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AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 7:50 pm Post subject:

marigold wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

AnnaD wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

how much

Thats almost twice what my 4 bedroom house is worth

Really? Around here we're lucky if we can get a nasty one bedroom flat in a dodgy area for ï¿½90,000! Maybe we should move to Wales!

We were told a couple of years ago when we had it valued that 'we might possibly get ï¿½40K for it of we were lucky', sadly the days of being able to get a house round here for ï¿½10grand have passed, but I saw a couple in the estate agent a few weeks back at ï¿½27k, so prices are still failry low round here although something modernised and 'nice' will cost you about ï¿½60k

Why is your area so low-priced compared to other areas?

Good question!
Because of the prices in this area, we have no hope of getting a mortgage for a very long time.

sally_in_wales
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 7:53 pm Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Why is your area so low-priced compared to other areas?

no idea, its fairly well placed for Cardiff and the M4, I suppose its a lot to do with it still being a very deprived area in terms of jobs and education prospects, but as a commuter base for larger towns its very popular and its not an unattractive area allowing for the town itself being a fairly typical Welsh mining valleys town. It was the only place we could afford to buy a house when we moved here in 98, and though prices have gone up a bit, its nowhere near the way they have everywhere else.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:05 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

marigold wrote:

Why is your area so low-priced compared to other areas?

I've just been looking on Rightmove and it looks a nice place. Amazing that there are such big differences in prices around the country.

sally_in_wales
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:07 pm Post subject:
I reckon a few dozen more DS people should move here, then we could take over and declare independance, (or just get together and eat cake and drink homebrew and do other traditionally DS things)

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:13 pm Post subject:
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/resources/files/14578/ Bits of South Wales are very, very cheap. Not as cheap as Burnley, like...

earthsoul

Joined: 10 Feb 2011
Posts: 320
Location: Ceredigion West Wales

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:22 pm Post subject:
maybe it is cheap here in Wales cause everyone in England thinks it rains a lot!!

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:29 pm Post subject:
it rains a lot here.. but a local one bed flat, no garden went for 100k... the boat looks good compared

AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 11 8:52 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

I reckon a few dozen more DS people should move here, then we could take over and declare independance, (or just get together and eat cake and drink homebrew and do other traditionally DS things)

I like your thinking

Blacksheep

Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Posts: 196
Location: Shropshire

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 11 6:25 am Post subject:
No children? I remember as a young child exciting visits to friends of my fathers who lived on a house boat in the Hamble estuary....with their 6 children!

markjadams

Joined: 06 May 2006
Posts: 109
Location: South West Wales

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 10:30 am Post subject:
Where in wales are you sally? Do you have any land with the property? I am in west wales and you certainly can't buy anything for that sort of money here. If you want 2 acres+ of land you are looking at ï¿½220K+ Mark.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 11:02 am Post subject:

markjadams wrote:

Where in wales are you sally?

Do you have any land with the property?

I am in west wales and you certainly can't buy anything for that sort of money here.

If you want 2 acres+ of land you are looking at ï¿½220K+

Mark.

Mountain Ash, we have a 4 bed end of terrace with a big but sloping garden that backs onto the mountain

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 11:07 am Post subject:
'Smelling the estuary' is what you can certainly do at low tide! Leo Sayer used to live on a houseboat on the Adur here...just sayin'

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 12:12 pm Post subject:

gythagirl wrote:

'Smelling the estuary' is what you can certainly do at low tide! Leo Sayer used to live on a houseboat on the Adur here...just sayin'

Did it make him feel like dancin'?

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 3:06 pm Post subject:
Pete's family's from Shoreham-by-Sea & his brother used to visit Leo on his houseboat (it's ok, he's older than Pete, it wasn't a Gary Glitter thing ). There was quite an 'alternative' community on the Shoreham Beach side of the river for a while. I used to think it must be very romantic when I was a teenager, but some of the boats weren't in the best of condition!

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 11 3:25 pm Post subject:

marigold wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

marigold wrote:

Why is your area so low-priced compared to other areas?

I've just been looking on Rightmove and it looks a nice place. Amazing that there are such big differences in prices around the country.

So have I.
Gosh, I'm amazed at the house prices where you are Sally.

Most of the houses look really well built, and in pretty good nick.

The only thing I can see 'wrong' with them is lack of garden. When they say forecourt, does that mean the back gardens are so steep they're not workable?.

EV

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