Looking at selling me house in the UK

[scooterscot]

Renting in the UK is a good option as long as the rent is less than what a mortgage would be.

Renting in Europe is a good bet as the rents are cheaper & there tends to be greater legislated protection for the tenants.

I think most tenants in the UK would have a fit if they tried to rent here, here being Germany. It cost me close to €10k to get the keys. That's 3 months deposits, 1 month rent, 2.3 x month rent for agent. And even then the apartment might not have a kitchen.

But! The protection offered to tenants here pales in comparison to my peers back home. And of course the quality of housing on offer is massively different.

And and top of all that I find myself saving much more than I could recall in my earlier years.

[Halo Jones]

Renting in the UK is a good option as long as the rent is less than what a mortgage would be.

Renting in Europe is a good bet as the rents are cheaper & there tends to be greater legislated protection for the tenants.

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Mug

I reckon I spend less than 10% of my net income on rent. Changes year to year, think it was 11% last. What % do you spend on the mortgage?

[AtW]

Wanna buy a nice sofa?

One careful owner, fell off the back of a lorry, know what I mean? g

<ZG in "Private Walker" mode>

You take it back!!!

[AtW]

Mug

You take that back!!!

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Mug

Why?


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[fullyautomatix]

Still renting in Munich. I reckon I'll have spent €200k on rent if I'm here another 4 years.

Mug

[MicrosoftBob]

About to rent a 3 bedroom stone cottage in north wales for £650 a month

Outside London it's cheap as chips

[fullyautomatix]

Still renting, 16th year of me being in UK...

Mug

[scooterscot]

Still renting, 16th year of me being in UK...

Still renting in Munich. I reckon I'll have spent €200k on rent if I'm here another 4 years.

[AtW]

Still renting, 16th year of me being in UK...

[MicrosoftBob]

Even contracts rates have been fairly static since the dotcom boom, as for houses anything south of the Watford gap is over priced, anything north is either a tulip hole or a nice place but there's no jobs there

[fullyautomatix]

Salaries have gone down if anything. Just how people are managing to buy is beyond me. Some have over stretched so much, a little increase in interest rate will tip them over. It is mind boggling what a flat costs in London. Unless you spent half a million and above in Surrey its just not worth it.

[scooterscot]

managing it this far afield is beginning to erode my sanity.

Latterly I'm also considering buying something out here in Munich, which is expensive but not London expensive.

So I started looking at house prices in the UK. My goodness.

How does anyone afford to buy a house there? Have salaries gone shooting up in my absence? They seem massively overpriced.

I'm pleased I can possibly get what I could get for my place but nonetheless it's not a patch on what I could get out here for the same money, which has a certain quality of life attached to it.