Yep, New Zealand costs a lot to get into. You also need to spend a lot of money after you have moved there too. I looked into it but wouldn't have the money to move there.
Our in laws place in southern Corsica was only recently valued at £125k, only two bedrooms but 2nd floor attic could be converted. Live there for 9 months & rent it out over the summer when it's unbearably hot and busy whilst we holiday in UK
£500k? There are fairly ordinary houses built in the last couple of decades around here fetching almost that much
Yep, same where I am. An old caravan park just down the road managed to dodge planning and it is now putting in 80 of those static caravan type 'houses'. The 2 bed ones are starting from £300K with the 3 beds with better views (not just seeing other caravans out of the window) are close to £500k - for a ****ing static caravan!
I'd do what we have recently - move to a nice part of the FoD. We have most of that for well under budget & then use the balance to buy a property abroad (Somewhere along the Ligurian coast).
Right now the second part would be less of a great idea in a global pandemic!
Can’t believe that with a fantasy £500k people are choosing to stay in GB – bit of a lack of imagination there 😉
Ive lived in Havana, Torbole, Tarifa and spent huge amounts of time in North Africa and South America plus travelled a lot of nice places for over a quarter of a century with my job.
I could happily live in most of the Caribbean but really I’d miss England a bit. So Weymouth/Portland for me. And Tarifa a close second.
Can’t believe that with a fantasy £500k people are choosing to stay in GB – bit of a lack of imagination there
Some of us have family and friends!
We’re actually moving from Mach to Dyffryn Ardudwy, it’s the sea views from the sun room that did it.
Good choice. Went up there for a walk recently, the locals were even friendly 😉
Parts of Bulgaria look good too
Grantown is nice enough but it’s not so easy to ride straight from your door into the mountains from there as far as I can see. The advantage with Aviemore is you have the wilderness right on your doorstep.
True, and there's much more going on in and around Aviemore than any of the surrounding towns and villages but that's reflected in house prices. Still I guess that wouldn't be an issue given the OPs suggested budget.
I had this ”problem” a few years back and bought a house in a market town in Northumberland.
Just thinking of doing exactly that, looking in a corridor between the sea and the A1, north ot Newcastle up to about Alnwick.
Here's what £500k'll buy you round my way...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73357732.html
19 acres, a 3 bedroom cottage, 2 holiday cottages, 2 reservoirs, a trout fishery and your own bothy.
All set in as much wilderness as you'd want.
Blimey.
you'll need a long lead for your Flymo
Was there not a case of anthrax found at Thankerton ?
Does the Clyde not start from there ?
Yeah but Perchy it's in Scotlands Covid hotbed 🙂
We rather stupidly had been considering a house in the Aviemore area for, well, a while. Having looked at a fair few we capitulated on it and now - mental. A place in BoG that I looked at in JUne sold for circa 450k and it was a pretty average 3 bed on a weird section that had been tarted up.
For the NZ questions, NZ has no capital gains tax so anyone with money buys property. The prices are generally ballistic and have been going that way since 1999. I bought my first place there for circa $200k and it would be 700+ now. Even the house we sold before we came back changed hands 18 months later for +13%. YOu need deep pockets, even with the exchange rate.
Was there not a case of anthrax found at Thankerton ?
Maybe, many years ago. Just as there were numerous cases of bubonic plague in that London.
Does the Clyde not start from there ?
No. Leadhills.
Yeah but Perchy it’s in Scotlands Covid hotbed
Look up "Self isolating" in the dictionary and there's just a picture of the road sign to Thankerton.
Was going to say my house but sweet baby jeebus Perchy, what a find. I want a trout fishery!
How hypotnetical is this? Like, do I have to stay in work? Are there any visa issues abroad?
UK - south Manchester. Peaks, Wales, Lakes all within easy striking distance. Good city. Good train connections to London. Shit weather.
Non-UK fantasy - dunno, somewhere which has hot summers and cold winters. Somewhere with skiing, climbing, cycling, via ferata, hiking, all the shizzle.
Why not north Manchester
Lakes all within easy striking distance
Yeah, but not in your actual garden though are they? 😉
In the spirit of the STW stealth ad, if anyone's interested in a detached 4 bed, 2 bath, large sunny garden, garage, double driveway, house on the edge the lovely market town of Cirencester ('the capital of the Cotswolds'), within easy reach of, er, the Cotswolds, and Flyup419 is 15mins away, also FoD in 45 mins, Brecons in about 90 mins, BPW probably the same (I've never been!), M4, M5, Brizzle, Heathrow in an hour, blah blah blah, I know one that's gone on the market this very morning. You'll get change from your £500k too 🙂
Does it have a trout fishery?
C'mon @IHN, you how this works. Put the rightmove link up so we people can say what's wrong with it
😉
Why not north Manchester
Dunno actually!
Although Manchester is the wrong side of the Pennines, honestly don't know if I could deal with all the rain. It was bad enough on the other side 🙂
Does it have a trout fishery?
It's got a pond, you could put some trout in that. Well, a trout. As long as it wasn't bothered about moving around too much. And it happily gets along with frogs.
C’mon @IHN, you how this works. Put the rightmove link up so we people can say what’s wrong with it
I think you'll find that how it actually works is other people find it on Rightmove and then tell me what's wrong with it. I'm not going to stand in the face of tradition.
Now I’ve thought about it some more I think I’d move from my two bed terrace in Macclesfield to Alderley Edge where £500k would buy me a one bedroom flat.
kilo
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Can’t believe that with a fantasy £500k people are choosing to stay in GB – bit of a lack of imagination there 😉
I guess people recognise (assuming you are a British Citizen) you don't have a right of residence outside the UK and RoI ;-). Researching and getting permanent residency is a faff and/or costly and/or not possible. Also see issues of not speaking the local language and perhaps not really trying that hard to learn it, and the grass is not always greener. And people have friends and family here, and people are creatures of habit and whilst they may not realise it, they find their own culture and way of life very homely and comforting. Personally I would be looking to retire quicker and live somewhere cheaper.
If it's just £500,000 for a house but no savings and you still have to work, then you need somewhere with employment? Agreed with everyone saying there are literally millions of homes that cost less than £250,000 with a big of space for storing all your toys throughout the UK, you must be looking at honey-pots. And also the 'grass isn't always greener'. If you are a social person you should start with looking for well-functioning communities.
So a smaller place and you'd be living in Alderley Edge. Win, er, win.
My post may not have been serious in nature 😉
I’d buy a 3 bed house where I live now for £250k and then put the balance in a savings account.
Nor mine 🙂
TBF, I fairly recently bought two pints and a glass of wine in a pub in Alderley Edge, and it only cost £24.
That’s an absolute bargain for Alderley
Alderley Edge is mental....I hate the place! I drove through the other day and it seems like Range Rover Sports are the cars of the poor people there now....it was mainly Aston Martins and Bentley's! I just don't get it, other than a decent Oxfam there's nothing there....all of the restaurants and bars are bang average at best given the prices!
Never thought I’d see the day that living in Congleton in positive light
Try spending most of your life in the shit part of Stoke-on-Trent
Hang on, there's a not-shit part of Stoke On Trent?
Bloody hell @konagirl thanks for the depressing shot of reality on what struck me as a thread for people to live out their fantasy limited budget house, happy Friday everyone 😉
Obviously the correct STW answer is five miles down the road from trails you already ride cos you want to be near Auntie Mabel and one day you’ll be old and won’t need a trout farm then, in fact that bloody trout farm will be a burden!!!!!
Alderley Edge is mental….I hate the place!
It’s utterly bizarre isn’t it? Mrs F is from there and has a normal family. It’s like two villages. One normal and one so far up it’s own arse as to seem like a parody. Trust me to end up with a poor wife from Alderley 😂
A penthouse flat looking south towards the Pentlands in Oxgangs, Dunedin
You can imagine your in New Zealand but your no
No long flights and £410,000 still in your wallet
Bloody hell @konagirl thanks for the depressing shot of reality on what struck me as a thread for people to live out their fantasy limited budget house, happy Friday everyone 😉
Obviously the correct STW answer is five miles down the road from trails you already ride cos you want to be near Auntie Mabel and one day you’ll be old and won’t need a trout farm then, in fact that bloody trout farm will be a burden!!!!!
Ha ha, aye fair enough. If I had enough to retire on and the money to get residency, I'd retire to South Africa or similar and go looking for wildlife. No social life though.
I think honestly the last year has been pretty rubbish, so it would be nice to actually retire and therefore I am actually looking at it seriously. And in seriousness, I have lived abroad and I wouldn't want to do that when my and my partner's parents are getting older, so yes I would actually move back up north to near my parents or his parents and where all our life-long friends are. That's the reality.
A do-upper not far from me, just a smidgen over price-wise but I reckon they'd take less as it's been up all year.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96650840#/media
Note Pic 7, and how small the 4-over AGA looks in the room...
What is the Scots for 'money pit'?
Ah yes Alderley Edge, part of the golden triangle with Prestbury and Wilmslow.
Many of my customers were from there and Hale.
The old money families great to deal with, New money were an absolute nightmare.
Anyway where we live, here in Marple has all the things that the OP needs or wants, yet it too has housing stock with prices going through the roof.
A 2 bed bungalow with a decent garden has sold straight away for £380,000. A year ago that would have been £100,000 cheaper.
Still £500,000 would get you something decent with a garden, nice countryside, independent shops and a choice of good foodie places to eat and drink.
Can I stay where I am and just take the cash please, then I could jack in work
I think you’ll find that how it actually works is other people find it on Rightmove and then tell me what’s wrong with it. I’m not going to stand in the face of tradition.
This one?
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/9535931/
Well, you would have won the five pound prize, but unfortunately you've forfeited that by finding it on On The Market, not Rightmove.
This one?
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/9535931//blockquote >
Well, for a start your shelves above the piano are not straight!
(Looks like a nice place, good luck with the sale)
@Elshalimo I rented a cottage in Holywell Green for afew years, loved it TBH but yeah got abit wild in the winter! Couldn't afford to buy anywhere big enough though so moved further down towards Fax
@IHN - I found it earlier on RightMove but didn't want to spoil the fun. That tree bookshelf thing is lovely. Did you make that?
@halifaxpete - it's been cold, raining and windy most of the day up here. Same as usual then ☹️
That tree bookshelf thing is lovely. Did you make that?
I put it up, does that count? 🙂 It was made by these folks, looks like they don't make them any more:
https://www.bespoakinteriors.co.uk/product-archive/
Nice house that IHN!
With £500k I'd get a nice house in semi-rural NE Cumbria. Ideal for hill walking, road biking, MTB and sea-kayaking in Dumfries & Galloway
I’d stay in Shropshire; we can roll out of the door onto some nice local trails and are surrounded by great places to hike and bike. You also don’t need anywhere near 500k to live in a nice house in a beautiful location. We love the seasons too, somewhere that gets too hot wouldn’t work for us. 🙂
I cant find anything nasty tio say about the house apart from a modern box like that worth that much?
You could get a very similar house for half that in the area between peebles and Edinburgh or something much nicer such as:
under half a million - 7 bed https://espc.com/property/lindores-60-old-town-peebles-eh45-8je/35880397?sid=260584
1/4 million 4 bed modern https://espc.com/property/38-kittlegairy-view-peebles-eh45-9lz/35800303?sid=260584
Peebles area is a good choice for me.
possibly... wouldn’t class either of those shockers as “similar” though... one is a draughty old semi-detached with no garden & no parking, the other is the classic stereotypical no-expense-spent new-build (perfect if you like sitting in the tiny garden with all the neighbours watching you from their windows though!)You could get a very similar house for half that in the area between peebles and Edinburgh
I cant find anything nasty tio say about the house apart from a modern box like that worth that much?
That is just the state of the housing market where many of us live and not much we can do about it if we want to live where we do (along with a a lot of others causing the supply/demand issue and ridiculous prices)
As I posted earlier, £450K would get you a static caravan set in an old field with 80 other static caravans just down the road from me.
zilog - that big house is beautiful! It has a turret FFS! Its was just a quick glance at the local market.
Scotland.
Oh hang on, Im already here 😀
So Scotland on a 500 acre estate. Cottage is fine.
The turret is extremely cool I will grant you, would love one on my house 🤣. Maybe if it were somewhere else it’d be a great house. It’s all about the three “L”s for me.
I am interested in this stuff as i will be in a very similar position in the next couple of years. Of course the OP could have both my flats in leith for that much money! I am keeping my eye on the market in that area of tweed valley to Edinburgh as for me it has everything I want bar the mountains but family and friends mean I don't want to move too far North
How about this one then? OK its Gala which is not the nicest of the towns but a train into Edinburgh for city stuff and nice and close to world class trails
https://espc.com/property/hazelbank-16-barr-road-galashiels-td1-3hx/35877575?sid=712164
Nettles - lovely house. Gorgeous garden.
But, do you actually live there? Its so clean and tidy (only teasing because I know one has to clean their properties within an inch of it's life to put on the market.)
I scrubbed our old house for a week before placing on the market. However most of the properties we viewed we're disgusting, including one, where the woman proudly told us she was a professional cleaner.
We bought the worse house on a road in a nice area and did it up.
How about this one then? OK its Gala which is not the nicest of the towns but a train into Edinburgh for city stuff and nice and close to world class trails
Top trails are literally just behind it. We rode them last Sunday, brilliant local fun.
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/map/?activitytype=1&z=14.8&lat=55.60840&lon=-2.80918
Yeah that’s more like it! And it’s got the turret 😀 Bit of nightmare for the removal guys, but that’s their problem 🤣
I think the first answer on page 1 was the best!
Elshalimo - I live in NE Cumbria (Brampton), where is the MTBing and hillwalking of which you speak? You have to drive a fair way to find either.
Hills look out of the window!!
MTB you're nearer to decent MTB routes than many people
Penrith is probably a better location
There aren't any good MTB routes closer than 30 minutes drive. There are legal-ish routes nearby, but nothing to compare to the Lakes, 45 mins away. There are hills of course, but again, nothing wonderful nearer than 30 minutes or so. Having said that, I've done a lot of walking round here.
Fair point, I'd still like to live up there.
What was the budget, I've forgotten?
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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73217559.html
Anyone want to share?
https://www.galbraithgroup.com/property/inv160106-kinrara-estate-kinrara-aviemore-highland-ph22-1qb