General Chat

In 1971 we paid £635. Edwardian house 4 bedrooms two living rooms kitchen bathroom and pantry, no garden though. Sue................... Oh forgot to tell you we could not get a morgage because the roof needed doing so we rallied round all the family paid cash for it, so we have never had a morgage.

That was cheap Sue we bought in 1972 3 bedroomed semi £2950. That was in Derby we moved there because hubby got offered a job with his brother in law (bad move) and we couldn't get one here kept getting gazumped. Germaine x

Ours was £45,000 in Yorkshire in 1995 for a two bedroomed new apartment. They are now selling for nearly £150,000 10 years later!!!! Liz

£2500 in 1964 for a semi, no garage, sold it 2 years later for £2600

Hi sue I bought my first house end of terrace in 1967 for £2125 a house in the same area recently sold for £93000 Howardxx

£2995 in 1970 for a 3up 2down mid Terrace in Birmingham

I paid £11,500 in 1985 five years later It was valued at £37,000 now its worth £90,000+ it was a three bed semi with garden front and back, pity i dont still have it I would have made a tidy profit!!

Bought my first house for £32,000 in 1995 newly built, sold it 8 years later for £46,000. Bought this house which needed a lot of work before the increase for £22,000 and if I put it on the market now its worth around anything from £95,000 to £120,000. Yep its going on the market next year, so I can buy another old house that needs work. Yvonne

First house £1585 ,3 bed 26 foot lounge, kitchen, pantry hall gardens and garage space, now selling at £125000 freehold Bought 1957. Rupert

We paid just over £16,000 in 1982 for a 2 bedroom terraced house in Colchester. Took every penny we had saved to fill the gap between the mortgage we could get and the price. Sold it for £49,500 in 1988. Put all the profit on another house nearby and had another mortgage and lost the lot. Prices went down and when we sold 10 years later in 1998 we got £2,500 less than we paid for it!!

We bought our first house in Kent in 1971, Three bedroomed semi for £4,800. Sold it 5 years later for £14,000. Linda

1993 we paid 38.000 we left there in 2001 sold at 51.000 it sold 2 years later again for 100.000

paid £17,000 for a 3 bed semi dettached in 1983, it's now worth £130,000

I paid 30k for a 3 bed terrace in 1988. Sold it for 45k 8 years later and they're selling for 150k now!

not brought one :-((((

1962 Hampshire 2 bedroom bungalow semi detached with garage. On large estate £2400. Ann Glos

We paid £4150 for our 3 bed mid terraced house with garage & central heating(much to the envy of my mum in her draughty victorian terrace in Se London) in 1967. It was a brand new house on a new developement in Kent We still here & the houses now are being snapped up as soon as they come on market as are large & have resonable gardens . They sell now for around £195000. Shirley

first flat 1975 £4200 sold 9 yr later, after a lot of work for 18000. Bought this one £28000 21 yr ago. not sure what its worth now. Have a look at this site though it is free.. OurProperty(.)co(.)uk put your post code in and find out what your neighbours paid. Marion

£7,395 - Hampshire, 1971. CB >|<

£5,400 Northolt 1966 J