[Closed] How many houses have you owned?

After 30 yrs of marriage we're still in our 2nd home!

Planning a move in the next year or so though.

1 * 8 years ago.

Reasonably stretched at the time Vs buying a flat....as I didn't buy the housing ladder theory

So many folk I know bought. The flat and are now stuck being reluctant landlords as the flats are in negative equity - and they needed to move for growing family.

Looking at doing a small extension to make the living space more useful for us- and there's scope to stick a couple of bedrooms in if we needed to down the line.

I've mortgaged 4, but never owned. 22 months from now though..... 🙂

Bought 1 nearly 3 years ago, need to move due to growing family. Hopefully the next one will be ideal and not have to move again, until the mrs decides its time to move to Canada

I've lived at 17 addresses in 8 different parts of the UK but haven't owned any of them. I own two properties but haven't lived in them. (actually I own 3 but one wouldn't be considered a home unless we were in the face of some sort of apocalypse.)

Bought 1 nearly 3 years ago, need to move due to growing family.

We just keep getting more cats, running out of sofas for them all.....

Im 40 and have owned 1 Flat, 2 Houses in the last 15yrs

Now in the family home though so will be here 20yrs unless something major happens.

zero and never likely to

Zero...

Lived in my folks garden until I was 25 before leaving for Germany.

No chance of owning a house in Munich. Prices on a par to London, if not higher for comparable abode.

Only owned 1. Bank owned the other one I lived in, I gave them money every month to live in it.

On second house- been here 19 years, previous one 8 years. No intention to move again. I we hadn't moved, would have been mortgage free 15 years ago at the old house.

Mum's still in the house she and dad bought 52 years ago.

Mate at school's parents moved every 7 years- buy a house, pay for it to be fully decorated before moving in and repeat when his mum decided it was looking tired/wanted a change of décor.

Living in the 3rd at age of 42. Its quite big so will probably downsize when the kids have moved on.

All of the following statements are true

We have bought two houses, 8 years apart, which we still live in.
We don't own a second home
I have only moved house once in my life
My wife has moved house twice in her life but has only ever lived in two houses.

Bought our first house in 1990, main reason at the time was the access to off road trails and the ability to make some cheeky stuff. Still here 30 years and two kids later.

Cant see a change in the future although it may get too big.

I have owned three houses - a 'bachelor pad' then a first home with my G/F (now wife) and now in a family home with two 11 yr olds.

When they leave home we'll sell and downsize to somewhere either in a quiet village or near the sea (or both).

3 at 42. 2002/07, 2007/13 and the current one since. Toyed with moving last year but we've decided to stay and possibly extend once the economic shock of Covid has played out.

3 at 46.

I've owned the same number of cars.

Up to the age of 22, when I went to Uni, I'd moved six times with my folks, all in the same village, so moving houses seems quite normal to me.

At the age of 42, just this one. We bought 11 years ago (I think). Only potential reasons for moving I can see are 1) needing to house my Mum after her partner passes on, we'd need a granny flat for this. 2) the new town becoming something we don't want to be a part of and wanting to live more in the country/closer to the coast.

Given the mortgage has dropped under £100k it'd be hard to see it go back up again!

We bought a flat 20 years ago, then sold it to buy a house 13 years ago. I also bought a small holiday flat on the coast 3 years ago. And we've got a couple of houses in the wife's village, but like maccruiskeen they'd only be considered livable in the event of some kind of apocalypse.

3 houses here at 45.

Had one for 2 years before relocating. Last one had over 10 years. Had our current house 4 years and have no intention of moving again.

but like maccruiskeen they’d only be considered livable in the event of some kind of apocalypse.

If it's the one i'm thinking of then I don't think you could class maccruiskeens "property" as a house per se.

It has a more bunkerish vibe.

5 house moves/purchases for us, now mid forties.... getting twitchy to move again but we'll see how the house market plays out given this year

Rented 1 with my GF when we both moved out of our family homes for 2 years. Bought the next one and gutted/did it up whilst still in the rented place, was there for 10 years.

We got to within a gnats squeak of paying off the mortgage and decided to skip a couple of rungs up the ladder to where we are now. No intention of moving from where we are any time soon so that makes 2.

I don't like moving. Which is handy as in 3rd house (OK, 2nd house, 1st was a flat). That's spread out over - counts fingers - 36 years!

Footflaps you are in Cambridge which has a high proportion of science / research jobs, which are usually 1-3 year contracts. If you can afford to buy, it makes sense financially for 3+ year contracts or open-ended contracts which are likely to be renewed (successful research groups or individual with potential). Also see military families.

3 houses in 15 years for us. I moved 5 times up to 21 (7 if you include Uni residences). Will probably move again in the next few years as my contract ends, see if we can settle down more permanently, which depends on both getting jobs we both like nearer friends.

Moved into my first and only house in 1996. Still here, no plans to move.

1st house lasted 12 years, this one will see us out - hopefully.

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It has a more bunkerish vibe.

I prefer 'Prepper Chic'

4 houses in 21 years. First 2 were in London (both flats). Next was in a smallish town, then moved to the edge of said town... I'd like somewhere much more rural next.

one house. Am 40.

Between leaving home at 18 and buying this one at 35, I lived in 15 different places, mostly shared houses.

I've now been here 5 years, which is longer than anywhere apart from the house I was born into (12 years). I quite like not moving house every year!

Two, one with ex wife and kids for 21yrs then sold & bought bigger in 2013 so aged dad could move in. Hoping to be mortgage free once wife manages to sell her & her ex's house 😕 in the meantime it's been bloody useful having a spare 4 bed for our various kids and partners to live in - although selling in 2016 and renting them somewhere would have been a far cheaper proposition..

On our second, with only a couple of miles between the two of them. Can't see us moving again before retirement now, has everything we want from somewhere to live.

2nd house here (bought first place at 25, this place when I was 33). Given property prices here in the south east, it'd cost at least 30k (stamp duty + estate agents + solicitors) to move somewhere the same size, let alone bigger, which you never get back, so we're probably here for the long haul.

2. Live in one now and rent the other out. Both still mortgaged though......

perchypanther - I like a riddle. Here’s my guess … You bought a semi-detached house, and then 8 years later bought the other half - and still live in the whole house. You moved from the family home to this house as your one move. Your wife moved from the family home to elsewhere, and then moved for a second time to the house in which you both currently live … which happens to be her original family home. Am I close?

3 houses and 3 flats in about 30 years (and had the current house for 24 years). A couple of the flats in parallel with the last house (one a BTL and the other when we were splitting our time between Edinburgh.

Thinking now about what to do as the current house is quite a bit bigger than we need, so might downsize.

5lab
Member

2nd house here (bought first place at 25, this place when I was 33). Given property prices here in the south east

first house at 25: snap
current house at 33: snap
south east: snap

Do I have a second login? Or am I a figment of 5lab's imagination?

Rona
Subscriber

perchypanther – I like a riddle. Here’s my guess

No he's Josef Fritzl and built an underground bunker.

Am I close?

Nailed it.
Except it's not two semis. It's a house which was split into upper and lower flats.

My wife's parents bought the upper flat in 1967 and lived in it until 1984-ish. They then moved out and my wife and I bought the same upper flat in 1997. We bought the downstairs flat in 2005 and restored it to a single house as it originally was.

Owned 2 outright. 1996-2010 & 2010-2020

Payed off the mortgage on this one in February, 15 years early.

Cramming as much away as possible now for early retirement.

Married 27 years. 14 postal addresses. Owned one house (with mortgage). It's the one we're in now, and have no intention of selling or going anywhere. Although I would love to own a second house on the Continent. Probably in Germany.

5 houses. Twice have moved into the house thought was going to grow old in. Didn't quite work out. 🙁 Now in this pissy little dive. (Well, it's ok really but I'll be paying the mortgage til I die)

Since I married 34 years ago we have lived in 11 family homes in: Didcot; Ashford Kent; Lisburn NI (twice); Germany; Edinburgh; Cyprus; Uxbridge; central London; Stroud and Ludlow. We have only owned 3 of these and are done with moving. We've been in rural South Shropshire for the last 5 years and have not intention of moving any time soon. I'm retired and the mountain biking is superb 🙂