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How much was your first house?

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  • UrbanChupacabra
    UrbanChupacabra Posts: 541
    Depessing reading
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    1971, the year we got hitched, £4,995 for a new 1-bed flat in Sutton, Surrey. Happy, carefree days, then kids arrived and we moved to a cardboard box in middle of t'road.

  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    March51 said:

    1971, the year we got hitched, £4,995 for a new 1-bed flat in Sutton, Surrey. Happy, carefree days, then kids arrived and we moved to a cardboard box in middle of t'road.

    You were lucky...
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Somehow I knew it would be you Floyd! (Or Oggy)
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    March51 said:

    Somehow I knew it would be you Floyd! (Or Oggy)

    or Offy?

    Pleased to be of service...you cross 'em, I'll nod 'em in!
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    semi-detatched in West Derby, Liverpool for $40k in 1992, sold it in 96 for about $37k - our local pub was the one where that poor young lad Rhys Jones was gunned down outside of a few years back.....
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,345
    2000, £82K 2 Bedroom House in Barnehurst
  • MattTeesHeader
    MattTeesHeader Posts: 623
    End of Terrace in Hextable for £6,000 in 1968
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,663
    edited August 2012
    1981 £13,750 studio flat Catford.

    Managed to negotiate £750 deposit. Sold for £15,950 1984 and migrated to Kent.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,693
    I've bought & sold so many times you;d think I was a fugutive.........

    1st - 1988 - studio flat in Dartford for £47k

    Now onto my 7th property - 5 bed semi in Swanley - £420k (5 yrs ago - probably lost at least £20k -25k)

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  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    2 bed terrace in Frindsbury for 73,500 in 2001 aged 24

    Sold it 6 months later (relocation) for 80,000 having painted the bedroom and laid lino in the bathroom
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,282
    1979, aged 25, tiny 3 bed terrace in Dartford, £11,750.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,085
    The reverse side of the coin is that I went after a house in eliot vale in Blackheath in 1973, my wife could get a mortgage on a really great little house facing the heath. Because I was a final year student I could not get a mortgage, even though I had received an inheritance that year....... anyway this small, but great house was regarded as 'old'. Noticed in 2005 the house sold for £600,000, so probably worth £850,000 plus. Bloody Woolwich building society, the house will be there in 100 years time still looking like an advert out of dream homes. The actress Jill Casgoigne lived on the corner as well. So nearly 40 years of house decorating and my present house is not even worth half that. Still could have been worse could have not bought the house next door worth £1.5 millionish......
    How to earn a million quid for doing very little






  • fenny
    fenny Posts: 58
    Marmadon rd plumstead 1969 £4500,
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,813
    Here in Oz, bought our first house for A$165,000 in mid-1999, sold it for $180,000 in mid-2001.

    It got sold again last week for $550,000 - and people say there's no property bubble over here!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,663
    Ormiston Addick said:

    Here in Oz, bought our first house for A$165,000 in mid-1999, sold it for $180,000 in mid-2001.

    It got sold again last week for $550,000 - and people say there's no property bubble over here!

    back in 1999 it was 3 A$ to £1 wasn't it?
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,813
    LenGlover said:

    Ormiston Addick said:

    Here in Oz, bought our first house for A$165,000 in mid-1999, sold it for $180,000 in mid-2001.

    It got sold again last week for $550,000 - and people say there's no property bubble over here!

    back in 1999 it was 3 A$ to £1 wasn't it?
    Not quite, back then it was about $2.5, the highest I have seen it is around $2.80 - the lowest has been this year when it was about $1.58!!!
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,815
    2010, 3 bed semi just outside the New Forest. 210k.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,348
    I still live in my house near Plumstead Common bought for £5050 in 1971.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    £59,995. - two bedroom new build house in 1998 .

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    edited August 2012
    5 bedroom double fronted detached...99 Faversham Road Kennington Ashford....around 1984....£73,000!
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603
    1990 shooters hill 3 beds terrace £72k sold 1996 £63k (loss) bought 4 bed house Blackheath £157k on advice when hesitating to sell the previous house at a loss, best advice ever!!
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,372
    1 bed maisonette £30000- Charlton 1988. Got £20000 off the price, bought it off a family friend.
    Loved living there, set me on a lifetime of paying big bills.
  • blackheathaddick
    blackheathaddick Posts: 1,404
    Three bed end of terrace in Frindsbury, Kent, for 190k 4 years ago. Prob worth about 180k now.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,813
    SilentAddick said:

    1990 shooters hill 3 beds terrace £72k sold 1996 £63k (loss) bought 4 bed house Blackheath £157k on advice when hesitating to sell the previous house at a loss, best advice ever!!

    4-Bed house in Blackheath for 157K? Whoever gave you that advice deserves a very nice bottle of Scotch. I am guessing that even in todays market its worth 400K+?
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603
    Thanks Dad!
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,289
    2007, 2 months before NR crashed and burnt! However neighbour in same type of house has just sold up for 15% more than we paid so not all bad.
  • addick2000
    addick2000 Posts: 346
    1958 3 bedroom house in Lewisham 975 pounds. Got a mortgage from the local council for 875 pounds. God, I'm old
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,398
    edited August 2012
    1992. Aged 25. Little ground floor flat in quiet Catford cul-de-sac. Bought for 50k. 15% interest rate and just before the market crashed.

    Remember next door sold for 20k around 94-95 but held onto mine and sold it in 1998 for.... 50k.

    Loved that place and it could tell some stories. Always wished I had kept it, would have been the perfect rental.

    Just Googled the address and next door (same one that went for 20k) sold last September for 151k.... Bugger!!
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,825
    edited August 2012
    A little 2 bedroom semi in Paulton, Somerset. 1975. 9,300 quids.

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