General Chat

1969 paid £1200 for two up two down cottage with loo at bottom of garden,sold this for £1800,bought new three bedroom house for £4,500,sold this for £10,500,bought next house for 11,750,current value £180.000. Brenda

1 BEDROOMED FLAT IN GLASGOW-1974- £3,500 sold it 4 years later for £7050. BOUGHT THIS FLAT OVER 2 FLOORS -2 BEDROOMS, 2 PUBLIC ROOMS AND GARDEN IN TERRACED CONVERSION FOR £11,000 IN 1978-NOW WORTH PROBABLY nearly £200,000. Rosalyn

£1,800 in 1948. In Leytonstone, East London as property was cheaper there. Got my present shack in the Chilterns for £6k, now valued at £300k Len

Bought our previous house 2 up 2 down, at the back of Thorpe Park in 1981 for £25,000, sold it 7 years later for £66,000 (cash buyer into the bargain!), they are now going for £195,000! Purchased this one, as we are still in it from 1987, for £87,000, now worth £275,000. Love this house and area, so will be staying put for a lot more years yet! Kim

We paid £80K for our first house together in June 1998, 4 bedroomed Victorian Terrraced house. Sold it after exactly five years to the day, last June, for £265K. Yes that is the truth, we have been very lucky. Down sized and bought semi for £201K. Doubt if it has gone up much since being here though. Jenny.

£42,000 for a 1930s mid-terrace 3-bed house with a long garden. Bought in 1986. We rented it out for a year when we bought our current house (£205,000) five years ago this week. We sold it for £120,000. This is about the amount my husband and his brother got after his parents died and they sold the family home - but that house (semi-detached 1950s, small garden) cost £1,000 in 1953! M-i-l remembers thinking 3% interest on the mortgage was extortionate. Husband and I were paying about 15% in the 1980s!!! nell

Bought my first house 12 years ago for £115,000, now worth over £325,000 - result!

In 1964 my parents paid £3600 for their Essex semi. They couldn't afford the one they really wanted as it was £4000. They're still living in it now and hoping to sell it next year to move closer to us. I think they're in for quite a nice surprise - until they see the price of the houses here! Daisy

£5,400 Northolt 1966 J

£7,395 - Hampshire, 1971. CB >|<

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

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

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

not brought one :-((((

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

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

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

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

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!!

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