It was valued just under 2 years ago at over £225k but found out that a house just down the road from us is up for sale at £250k - its a little 3 bed, with no garden and half the size of our house. Would love to get the valuers in again. Were wanting to move and buy a place with land but the prices are out of this world
 
The cheapest house on the market where I live is a 1 bedroom flat which is almost a studio flat for £149,950. Otherwise a 2 up 2 down without garden or parking is about £250k
 
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For the plot??? Where on earth is that

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Unbelievable isn't it? They are good size plots - the biggest is 0.8 acre and is for sale at £325,000, the smallest is 0.3 acre and is for sale at £250,000. There will be an access road and services but that is it - you have to build a house!!!! We have a 4 bedrooms detached, with 4-stable block, annexe, 5 acres of post & rail paddocks, bridleway... wonder what it makes ours worth???
 
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