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Best value/most interesting property for least cash in the UK

stevec67 said:
I love the fact that we are offering David 4 bed family homes, when I met him he had no children, certainly none living with him, and he lived alone. What's he want with 4 beds in a retirement home?

Back OT, David lives in York. How do you like the villages to the North, say Easingwold area? Less going on than York but nice places. You can get more for your money elsewhere but there's a reason for that.
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I have a Daughter that lives with me and I can’t see her moving out any time soon. I might even forget how mercilessly evil women are and give that another go in the future.
 
There are lots of nice houses in the Scottish borders for not much cash, and some of them not too far from Edinburgh or Glasgow if you're mostly working from home with the occasional trip to the office. Here are a few around Melrose and Moffat, which are both nice towns in great countryside:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-84541714.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73005256.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-81651217.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-74119780.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-83442136.html
 
My main requirements for a retirement residence are a decent sized listening room and some kind of workshops/outbuildings for tinkering. This often only comes with larger properties.
 
andyoz said:
Trick is to live outside Belfast etc. We are on the east coast half way between Dublin and Belfast and to be honest no one gives a toss about all that shite....my kids certainly don't come across any of it.
I saw more silly violence back in Oz and England than I have seen here. Now 25+ years ago was different here of course. Belfast will never have the buzz of Dublin, London... but it won't have the prices either...

But back onto property value, rental yields tell you alot about the 'real' value of property. It encompasses what actual people can pay in rent so indirectly tracks property prices versus wages, etc. Nth Ireland is normally near the top and gross yields of 8% or more aren't that hard to find.
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Had a brief look at a few and my initial impression was depressing: is that just the photos, the furniture or are they depressing ?
 
wacko said:
Had a brief look at a few and my initial impression was depressing: is that just the photos, the furniture or are they depressing ?
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There's lots of shite trust me!
80% of here I wouldn't touch to be honest. We're on Carlingford Lough

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wacko said:
^ about as close to the border as possible...
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Yeah, on the east coast but still relatively undeveloped here - living in the 'real' rural Ireland would do my head in....you should have seen the prices here 2009-2011 - complete carnage!
 
david ellwood said:
My main requirements for a retirement residence are a decent sized listening room and some kind of workshops/outbuildings for tinkering. This often only comes with larger properties.
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Yes, a difficult brief. Nobody is going to attach a 6m x 6m garage to a 2 bed bungalow, nobody is going to have a big lounge in a small house when you could steal 3m x 2m and call it a bedroom and kerching up goes the value.
 
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