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Originally Posted by Leofric
I imagine it's pretty cheap - but it's all relative. Coventry isn't particularly cheap anymore. I occasionally dip into the property pull out and am quite amazed to see areas that I thought were complete dumps with houses up for sale for 120 grand - these are bog standard two-up two-down terraced. If you look for a terraced house in Earlsdon they can be up to 250K, with anything detached/semi being outrageous...
10 years ago when I bought my first house, you could pick up terraces in places like Hillfields and Stoke for 14,000!!! Now you rarely see anything for less than 80,000. I wonder how the hell first time buyers manage these days?
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My mum sold a 2 bedroomed bungalow in Styvechale just when prices started to go up in the 1980s. I can't remember the price she got, but it bought her a flat in Leighton Buzzard, which has a main raliway line to London pushing up prices. Coventry has one too, of course.
Mum's flat in LB was sold on her death and now I couldn't afford to live in Coventry even if I wanted to! So where did I find that I could afford to live in? In a part of the world that I used to love visiting on holiday from Coventry!
