Quote from: SeriousSelf build saves the cost of builders but it takes time to do. There is a report of a flat pack eco-friendly house building that can be put up within a week and then take 9-10 weeks to put in the utilities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4770000/newsid_4773100/bb_rm_4773107.stm

Nice, but expensive! You can get a decent single wide around here for $5K, but they charge extra for pink flamingos.

You can pick up a decent early 1900s cottage in my neighborhood for less than $100K, come on over. Quite a few going for $40K as well, if you dont mind being on the shadier side of Butcher Holler.

I would love one of the Swedish flatpack homes and add a full solar paneled roof and small windmill on the roof. Federal law require power companies to pay you if you make the meter go backwards. Yes, it would have a secret room.

Quote from: maximusotterYou can pick up a decent early 1900s cottage in my neighborhood for less than $100K, come on over. Quite a few going for $40K as well, if you dont mind being on the shadier side of Butcher Holler.

that is shocking

where I live it costs about $500k - $600k for a one - two bedroomed flat

not surprisingly Im living in a very small box room in a shared house & am moving a bit further out next month

Living In London is very expensive ATM, either wait until the next Tory Government starts boom and bust again or get onto Blair to kick out all the illegal imigrants

TBH what would have been regarded as rock bottom in Newcastle with house values below Ã,£18K in the early 1990s are selling for Ã,£50K.

Dave it might pay to have a look at auctions and the prices there.

maxi, is the authentic bullet hole ventilation compulsory in a $40K place?  

Kicking out illegal immigrants wouldnt do much tbh... aside from lower the price of buy to lets in the sh*tter areas. Anyway there are plenty of legal immigrants from eastern europe to take thier place these days.

tis the rich US investment bankers youd need to kick out to lower house prices - house prices in the expensive areas are pretty much down to people like them