What Did You Pay For Your 1st Property?

[Biscuit Barrel]

41K. 2 bed flat in Hove in 1998. £2000 deposit that took 2 months to save up!!!

 

[FamilyGuy]

£6170 for a brand new 3 bedroom, centrally heated, mid terrace in Stevenage in 1971.

Sold it for £9900 in 1976 and moved to Crawley and paid £10,500 for a nice 3 bed semi detached, now sitting on a pile "valued" at about £550k

 

[smiler]

£7500 2 bed maisonette Robertson Road a lot of money at the time

 

[somerset]

£17000 basement flat Goldstone Rd, sold it for double in under two years.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

3 bed bungalow in Southwick 100k,sold for 250k 6 years later ,bought 3 bed bungalow in Worthing for 225 k.

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Old Kent Road when I was a lad, only £60 but I guess it doesn't count because only Monopoly money

 

[doogie004]

38,880 in 1995 for three bed house in wisborough green still here now valued about £250,000

 

[Bob!]

£18k, 2 bed flat in St Reatham, 1982

 

[Official Old Man]

First purchased home was whilst in Majorca. 1989 bought a 3 bed apartment for £25000 at an interest rate of 15%. Sold it in 1997 for £40000 to return home. The housing boom of 2000 saw it shoot up to £110000. Wish I'd kept it as didn't really need to sell it.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

in 1977, £9750 for a one bedroom maisonette in North Baddesley just outside Southampton

I can remember that, in the early 1960's, my parents paid about £3,250 (certainly less that £4,000) for a nice 3-bedroom 1930's semi in a nice bit of Worthing - Broomfield Avenue, near Thomas a'Becket.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

£18k, 2 bed flat in St Reatham, 1982

Where is St Reatham? Is it near St Albans?

I didn't know there was a saint called Reatham.

 

[Greavsey]

£120k 2 bed flat on The Drive in 2003. Spent £10k doing it up and sold it for £170k 18 months later!

Now in a £900k five bed house 3 renovations later...

 

[Cian]

£105,000 and one the same is currently being advertised (but patently won't get) £193,000. If it goes for anything close to that I'll be on to the bank to ask for an under 50% value mortgage rate as I didn't borrow the full amount and it was a few years ago.

 

[Grombleton]

2 bed end of terrace on the Priory Meadow estate in Littlehampton/Wick (the nice part).

2011. £147,000.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Where is St Reatham? Is it near St Albans?

I didn't know there was a saint called Reatham.

Look on the map, not near Por St Lade

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Look on the map, not near Por St Lade

Is that in France? Sounds French.

 

[Silk]

£27,000!

This was a one-bed flat in a seaside town, in about 1993.

 

[Norman Potting]

£20K mid terrace victorian property in Rusthall in 1984, needed a lot of work done to it before occupying so probably another £20ish accounted for. Through the wonders of 192.com I am reminded that I sold it for £45,500 in Nov. '95 and that subseqeuently it has sold for £117K in July 2002 and £133K in November of the following year.

 

[Bognor Bystander]

£32,500 for new two bed mid-terrace in Chichester in 1986

 

[Bad Ash]

£195k in 2006 in Swindon. I've effectively bought the same place 3 times now! First with a friend, then with an ex (who wasn't an ex at the time, that'd be weird) and then finally on my own. Just before the crash, so probably worth a very similar amount now, possibly up to a 5% increase in value.