Cheapest place in the UK to buy a house?

Antique_Guitars

Where is the cheapest place to buy a house for when I decide to run away from my current life? :-)

octatonic

Go to Detroit- they are selling them for a grand,

ToneControl

you want a few things I guess

cheap, quality of life, employment prospects, civilisation or remoteness

The poorest towns for which people have seriously abandoned all hope are the cheapest, but few want to move to them

I think there's some remote, old was-getting-to-be-a-ghost town in the US that is now populated by artistic types, I don't think there's much of that here though

Antique_Guitars

I'm looking for remote country ish no job I'll just hit benefits ha ha

ToneControl

you should move to Ireland then

Supply demand/here means that most countryside houses are pricey

In Ireland there is a glut, from the "Celtic Tiger" boom, you can buy nice new houses for £20-£30k, look on daft.ie in places like Mayo

RobDavies

Isn't Stoke meant to have the cheapest property in the UK?

Axe_meister

You can get some really nice little cottages in Devon/Somerset for very little money.
In fact we are looking to move from London in the next 5 years down that way.
For the price of a 4 bed LonDon Terrace house you can get a massi've thatched house with about an acre of land.

ICBM

Belfast, probably. It may have gone up since the end of the Troubles, but I remember when a chap I knew who came from there moved to Scotland about 25 years ago, the detached house with garden he had there was worth less than his ratty old BMW.

ToneControl

there was a very late boom in prices in NI, to silly money before the banking crisis etc

They've come down since.

Checking today, it's no cheaper than parts of Liverpool and Stoke 

viz

Ipswich used to be relatively inexpensive.

octatonic

viz said:

Ipswich used to be relatively inexpensive.

for a reason though.

Fretwired

Liverpool - £1. You have to renovate them yourself though.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/1-liverpool-homes-deal-extended-3008538

guitargeek62

Axe_meister;221859" said:

You can get some really nice little cottages in Devon/Somerset for very little money.
In fact we are looking to move from London in the next 5 years down that way.
For the price of a 4 bed LonDon Terrace house you can get a massi've thatched house with about an acre of land.

It's not that it's cheap, it's just that London is stoopidly exprnsive! :O

monofin

Take it from someone that works in stoke that the only reason I go near the place is 'cos I'm paid to!

thumpingrug

East Yorks is still relatively cheep.

TTony

viz said:

Ipswich used to be relatively inexpensive.

It could never be cheap enough.

Think about the old pit villages in the NE - the small ones that didn't become "heritage centres" and which are miles from civilisation (so, almost anywhere in the NE) or major towns/cities.

Not sure what you'd do all day though ...

sweepy

Anywhere with no work =  cheap housing, Pembroke comes to mind .

johnnyurq

Try one of these.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27156775

Up here in Inverness you can get a 3 bedroom house for as little as £120.000 and fully detached for around £140,000.

Round Elgin way where @Discostu lives are even cheaper on the whole.

Go north from here to Ross and Sutherland and again the prices go down rapidly the further north you go.

The Western Isles and Skye though you can get some crazy deals.

Or get on the list for a Croft up this way and be @VimFuego but paying less for the property, plus you can get grants to take one on in some areas.

EricTheWeary

@johnnyurq can you find me a nice bungalow in Nairn to retire to?

johnnyurq

@erictheweary

That will not be hard Nairn house prices have been depressed for years, not as busy as it used to be.

Nice place to live though especially the wee village Auldearn. There are also wee places close to Nairn that are literally half a horse villages, some very cheap indeed.

Evilmags

Southern Spain is the cheapest I´ve seen in Western Europe. 3 bed house with an acre of land for €16,000 if you like the middle of nowhere. Even outside a big capital city you can buy a 6 bedroom 3 story house for €120,000 with a big pool in the garden and solar water heating.