Looking at houses I will never afford has always been a good fun Monday afternoon activity. Growing up, if a house had two toilets, two stories, or a pool, it was immediately fancy schmancy.
Recently watched Hank Green's nerdfighter census analysis, and was surprised to find Leena on the popular list of other youtubers nerfighteria watches! After thinking abt it, it makes total sense to me based on values. Anyways, just wanted to say hello to any other nerdfighters who may be browsing the comments :] dftba
I live in the midlands, my parents bought our bog-standard house for 99k in 2001, it's now worth over 300k. It has literally tripled in price in 20 years. Meanwhile my mums NHS wage has barely budged since she bought that house. It would be impossible to buy her house with that job now.
In Toronto houses are always well over a million dollars, and even the suburbs surrounding the city it's hard to find anything for under a million SO, I will pay rent until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
truly, I live in BC and you'd be hard-pressed to find a home for under 1.5 million (just over a million eur). just about anywhere in the province. I would cry tears of joy if a found a house for 400K CAD, that is not even something available in the prairie provinces anymore.
Also Torontonian, also absolutely gobsmacked that the UK, a country the size of one of the Great Lakes that has a miles of red tape on new building projects has more affordable housing supply than Canada with it's basically infinite room and ability to build winding McMansion hellscapes and HALF the population. Something doesn't add up here... and something tells me it has to do with shell companies, offshore banking accounts and half empty condo buildings...
@@Mayeko Big time. Canadian real estate is basically just another means of offshore investing. The number of houses that are bought by people overseas then kept empty? Staggering. Also the money we are funneling into suburbs while the core areas of almost all the major cities die... I could go on and on about how catastrophic this will be for land use and affordable housing alike.
Such a good video, the gorilla in that mansion 😂😂 me and my boyfriend bought a 2 bed house last year at 25/26 in Hertfordshire for 300k but we were extremely lucky to have half of our deposit gifted from family, otherwise no way would we have been able to buy yet, to be honest of all the people my age who own properties I would say at least 90% of them had money from family, its near impossible to do it without! Xx
Legit will only get on the property ladder here by either living in a trailer or moving to Nova Scotia and even house prices there are soaring. I'd love to do vanlife to save on rent for a few years, but out here anything drivable you can stand up in either needs gutting down to welding or is no cheaper than a deposit on a house (which I can't afford, so).
I live in Cornwall and we get a lot of second home owners or holiday let’s/caravan homes for use for the summer season. It’s incredibly difficult for people who actually live here to get a property and it’s devastating when lots of properties are left empty in the autumn/winter. I look at houses online all the time but feel like I have no chance of ever owning one unless things change here.
Love this video 😂 It's wild to me how different house prices can be across the UK. My partner and I are actually homeowners, but we recently did a search and found that if we moved up north we could have a house about 3 times the size for the same (if not actually slightly cheaper) price as our current home. Not that we even need that much space, but there was a little part of me that was like maybeeee 😏 It's so true how effed the housing market is though - I genuinely don't know many people who have bought a house without significant help from family, and even if they have most of them saved for many, many years whilst still living with their parents. I despise all those articles that are like "we're mortgage free at 25, this is how you can be, too!" and the answer is always either 'we were gifted £300,000 from our parents' or 'we literally weighed out every grain of rice we ate for 7 years so we didn't overspend on groceries, and we never go out to socialise under any circumstances' as if they're viable options for everyone 🙄
arguably, living rent free with parents IS significant help from family. (I say this as someone who is currently living rent free. it's a huge help that 1. no one has to do for their adult offspring & 2. some people literally can't do, because of the parent's age/financial issues/location)
This is one of my fav things to do also, lol I love looking at million dollar homes and saying “wow so ugly I wouldn’t want to live there anyway”💕but it’s almost a self torture thing because I don’t think I will ever be able to afford a home
The home lurking is one of the favorite hobbies of my boyfriend lol!!! But! Because of this hobby, he managed to find us a cute oldy house with an appartment in the gargen for 160 000$ ... just 3 days before the first lock down lol. Talk about luck!! This house needed a lot of love but still, it is a freaking house!!! Continue your reasearch for fun Leena!! Maybe you will be lucky too! ♡
Last week fiance and I found the perfect house - actually slightly affordable if we were careful, right in front of the beach, more than one bedroom. Sure, it was run down, but fixable. Go to the inspection and WELP the house has NO TOILET OR SEPTIC TANK. The agent just straight up lied about the toilet in the house plans. So yah, I got some feelings about houses. (Also where was the previous owner pooping??)
I thumbs it up directly after the cackle, after you pointed out the millennial in a shed. ☺️ Both that fact and your cackle gave me a moment of joy in a very tough year (in length) in which it has been difficult to find or hold onto anything joyful. Rather, anything happy.
I disagree with the phrase "if you can afford to rent, you can afford to buy". Buying a house mean you need a certain amount of money already in your bank account (at least in France) in order to have a mortgage. It's not because your able to spend, let's say, 12000€ on rent over 12 month that you can save the same amount.
THIS. And the lesser money you can bring in (relative to the overall amount), the bigger the interest rates will be. Also, don’t know about GB, but at least in Germany, the house/property price itself is only one big part. There’s a real estate transfer tax added to it and in 99.99% of the cases you will also have to pay the estate agent.
It’s a phrase in the UK because monthly mortgage payments are significantly lower than rent payments. Of course there are extra costs to being a homeowner, but the system is unfairly weighted against people who rent.
Totally agree! People say that all the time in the U.S. and I’m sitting here like ah yes the bank totally has a great history of loaning black ppl money for mortgages, especially ones with historically less family wealth to prove them ‘trustworthy’ and less access to high-paying professions that banks will trust. Let me just magically rustle up $500k out of the quarter of my paycheck I’m left with after bills.
Also, I lived in several different cities in my 20s. If I had bought a house in the first or second city that I lived in after college, then I would have had little to no career growth or dealt with commuting 2-3 hours per day.
'Delectable' feels like the word of this video! I'm in my late 20s and very much doubt I will ever be a homeowner as me and my partner are both on minimum wage and can't count on family support for deposits etc. Would have loved to have seen Northern Ireland included in this search as that's where I'm from originally and suspect that it's a cheaper part of the UK to buy in!
I'm so happy that I live in the North East of England and I can buy an entire house (with yard!) for £65k. I would gleefully abolish private lets for anything other than holiday/luxury accommodation. I think landlords got around £40k out of me before I saved up a deposit. Best of luck with your goal :)
I’ve been in a terrible mood today but this video made me laugh aloud. The “online window shopping for houses I can’t afford” experience really does transcend cultures. Thanks Leena 💕
I moved to Edinburgh from Sweden for studies and was always amazed at how poor quality of housing the UK had. From top to bottom! Big stuff like just expect there being mice in your flat, or double glazing not being a given and the heating is prohibitively expensive as a consequence of localized heating. Things such as low quality countertops and bathroom walls, usually laminate on wood composite, which is a concern when those surfaces are exposed to moisture and the work isn't good enough to keep it out so the laminate comes loose and you get water damage underneath. Also small details such as strange placements of light fixtures and wall outlets, or overarching issues such as inefficient floor plans. Part of this is probably Sweden being very focused on high quality housing and things being heavily standardized. Our situation isn't ideal either but our issues are more along the lines of homes in the cities not moving fast enough, rental buildings being converted into private ownership organizations, etc. We are fixer-upper crazy and spend outrageous sums of money on renovations and modifications and watching this video is so funny because all the photos are just.... Godawful compared to anything you would see in the big city regions here. Are you even an estate agent if you're not bringing in a house stylist and a professional photographer for any home you're selling?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I seem to remember something about washing machines being in bathrooms in Sweden, rather than the kitchen like here in the UK? The idea of a bathroom big enough for that is amazing, I want that. You should've seen some of the student places I lived in in Cambridge, the bathroom was always a tiny extension through the kitchen, bc all the houses were older than indoor plumbing. One place had the tiles falling off over the bath when we moved in, had to tape them up while we waited for the landlord to send someone. And not a single student place I lived in had double glazing, and I wonder why I became obsessed with sweatshirts as a student lol
@@testosteronic if we're talking apartments - I have never lived in a flat that didn't have a communal laundry room. In my mum's flats there's always been space for washing machines in the bathroom but I've never had the space for that myself. To me having personal laundry in the kitchen rather than a dishwasher seems like a terribly inefficient use of space - a washing machine is used every few days and even when not in use it is part of a storage solution to make the kitchen more useable. A washing machine is loud, used less frequently, still needs space or machines for drying. Part of it is age - what was the building designed for? There was a massive examination of household habits done here in the 30s and 40s which directly influenced how the modern home was built - height of countertops, layouts of rooms, placements of lamps or outlets - which still carries over. But another part is ownership regulation. I've never encountered a situation where the entire building wasn't let by the same landlord and private landlords as they exist in the UK isn't a thing. So it makes sense that issues like heating and laundry are all done on larger, building-spanning scale, which I understand is very difficult in the UK when landlords don't want to bother with the organisation and financial difficulties of such projects as multiple landlords have to come together? Also just in general my roommate who is much more used to letting than I was always astounded at how slow and inefficient UK letting agents were about fixing even fairly serious issues such as heater problems and rats.
Same goes for the Dutch, while I was watching the video I felt a bit sorry for UK people paying a shit ton of money to get something that looks like it needed renovating some decades ago. In the Netherlands you mostly find modernised houses but the prices are even more ridiculous than in the UK.
I get anxious just thinking about buying a home because it's not only a huge amount of debt, but also there's always extra costs of shit breaking and having to fix it lol i would just be happy with a little house that got a ton of sunshine tbh
This is literally exactly what I do in my spare time so I absolutely love this video. Highlight has to be "they've got enough carpet for all the floor AND the walls" (made me chuckle)
I was a Zillow addict at the beginning of quarantine and as of 8 months ago I am now a homeowner! Instead of moving across the country during Covid (because I do have an in-person job, despite all my farmhouse dreams). My partner and I bought a house in my hometown/current city in North Carolina for $220,000 (1,000 sq ft). And it was hard to find something in our budget that wasn’t literally falling down. But we loved this house and this neighborhood so it is totally the right fit. We honestly did not have to save up for as long as we thought, and renting a house (instead of an apartment) before we bought a house really made us want to buy a house of our own. Also doing a down payment on a house instead of a wedding is definitely the way to go as some of our friends did that when weddings couldn’t really happen!
I always think its worth looking at areas that aren't thought of as sought after. We bought a 3 double bed, 2 bathroom, terraced house in Shipley (Bradford) for less than 120k a couple of years ago. It's at least 130k less than a similar house in the nearest Leeds town, about an 8 minute drive away. Shipley also has a train station, great transport connections, and gorgeous Saltaire
I spent 8 years living in the midlands (4 in Nottingham, 4 in Leicester) but decided to move back to my hometown in West Cumbria (very blinking North!) purely because I was sick of paying rent and wanted to buy a house... 3 bedroom house fro £95k. My friends came up from Leicester recently to have a look. My house is pretty much identical to what she's just bought in Leicester for £240k!
Loved this video, feels very timely! I rent in Edinburgh and am currently looking to buy in Glasgow southside (we're talking 190-210k for a nice two bed tenement flat). Currently have a 10% deposit saved, but because of the offers over system here, I would not be in the position to buy without the help of my parents
Thank you for giving me the best laugh I´ve had for quite a while! 🤣 Prices here in Sweden have gone crazy since the pandemic. The type of houses I dream of buying normally are listed for around 3 million SEK (~ £230´000). But after everyone is done bidding they end up at 6 million instead. So we have been talking about maybe it would be cheaper to actually build a house instead 🤣
Love this video! Definitely what me and my husband do with houses in our local area. We also spend a lot of time trying to work out what people do to be able to afford these houses! We bought our first house last year, it needs a lot of work which is how we could afford it and we have just started doing thinks to the house. We can't believe how much houses have gone up in just that time. A house on our street was sold a few months after ours and went for an extra £50000! It's crazy!
I did an apprenticeship instead of conventional university (living with my parents till I was ready to buy at 23) and that seems to be the only way to buy a property before the age of 30, had to do ALOT of overtime to buy mine though as the bank would not give me a decent mortgage otherwise!
Fun video, most properties in the uk are selling for 20k plus over asking, so even the cheaper places aren’t that cheap anymore 😭 we can still dream though haha
On the note of weird church halls, I know a family that bought a church and converted it into a house. Like added a loft with a bedroom and washroom, under the loft was 2 more bedrooms and another washroom. They made the sanctuary the kitchen/living room. Made the stage an office area with like little cutouts. They hadn't done the basement when I knew them, but they were talking of making it a rec room. Would definitely be a "100 pounds to build yourself" situation, but like also very cool
My family home literally appraises as 3x what my family paid for it 20 years ago. Is that great for building assets for my family to retire on? Yes. But as a reflection of the market that I'm now trying to break into myself, paying 3x as much for a house on a single income is nearly impossible
Lucky enough to have been able to buy at the age of 28. It was only because I was buying with my husband, in the north west (nr Manchester), and we got a two bedroom terrace with no heating, a broken kitchen and leaky bathroom. We also needed the help to buy scheme. BUT! Our mortgage is cheaper than our rent for the house we were in before we bought. I used to love surfing various property websites. I wasn't just judging people's decor choices, honest! 😂
I'm only a homeowner because my old flatmate let me buy him out with my fiance owned the other half. Very lucky to own in Bristol too. I might try and calculate how much I spent on rent too!
That was so fun! I love doing the same in the United States just looking at random homes at crazy expensive prices. But I am really lucky to be a homeowner already in a fairly small city so my husband and I got a home that is only $50,000. And we have been spending way less than we did on rent since we were 24.
Best video ever!!! Canadian housing prices are absurd also. Our starter home will more than likely be our forever-until we downsize to a retirement village, which wasn’t the plan. I’m still holding out for a cabin in the woods by a stream or fresh water lake in British Columbia. Pipe dreams. We bought our home for $317,000. in Edmonton Alberta 12 years ago, it hasn’t really appreciate much since then.
The gorilla smacks of 'what do you buy for your loved one's birthday when they are so rich they can immediately buy anything it would occur to them to want'
I really enjoyed that this became a 'politely roasting houses on Zoopla' and I could honestly watch you do that for HOURS XD Also, that Church was super cute. I'd love to buy an old Church and renovate but currently my budget is 'Can I interest you in this garage with a broken door?'
This is extremely relatable content! Housing prices in the US are going up, and in my area specifically rents and home prices keep going up (my city doesn't have the highest rent in the country, but we do have one of the highest increases in rental prices in the country in 2020, which is upsetting). I think owning a house by the age of 40 is probably a good and reasonable goal, and perhaps one that I should strive for as well. (PS lol at your pebble limericks)
This was oddly soothing despite also being horrifying in subject matter. If I recall correctly Sydney officially has no one bedrooms under a milly so that’s how we’re doing.
You are absolutely not alone. It's actually a fun way to learn about other cultures. For example, I can purchase a CAVE HOUSE in Spain cheaper than a basic builder grade one where I live. Did anyone not from Spain know they had cave homes? Because the history on those is something I had no idea about prior to real estate shopping online....
This must be what it’s like to watch me on the laptop on any given sunday, or any weekday during lockdown. For me it swiftly went from houses I desire and aspire to, to “I wonder what they wear if they decorate their kitchen like that”
I love doing this sorta thing. There’s a castle for sale near us and I keep checking up on it - it’s been on the market as "price on application" since 2016!
The house my parents bought for 53k in 1989 recently sold for 191k…. Not even in a particularly nice area. It’s in the St Louis area. Houses the size of a two car garage were well over 100k… I’ll never be able to buy a house 😭
As a 28 year old I doubt I will ever be a home owner. I live in Utah in the US and home prices are outrageous. I currently live in a mobile home. The home has been paid off for 4 years but I still pay almost $600 for the "lot rent" 😭 It's rough times out here! Love you Leena! Thanks for the laughs 💕
I also sometimes look at houses for sale on German craigslist. I usually just sort cheapest first, and then you get all the compulsory auctions of huge farms that have been abandoned for years, or tiny homes that need restauration but are under preservation order so you can't do much, but they are all like just over 10k € and then I dream about starting my own animal sanctuary on my farm with checkerboard floors and gothic arched ceilings..
Australia often has surrounding suburbs well over $1m AUD for a house, but trying to remember that 1m pounds is closer to $1.6-8 mil Aussie which is very much more realistic for home ownership in a city. Lots of apartments in lower ranged but unless you want to buy something that looks like it's one bad storm from toppling over... We rent on
Did I go down a rabbit hole of my own because that fancy green wallpaper with zebras look familiar in the way weird expensive designer wallpapers do? Yeah i did.
This is content we didn't know we needed! Love your commentary. In my city prices have increased by 20% in the last year... Kinda feel lucky we moved into a much bigger flat 1.5 years ago, which is a lot of rent, but could've been much higher. I don't find renting too bad, but it does depend on the quality of your flat and what kind of landlord you've got. And it's just mad that prices are increasing (for rent as well) so much. Seems rather unfeasible for the next few years to have even a chance of buying a house...
Leena, you MUST buy that church in Wales! What! Amazing! --- also, I am in the North East of England, moved from near Toronto, I can actually afford to buy a home here!!
I loved this!! The prices in Israel where I am currently trying to live are horrendous and getting worse every day, I swear… I don’t believe I will ever own a house, my father told me he’s still hoping at the ripe age of 65 to be successful in his new start up so he could help me buy a house because I have no chance of doing it on my own 🙈 which is sweet and depressing. My ears perked up when you mentioned turning a big house into a commune- maybe you could do a video about commune life! Or how you would imagine your commune to be… Would love to live in community with others
I‘m from Luxembourg, one of the most expensive countries in Europe (if not the world) and although I knew it would shatter all my dreams, I looked up the average house price here and it‘s 970 589€ (that’s about £807 000 and around $1 079 500) which is insane! Given that Luxembourg is a tiny country, the living space is limited, and around 70% of our work force is immigrants or cross-border workers, it contributes to the price spikes as well. A big portion of Luxembourgers actually leave Luxembourg and go live on the borders to either France, Germany or Belgium because it’s still „affordable“. While the government is well aware of the housing crisis, it‘s such a beast that it‘s extra difficult to solve… Let’s see how things develop…😅
Just as a comment ground rent and leaseholds are a particularly English thing - they don't exist in Scotland, Ireland, or any EU country afaik. I was shocked when I learned about them after moving here, as it really smacked of medieval landowners leasing out farmland to the serfs.
In my country the average price of a house has risen over 20% over the last year. It's insane. My fear is being able to possibly buy a house in the next couple of years, only for prices to drop again (for some reason I have no clue of yet) and losing a lot of money over it. I love playing this 'game' too by the way! Really enjoyed watching it from a British perspective :)
I love this video!!! I didn't think many people liked to look at houses they cannot afford. Since we moved to California, my husband and I are hopeless. In San Diego, where we live, property prices keep going up since the pandemic started. We make significantly more money than we did when we moved here 4 years ago, but are much farther away from being able to buy a house. It's insane. We could definitely afford a house in many places in the UK, though. That's good to know.
I'm 35, just moved to an unincorporated "locality" in rural Maryland with about a thousand residents, and it still cost so much to buy a house with holes in the floor and broken HVAC, water heater, and garage door that we had to borrow from my in-laws to make the down payment. Our mortgage payments are completely doable, but at this point everyone is so frenzied to buy a house that buyers are waiving all contingencies, so the buyer who wins is the buyer who puts down the most up front. It's completely unfair for people who *need* to move and can't rent (which was our case). I worked in real estate from about 2009-2013 across 3 states, and never saw anything even remotely like this market.
Thanks Leena! Just scraped through on buying a house by 40 with my partner a few months ago, it was hard work to get here! Good luck with your searches.
This could genuinely be a series. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and I would recommend looking at house prices there because compared to other parts of the UK it’s very cheap. (Though there is a reason it isn’t the nicest place) but there is genuinely a house up the road from me going to auction with a guide price of £9000. And you can buy a flat for about 50k. And some terrace houses start from 60-70k
This is why i started saving money aggressively when I got my first fulltime job at 19, and continuing with saving on a monthly basis(23y now). Now of course that money will not firstly fund a house, but enable me to have land for growing food. I'm not hopeful for our collective future (climate breakdown). And started collecting knowledge and experience in different areas for securing future living in semi comfort😅. If activism and political awaking not working out, I want to have the means of living somewhere of my choosing...
Omg the 43 acres place - youd have to have the Wurzels in to sing combine harvester if you did a festival 🤣 (For context; "I've got 20 acres and you've got 43, now I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key" ❤ #true love)
I bought my first flat a few months ago! It took me 6 years to save the money and it is a 70's flat that never had maintenance done lol I live in mallorca and the house prices are crazy, however renting is even crazier so I really wanted to buy. To put it into perspective, the average home price might be quite similar to the UK (I'm guessing slightly cheaper) but the salaries are lower and unemployment has been through the roof since 2010!
Extremely enjoy Cov getting name checked. Also bits of coudon are v posh and it's shot up in price over the years... but some bits are a bit ekkkk (I'm allowed to say that as a former resident of county coundon. However, some would disagree and say I was in chapelfields and just jealous of real coundoners)
Part of my job is writing about properties for the residential section of a newspaper so I spend hours looking at expensive houses being paid enough to never be able to afford them 😭 I'm surprised seeing how fairly affordable properties are in the UK compared to Australia. I feel really lucky I own my 1 bed apartment in Perth WA, but even going up to just 2 bedrooms I couldn't afford it at the moment.
My city of roughly 100K people in Western Canada just had the average home price pass $1,000,000 this year. We bought into the market in 2020, right before everything went nuts- my new hobby is looking at houses in the UK, USA and Eastern Canada, and seeing what I'd be able to buy for half the mortgage we currently have. :/
My fav is looking up flats at the babican centre all roughly around the million mark often just one ebd but the life you could lead! I have owned a flat sold it to do an MA! best decison I ever made!
I'm from near Coventry originally (town called nuneaton), and honestly the prices back home astound me compared to my current location. I've been living right around the boarders of Surrey and londonthe past two years ish and the comparison is terrifying! I know I will buy a house at some point, put we will have to relocate and maybe even find new jobs when that happens! I don't know how any of my colleagues have managed it if I'm honest!
I've been in Liverpool for the past 5 years and as much as I love it I want to live in other cities for a little while but it is one of very few cities where I may be able to buy a house some day so I feel like I'll end up coming back if I ever get a deposit together (it's also a grand place to be anyway!)
Living at home since I started my apprenticeship, and my boyfriend moving in and us having very low expenses is the only way we've been able to save for a house. And it's relatively cheap (130k) compared to those in your video. I cannot imagine having gone to uni and having to pay extortionate rent for years. My boyfriend's parents moved out of their 2 bed semi in Croydon in the early 2000's, it's now worth half a million ... the property market in this country is insane.
It is so sad to see the economy the way it is. I hope I can give a little hope to people, I never thought I would be able to own, but got sick of renting feeling like I was throwing money away, when I looked into it and realised paying a mortgage was cheaper than rent (renting for me was generally 500+pcm). I'm in my mid 20's and have managed to buy a house (without a partner) I live in the north east and have saved up (I put as much as I could away, over half of my salary) over the last couple of years being really careful with how I spend, to create a deposit. The house was around 125K and I'm on just above minimum wage. It definitely wasn't easy but it is doable (depending on your location and circumstances of course)
It's so interesting to see what's available in other countries (it's why I occasionally binge House Hunters International)! We were lucky to find the apartment we have, but most of the rental rates go for about $1,000/month not including utilities. Houses are expensive here in western New York even in "farm country," but it feels worse to be spending so much money on rent and having nothing to show for it so we're definitely looking to buy a home in the next five years or so. Great video!
I decided to play this game in my area and its not a fun game leena!!! houses under 3 million (aud) in my area are all nasty as hell and look like they're probably made of asbestos wahhhhh
My husband and I bought his grandmother's 3 bed 2 bath bungalow that hadn't been updated in the 40 years they lived there. It's on the northern edge of Toronto, and since we bought in 2020 (we got a good deal because it's a family house, and we agreed to deal with all her stuff) it's increased in value by $500,000. We've even removed a bathroom due to major plumbing issues....and we could still fetch $1.1 -1.2 million for it. We could not afford our house today. 1.5 years later. Most houses around us that sell are sold to investors who flip them, or put them up as rental properties. We have a major housing affordability crisis in Canada right now...
My husband and I pay £220/m mortgage and £148/m service charge for a 3 bed flat in Sheffield. We first bought a decade ago with a 'lucky' grandparent death. It shouldn't take a bereavement of a wealthy relative to get a secure place to live.
I'm from the UK but my family moved to Brisbane, Australia. Australia has one of the highest minimum wages in the world, as well as a public health system and a (relatively) accessible unimployment/ disability social safety net. I bought my first home in 2019 at 25 after working full time as a nurse for 5 years. Pre-pandemic the average house price in Brisbane was AU $500k ( currently £270k) and apartments around the city were around $350k (currently £190k). Prices have gone up by around 30% in the past 2 years, so if you managed to get in pre- pandemic you could have a really great house within 30-45 minutes of the CBD, but now it's out of reach for almost everyone trying to buy. I do still feel lucky to live in Australia though, we have some of the highest nursing wages in the world, I have heard in the UK a nurses starting salary is only around £20k a year.
Ooh I love a zoopla deep dive! I was impressed that there were sub £100k properties in London but also not shocked to see they were the kind of tiny studios/cupboards where Harry Potter spent his childhood! My parents bought their first house in the early 90s for like £30k...a 3 bed semi near enough to Mcr to commute in... I cry 😂
I'm going to be starting my renting journey in the summer with my first flat, the london sections of this video give me another reason to be happy I'm doing it in the north east :)
Looking at houses I will never afford has always been a good fun Monday afternoon activity. Growing up, if a house had two toilets, two stories, or a pool, it was immediately fancy schmancy.
And if they had a fridge with a water dispenser extra fancy
Recently watched Hank Green's nerdfighter census analysis, and was surprised to find Leena on the popular list of other youtubers nerfighteria watches! After thinking abt it, it makes total sense to me based on values. Anyways, just wanted to say hello to any other nerdfighters who may be browsing the comments :] dftba
Hello! :)
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hello!! late happy P4A to you, as well!
Hey! Another one here! Happy P4A!
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I live in the midlands, my parents bought our bog-standard house for 99k in 2001, it's now worth over 300k. It has literally tripled in price in 20 years. Meanwhile my mums NHS wage has barely budged since she bought that house. It would be impossible to buy her house with that job now.
I would LOVE to watch you move to an old church in the middle of wales and having a bookshop there
Literally I feel like that would be the content of my absolute dreams
In Toronto houses are always well over a million dollars, and even the suburbs surrounding the city it's hard to find anything for under a million SO, I will pay rent until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
truly, I live in BC and you'd be hard-pressed to find a home for under 1.5 million (just over a million eur). just about anywhere in the province. I would cry tears of joy if a found a house for 400K CAD, that is not even something available in the prairie provinces anymore.
Also Torontonian, also absolutely gobsmacked that the UK, a country the size of one of the Great Lakes that has a miles of red tape on new building projects has more affordable housing supply than Canada with it's basically infinite room and ability to build winding McMansion hellscapes and HALF the population. Something doesn't add up here... and something tells me it has to do with shell companies, offshore banking accounts and half empty condo buildings...
@@Mayeko Big time. Canadian real estate is basically just another means of offshore investing. The number of houses that are bought by people overseas then kept empty? Staggering. Also the money we are funneling into suburbs while the core areas of almost all the major cities die... I could go on and on about how catastrophic this will be for land use and affordable housing alike.
Same here from BC… my rent is more than a good chunk of current home owners pay for their mortgage, good fun
Hell even some Barrie suburb homes are 1 mil.
Such a good video, the gorilla in that mansion 😂😂 me and my boyfriend bought a 2 bed house last year at 25/26 in Hertfordshire for 300k but we were extremely lucky to have half of our deposit gifted from family, otherwise no way would we have been able to buy yet, to be honest of all the people my age who own properties I would say at least 90% of them had money from family, its near impossible to do it without! Xx
Well... turns out we would be much better off buying a house in the UK even with the exchange rate! Canada has gone way off the deep end...
You'd be most welcome! 🇬🇧
Same in Australia. It's HORRIFYING
Legit will only get on the property ladder here by either living in a trailer or moving to Nova Scotia and even house prices there are soaring. I'd love to do vanlife to save on rent for a few years, but out here anything drivable you can stand up in either needs gutting down to welding or is no cheaper than a deposit on a house (which I can't afford, so).
I live in Cornwall and we get a lot of second home owners or holiday let’s/caravan homes for use for the summer season. It’s incredibly difficult for people who actually live here to get a property and it’s devastating when lots of properties are left empty in the autumn/winter. I look at houses online all the time but feel like I have no chance of ever owning one unless things change here.
You know you're an adult when you get excited about the original wooden floors being in the property.
Love this video 😂 It's wild to me how different house prices can be across the UK. My partner and I are actually homeowners, but we recently did a search and found that if we moved up north we could have a house about 3 times the size for the same (if not actually slightly cheaper) price as our current home. Not that we even need that much space, but there was a little part of me that was like maybeeee 😏 It's so true how effed the housing market is though - I genuinely don't know many people who have bought a house without significant help from family, and even if they have most of them saved for many, many years whilst still living with their parents. I despise all those articles that are like "we're mortgage free at 25, this is how you can be, too!" and the answer is always either 'we were gifted £300,000 from our parents' or 'we literally weighed out every grain of rice we ate for 7 years so we didn't overspend on groceries, and we never go out to socialise under any circumstances' as if they're viable options for everyone 🙄
arguably, living rent free with parents IS significant help from family.
(I say this as someone who is currently living rent free. it's a huge help that 1. no one has to do for their adult offspring & 2. some people literally can't do, because of the parent's age/financial issues/location)
This is one of my fav things to do also, lol I love looking at million dollar homes and saying “wow so ugly I wouldn’t want to live there anyway”💕but it’s almost a self torture thing because I don’t think I will ever be able to afford a home
Judging what they do when people have the money to own these houses and they decorate them like THAT?? Always fun
The home lurking is one of the favorite hobbies of my boyfriend lol!!! But! Because of this hobby, he managed to find us a cute oldy house with an appartment in the gargen for 160 000$ ... just 3 days before the first lock down lol. Talk about luck!! This house needed a lot of love but still, it is a freaking house!!! Continue your reasearch for fun Leena!! Maybe you will be lucky too! ♡
Last week fiance and I found the perfect house - actually slightly affordable if we were careful, right in front of the beach, more than one bedroom. Sure, it was run down, but fixable. Go to the inspection and WELP the house has NO TOILET OR SEPTIC TANK. The agent just straight up lied about the toilet in the house plans. So yah, I got some feelings about houses. (Also where was the previous owner pooping??)
I'm sorry how is it even legal ?????? 😆😆 Best of luck finding your dream house !
I thumbs it up directly after the cackle, after you pointed out the millennial in a shed. ☺️ Both that fact and your cackle gave me a moment of joy in a very tough year (in length) in which it has been difficult to find or hold onto anything joyful. Rather, anything happy.
I disagree with the phrase "if you can afford to rent, you can afford to buy". Buying a house mean you need a certain amount of money already in your bank account (at least in France) in order to have a mortgage. It's not because your able to spend, let's say, 12000€ on rent over 12 month that you can save the same amount.
THIS. And the lesser money you can bring in (relative to the overall amount), the bigger the interest rates will be. Also, don’t know about GB, but at least in Germany, the house/property price itself is only one big part. There’s a real estate transfer tax added to it and in 99.99% of the cases you will also have to pay the estate agent.
It’s a phrase in the UK because monthly mortgage payments are significantly lower than rent payments. Of course there are extra costs to being a homeowner, but the system is unfairly weighted against people who rent.
Totally agree! People say that all the time in the U.S. and I’m sitting here like ah yes the bank totally has a great history of loaning black ppl money for mortgages, especially ones with historically less family wealth to prove them ‘trustworthy’ and less access to high-paying professions that banks will trust. Let me just magically rustle up $500k out of the quarter of my paycheck I’m left with after bills.
Yeah, funnily enough the money that could be saved _gets_ _spent_ _on_ _extortionate_ _rent_
Also, I lived in several different cities in my 20s. If I had bought a house in the first or second city that I lived in after college, then I would have had little to no career growth or dealt with commuting 2-3 hours per day.
'Delectable' feels like the word of this video! I'm in my late 20s and very much doubt I will ever be a homeowner as me and my partner are both on minimum wage and can't count on family support for deposits etc. Would have loved to have seen Northern Ireland included in this search as that's where I'm from originally and suspect that it's a cheaper part of the UK to buy in!
I'm so happy that I live in the North East of England and I can buy an entire house (with yard!) for £65k. I would gleefully abolish private lets for anything other than holiday/luxury accommodation. I think landlords got around £40k out of me before I saved up a deposit. Best of luck with your goal :)
I’ve been in a terrible mood today but this video made me laugh aloud. The “online window shopping for houses I can’t afford” experience really does transcend cultures. Thanks Leena 💕
I moved to Edinburgh from Sweden for studies and was always amazed at how poor quality of housing the UK had. From top to bottom! Big stuff like just expect there being mice in your flat, or double glazing not being a given and the heating is prohibitively expensive as a consequence of localized heating. Things such as low quality countertops and bathroom walls, usually laminate on wood composite, which is a concern when those surfaces are exposed to moisture and the work isn't good enough to keep it out so the laminate comes loose and you get water damage underneath. Also small details such as strange placements of light fixtures and wall outlets, or overarching issues such as inefficient floor plans.
Part of this is probably Sweden being very focused on high quality housing and things being heavily standardized. Our situation isn't ideal either but our issues are more along the lines of homes in the cities not moving fast enough, rental buildings being converted into private ownership organizations, etc. We are fixer-upper crazy and spend outrageous sums of money on renovations and modifications and watching this video is so funny because all the photos are just.... Godawful compared to anything you would see in the big city regions here. Are you even an estate agent if you're not bringing in a house stylist and a professional photographer for any home you're selling?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I seem to remember something about washing machines being in bathrooms in Sweden, rather than the kitchen like here in the UK? The idea of a bathroom big enough for that is amazing, I want that. You should've seen some of the student places I lived in in Cambridge, the bathroom was always a tiny extension through the kitchen, bc all the houses were older than indoor plumbing. One place had the tiles falling off over the bath when we moved in, had to tape them up while we waited for the landlord to send someone. And not a single student place I lived in had double glazing, and I wonder why I became obsessed with sweatshirts as a student lol
@@testosteronic if we're talking apartments - I have never lived in a flat that didn't have a communal laundry room. In my mum's flats there's always been space for washing machines in the bathroom but I've never had the space for that myself.
To me having personal laundry in the kitchen rather than a dishwasher seems like a terribly inefficient use of space - a washing machine is used every few days and even when not in use it is part of a storage solution to make the kitchen more useable. A washing machine is loud, used less frequently, still needs space or machines for drying.
Part of it is age - what was the building designed for? There was a massive examination of household habits done here in the 30s and 40s which directly influenced how the modern home was built - height of countertops, layouts of rooms, placements of lamps or outlets - which still carries over. But another part is ownership regulation. I've never encountered a situation where the entire building wasn't let by the same landlord and private landlords as they exist in the UK isn't a thing. So it makes sense that issues like heating and laundry are all done on larger, building-spanning scale, which I understand is very difficult in the UK when landlords don't want to bother with the organisation and financial difficulties of such projects as multiple landlords have to come together? Also just in general my roommate who is much more used to letting than I was always astounded at how slow and inefficient UK letting agents were about fixing even fairly serious issues such as heater problems and rats.
Same goes for the Dutch, while I was watching the video I felt a bit sorry for UK people paying a shit ton of money to get something that looks like it needed renovating some decades ago. In the Netherlands you mostly find modernised houses but the prices are even more ridiculous than in the UK.
Yesss and what about the awful soundproofing of UK apartments?
If you published "estate agents in their natural habitat " I would buy it 🤣
I’m not someone who gambles, but this video gave me the insatiable urge to buy a scratch card
I get anxious just thinking about buying a home because it's not only a huge amount of debt, but also there's always extra costs of shit breaking and having to fix it lol i would just be happy with a little house that got a ton of sunshine tbh
This is literally exactly what I do in my spare time so I absolutely love this video. Highlight has to be "they've got enough carpet for all the floor AND the walls" (made me chuckle)
Forget House Hunters, make Leena looking at houses on Zoopla a series!!!
I was a Zillow addict at the beginning of quarantine and as of 8 months ago I am now a homeowner! Instead of moving across the country during Covid (because I do have an in-person job, despite all my farmhouse dreams). My partner and I bought a house in my hometown/current city in North Carolina for $220,000 (1,000 sq ft). And it was hard to find something in our budget that wasn’t literally falling down. But we loved this house and this neighborhood so it is totally the right fit. We honestly did not have to save up for as long as we thought, and renting a house (instead of an apartment) before we bought a house really made us want to buy a house of our own. Also doing a down payment on a house instead of a wedding is definitely the way to go as some of our friends did that when weddings couldn’t really happen!
I always think its worth looking at areas that aren't thought of as sought after. We bought a 3 double bed, 2 bathroom, terraced house in Shipley (Bradford) for less than 120k a couple of years ago. It's at least 130k less than a similar house in the nearest Leeds town, about an 8 minute drive away. Shipley also has a train station, great transport connections, and gorgeous Saltaire
This is absolutely perfect rainy day viewing. ❤
I spent 8 years living in the midlands (4 in Nottingham, 4 in Leicester) but decided to move back to my hometown in West Cumbria (very blinking North!) purely because I was sick of paying rent and wanted to buy a house... 3 bedroom house fro £95k. My friends came up from Leicester recently to have a look. My house is pretty much identical to what she's just bought in Leicester for £240k!
Loved this video, feels very timely! I rent in Edinburgh and am currently looking to buy in Glasgow southside (we're talking 190-210k for a nice two bed tenement flat). Currently have a 10% deposit saved, but because of the offers over system here, I would not be in the position to buy without the help of my parents
Thank you for giving me the best laugh I´ve had for quite a while! 🤣 Prices here in Sweden have gone crazy since the pandemic. The type of houses I dream of buying normally are listed for around 3 million SEK (~ £230´000). But after everyone is done bidding they end up at 6 million instead. So we have been talking about maybe it would be cheaper to actually build a house instead 🤣
Love this video! Definitely what me and my husband do with houses in our local area. We also spend a lot of time trying to work out what people do to be able to afford these houses! We bought our first house last year, it needs a lot of work which is how we could afford it and we have just started doing thinks to the house. We can't believe how much houses have gone up in just that time. A house on our street was sold a few months after ours and went for an extra £50000! It's crazy!
I did an apprenticeship instead of conventional university (living with my parents till I was ready to buy at 23) and that seems to be the only way to buy a property before the age of 30, had to do ALOT of overtime to buy mine though as the bank would not give me a decent mortgage otherwise!
Fun video, most properties in the uk are selling for 20k plus over asking, so even the cheaper places aren’t that cheap anymore 😭 we can still dream though haha
On the note of weird church halls, I know a family that bought a church and converted it into a house. Like added a loft with a bedroom and washroom, under the loft was 2 more bedrooms and another washroom. They made the sanctuary the kitchen/living room. Made the stage an office area with like little cutouts. They hadn't done the basement when I knew them, but they were talking of making it a rec room. Would definitely be a "100 pounds to build yourself" situation, but like also very cool
I could NOT stop thinking about that church hall... so much potential!
My family home literally appraises as 3x what my family paid for it 20 years ago. Is that great for building assets for my family to retire on? Yes. But as a reflection of the market that I'm now trying to break into myself, paying 3x as much for a house on a single income is nearly impossible
Lucky enough to have been able to buy at the age of 28. It was only because I was buying with my husband, in the north west (nr Manchester), and we got a two bedroom terrace with no heating, a broken kitchen and leaky bathroom. We also needed the help to buy scheme. BUT! Our mortgage is cheaper than our rent for the house we were in before we bought.
I used to love surfing various property websites. I wasn't just judging people's decor choices, honest! 😂
oh this is SUCH a fun past-time i love doing this. its like being nosy but youre invited in
I'm only a homeowner because my old flatmate let me buy him out with my fiance owned the other half. Very lucky to own in Bristol too. I might try and calculate how much I spent on rent too!
So you're a joint home-owner.
That was so fun! I love doing the same in the United States just looking at random homes at crazy expensive prices. But I am really lucky to be a homeowner already in a fairly small city so my husband and I got a home that is only $50,000. And we have been spending way less than we did on rent since we were 24.
Best video ever!!! Canadian housing prices are absurd also. Our starter home will more than likely be our forever-until we downsize to a retirement village, which wasn’t the plan. I’m still holding out for a cabin in the woods by a stream or fresh water lake in British Columbia. Pipe dreams. We bought our home for $317,000. in Edmonton Alberta 12 years ago, it hasn’t really appreciate much since then.
Hi Leena.
Hoping you could do a vid on having World anxiety. In light of recent events.
Love your work. Thx for all the good vids already online
The gorilla smacks of 'what do you buy for your loved one's birthday when they are so rich they can immediately buy anything it would occur to them to want'
Loved this! Please do a part II 😊 I love looking at houses and dreaming about them as well
I really enjoyed that this became a 'politely roasting houses on Zoopla' and I could honestly watch you do that for HOURS XD Also, that Church was super cute. I'd love to buy an old Church and renovate but currently my budget is 'Can I interest you in this garage with a broken door?'
This is extremely relatable content! Housing prices in the US are going up, and in my area specifically rents and home prices keep going up (my city doesn't have the highest rent in the country, but we do have one of the highest increases in rental prices in the country in 2020, which is upsetting). I think owning a house by the age of 40 is probably a good and reasonable goal, and perhaps one that I should strive for as well. (PS lol at your pebble limericks)
This was oddly soothing despite also being horrifying in subject matter. If I recall correctly Sydney officially has no one bedrooms under a milly so that’s how we’re doing.
You are absolutely not alone. It's actually a fun way to learn about other cultures. For example, I can purchase a CAVE HOUSE in Spain cheaper than a basic builder grade one where I live. Did anyone not from Spain know they had cave homes? Because the history on those is something I had no idea about prior to real estate shopping online....
This was definitely an education for me, having spent my life in small town US (where I am, and have always been, part of a homeowning family)
Fave video YET leena genuinely I felt like we were living our millennial home buying dreams together
This must be what it’s like to watch me on the laptop on any given sunday, or any weekday during lockdown.
For me it swiftly went from houses I desire and aspire to, to “I wonder what they wear if they decorate their kitchen like that”
Lol I grew up in Orpington and the way you said "some place called Orpington" felt like the Keir Starmer coventry put down haha
More videos like this please! I enjoyed the fridge freezer jauntily stacked on the washing machine in the Bristol terrace
I love doing this sorta thing. There’s a castle for sale near us and I keep checking up on it - it’s been on the market as "price on application" since 2016!
Ahh!! Does this mean they're ready to accept my £1000 offer so I can fulfill my dream of living in a castle...
The house my parents bought for 53k in 1989 recently sold for 191k…. Not even in a particularly nice area. It’s in the St Louis area. Houses the size of a two car garage were well over 100k… I’ll never be able to buy a house 😭
As a 28 year old I doubt I will ever be a home owner. I live in Utah in the US and home prices are outrageous. I currently live in a mobile home. The home has been paid off for 4 years but I still pay almost $600 for the "lot rent" 😭 It's rough times out here! Love you Leena! Thanks for the laughs 💕
I also sometimes look at houses for sale on German craigslist. I usually just sort cheapest first, and then you get all the compulsory auctions of huge farms that have been abandoned for years, or tiny homes that need restauration but are under preservation order so you can't do much, but they are all like just over 10k € and then I dream about starting my own animal sanctuary on my farm with checkerboard floors and gothic arched ceilings..
i’m glad that looking at houses that i can’t afford isn’t just a me thing.
Australia often has surrounding suburbs well over $1m AUD for a house, but trying to remember that 1m pounds is closer to $1.6-8 mil Aussie which is very much more realistic for home ownership in a city. Lots of apartments in lower ranged but unless you want to buy something that looks like it's one bad storm from toppling over... We rent on
Did I go down a rabbit hole of my own because that fancy green wallpaper with zebras look familiar in the way weird expensive designer wallpapers do? Yeah i did.
This is content we didn't know we needed! Love your commentary.
In my city prices have increased by 20% in the last year... Kinda feel lucky we moved into a much bigger flat 1.5 years ago, which is a lot of rent, but could've been much higher. I don't find renting too bad, but it does depend on the quality of your flat and what kind of landlord you've got. And it's just mad that prices are increasing (for rent as well) so much. Seems rather unfeasible for the next few years to have even a chance of buying a house...
Leena, you MUST buy that church in Wales! What! Amazing! --- also, I am in the North East of England, moved from near Toronto, I can actually afford to buy a home here!!
I loved this!! The prices in Israel where I am currently trying to live are horrendous and getting worse every day, I swear… I don’t believe I will ever own a house, my father told me he’s still hoping at the ripe age of 65 to be successful in his new start up so he could help me buy a house because I have no chance of doing it on my own 🙈 which is sweet and depressing. My ears perked up when you mentioned turning a big house into a commune- maybe you could do a video about commune life! Or how you would imagine your commune to be… Would love to live in community with others
I‘m from Luxembourg, one of the most expensive countries in Europe (if not the world) and although I knew it would shatter all my dreams, I looked up the average house price here and it‘s 970 589€ (that’s about £807 000 and around $1 079 500) which is insane! Given that Luxembourg is a tiny country, the living space is limited, and around 70% of our work force is immigrants or cross-border workers, it contributes to the price spikes as well. A big portion of Luxembourgers actually leave Luxembourg and go live on the borders to either France, Germany or Belgium because it’s still „affordable“. While the government is well aware of the housing crisis, it‘s such a beast that it‘s extra difficult to solve… Let’s see how things develop…😅
Just as a comment ground rent and leaseholds are a particularly English thing - they don't exist in Scotland, Ireland, or any EU country afaik. I was shocked when I learned about them after moving here, as it really smacked of medieval landowners leasing out farmland to the serfs.
In my country the average price of a house has risen over 20% over the last year. It's insane. My fear is being able to possibly buy a house in the next couple of years, only for prices to drop again (for some reason I have no clue of yet) and losing a lot of money over it. I love playing this 'game' too by the way! Really enjoyed watching it from a British perspective :)
Why does Crumpsaw sound a neighborhood from Bridget Jones's Diary? Your table (tablecloth?) is pretty, Leena!
I love this video!!! I didn't think many people liked to look at houses they cannot afford. Since we moved to California, my husband and I are hopeless. In San Diego, where we live, property prices keep going up since the pandemic started. We make significantly more money than we did when we moved here 4 years ago, but are much farther away from being able to buy a house. It's insane. We could definitely afford a house in many places in the UK, though. That's good to know.
I'm 35, just moved to an unincorporated "locality" in rural Maryland with about a thousand residents, and it still cost so much to buy a house with holes in the floor and broken HVAC, water heater, and garage door that we had to borrow from my in-laws to make the down payment. Our mortgage payments are completely doable, but at this point everyone is so frenzied to buy a house that buyers are waiving all contingencies, so the buyer who wins is the buyer who puts down the most up front. It's completely unfair for people who *need* to move and can't rent (which was our case). I worked in real estate from about 2009-2013 across 3 states, and never saw anything even remotely like this market.
Thanks Leena! Just scraped through on buying a house by 40 with my partner a few months ago, it was hard work to get here! Good luck with your searches.
This could genuinely be a series. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and I would recommend looking at house prices there because compared to other parts of the UK it’s very cheap. (Though there is a reason it isn’t the nicest place) but there is genuinely a house up the road from me going to auction with a guide price of £9000. And you can buy a flat for about 50k. And some terrace houses start from 60-70k
There’s a converted chapel in Oxford that I’d love to buy but it’s only on the rental market.
I love the honest shock reaction to discovering how much rent money you've thrown into landlords pockets! 😱 I haven't dared calculate mine yet...
This is why i started saving money aggressively when I got my first fulltime job at 19, and continuing with saving on a monthly basis(23y now). Now of course that money will not firstly fund a house, but enable me to have land for growing food. I'm not hopeful for our collective future (climate breakdown). And started collecting knowledge and experience in different areas for securing future living in semi comfort😅. If activism and political awaking not working out, I want to have the means of living somewhere of my choosing...
I was so invested in this 😂 Great video 🙌🏻
Omg the 43 acres place - youd have to have the Wurzels in to sing combine harvester if you did a festival 🤣
(For context; "I've got 20 acres and you've got 43, now I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key" ❤ #true love)
I bought my first flat a few months ago! It took me 6 years to save the money and it is a 70's flat that never had maintenance done lol I live in mallorca and the house prices are crazy, however renting is even crazier so I really wanted to buy. To put it into perspective, the average home price might be quite similar to the UK (I'm guessing slightly cheaper) but the salaries are lower and unemployment has been through the roof since 2010!
Extremely enjoy Cov getting name checked. Also bits of coudon are v posh and it's shot up in price over the years... but some bits are a bit ekkkk (I'm allowed to say that as a former resident of county coundon. However, some would disagree and say I was in chapelfields and just jealous of real coundoners)
Part of my job is writing about properties for the residential section of a newspaper so I spend hours looking at expensive houses being paid enough to never be able to afford them 😭 I'm surprised seeing how fairly affordable properties are in the UK compared to Australia. I feel really lucky I own my 1 bed apartment in Perth WA, but even going up to just 2 bedrooms I couldn't afford it at the moment.
My city of roughly 100K people in Western Canada just had the average home price pass $1,000,000 this year. We bought into the market in 2020, right before everything went nuts- my new hobby is looking at houses in the UK, USA and Eastern Canada, and seeing what I'd be able to buy for half the mortgage we currently have. :/
My fav is looking up flats at the babican centre all roughly around the million mark often just one ebd but the life you could lead! I have owned a flat sold it to do an MA! best decison I ever made!
I'm from near Coventry originally (town called nuneaton), and honestly the prices back home astound me compared to my current location. I've been living right around the boarders of Surrey and londonthe past two years ish and the comparison is terrifying! I know I will buy a house at some point, put we will have to relocate and maybe even find new jobs when that happens! I don't know how any of my colleagues have managed it if I'm honest!
I've been in Liverpool for the past 5 years and as much as I love it I want to live in other cities for a little while but it is one of very few cities where I may be able to buy a house some day so I feel like I'll end up coming back if I ever get a deposit together (it's also a grand place to be anyway!)
Living at home since I started my apprenticeship, and my boyfriend moving in and us having very low expenses is the only way we've been able to save for a house. And it's relatively cheap (130k) compared to those in your video. I cannot imagine having gone to uni and having to pay extortionate rent for years.
My boyfriend's parents moved out of their 2 bed semi in Croydon in the early 2000's, it's now worth half a million ... the property market in this country is insane.
I went down a rabbit hole of looking at riads for sale in Marrakech last night and was pleasantly surprised at the attainability!
It is so sad to see the economy the way it is. I hope I can give a little hope to people, I never thought I would be able to own, but got sick of renting feeling like I was throwing money away, when I looked into it and realised paying a mortgage was cheaper than rent (renting for me was generally 500+pcm). I'm in my mid 20's and have managed to buy a house (without a partner) I live in the north east and have saved up (I put as much as I could away, over half of my salary) over the last couple of years being really careful with how I spend, to create a deposit. The house was around 125K and I'm on just above minimum wage. It definitely wasn't easy but it is doable (depending on your location and circumstances of course)
The cottage in Cornwall is too cute! Might add it to my own saved folder...
If I could have a friend like you I would pay as much as how much those houses are. You are a delight!
It's so interesting to see what's available in other countries (it's why I occasionally binge House Hunters International)! We were lucky to find the apartment we have, but most of the rental rates go for about $1,000/month not including utilities. Houses are expensive here in western New York even in "farm country," but it feels worse to be spending so much money on rent and having nothing to show for it so we're definitely looking to buy a home in the next five years or so. Great video!
Imagine showing this to someone 50-70 years ago and how depressing they would find it to see us excited about having enough yard for a trampoline
You can renew the lease... Dont have to give it back! But it does obv cost money!
As a person born in Thanet (the district that Margate belongs to), it never stops surprising me how popular Margate is now.
I decided to play this game in my area and its not a fun game leena!!!
houses under 3 million (aud) in my area are all nasty as hell and look like they're probably made of asbestos wahhhhh
That's £1.6M!! Good lord
My husband and I bought his grandmother's 3 bed 2 bath bungalow that hadn't been updated in the 40 years they lived there. It's on the northern edge of Toronto, and since we bought in 2020 (we got a good deal because it's a family house, and we agreed to deal with all her stuff) it's increased in value by $500,000. We've even removed a bathroom due to major plumbing issues....and we could still fetch $1.1 -1.2 million for it.
We could not afford our house today. 1.5 years later. Most houses around us that sell are sold to investors who flip them, or put them up as rental properties. We have a major housing affordability crisis in Canada right now...
In the Netherlands the average price is somewhere between 387.000 and 410.000 € (343-323.000 pounds) 😭
My husband and I pay £220/m mortgage and £148/m service charge for a 3 bed flat in Sheffield. We first bought a decade ago with a 'lucky' grandparent death. It shouldn't take a bereavement of a wealthy relative to get a secure place to live.
I'm from the UK but my family moved to Brisbane, Australia. Australia has one of the highest minimum wages in the world, as well as a public health system and a (relatively) accessible unimployment/ disability social safety net. I bought my first home in 2019 at 25 after working full time as a nurse for 5 years. Pre-pandemic the average house price in Brisbane was AU $500k ( currently £270k) and apartments around the city were around $350k (currently £190k). Prices have gone up by around 30% in the past 2 years, so if you managed to get in pre- pandemic you could have a really great house within 30-45 minutes of the CBD, but now it's out of reach for almost everyone trying to buy. I do still feel lucky to live in Australia though, we have some of the highest nursing wages in the world, I have heard in the UK a nurses starting salary is only around £20k a year.
Ooh I love a zoopla deep dive! I was impressed that there were sub £100k properties in London but also not shocked to see they were the kind of tiny studios/cupboards where Harry Potter spent his childhood! My parents bought their first house in the early 90s for like £30k...a 3 bed semi near enough to Mcr to commute in... I cry 😂
My granddad bought a house in tooting (sw london) for like £12k in the 60s or 70s, then SOLD IT to move to Nigeria. Same house is worth £800k now 💔😭
I'm going to be starting my renting journey in the summer with my first flat, the london sections of this video give me another reason to be happy I'm doing it in the north east :)
You buying that church and making it into a bookshop would be absolutely amazing!