What Did You Pay For Your 1st Property?

[The Modfather]

£33k - 1 bed flat off Ditchling Road in either, 1992 or '93

 

[tinycowboy]

£103k for a 2 bedroom maisonette in Kennington in 1998. Ten years earlier, it had cost £25k.

 

[clapham_gull]

£103k for a 2 bedroom maisonette in Kennington in 1998. Ten years earlier, it had cost £25k.

Quite. There was a huge leap last few years of the 90s.

I'd imagine that was worth 150 a couple of years later.

I should have bought a couple of years earlier really.

 

[cloud]

£52,000 for a flat in West Kensington, in 1992

 

[Hyperion]

£25,000. What a rip off

 

[Return of the Rev]

£18,500 one bed balcony flat first av hove,if i could of raised another £1500 could have bought a two bed 1981

 

[jimbob5]

10 million for a 5 bed mews home in Kensington with money Boris Yelskin had accidentally given to me which I need to spend before he sobered up.

 

[Weststander]

48k flat in Seaford in 1987

remember looking at a house in East St,Seaford a little earlier wanted 38k thought it was too much

this is a bit like the game show Pointless,lowest wins!

£43,000, also in 1987, for a smallish one bedroom flat in Kamptown, Brighton. At the time, larger flats in the area were going for £55,000.

Followed by the house price slump of 1990 to 1994 with millions in negative equity and/or repossessed.

 

[Garage_Doors]

16k for a flat in central Brighton in 1985

 

[cliveh27]

19K for a one bedroom flat in Dyke Road in 1983.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

£10,500 for new det bungalow in Mile Oak. 1976. Struggled to get the £1050 10% deposit!

 

[Chicken Run]

£48000 2 bed semi bungalow in Thornhill Avenue, Patcham in 1994

 

[Blue3]

1980 £15000 two bedroom terraced house Lewes road

 

[mooey]

138 000 preston park 1 bed 2006

 

[Triggaaar]

This is a cheery thread for those struggling to buy their first home

 

[Hiney]

£30,000 2 bed house in Andover 1983

 

[moggy]

£78,000 for 3 bed in Southwick 1998

 

[rudolf hucker]

£16k for house in Grange Road off Portland Rd 1980 I think.

Just bought a car for twice that price. Incredible really.

 

[Rogero]

£10200 for a 3 bedroom house in Balfour Road in 1976", the mortgage rate was 14 percent. That house is probably worth more now than the one I am in now.

 

[Dan Aitch]

£85k in 1996. Now worth about £450-500k.