You're missing out on exclusive weekly videos (and the controversy over how I tiered British food...sorry, Yorkshires are the best!) if you haven't checked me out on Patreon! www.patreon.com/girlgonelondon
Maybe you should look at what else is nearby. Durham is relatively expensive, as are places like York. But you can get pretty decent places near to national parks and large cities which are decent for your budget. Try looking at some of the Pennine towns for example, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds are not too far away; and three of the National Parks are not to far away to travel to for the outdoors. Plus major rail and airport links.
You are aware that foreign investors buy up properties as a safe bet. Lots of London properties are just investment. People also have second and third homes, common in Norfolk and west country. Pricing out locals. Been a pain for years.
In Norfolk the second homes are usually located up on the north coast - it's really beautiful so now priced out by Londoners. But I bought a good 2 bed house in central Norfolk for £150 k - it's very reasonable .
In most countries the government stops foreigners from buying lots of property because it stops local people from being able to afford anything. That isn't the case here for some reason.
EVERYTHING is about location. York is on the main railway line between London and Edinburgh with regular fast trains to both (and Leeds and Newcastle). Lots of period houses and generally a very nice city to live in. All of this means VERY expensive house prices but even then, further away from the town centre/ railway station you are prepared to go, the more you get for your money.
Mostly true check the price in a house in Sunderland vs a house less than 2 hours from London and it proves it one move 3 bed terrace 55k on the outskirts of Sunderland vs 3 bed mid terrace in say colchester 320k
@@RK-zf1jm I'd still say this is location, as proximity to London increases the price. If you look in the southwest, you can get some pretty cheap houses in some parts
Bungalows are generally more expensive as they have greater land space. Adverts must be realistic so no enhancement of the sky etc. Staged houses on new build estates are usually the Show Homes which have 3/4 size beds and smaller furniture to make a house look bigger.
I mean, the new builds clearly had enhancements to the sky and as she said... They're marketed well to look nice. You can tell by the rest of the colours in the pictures and clearly look photoshopped. I think this is the difference between estate agents marketing new & existing builds.
the apartment building is 1960s- very much a council house style (but not exclusively). Usually quite poorly built with little insulation etc! Almost everyone hates this style but it has become more popular as mid-century chic!
What do you mean poorly built? These properties are usually in much better condition than 80's and early 90's places, thats one of the reasons they are sort after. Their insulation was no worse than anything built earlier and is generally very easy to upgrade, if it hasn't been done already. Also they're popular due to the fact that you can fit furniture other than the bed in the bedrooms, unlike most stuff built in the last 25 years. Chic has nothing to do with it!
@@duckwhistle your experience is clearly different to mine! I agree with you that anything built since is probably rubbish too, smaller and certainly as ugly. Oh and yes, if they've been upgraded insulation wise then that is different. I just know that in the big house building period after the war quantity was often more important than quality. The one I lived in was shocking! I wouldn't touch a modern house with a barge pole.
I'm a Durham boy, born and bred so I'm a bit biased. I love the north east. You could look at Northumberland too. On the question of getting home, there are regular flights from Newcastle to Heathrow and Dublin for connecting flights to the US. Also as I'm sure you know but I'll say for any Americans reading this - a 'back yard' in England is a small, paved area at the back of a house that we kind of associate with old back-to-back houses. It has no grass. Anything with grass we refer to as the garden. The front garden and the back garden.
I'm in Harrogate, North Yorkshire - apart from the fact we are proportionally expensive for Yorkshire. I would consider south something further down than Sheffield :-)
You missed Cornwall and Devon. We are the south too. We are always missed 🤣 I looked and it varies greatly depending on the town or city in the SW but you can expect everything from £300k getting you a 2 bed flat in Truro to a 3 bed mid/end terrace in Plymouth. There were also a few 4 and 5 bed properties I saw on there but these were the most common.
With new builds in the UK you really must check the room sizes. As they have been getting increasingly smaller in recent years. So they can market houses with an additional bedroom for a higher price.
Correct. My 60s semi has a 24ft x 11.7ft living room and have two sets of sofas yet the new builds just down the road from me which are double the price I paid nine years ago for mine have only tiny rooms where you can only fit in one sofa.
@@stuartfitch7093 That's crazy! Even your 24x11.7 ft living room is considered fairly small here in the US for example. Your living room is about as small as they come here. Most are closer to 28x22 ft in the US. So those new builds are only really good for a single person to live in it sounds like. There's no way you would have room for family members. Has there been any out cry in the UK about these new builds being so small? Are they even selling well with such small room sizes maybe I should ask? I get land is a premium in the UK. But there has to be a limit at some point. It has to be single people that mostly buy them I imagine.
Definitely. We're stuck in a 1970s 2-bed flat as it's hard to find a 3 bed in our price range that isn't smaller than we already have. No point having an extra bedroom if the rooms are tiny and the downstairs living space is also smaller than our current kitchen and lounge/diner 😭
@@waycoolscootaloo No, they're advertised as family houses and plenty of families do live in them. When I was house hunting in 2019 I had almost resigned myself to having to get a house with tiny rooms, thankfully we came across a 1970s house with rooms much bigger than all the new builds we looked at.
@@jillhobson6128 LOL! How would you not want a room of 22 x 28? That gives everyone personal space to breathe. Getting into smaller living rooms makes it hard to have family gatherings and such. It's not even healthy to be piled into too tight of a space. A bigger central room like that makes it easy to have your Christmas tree up and have everyone gathered around the tree. It also makes it nice for 4th of July parties. It also makes it so people don't invade personal space. Smaller living spaces are known for causing more tension between family members. The average family size in the US is typically 3 to 4 people. As far as heating goes, it's not that bad to heat. Most homes have good insulation and double-paned windows that are vacuumed sealed. And US homes all have central natural gas heat. As long as you stay away from things like electric portable space heaters, it's not too expensive. We keep our 2,300 sq.ft. home here in the US at 67°F in the winter. My Family room is 12 x 18 ft. And then my living room is actually 13 x 23.4 ft. Now Keep in mind the 22 x 28 ft living rooms are usually only in the larger homes here. Or if the house has only a living room but no family room. My house has both rooms. So there again limited to 12 x 18 ft and 13 x 23.4 ft for the two rooms. Now If I were to knock out a wall and connect the two... Hello, gigantic living room size of 25 x 41.4 ft. 😈 But I shouldn't have really said his living room is really that small. It isn't if he has one main living space. But it's small when most US homes have two rooms that work out kind of like what I have for 25 x 41.4 for general living space when both rooms are combined. 🙂
I live in Durham! The closer to the City Centre you get the higher the house prices, part of the City is UNESCO World Heritage site. Peterlee is not too far from Durham, but I would rather have a smaller house in Durham than one in Peterlee (trying to be tactful!)!!! I hope you enjoyed visiting beautiful Durham.
The flat with the white exterior in Marlow was probably built 60s/70s where architects had no imagination. However, you may get more room in that age flat.
4 bedroom actually means 2 bedroom and 2 closets. The other thing estate agents don’t do in the UK is switch on the lighting. Especially in this climate.
Some parts of the SE, inside the M25 or just outside, £300K would not even buy a terraced garage let alone a flat or house. Bungalows are always dearer than houses with a similar number of bedrooms as they occupy a larger plot. A 5 bed Bungalow with all rooms on ground floor, that is not a dormer or Dutch type is hard to find anywhere under £400K, unless a repossessed or executor sale and been empty for decades needing extensive renovation. If one does not mind a bit of hard work and remodelling/rebuilding then a property auction is the place to go.
It's not just the larger plot, it's supply and demand. A lot of older people like bungalows because they struggle with stairs. Developers rarely build bungalows because they can make more money with houses, so in some areas bungalows are really scarce.
Whilst this is a UK vs US channel I found it hilarious that you looked at the house the same way my sisters were looking, checking out the carpet, noticing bread rolls etc... But the first thing me and my dad always did was... Open up the floorplan, check the slope of the roof and generally ignore what it looked like. Different ways of looking from the genders not the country :)
My dad scouts out plug sockets. Less than 3 double plug sockets per room and no sockets in the hallway (up and downstairs landing) and it was an instant 'no'.
I think it's less about gender and more about preferences and experience. I always look at floorplans and watch for anything I've not liked in previous properties, like sloping ceilings, small kitchens and issues with the property.
Older houses are generally bigger. Modern houses are like sardine cans, looked at a 3 bedroom house for my daughter. The smallest room would just about take a babies cot and maybe a bedside set of draws my grandson bought a 3 bed house terraced again small group of boxes
When selling your home in the UK, you have to be careful that you don’t misrepresent your property. If so you and/or the estate agent could be sued for mis-representation by the new owner.
I am always genuinely impressed by the photographic skills of estate agents, who seem to make a chicken coop look like a mansion, its all real but creative photography rules - of course the camera can't lie can it? The best are the new house developers who build 7/8ths replicas and fit them out with creative but dinky furniture and fittings. It also never amazes me how dumb new house buyers are. Getting the punters to the plot often means they have arrived with their rose tinted glasses on.
@@ninagill1407 Plenty of jobs if you're qualified/have a good CV. I moved to South Wales 20 years ago & have spent a week out of employment. Not so much local work up in the valleys, but a lot of my colleagues commute down into Cardiff & some move down too. It does rain all the time though. I'll give you that 😂
I live in the south of England (Suffolk) but my daughter lives near Scunthorpe in north Lincolnshire. When visiting her a few years ago my wife (who loves window-shopping for houses) noticed just how cheap property there was compared to here. Houses in Scunthorpe were about a third of the price of similar properties near where I live.
Have a look at Middlesbrough, or a posher neighbourhood in the area of Yarm. One of my neighbours homes is 4 bedroom, massive extension, massive garden that looks out onto the back of a school field - £200,000. And it's in one of the nicer areas, too. For £300,000 you'd probably be looking mainly at new builds or the more upper class areas of the town.
Yarm is nice. I went out with a lass that lived in a 'new build' rabbit hutch Killinghall Grove, Stockton... Aweful house... Turn a switch on any where in the house and you heard it anywhere else in the house.
@@sahhull Love Yarm! Depends on the new build really. I bought a 50s house, been nothing but problems. Previously owners had done it up nice, but underneath they'd done a crap job. My sister's lived in a new build by Taylor Wimpey, had no problems whatsoever. 5 'snags' that they fixed within a week of her noticing them (usually small things like a scuff on the door handle when she moved in). My dad refuses to do any drilling in the walls though, say's they're too thin to hold anything up. She's now moving to a bigger new build, she doesn't want the hassle of having to do anything, which suits her just fine. So, I think a lot of the time it depends on who you buy from, the location, and for Gods sake never buy from Persimmon.
I live in Cambridge :( and all the places you looked at are actually villages around Cambridge. If you look at the city you'd be looking at more money for even less. Most people who work in cambs commute in as its so pricey. So it's not a fair comparison with Marlow.
Unfortunately there's no way of checking the focal length of the lens used for the photographs but I think it can be safely assumed that they're normally taken with a fairly wide-angle lens to fit the whole room in, which has the effect of making the rooms look bigger than they actually are. Just as an example, take a close look at the shot of the bathroom at 04:39 and notice how stretched the toilet cistern and the wash basin are. Given a fairly standard basin width of 23" and a cistern width of 16" with a fairly small gap between them of maybe 6", the total width of those two items is less than 4ft. With that information you can quickly calculate that the total depth of the room is on the order of 7'6" but from the photo it could easily be 8-9 feet! The style of flats you were looking at at 09:10 were very popular as local authority builds back in the late '60s to late '70s. Unfortunately, the picture in picture of you was obscuring a lot of the shots you were looking at. I know you can get guarantees with new-builds but you don't get the space. In the semi-detached house at 15:13, for example, you'll probably find the rooms are generally a bit bigger and the ceilings will be higher but possible of more importance, all the walls, including the internal ones, will be brick throughout and not dry-lined.
Hi Ray, You can check the focal length of the lens used in a picture by copying the image and loading it into an Exif data reader. It usually shows the relevant data re lens, shutter speeed, ISO, camera model etc, etc. I make a living doing architectural and interiors photos for residential and commercial agents and I do it quite often when looking at competitors images. 👍🏻 An easier method to check a room size is to count to tiles on the walls or floors (prior to my career change into property photography I was a chartered surveyor!) and it has helped me out many times in the past when site record photos have not turned out well.
We have a saying in England....location,location location....but working from home could rocket the northern prices...buy now . And the roads aren’t jammed up in the north..
Cambridge is an extremely pricey location for property, good employment and the many colleges. A maisonette is a flat/apartment with its own front door, no shared communal entrance. New build brochures use CGI to create realistic looking external and internal impressions, but what you see isn't real, the bricks and sky wont ever look like this.
@9:19, that is quite a common build. My 1970 built block of maisonettes (a dwelling on two levels that is NOT a house) and flats in SE London has a similar look. However, the asking price for mine was £80,000 more.
When you said "Great, we've got a yard" (about the end terrace house in Cambridge) that wasn't a yard - that was a lane between two 'ends', if you see what I mean. I haven't seen yet whether they do indeed have a yard but that wasn't it.
Re does the sofa come with the house? No. Only things attached to the house are included like a fitted kitchen, fitted carpets, etc. Anything else would cost extra if the sellers are willing to sell them.
Here's a one for you, the lower end of the market probably has even more contrast. Mid terrace ex-council house (try explaining that to an American, my ex could never quite grasp the concept) 3 bedroom, 40 foot or so by about 15 foot back garden, with street access so it could double as parking. Paved parking area at front. On auction, starting price £61K and to be clear it's in a reasonably quiet residential area. 15 minutes bus trip into the city along the "river road"
Great video idea - I do believe that this is the first reaction video that I've seen comparing house prices! Some of the details of what you were looking at might need some explaining for other viewers. Listings that have "Guide Price" usually indicate the property is to be sold at auction for that minimum price. Auction properties often have structural, financial, and/or legal difficulties attached to them. Some very cheap properties could be built using concrete prefab techniques - these are towards the end of their useful life-span and often require total rebuilding in brick. Councils in Liverpool - and other areas - promoted selling houses for £1 each! Each house needed upwards of £100k to make it habitable, plus additional social contracts attached to them.
We were taken on a school trip to Peterlee, to show us what a post-war new town looks like. Will be very 1970s and suspect will not have aged well. House prices are what they are for a reason, whereever.
@DRIVING AROUND THE UK derby is clown town have you not seen all the big shoes with the flaps open very disturbing I'm glad I live 15 miles up the a 52 in a proper city
If you look at Scotland, most everywhere outside of the Central Belt (GlasgowEdinburgh) is pretty cheap. You'll certainly get a lot of bang for your buck. Some Edinburgh or Glasgow properties aren't really much different in price to parts of the South East. Aberdeen used to be expensive during the oil boom, but that's levelled out a bit now. It's really "location, location, location" and most of that is down to commuter access or city centres. If you're not bothered by either, you can practically get a castle if you look hard enough.
It's amazing how a few miles can make a difference but even on the edge of the central belt prices are going up - even where it's a poor community like where I live (in Alloa). You can easily ignore the rundown scheme next to your four bedroom executive pile, it seems! My friend has a farm a few miles out of town and there's a luxury 'villlage' of about ten houses around an old castle, which is mostly holiday homes, no one lives there. Yet poorer people are stuck with huge rents because they can't afford to buy and it's hard to get a council house.I think around here, though, the problem is not so much the house prices, because people in Edinburgh or Glasgow would think them cheap, as the income levels to pay for them. I don't know how people in Edinburgh manage if they work in a shop, the rent must be extortionate. Although it's all relative, £300000 would certainly get you a decent house here but how anyone can afford that is beyond me.
New developments are usually a huge disappointment when you actually view them in person rather than online. Wide angle lenses are used to make rooms look larger. Garages if provided are too small to fit a car in. Parking space if any is often one space only, two if you are lucky and have small cars. This of course leads to onstreet parking. Roads are often block paved rather than tarmac surface which indicates that they are not adopted by the local council. This can mean that residents are jointly liable for any maintenance. There maybe "management" charges to maintain any recreational/garden spaces which are not controlled and can increase dramatically. Beware that some might be leasehold rather than freehold, although I think there are moves afoot to outlaw this.
In general somewhere in the Midlands locates you in days travel from anywhere in England and Wales. As well as Derby area try looking at Nottingham area. Back in the last century Nottingham was the best place for a night out, which is still valid, with night clubs theatres concert hall and excellent shopping. The pub "trip to Jerusalem" which is built into a cave under the castle and is full of atmosphere, dates back to the crusades in the 12th Century. Like many cities, the best places are just out of town.
I rent a student house in Greater London and the last time it sold it went for 850k which is insane. Multiple houses on the road have recently sold for around 1 mil.
Somewhere like Newcastle..lovely city and so close to the Coast and Northumberland countryside. Also short journey to great cities like Edinburgh or York.
Hiya. You're going to have your work cut out finding brick-built houses in America, 84% of them are made of wood. But I must admit, there ARE some VERY nice and HUUUUGE American 'sheds' available for far less than $425,000. LOL. Maybe there will be brick at the higher end. Stay safe. All the best to you.
I'm in Welwyn Garden City. My house is a 3 bedroom. end-of-terrace, end plot. Small rooms and a small detached garage. This is NOT in the best part of town. Fifteen minute walk to the statrion, 5 minute walk to a very good parade of local shops, restaurants and takeaways. Several semi-decent pubs within 5 minutes too, including The Pub Called "The First Post" in ""The World's End, but that's not a great pub, avoid. The going rate is about £550k, which is absoutely insane. And houses are currently actually selling for this much money.
I bought my place (a two bedroom ground floor maisonette) in the London/Kent area for £308,000. Friends of mine remarked on how cheap I got it for. It is a leasehold (999 years!) A word of warning, some new builds have service charges (especially flats) a lot of people buy them and get caught out when the service charges get increased.
Derby area is nice especially smaller towns and villages to north of Derby city. You would be on the edge of the Peak District national park with super views and places to explore. Not that far from north Wales either. We moved south to Kent to be near family now we are older and can only afford a 2bed flat for around £200,000, plus quite high service charges. Buy a whole house and you own everything, no land owner to pay fees to.
Here in Edinburgh the modern builds are more functional at about £300k but depressing as you say. Classic 200+ year old apartments are lovely but £400-600k+. Also new builds somehow show rendered pictures of interiors that aren't fully built or equipped yet.
Location makes a crazy difference, paid £167,000 3yrs ago for a 3bed semi with off road parking for 4 in the midlands. Outskirts of a small town so within walking distance of a train station, pubs, shops etc.
in the 1980si worked as a service engineer around Peterborough and at that time Londoners were moving in and at that time they were selling small townhouses and buying a three-bed bungalow in rural locations for the same price + money to furnish it.
Be careful with some exceptionally low prices. You may only get a part share and the rest is owned by an investment company....often when costed not a good deal. Also Durham or Peterlee are in the top "right hand corner" of the country and if you want to travel, everywhere is a long way away. In the Southeast is similar, we have to get past London to get anywhere.
Hi, I live in Marlow and my fairly bijou house is valued on Zoopla at over £1,000,000! It is mostly to do with the local schools as Marlow has an excellent grammar school, plus a very good secondary modern school. So if your offspring pass the 11+ exam (which is exclusive to certain counties) then they can go to the grammar school and if they don't the local secondary modern is still a good choice! I originally moved here 40 odd years ago and both my kids went to the grammar and now one of my grandsons goes to the same school and the other goes to the secondary modern. It is also a very pretty town, with the River Thames running through.
Versions of my house exist all over the country (early 1900's terraced houses with bay windows, originally with an outside toilet so they're 2 or 3 beds depending on where the bathroom went, downstairs off the kitchen and they're 3 beds, upstairs bathroom and they're two). Sure there are slight variations and the way they're done up makes a bit of difference but essentially they're exactly the same. My house is £450k(ish), just 3 miles away further towards the centre of London it's £750k (Greenwich) and a bit further in (Deptford) they're more like £800k for exactly the same house, move to Liverpool and the same house is £140k. I'm sure you can find exactly the same house for under £100k somewhere else.
Generally the North West and East Midlands are reckoned to be the cheapest areas -hence the properties in Derby and Mansfield look very good value. Basically, anywhere on the M62 axis is likely to be a good choice. Liverpool to Manchester and Manchester to Leeds are just 30 mile hops along the motorway and directly linked by rail. All three cities have international airports and direct rail links to London, and getting in and out of any of those cities by road or public transport from surrounding areas is very easy. You could live close to the sea in North Wales, the Wirral or Fylde Coast and find the climate as mild as down South.
Marlow is my hometown..... Its incredibly desirable due to its schools (very good primary and 2 secondary schools one of which is a grammar school) and location (on the river Thames, close to the Chilterns, sitting inbetween two big motorways, close enough to commute into London etc), plus its shops and restaurants, and demand is always high which pushes up the price. ( it's A small town with not much new housing stock so supply is low too.) The white coloured style of flat you looked at are ex council houses if I remember correctly... They sit next to a school. By the looks of it some of the houses you were looking at in marlow are the ones youd usually see for rent...
you can get more for your money in the South East, you picked some particularly expensive areas, Cambridge and Buckinghamshire, which are prime commuter areas
I live in derby 😍. and last year (sept 2020) I literally bought a house for £300,000. So exactly the area you featured in this video I got a four bedroom semi detached house. Downstairs there's a living room, a second room,. (which we use as a playroom) a downstairs loo, hallway, large kitchen which extends into a second seated area with wall mounted tv. Conservatory. Upstairs, we have four bedrooms one with an ensuite with shower and loo. Also upstairs a family bathroom and an airing cupboard (for blankets, towels etc.) and a loft. The garden is very large about as "long" as that terraced garden but is actually wider than it is long. We purchased in an area the fetches some of the higher prices in derby. Needless to say I find it difficult to understand why anyone decides to settle in London when you get so much more for your money elsewhere.
My 4 bed semi detached house with south west facing large garden 400m from the beach on Tyneside was £165k. And I love it. I work all over the country and in my experience most places are much like everywhere else. Whilst it generally is a bit colder up north, if you buy on the East of the penines you are going to experience significantly less rain.
You have to consider the community you are moving into as well as the house and if you are moving out of the region you know then ask yourself why Peterlee and its surrounding area has the cheapest houses. The North East of England is a wonderful place to live with excellent facilities around the Durham and Newcastle areas, friendly people and good communities. Also within easy reach of the beautiful countryside and coastline.
Good stuff. And I LOVED the running commentary. But as to whether you'd like Peterlee in County Durham.....well, check out the town on the interwebby thing.
Just heard a podcast from JPM about the US housing boom. House prices rising at 10%pa with historically low mortgage rates of 3% fixed for 30 years, average house price $365,000 only 2.6X household disposable income. UK housing is very expensive vs US.
House prices in Scotland are a little different, as they are generally priced at Offers Over . Still , 4 years ago we bought our 4 bedroom home , large front and back garden , driveway and garage for £122,000 . ( priced at Offers Over £115,000 ) . Just outside Glasgow 🏴👍
You want to check out Leeds in Yorkshire. Good house prices. Upcoming city. Some lovley rural areas. I bought my 1st house 11 years ago. 2 bedrooms 4 floors. For 83 thousand. But my mum lives in a village outside of Leeds. That's about 300 thousand. That's got 3 bedrooms a massive back garden and a garage too. And it has got access to some ace walks in the countryside too.
I grew up in the North West but moved south for work. After being made redundant I moved back to the North West. The 2 bed flat I was living in was worth £210k. I bought a 3 bed end terrace house just outside the Peak District for £179k.
That building in Little Marlow was definitely 1950s/60s design You should try further north I bought my 3 bedroom semi for £120k Also remember "guide price" isn't always what the building sells for
I brought an end terrace house in a suburb of Cardiff about 10 years ago for £120k. Three bedrooms & a study. Large garden. That wouldn't even buy me a broom cupboard in or around London. £300k would buy you something pretty substantial or something in a cosmopolitan area of the city. Just been looking at prices around my area. Gone up quite a bit. Looking at around £200k for something comparable now. So glad I brought when I did. Should have the mortgage paid off in about six years, so before I'm 50. Just a pity there's not room to build an extension, though I could convert the attic & add a conservatory on the back.
Number of rooms is a poor metric. The floor plan is more telling. I would rather have a spacious two bedroom home in a good area than many tiny rooms somewhere sketchy.
I’m usually wary of new build property in the UK. There isn’t much spare land in the UK, so often new houses are in: + a small pocket of land developed by one of the neighbours. Or + built in the flood plain of a river. In London I saw two new houses built over a river. Where I live some houses are being demolished to make way for a new house, these are good because they are in an established residential area and built to modern standards.
Moved north 2 years ago to the ribble valley , we bought a new build the exact same house in the south was over double 4 bed detached 300k in the north 600k in the south.
Things to consider , Petersen crime rates are a lot worse than other areas , hence the house prices, it is generally a lot cheaper in the north , however th enclose you are to major town centers the more expensive it is. Also a new build will cost you a lot more rather than a house 10 years old, for example where i live in the North of Scotland a 4 be detached house could cost you 220’000 the equivalent new build would cost you 260 to 280’000
Scotland, Yes. Try looking in/around Glasgow/Edinburgh, but also a little further north. Wales, Definitely! Some quite big differences between the North/South/Mid. Still in England though, check out anywhere around the Midlands. All the joy of not paying London prices, but still very central location with great transport links. Oh, and if you want to check out some really pretty places, take a look in the Cotswalds. Though pretty often comes with a price!
I'm paying the same for a 2 bedroom flat with parking, a swimming pool and gym 20 mins from Central Sydney for the same price as a room in a house share in London zone 4, which also had mice and a landlord that did nothing about it... the prices to buy in Sydney are high but compared to London are much less. I think its fair to say I don't miss London!
Not only are the houses cheaper in the north, but things like dentists, hairdressers and plumbers can also be way cheaper. The hairdressers I go to change £5 for men for example. Ok, you can pay way more if you want but is there anywhere you know that charges so little.
That’s good price! 4 bed End terraces in South Bucks would easily exceed £400k unless you were in more unsavory parts of Wycombe or more likely Aylesbury
I live in West Yorkshire in a small ex-mill town in a nice area. The houses in my neighbourhood were built in the 30s. That means thick walls (not as thick as Victoria cottages, but thick! Ask my other half when he's had to drill through them!), nice big gardens (or 'yard' in American parlance) and attics which can be converted into rooms, usually with en suites. The prices in my neighbourhood vary from £200k upward to one house being £1.3m. They are all different, and comprise semi detached, bungalows (with huuuuge long front gardens!!! And many of these have had big dormers built on top), detached, cottages etc. It all depends on neighbourhood, town, etc. One of the sites (I forget which!), is great for looking at different neighbourhoods and lists the type of people (careers etc), crime stats, public transport links, and all manner of really useful information. It's a good place to visit before you think of buying as it's info that is generally quite important to people. North Yorkshire is gorgeous, but lots of it is pretty pricey. Same with The Lake District. Very, very, very pricey! South Yorkshire - depends where you go. Cheshire can be a bit above average, in certain areas, I believe. All of those places are North. Derby is Midlands. Durham is definitely North. And it has a cathedral. But I've lived in my house for decades. Not moving ever. Do enjoy looking around other people's homes, though. Online, I mean!
Basically England is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with a net migration of 350,000 a year so the shortage of land plus shortage of housing forces the price high...
If you want to view the backyard of a house and there are no photos available, why not go to the satellite view on google earth or google maps. You should be able to see the dimensions of the property and also any thing that the estate agents have photoshopped out of the photographs that you have seen of the outside of the property. Things that spring to mind are missing roofing tiles or slates, overgrown ivy on the walls or trees that are overhanging the property. Also what’s on the far side of the back hedge, a friend looked at a house that had a very attractive price, but when he did a satellite view he found a graveyard and crematorium beyond the hedge.
Even in the North which is generally cheaper there is a huge difference in house prices, depending on area. I live in a small town in between Manchester and Liverpool. I own my ex-local authority house and there are several estates with exactly the same house dotted around the town. I would say the value of my house is around £30k less than in other parts of town. I know someone with a very similar home to mine in an expensive part of Sheffield and that house is worth almost three times as mine.
depends where you are, Scotland isn't that cheap in places. Edinburgh house prices can match London....but we are a smaller city. (how ever the central belt is pretty much one city now.)
If you do look at Scotland, you need to be aware, prices are often offers over £££. Rather than England where the price is usually a starting point to negotiate downwards. Also an offer to buy is normally binding.
Of course a crazy system in Scotland. Offers over though doesn't always mean that, I bought my flat in Scotland, offers over £49,000 but I paid £45,000. If there is only 1 buyer they are still taking an offer, and there will be in the middle of nowhere or even a small town, because there is not the amount of buyers apart from Glasgow/Edinburgh. The problem is is that I found surveyors were reluctant to price it as high as its value. For example my estate agent said £99,950, my first surveyor (the seller pays for a home report) wouldn't go over £90,000 (he said £85,000 originally). I said you know what you can do and got another surveyor and wouldn't sign off on it. If I had said £90,000 for me I wouldn't have got £87,500 which is what I got. Only 1 buyer in a year, so that is not good for the seller. Fact is sellers getting home reports are pointless, the seller pays £500, and the seller can say remove this and that or change this or that from the report. So in essence, if the buyer wants an impartial report he pays another £500. It needs changing and fast. Of course no gazumping, so that is good. But not likely anyhow.
Other countries of the UK I think Wales was a country last time I checked or has something changed since I have moved away? Btw no probs here you can find a three bedroom house in some of the beautiful countryside anywhere in the world! No yards in the UK we have gardens. When in Rome etc.
I live in Derbyshire and we are in the centre of the UK. We are only an hour from London on the train so it's really easily accessible, vice versa for North. The weather isn't too bad here either because we aren't North 😊 so you get the best of both.
Mmmm depends on where in Derbyshire you are - I guess Hannah lives near to Derby - I am in the High Peak and it is a wee bit cooler (and higher) and wetter and further from London... But a lovely place to live.
1:10 i have loved looking at houses from the age of like 13, i am now 17 and that passion is still going strong lmao. I even love looking at show homes !
That style is a derivative of a Span house a modern style developed in the 40s by Lyons, original ones are valuable as design classics. Local authorities copied lots of Span designs in their council houses as did regular house builders.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I had a 999 (-50) year lease and it had a £10 per year service charge so essentially nothing. The problem is that when I came to sell I needed permission and a fee of £1254 from the freeholders who only had a PO box which they checked once every few months and this almost runied my sale because the buyers could not wait this long. Moral of the story is thay a long lease and minimal service charge does not mean that it is safe.
All flats are leaseholds, not much use owning just half your roof. You may have a share in the freehold with all the other flat owners in the building. Leasehold was also used when home ownership became more common for ordinary working people and the historic owners of huge chunks of the country made land available, especially the Church of England. They're the 999 years for a pound a year arrangements. Nothing's as safe & simple as freehold, but there's also "chancellery".
Leasehold fees are disgusting. £125 a month and Thats just for four flats sharing a communal entrance (no lift), and communal garden. I wish I had bought a house. This is in the Northeast of England. The property management company is literally ripping our eyes out. Can't tell me it costs £500 a month to insure our building, light the hallway and mow the grass. There are three other blocks that all pay the same. Robbery.
In 2010, I bought a two-bedroom semi for £95,000, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Manchester. With a conservatory, and front and back gardens (admittedly, small). Thing is, in Manchester, we don't have many Russian/Saudi billionaires buying up property. A tad colder, but the people are nice. So, we're fine.
Hi. Liking your videos. Honestly London is crazy expensive. Come to Scotland. I have a 3 bedroomed bungalow, in the Scottish Borders, 2 bathrooms, 2 public rooms, dining kitchen, garage 4 car driveway, large garden. Built in the 1970s and cost me 3 years ago £125,000 Had to redecorate due to it having previously been owner by an elderly couple but I would no doubt redecorate to suit my tastes anyway. I shudder to think how much that would cost down south. Much much more than I could ever afford that's for sure
The cheapest average houses are Northern Ireland followed by Scotland followed by Wales followed by England, but the very cheapest houses in the country I think would be found in Wales or Scotland. Definitely worth investigating; maybe you could get a lovely detatched mansion in the Scottish highlands or the Welsh valleys.
You're missing out on exclusive weekly videos (and the controversy over how I tiered British food...sorry, Yorkshires are the best!) if you haven't checked me out on Patreon! www.patreon.com/girlgonelondon
House hunting in Scotland, are we getting this?
It's illegal in UK to misrepresent what your selling 👍
Maybe you should look at what else is nearby. Durham is relatively expensive, as are places like York. But you can get pretty decent places near to national parks and large cities which are decent for your budget. Try looking at some of the Pennine towns for example, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds are not too far away; and three of the National Parks are not to far away to travel to for the outdoors. Plus major rail and airport links.
You are aware that foreign investors buy up properties as a safe bet. Lots of London properties are just investment. People also have second and third homes, common in Norfolk and west country. Pricing out locals. Been a pain for years.
Its corrupt and should not be allowed,
It’s capitalism......it shouldn’t be allowed ; )
Deplorable. Cornwall is awful for this too. Simon Reeve’s documentary on it last year was incredible
In Norfolk the second homes are usually located up on the north coast - it's really beautiful so now priced out by Londoners. But I bought a good 2 bed house in central Norfolk for £150 k - it's very reasonable .
In most countries the government stops foreigners from buying lots of property because it stops local people from being able to afford anything. That isn't the case here for some reason.
EVERYTHING is about location. York is on the main railway line between London and Edinburgh with regular fast trains to both (and Leeds and Newcastle). Lots of period houses and generally a very nice city to live in. All of this means VERY expensive house prices but even then, further away from the town centre/ railway station you are prepared to go, the more you get for your money.
Mostly true check the price in a house in Sunderland vs a house less than 2 hours from London and it proves it one move 3 bed terrace 55k on the outskirts of Sunderland vs 3 bed mid terrace in say colchester 320k
@@RK-zf1jm And Colchester is comparatively cheap (at least for the SE - I live there).
Not so. MUch location now as where can You afford
@@RK-zf1jm I'd still say this is location, as proximity to London increases the price. If you look in the southwest, you can get some pretty cheap houses in some parts
York is beautiful. And if you like history - well - 1200 years do you?
Bungalows are generally more expensive as they have greater land space.
Adverts must be realistic so no enhancement of the sky etc.
Staged houses on new build estates are usually the Show Homes which have 3/4 size beds and smaller furniture to make a house look bigger.
And often no internal doors!
I mean, the new builds clearly had enhancements to the sky and as she said... They're marketed well to look nice. You can tell by the rest of the colours in the pictures and clearly look photoshopped.
I think this is the difference between estate agents marketing new & existing builds.
And often show houses have no doors to make rooms seem bigger
Bungalows are also in bigger demand as its easier for older people to live in them and there are very few of them built.
the apartment building is 1960s- very much a council house style (but not exclusively). Usually quite poorly built with little insulation etc! Almost everyone hates this style but it has become more popular as mid-century chic!
What do you mean poorly built? These properties are usually in much better condition than 80's and early 90's places, thats one of the reasons they are sort after.
Their insulation was no worse than anything built earlier and is generally very easy to upgrade, if it hasn't been done already.
Also they're popular due to the fact that you can fit furniture other than the bed in the bedrooms, unlike most stuff built in the last 25 years.
Chic has nothing to do with it!
@@duckwhistle your experience is clearly different to mine! I agree with you that anything built since is probably rubbish too, smaller and certainly as ugly. Oh and yes, if they've been upgraded insulation wise then that is different. I just know that in the big house building period after the war quantity was often more important than quality. The one I lived in was shocking! I wouldn't touch a modern house with a barge pole.
For Chic, read cheap, as usually plenty of work required...!!
I'm a Durham boy, born and bred so I'm a bit biased. I love the north east. You could look at Northumberland too. On the question of getting home, there are regular flights from Newcastle to Heathrow and Dublin for connecting flights to the US. Also as I'm sure you know but I'll say for any Americans reading this - a 'back yard' in England is a small, paved area at the back of a house that we kind of associate with old back-to-back houses. It has no grass. Anything with grass we refer to as the garden. The front garden and the back garden.
Derby is the Midlands not the north!!
When I lived on the south coast I thought Watford was the border between north and south 😀
Derby is clown town
I'm in Harrogate, North Yorkshire - apart from the fact we are proportionally expensive for Yorkshire. I would consider south something further down than Sheffield :-)
@@marksmithinspirationalspea3836Still not the North bonny lad
North Midlands 😅
You missed Cornwall and Devon. We are the south too. We are always missed 🤣 I looked and it varies greatly depending on the town or city in the SW but you can expect everything from £300k getting you a 2 bed flat in Truro to a 3 bed mid/end terrace in Plymouth. There were also a few 4 and 5 bed properties I saw on there but these were the most common.
You started with Cambridge which is one of the most expensive places outside London. It’s not typical of the area price wise.
Also Durham city itself is one of the most expensive places in the north of England.
The ones seen in Cambridge, around 7/8 miles from Cambridge
The term bungalow is derived from the Gujarati bangalo (meaning "Bengali") and used elliptically to mean "a house in the Bengal style".
My father who was a master builder from a family of builders for 200 years said it came from builders slang " bung a low roof on."
@@jacquiemoppett2391 Totally - easy adoption into the English language there... ;)
With new builds in the UK you really must check the room sizes. As they have been getting increasingly smaller in recent years. So they can market houses with an additional bedroom for a higher price.
Correct. My 60s semi has a 24ft x 11.7ft living room and have two sets of sofas yet the new builds just down the road from me which are double the price I paid nine years ago for mine have only tiny rooms where you can only fit in one sofa.
@@stuartfitch7093 That's crazy! Even your 24x11.7 ft living room is considered fairly small here in the US for example. Your living room is about as small as they come here. Most are closer to 28x22 ft in the US.
So those new builds are only really good for a single person to live in it sounds like. There's no way you would have room for family members.
Has there been any out cry in the UK about these new builds being so small? Are they even selling well with such small room sizes maybe I should ask? I get land is a premium in the UK. But there has to be a limit at some point. It has to be single people that mostly buy them I imagine.
Definitely. We're stuck in a 1970s 2-bed flat as it's hard to find a 3 bed in our price range that isn't smaller than we already have. No point having an extra bedroom if the rooms are tiny and the downstairs living space is also smaller than our current kitchen and lounge/diner 😭
@@waycoolscootaloo No, they're advertised as family houses and plenty of families do live in them. When I was house hunting in 2019 I had almost resigned myself to having to get a house with tiny rooms, thankfully we came across a 1970s house with rooms much bigger than all the new builds we looked at.
@@jillhobson6128 LOL! How would you not want a room of 22 x 28? That gives everyone personal space to breathe. Getting into smaller living rooms makes it hard to have family gatherings and such.
It's not even healthy to be piled into too tight of a space. A bigger central room like that makes it easy to have your Christmas tree up and have everyone gathered around the tree. It also makes it nice for 4th of July parties.
It also makes it so people don't invade personal space. Smaller living spaces are known for causing more tension between family members. The average family size in the US is typically 3 to 4 people.
As far as heating goes, it's not that bad to heat. Most homes have good insulation and double-paned windows that are vacuumed sealed. And US homes all have central natural gas heat.
As long as you stay away from things like electric portable space heaters, it's not too expensive.
We keep our 2,300 sq.ft. home here in the US at 67°F in the winter. My Family room is 12 x 18 ft. And then my living room is actually 13 x 23.4 ft.
Now Keep in mind the 22 x 28 ft living rooms are usually only in the larger homes here. Or if the house has only a living room but no family room.
My house has both rooms. So there again limited to 12 x 18 ft and 13 x 23.4 ft for the two rooms.
Now If I were to knock out a wall and connect the two... Hello, gigantic living room size of 25 x 41.4 ft. 😈
But I shouldn't have really said his living room is really that small. It isn't if he has one main living space. But it's small when most US homes have two rooms that work out kind of like what I have for 25 x 41.4 for general living space when both rooms are combined. 🙂
I live in Durham! The closer to the City Centre you get the higher the house prices, part of the City is UNESCO World Heritage site. Peterlee is not too far from Durham, but I would rather have a smaller house in Durham than one in Peterlee (trying to be tactful!)!!! I hope you enjoyed visiting beautiful Durham.
You should check out rural Ireland. You can get detached 4 bed houses on an acre for 200 to 280.
In London a house like that would go for at least a million.
The flat with the white exterior in Marlow was probably built 60s/70s where architects had no imagination. However, you may get more room in that age flat.
4 bedroom actually means 2 bedroom and 2 closets. The other thing estate agents don’t do in the UK is switch on the lighting. Especially in this climate.
Some parts of the SE, inside the M25 or just outside, £300K would not even buy a terraced garage let alone a flat or house. Bungalows are always dearer than houses with a similar number of bedrooms as they occupy a larger plot. A 5 bed Bungalow with all rooms on ground floor, that is not a dormer or Dutch type is hard to find anywhere under £400K, unless a repossessed or executor sale and been empty for decades needing extensive renovation. If one does not mind a bit of hard work and remodelling/rebuilding then a property auction is the place to go.
It's not just the larger plot, it's supply and demand. A lot of older people like bungalows because they struggle with stairs. Developers rarely build bungalows because they can make more money with houses, so in some areas bungalows are really scarce.
Whilst this is a UK vs US channel I found it hilarious that you looked at the house the same way my sisters were looking, checking out the carpet, noticing bread rolls etc... But the first thing me and my dad always did was... Open up the floorplan, check the slope of the roof and generally ignore what it looked like. Different ways of looking from the genders not the country :)
My dad scouts out plug sockets. Less than 3 double plug sockets per room and no sockets in the hallway (up and downstairs landing) and it was an instant 'no'.
I always check the roof pitch. Can I get a loft conversion in it.
I think it's less about gender and more about preferences and experience. I always look at floorplans and watch for anything I've not liked in previous properties, like sloping ceilings, small kitchens and issues with the property.
I'm always floorplan first. If I don't like the floorpan, I don't even look at the photos. But I'm a guy who worked in I.T. :-)
Older houses are generally bigger. Modern houses are like sardine cans, looked at a 3 bedroom house for my daughter. The smallest room would just about take a babies cot and maybe a bedside set of draws my grandson bought a 3 bed house terraced again small group of boxes
When selling your home in the UK, you have to be careful that you don’t misrepresent your property. If so you and/or the estate agent could be sued for mis-representation by the new owner.
What dumbass buys a house without going to see it and conveyancing , therefore a misrepresenting case would be difficult.
I am always genuinely impressed by the photographic skills of estate agents, who seem to make a chicken coop look like a mansion, its all real but creative photography rules - of course the camera can't lie can it? The best are the new house developers who build 7/8ths replicas and fit them out with creative but dinky furniture and fittings. It also never amazes me how dumb new house buyers are. Getting the punters to the plot often means they have arrived with their rose tinted glasses on.
The apartment blocks you were asking about were built in the 1960's or possibly 70's
try Wales you can get the house you want and land for £300000 and some of the best views in the uk
Definitely. Go about ten miles north of the M4 and the price drops dramatically as you move into the valleys.
But then you'll have to live with yourself knowing that you bought a house in Wales.
The reason it’s so cheep is because there are no jobs and it rains constantly....
@@ninagill1407 Plenty of jobs if you're qualified/have a good CV. I moved to South Wales 20 years ago & have spent a week out of employment. Not so much local work up in the valleys, but a lot of my colleagues commute down into Cardiff & some move down too.
It does rain all the time though. I'll give you that 😂
@@Rooster---ooo I wasn’t being rude! I have considered moving there myself 😆.
I live in the south of England (Suffolk) but my daughter lives near Scunthorpe in north Lincolnshire. When visiting her a few years ago my wife (who loves window-shopping for houses) noticed just how cheap property there was compared to here. Houses in Scunthorpe were about a third of the price of similar properties near where I live.
Have a look at Middlesbrough, or a posher neighbourhood in the area of Yarm.
One of my neighbours homes is 4 bedroom, massive extension, massive garden that looks out onto the back of a school field - £200,000.
And it's in one of the nicer areas, too. For £300,000 you'd probably be looking mainly at new builds or the more upper class areas of the town.
Yarm is nice.
I went out with a lass that lived in a 'new build' rabbit hutch Killinghall Grove, Stockton... Aweful house... Turn a switch on any where in the house and you heard it anywhere else in the house.
@@sahhull Love Yarm!
Depends on the new build really. I bought a 50s house, been nothing but problems. Previously owners had done it up nice, but underneath they'd done a crap job.
My sister's lived in a new build by Taylor Wimpey, had no problems whatsoever. 5 'snags' that they fixed within a week of her noticing them (usually small things like a scuff on the door handle when she moved in). My dad refuses to do any drilling in the walls though, say's they're too thin to hold anything up.
She's now moving to a bigger new build, she doesn't want the hassle of having to do anything, which suits her just fine.
So, I think a lot of the time it depends on who you buy from, the location, and for Gods sake never buy from Persimmon.
I live in Cambridge :( and all the places you looked at are actually villages around Cambridge. If you look at the city you'd be looking at more money for even less. Most people who work in cambs commute in as its so pricey. So it's not a fair comparison with Marlow.
Unfortunately there's no way of checking the focal length of the lens used for the photographs but I think it can be safely assumed that they're normally taken with a fairly wide-angle lens to fit the whole room in, which has the effect of making the rooms look bigger than they actually are. Just as an example, take a close look at the shot of the bathroom at 04:39 and notice how stretched the toilet cistern and the wash basin are. Given a fairly standard basin width of 23" and a cistern width of 16" with a fairly small gap between them of maybe 6", the total width of those two items is less than 4ft. With that information you can quickly calculate that the total depth of the room is on the order of 7'6" but from the photo it could easily be 8-9 feet!
The style of flats you were looking at at 09:10 were very popular as local authority builds back in the late '60s to late '70s.
Unfortunately, the picture in picture of you was obscuring a lot of the shots you were looking at.
I know you can get guarantees with new-builds but you don't get the space. In the semi-detached house at 15:13, for example, you'll probably find the rooms are generally a bit bigger and the ceilings will be higher but possible of more importance, all the walls, including the internal ones, will be brick throughout and not dry-lined.
Hi Ray, You can check the focal length of the lens used in a picture by copying the image and loading it into an Exif data reader. It usually shows the relevant data re lens, shutter speeed, ISO, camera model etc, etc. I make a living doing architectural and interiors photos for residential and commercial agents and I do it quite often when looking at competitors images. 👍🏻 An easier method to check a room size is to count to tiles on the walls or floors (prior to my career change into property photography I was a chartered surveyor!) and it has helped me out many times in the past when site record photos have not turned out well.
We have a saying in England....location,location location....but working from home could rocket the northern prices...buy now .
And the roads aren’t jammed up in the north..
Cambridge is an extremely pricey location for property, good employment and the many colleges.
A maisonette is a flat/apartment with its own front door, no shared communal entrance.
New build brochures use CGI to create realistic looking external and internal impressions, but what you see isn't real, the bricks and sky wont ever look like this.
@9:19, that is quite a common build. My 1970 built block of maisonettes (a dwelling on two levels that is NOT a house) and flats in SE London has a similar look. However, the asking price for mine was £80,000 more.
When you said "Great, we've got a yard" (about the end terrace house in Cambridge) that wasn't a yard - that was a lane between two 'ends', if you see what I mean. I haven't seen yet whether they do indeed have a yard but that wasn't it.
Re does the sofa come with the house? No. Only things attached to the house are included like a fitted kitchen, fitted carpets, etc. Anything else would cost extra if the sellers are willing to sell them.
Here's a one for you, the lower end of the market probably has even more contrast. Mid terrace ex-council house (try explaining that to an American, my ex could never quite grasp the concept) 3 bedroom, 40 foot or so by about 15 foot back garden, with street access so it could double as parking. Paved parking area at front. On auction, starting price £61K and to be clear it's in a reasonably quiet residential area. 15 minutes bus trip into the city along the "river road"
Great video idea - I do believe that this is the first reaction video that I've seen comparing house prices!
Some of the details of what you were looking at might need some explaining for other viewers.
Listings that have "Guide Price" usually indicate the property is to be sold at auction for that minimum price.
Auction properties often have structural, financial, and/or legal difficulties attached to them.
Some very cheap properties could be built using concrete prefab techniques - these are towards the end of their useful life-span and often require total rebuilding in brick.
Councils in Liverpool - and other areas - promoted selling houses for £1 each! Each house needed upwards of £100k to make it habitable, plus additional social contracts attached to them.
The Welsh coast probably has some of the best house prices when you consider the nice scenery and lifestyle. Places like Barmouth for example.
We were taken on a school trip to Peterlee, to show us what a post-war new town looks like. Will be very 1970s and suspect will not have aged well. House prices are what they are for a reason, whereever.
"I know nothing about Derby except it's in the North" .... Derby isn't in the North.
I live in Hampshire, anything north of the M4 is north or west of the M3 is west and anything south of the water there be dragons
@@DropdudeJohn I'm from Sussex and if it's in a county not directly touching the south coast it's the North as far as I'm concerned.
@@RichardBarclay
I am prepared to move my point of view towards yours
Derby is clown town
@DRIVING AROUND THE UK derby is clown town have you not seen all the big shoes with the flaps open very disturbing I'm glad I live 15 miles up the a 52 in a proper city
If you look at Scotland, most everywhere outside of the Central Belt (GlasgowEdinburgh) is pretty cheap. You'll certainly get a lot of bang for your buck. Some Edinburgh or Glasgow properties aren't really much different in price to parts of the South East. Aberdeen used to be expensive during the oil boom, but that's levelled out a bit now. It's really "location, location, location" and most of that is down to commuter access or city centres. If you're not bothered by either, you can practically get a castle if you look hard enough.
I know someone who actually lives in a converted Scottish castle (it's split into flats)
It's amazing how a few miles can make a difference but even on the edge of the central belt prices are going up - even where it's a poor community like where I live (in Alloa). You can easily ignore the rundown scheme next to your four bedroom executive pile, it seems! My friend has a farm a few miles out of town and there's a luxury 'villlage' of about ten houses around an old castle, which is mostly holiday homes, no one lives there. Yet poorer people are stuck with huge rents because they can't afford to buy and it's hard to get a council house.I think around here, though, the problem is not so much the house prices, because people in Edinburgh or Glasgow would think them cheap, as the income levels to pay for them. I don't know how people in Edinburgh manage if they work in a shop, the rent must be extortionate. Although it's all relative, £300000 would certainly get you a decent house here but how anyone can afford that is beyond me.
New developments are usually a huge disappointment when you actually view them in person rather than online. Wide angle lenses are used to make rooms look larger. Garages if provided are too small to fit a car in. Parking space if any is often one space only, two if you are lucky and have small cars. This of course leads to onstreet parking. Roads are often block paved rather than tarmac surface which indicates that they are not adopted by the local council. This can mean that residents are jointly liable for any maintenance. There maybe "management" charges to maintain any recreational/garden spaces which are not controlled and can increase dramatically. Beware that some might be leasehold rather than freehold, although I think there are moves afoot to outlaw this.
In general somewhere in the Midlands locates you in days travel from anywhere in England and Wales. As well as Derby area try looking at Nottingham area. Back in the last century Nottingham was the best place for a night out, which is still valid, with night clubs theatres concert hall and excellent shopping. The pub "trip to Jerusalem" which is built into a cave under the castle and is full of atmosphere, dates back to the crusades in the 12th Century. Like many cities, the best places are just out of town.
I rent a student house in Greater London and the last time it sold it went for 850k which is insane. Multiple houses on the road have recently sold for around 1 mil.
In the UK we actually photoshop pictures with blue sky in them grey to avoid disappointment.
Somewhere like Newcastle..lovely city and so close to the Coast and Northumberland countryside. Also short journey to great cities like Edinburgh or York.
Hiya. You're going to have your work cut out finding brick-built houses in America, 84% of them are made of wood. But I must admit, there ARE some VERY nice and HUUUUGE American 'sheds' available for far less than $425,000. LOL. Maybe there will be brick at the higher end. Stay safe. All the best to you.
American shotgun houses... Where you fire a shotgun from the street and the shot goes thru the house and leaves the rear walls.
I'm in Welwyn Garden City. My house is a 3 bedroom. end-of-terrace, end plot. Small rooms and a small detached garage. This is NOT in the best part of town. Fifteen minute walk to the statrion, 5 minute walk to a very good parade of local shops, restaurants and takeaways. Several semi-decent pubs within 5 minutes too, including The Pub Called "The First Post" in ""The World's End, but that's not a great pub, avoid.
The going rate is about £550k, which is absoutely insane. And houses are currently actually selling for this much money.
I bought my place (a two bedroom ground floor maisonette) in the London/Kent area for £308,000. Friends of mine remarked on how cheap I got it for. It is a leasehold (999 years!) A word of warning, some new builds have service charges (especially flats) a lot of people buy them and get caught out when the service charges get increased.
Derby area is nice especially smaller towns and villages to north of Derby city. You would be on the edge of the Peak District national park with super views and places to explore. Not that far from north Wales either. We moved south to Kent to be near family now we are older and can only afford a 2bed flat for around £200,000, plus quite high service charges. Buy a whole house and you own everything, no land owner to pay fees to.
Here in Edinburgh the modern builds are more functional at about £300k but depressing as you say. Classic 200+ year old apartments are lovely but £400-600k+. Also new builds somehow show rendered pictures of interiors that aren't fully built or equipped yet.
Please do more of this type of video. I really enjoyed it.
Location makes a crazy difference, paid £167,000 3yrs ago for a 3bed semi with off road parking for 4 in the midlands. Outskirts of a small town so within walking distance of a train station, pubs, shops etc.
in the 1980si worked as a service engineer around Peterborough and at that time Londoners were moving in and at that time they were selling small townhouses and buying a three-bed bungalow in rural locations for the same price + money to furnish it.
Be careful with some exceptionally low prices. You may only get a part share and the rest is owned by an investment company....often when costed not a good deal. Also Durham or Peterlee are in the top "right hand corner" of the country and if you want to travel, everywhere is a long way away. In the Southeast is similar, we have to get past London to get anywhere.
Try Shropshire especially round Ironbridge / Telford / Bridgnorth
Hi, I live in Marlow and my fairly bijou house is valued on Zoopla at over £1,000,000! It is mostly to do with the local schools as Marlow has an excellent grammar school, plus a very good secondary modern school. So if your offspring pass the 11+ exam (which is exclusive to certain counties) then they can go to the grammar school and if they don't the local secondary modern is still a good choice! I originally moved here 40 odd years ago and both my kids went to the grammar and now one of my grandsons goes to the same school and the other goes to the secondary modern. It is also a very pretty town, with the River Thames running through.
Versions of my house exist all over the country (early 1900's terraced houses with bay windows, originally with an outside toilet so they're 2 or 3 beds depending on where the bathroom went, downstairs off the kitchen and they're 3 beds, upstairs bathroom and they're two). Sure there are slight variations and the way they're done up makes a bit of difference but essentially they're exactly the same. My house is £450k(ish), just 3 miles away further towards the centre of London it's £750k (Greenwich) and a bit further in (Deptford) they're more like £800k for exactly the same house, move to Liverpool and the same house is £140k. I'm sure you can find exactly the same house for under £100k somewhere else.
Generally the North West and East Midlands are reckoned to be the cheapest areas -hence the properties in Derby and Mansfield look very good value. Basically, anywhere on the M62 axis is likely to be a good choice. Liverpool to Manchester and Manchester to Leeds are just 30 mile hops along the motorway and directly linked by rail. All three cities have international airports and direct rail links to London, and getting in and out of any of those cities by road or public transport from surrounding areas is very easy. You could live close to the sea in North Wales, the Wirral or Fylde Coast and find the climate as mild as down South.
Bungalows normally have a larger footprint so that is why they maybe more expensive. The land is a good slice of the cost.
Marlow is my hometown..... Its incredibly desirable due to its schools (very good primary and 2 secondary schools one of which is a grammar school) and location (on the river Thames, close to the Chilterns, sitting inbetween two big motorways, close enough to commute into London etc), plus its shops and restaurants, and demand is always high which pushes up the price. ( it's A small town with not much new housing stock so supply is low too.)
The white coloured style of flat you looked at are ex council houses if I remember correctly... They sit next to a school. By the looks of it some of the houses you were looking at in marlow are the ones youd usually see for rent...
you can get more for your money in the South East, you picked some particularly expensive areas, Cambridge and Buckinghamshire, which are prime commuter areas
I live in derby 😍. and last year (sept 2020) I literally bought a house for £300,000. So exactly the area you featured in this video
I got a four bedroom semi detached house. Downstairs there's a living room, a second room,. (which we use as a playroom) a downstairs loo, hallway, large kitchen which extends into a second seated area with wall mounted tv. Conservatory.
Upstairs, we have four bedrooms one with an ensuite with shower and loo. Also upstairs a family bathroom and an airing cupboard (for blankets, towels etc.) and a loft.
The garden is very large about as "long" as that terraced garden but is actually wider than it is long.
We purchased in an area the fetches some of the higher prices in derby.
Needless to say I find it difficult to understand why anyone decides to settle in London when you get so much more for your money elsewhere.
My 4 bed semi detached house with south west facing large garden 400m from the beach on Tyneside was £165k. And I love it. I work all over the country and in my experience most places are much like everywhere else. Whilst it generally is a bit colder up north, if you buy on the East of the penines you are going to experience significantly less rain.
In London 165k would buy you a garage.
You have to consider the community you are moving into as well as the house and if you are moving out of the region you know then ask yourself why Peterlee and its surrounding area has the cheapest houses. The North East of England is a wonderful place to live with excellent facilities around the Durham and Newcastle areas, friendly people and good communities. Also within easy reach of the beautiful countryside and coastline.
Here in the north,Yorkshire, you can get a pretty reasonable three bed semi for £300000 while in London you’d get a garage.
Good stuff. And I LOVED the running commentary.
But as to whether you'd like Peterlee in County Durham.....well, check out the town on the interwebby thing.
If your looking at the south, try places such as Exeter (south west) Tiverton, bristol, Plymouth, Truro (Cornwall)
Just heard a podcast from JPM about the US housing boom. House prices rising at 10%pa with historically low mortgage rates of 3% fixed for 30 years, average house price $365,000 only 2.6X household disposable income. UK housing is very expensive vs US.
House prices in Scotland are a little different, as they are generally priced at Offers Over . Still , 4 years ago we bought our 4 bedroom home , large front and back garden , driveway and garage for £122,000 . ( priced at Offers Over £115,000 ) . Just outside Glasgow 🏴👍
You want to check out Leeds in Yorkshire. Good house prices. Upcoming city. Some lovley rural areas. I bought my 1st house 11 years ago. 2 bedrooms 4 floors. For 83 thousand. But my mum lives in a village outside of Leeds. That's about 300 thousand. That's got 3 bedrooms a massive back garden and a garage too. And it has got access to some ace walks in the countryside too.
New builds are typically small.
I grew up in the North West but moved south for work. After being made redundant I moved back to the North West. The 2 bed flat I was living in was worth £210k. I bought a 3 bed end terrace house just outside the Peak District for £179k.
That building in Little Marlow was definitely 1950s/60s design
You should try further north
I bought my 3 bedroom semi for £120k
Also remember "guide price" isn't always what the building sells for
I brought an end terrace house in a suburb of Cardiff about 10 years ago for £120k. Three bedrooms & a study. Large garden. That wouldn't even buy me a broom cupboard in or around London. £300k would buy you something pretty substantial or something in a cosmopolitan area of the city. Just been looking at prices around my area. Gone up quite a bit. Looking at around £200k for something comparable now. So glad I brought when I did. Should have the mortgage paid off in about six years, so before I'm 50. Just a pity there's not room to build an extension, though I could convert the attic & add a conservatory on the back.
US property shows, emphasise size. This house is x sq feet. In UK, we emphasise no of rooms , particularly bedrooms.
Number of rooms is a poor metric. The floor plan is more telling. I would rather have a spacious two bedroom home in a good area than many tiny rooms somewhere sketchy.
I’m usually wary of new build property in the UK. There isn’t much spare land in the UK, so often new houses are in:
+ a small pocket of land developed by one of the neighbours. Or
+ built in the flood plain of a river. In London I saw two new houses built over a river.
Where I live some houses are being demolished to make way for a new house, these are good because they are in an established residential area and built to modern standards.
Moved north 2 years ago to the ribble valley , we bought a new build the exact same house in the south was over double 4 bed detached 300k in the north 600k in the south.
Things to consider , Petersen crime rates are a lot worse than other areas , hence the house prices, it is generally a lot cheaper in the north , however th enclose you are to major town centers the more expensive it is. Also a new build will cost you a lot more rather than a house 10 years old, for example where i live in the North of Scotland a 4 be detached house could cost you 220’000 the equivalent new build would cost you 260 to 280’000
Scotland, Yes. Try looking in/around Glasgow/Edinburgh, but also a little further north.
Wales, Definitely! Some quite big differences between the North/South/Mid.
Still in England though, check out anywhere around the Midlands. All the joy of not paying London prices, but still very central location with great transport links.
Oh, and if you want to check out some really pretty places, take a look in the Cotswalds. Though pretty often comes with a price!
the prices drop as you move away from London the boundary was a one hour commute by rail
I'm paying the same for a 2 bedroom flat with parking, a swimming pool and gym 20 mins from Central Sydney for the same price as a room in a house share in London zone 4, which also had mice and a landlord that did nothing about it... the prices to buy in Sydney are high but compared to London are much less. I think its fair to say I don't miss London!
Not only are the houses cheaper in the north, but things like dentists, hairdressers and plumbers can also be way cheaper.
The hairdressers I go to change £5 for men for example. Ok, you can pay way more if you want but is there anywhere you know that charges so little.
I live in the South East (hampshire) and just bought a 4 bed end terrace for £300,000
It is possible, but depends on the town
I'm Hampshire/Wiltshire border looking to buy a house, and some of the house prices are just making me want to cry!
That’s good price! 4 bed End terraces in South Bucks would easily exceed £400k unless you were in more unsavory parts of Wycombe or more likely Aylesbury
@@mattj5492 Yeah we were lucky and live in a cheaper town because there are no rail links here.
I live in West Yorkshire in a small ex-mill town in a nice area. The houses in my neighbourhood were built in the 30s. That means thick walls (not as thick as Victoria cottages, but thick! Ask my other half when he's had to drill through them!), nice big gardens (or 'yard' in American parlance) and attics which can be converted into rooms, usually with en suites. The prices in my neighbourhood vary from £200k upward to one house being £1.3m. They are all different, and comprise semi detached, bungalows (with huuuuge long front gardens!!! And many of these have had big dormers built on top), detached, cottages etc.
It all depends on neighbourhood, town, etc. One of the sites (I forget which!), is great for looking at different neighbourhoods and lists the type of people (careers etc), crime stats, public transport links, and all manner of really useful information. It's a good place to visit before you think of buying as it's info that is generally quite important to people.
North Yorkshire is gorgeous, but lots of it is pretty pricey. Same with The Lake District. Very, very, very pricey! South Yorkshire - depends where you go. Cheshire can be a bit above average, in certain areas, I believe. All of those places are North. Derby is Midlands. Durham is definitely North. And it has a cathedral.
But I've lived in my house for decades. Not moving ever. Do enjoy looking around other people's homes, though. Online, I mean!
Basically England is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with a net migration of 350,000 a year so the shortage of land plus shortage of housing forces the price high...
£250k is the UK average price £267k for England. You should maybe consider looking at recent completed sales so the prices are more reliably realistic
If you want to view the backyard of a house and there are no photos available, why not go to the satellite view on google earth or google maps. You should be able to see the dimensions of the property and also any thing that the estate agents have photoshopped out of the photographs that you have seen of the outside of the property. Things that spring to mind are missing roofing tiles or slates, overgrown ivy on the walls or trees that are overhanging the property. Also what’s on the far side of the back hedge, a friend looked at a house that had a very attractive price, but when he did a satellite view he found a graveyard and crematorium beyond the hedge.
Even in the North which is generally cheaper there is a huge difference in house prices, depending on area. I live in a small town in between Manchester and Liverpool. I own my ex-local authority house and there are several estates with exactly the same house dotted around the town. I would say the value of my house is around £30k less than in other parts of town. I know someone with a very similar home to mine in an expensive part of Sheffield and that house is worth almost three times as mine.
depends where you are, Scotland isn't that cheap in places. Edinburgh house prices can match London....but we are a smaller city. (how ever the central belt is pretty much one city now.)
If you do look at Scotland, you need to be aware, prices are often offers over £££. Rather than England where the price is usually a starting point to negotiate downwards.
Also an offer to buy is normally binding.
Of course a crazy system in Scotland. Offers over though doesn't always mean that, I bought my flat in Scotland, offers over £49,000 but I paid £45,000. If there is only 1 buyer they are still taking an offer, and there will be in the middle of nowhere or even a small town, because there is not the amount of buyers apart from Glasgow/Edinburgh.
The problem is is that I found surveyors were reluctant to price it as high as its value. For example my estate agent said £99,950, my first surveyor (the seller pays for a home report) wouldn't go over £90,000 (he said £85,000 originally). I said you know what you can do and got another surveyor and wouldn't sign off on it. If I had said £90,000 for me I wouldn't have got £87,500 which is what I got. Only 1 buyer in a year, so that is not good for the seller.
Fact is sellers getting home reports are pointless, the seller pays £500, and the seller can say remove this and that or change this or that from the report. So in essence, if the buyer wants an impartial report he pays another £500. It needs changing and fast. Of course no gazumping, so that is good. But not likely anyhow.
Other countries of the UK I think Wales was a country last time I checked or has something changed since I have moved away? Btw no probs here you can find a three bedroom house in some
of the beautiful countryside anywhere in the world! No yards in the UK we have gardens. When in Rome etc.
9:15 i am pretty sure they are somwhere between 60s-80s. They are also full of asbestos. Lots were used as council housing.
I live in Derbyshire and we are in the centre of the UK. We are only an hour from London on the train so it's really easily accessible, vice versa for North. The weather isn't too bad here either because we aren't North 😊 so you get the best of both.
Mmmm depends on where in Derbyshire you are - I guess Hannah lives near to Derby - I am in the High Peak and it is a wee bit cooler (and higher) and wetter and further from London... But a lovely place to live.
Derby to London is 90 minutes by train not an hour.
Downsides. The wages are crap and accents are funny.
1:10 i have loved looking at houses from the age of like 13, i am now 17 and that passion is still going strong lmao. I even love looking at show homes !
That style is a derivative of a Span house a modern style developed in the 40s by Lyons, original ones are valuable as design classics. Local authorities copied lots of Span designs in their council houses as did regular house builders.
Beware leaseholds. If a flat is cheap it might have a lease of
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I had a 999 (-50) year lease and it had a £10 per year service charge so essentially nothing. The problem is that when I came to sell I needed permission and a fee of £1254 from the freeholders who only had a PO box which they checked once every few months and this almost runied my sale because the buyers could not wait this long. Moral of the story is thay a long lease and minimal service charge does not mean that it is safe.
All flats are leaseholds, not much use owning just half your roof. You may have a share in the freehold with all the other flat owners in the building.
Leasehold was also used when home ownership became more common for ordinary working people and the historic owners of huge chunks of the country made land available, especially the Church of England. They're the 999 years for a pound a year arrangements.
Nothing's as safe & simple as freehold, but there's also "chancellery".
Leasehold fees are disgusting. £125 a month and Thats just for four flats sharing a communal entrance (no lift), and communal garden. I wish I had bought a house. This is in the Northeast of England. The property management company is literally ripping our eyes out. Can't tell me it costs £500 a month to insure our building, light the hallway and mow the grass. There are three other blocks that all pay the same. Robbery.
In 2010, I bought a two-bedroom semi for £95,000, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Manchester. With a conservatory, and front and back gardens (admittedly, small). Thing is, in Manchester, we don't have many Russian/Saudi billionaires buying up property. A tad colder, but the people are nice. So, we're fine.
Hi.
Liking your videos.
Honestly London is crazy expensive. Come to Scotland. I have a 3 bedroomed bungalow, in the Scottish Borders, 2 bathrooms, 2 public rooms, dining kitchen, garage 4 car driveway, large garden. Built in the 1970s and cost me 3 years ago £125,000
Had to redecorate due to it having previously been owner by an elderly couple but I would no doubt redecorate to suit my tastes anyway.
I shudder to think how much that would cost down south. Much much more than I could ever afford that's for sure
When you are looking at Scotland, try Inverness or even the Orkney Isles and Caithness.
@John Ashtone Tracy Ullman nailed the Wee Wet Fish perfectly.:-)))
@John Ashtone Brexit2 :-(
The cheapest average houses are Northern Ireland followed by Scotland followed by Wales followed by England, but the very cheapest houses in the country I think would be found in Wales or Scotland. Definitely worth investigating; maybe you could get a lovely detatched mansion in the Scottish highlands or the Welsh valleys.
Wales has great house prices in comparison to Southern England.