what property would you buy for 200k?

43, 288 left to go… ;-(

Just checked the 15m2 teddington one sold for 180k.

Usual sign a property bust is on its way.

I was looking at this sort of thing earlier today – saw a couple of loch side places in Scotland that looked lovely.

Can’t see me moving for a while though…

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60017172.html

If I wasn’t tied to job and kids school…

Perfect for self isolating

If I wasn’t tied to civilisation…

That property in Transylvania is stunning, that’s the pick. Looks to be decent riding from the door too.

Well, this one needs a touch of renovation, but it is pretty close to a lovely AOONB and you could spend the change on a new kitchen and fibre broadband. And a car. And a lot of other things. I mean, 20 ha and a building for 35k UKP.

https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/gard-viksjo-harnosands-kommun-kackelbacksmon-185-16888155?utm_source=ios_app&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=tipsa&utm_content=ipad

Or maybe you fancy something a little more spacious? How about 84 ha of land somewhere between Sundsvall and Norway for a little over 1 million Kr. Change from your budget for, well, another house…

https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/gard-lillhardal-harjedalens-kommun-orrmo-11-6-16852680?utm_source=ios_app&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=tipsa&utm_content=ipad

I have an urge to buy a second home. Kept in check by the fact I cannot afford one and the ‘immorality’ of owning a second home. I’ve looked a few times recently at that property matt_outandabout posted.

Seen some lovely small holding s and farms in northern Spain for less than 200k

Probably this:

A Renovated 5 Bedroom Barn Conversion in Aquitaine

That tiny bedsits in London are often bought by business folks as somewhere to stay Monday to Thursday. Same happens in many big cities

This, my parents had a 1 bed terraced house BTL in Melbourne near Derby that was leased by Rolls Royce for their higher-ups to use as a long term alternative to a Hotel. Presume RR didn’t want the actual faff of owning it.

Also, Air B&B probably makes them quite profitable, it’s basically the same as a Hotel room you’d be paying >£100/night for in London.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-74739061.html

The North Yorkshire Moors on your doorstep, Guisbrough woods it over the hill for some gnarr schralping, the coast and Saltburn beach are 5 minutes down the hill, and it’s even a relatively nice village with a decent pub.

What’s the employment situation like in Machynlleth?

Pre-Covid it’s public sector / healthcare / retail / farming or very small employers (at a guess) there don’t seem to be a lot of large employers there.

It’s 45 mins from Aberystwyth which is the closest Town. It’s a bit of a Uni town.

Post Covid though, providing you can get FTTC internet (it’s in the town at least) it will matter less, no not all employers not even most, but some will make WFH the norm.

With my Wife a District Nurse and me at least being able to request WFH full-time I could make it work and accept a weekly 2 hour drive to my office in Cardiff in exchange for a much shorter daily one.

a lovely bedsit in london? with room to swing half a cat.

£200k for that room in London, crikey …

As horrible as living in that 1-bed studio flat would be it would also be paradise compared with being 1 of 10 people in a shared 3 bed shit-hole somewhere, which are far more prevalent.

Post Covid though, providing you can get FTTC internet (it’s in the town at least) it will matter less, no not all employers not even most, but some will make WFH the norm.

This is a point the wife and I were discussing last night. Give it a year for stuff to settle down, and “where can I find work” and “where would I like to live” may become more and more unrelated.

I’m £50k short.

Your own loch and 65 acres of Scottish countryside for the price of small flat on the outskirts of London

There must be something wrong with this as its ideal for many. On the outskirts of the worst ghetto in Scotland or something, or its on the site of an arsenic works or such, but 65 acres and a f%ing Loch too 😯 and a decent sized house, and considerable outbuildings.

We were just about to go and view this when lockdown kicked in:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-77200432.html

Houses in France are very cheap compared to the UK.

There must be something wrong with this

You would have to have a job with zero need to be present. Nearest town is Perth, which isn’t a big town (<50k people), and an hour away so the odds of the sort of job which would make an hours commute worth while are slim.

You would (unless local already) have to up sticks and move away from friends and family, and it’s likely going to be really far away.

You’re going to be at the mercy of snow for a chunk of the year, it’s mile from the road, further ruling out jobs where being present is a requirement.

All that land is going to need some sort of upkeep/maintenance.

So apart from as a second home/holiday let the market for a big house in the arse end of nowhere is going to be vanishingly small, however nice it is.

While the land for that Loch Cottage near Blairgowrie looks lovely, the house itself looks like it’ll need a lot of money spent on it. It’s never a good sign where there aren’t any photos of the interior!

Another 50k and you could fix that right up. on the doorstep of some fantastic riding and coastline. I could live out my days there very happy indeed.

50k to fix that up!? Carry on daydreaming! 🙂

To be fair that London bedsit is bigger than the EasyHotel room I stayed in down there

I just don’t get why you’d want that life – I’m sure they must have well paid jobs to be able to buy a £200k property that acts as a hotel room during the week but what sort of life is that – I’d feel suicidal spending all my week at work, going home alone to that hole not spending any time with my wife

Maybe it means that they get to retire at 35 or something – each to their own I suppose

a lovely bedsit in london? with room to swing half a cat.

A friend of mine had something like that (bit bigger!) for a few months when she was doing her medical degree in London. There’d been a plan to move in with her boyfriend but they split up, she was left with trying to find something last minute and the bedsit thing was close to uni, cheap (at the time) and convenient.

When I first consider moving to London I did consider a small pied-à-terre sort of thing as I thought I’d be travelling back up to Edinburgh most weekends. Makes sense to just have a small studio type think in those situations, plus better and more cost-effective than renting or even using a B&B. Definitely not something I’d want to spend all my time in, but fine for that.

I didn’t move to London until a few years later though, when the kids were finished school, so ended up going with a bigger place as my wife moved down to London as well.

looks like the Loch cottage has sold- the article was from last year.

This is a point the wife and I were discussing last night. Give it a year for stuff to settle down, and “where can I find work” and “where would I like to live” may become more and more unrelated.

I think so, I get a bit more of a feel for the way the wind is blowing than most as we provide IT support and consultancy.

First few weeks of lock-down were just chaos. Everyone demanding all the same access to data etc as they had in work immediately, which is close to impossible if you’re spent years trying to make remove access as hard as possible to avoid targeted cyber attacks, but we made it work.

Once that died down and people realised you don’t need all that stuff all the time and work was quiet anyway, things calmed down. Very few of our end users ended up on Furlough. We started to help with longer term plans for remote working.

only a few have gotten past the ‘talking about it’ point so far, oddly most of our clients are going to wait until everyone goes back to work before taking their plans to work remotely further. It’s not as daft as it sounds, things are still so quiet at the moment that they don’t mind a loss of productively. The few that are pressing on now are doing so because they’re looking at a stark choice between asking staff to work within 2m wearing masks all day, or moving to bigger premises. Saying that 95% of our clients are in Wales and we’re by and large not ‘back at work’ at the moment.

I don’t know how it will go, a think a lot, most maybe will be looking to reduce spending, some will be bold and push towards WFH as the norm to reduce building costs, some will be cautious and not want to invest in processes to enable WFH even if it’s a saving long-term.

Frankly a lot of people are so fed up, they just want things to be back to normal for the sake of being back to normal. I can’t say I blame them.

Friends of ours moving to mid Wales & covid hit them right in the sweet spot, he was gonna give his notice in and she was gonna be working from home. He’s been furloughed and spent all his days sorting the house, packing, removing stuff to storage whilst she’s been finding out how easy work from home is & is now expected to spend even less time in the office than originally planned, should be finally moved by end June 😁

This place, spend 40 grand doing it up, leaving 50 grand for a campervan, as it’s the perfect spot for exploring Galloway, and cross border raids into the Lakes. Straiton is a lovely wee conservation village too.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-74529250.html

Oh my god nobeer! A lacey table cover in the toilet! What was she thinking?! Plus the ceilings are a bit low.

😂

This thread is making me reconsider my life choices…

That tiny bedsits in London are often bought by business folks as somewhere to stay Monday to Thursday.

Friends of mine bought themselves a narrow boat, moored her up in Birmingham, so the husband could stay there during the week while working. She had already retired, now he has as well they sailed the boat back across country to Cambridgeshire where they live, so they can cruise around various parts of the country. Probably at least three times the space on the boat, she’s 72’ long…

she’s 72’ long

that’s going to take some searching to find a mattress to fit.
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Don’t, made me laugh!
Going back to the original subject, thinking about it, my g/f’s family own a plot of land in Eire, right down on the SW coast just above Schull, looking across towards Cape Clear Island, so given the funds I’d buy the plot, which is on a track leading into a forestry area, and have a place built off-site using a couple of shipping containers then brought to the site. Fantastic views, so lots of glass to take advantage of the location.
There’s a great bar in town as well, my g/f lived in the town for ten years.

I’d just like to be able to buy a normal three bedroom house for £180k – £200k.

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