How much does a house cost where you live? - Page 3

Kontiki · May 15, 2003, 23:31

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Originally posted by Albert Speer
JohnT:

i didnt know this site existed... pretty interesting...

Houses built in philly
1960 to 1969 81,148 12.3 % of houses
1940 to 1959 222,871 33.7
1939 or earlier 276,205 41.7

we got some old ass houses...

That's pretty typical of any older city in North America. Unless you want to be way out in the 'burbs in Toronto, or buy a new condo, good luck getting a house that was built much after WWII.

War4ever · May 15, 2003, 23:41

in the area i live in right now its about 650k for a house, and not a nice one either....land value in vancouver is expensive...of course there are better deals out there.. but its not cheap to live here

Skanky Burns · May 15, 2003, 23:45

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Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
... and it hasn't burned down yet ?

I have a cousin named Cindy living in that area ! Do you know her ?

The fires got close to us, but nothing like in Canberra.

I probably don't know her, the local population is 150,000...

Urban Ranger · May 15, 2003, 23:50

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Originally posted by War4ever
in the area i live in right now its about 650k for a house, and not a nice one either....land value in vancouver is expensive...of course there are better deals out there.. but its not cheap to live here

Not necessarily. It's much cheaper in some areas than others. Of course, West Vancouver is expensive, but Richmond is not bad. Burnaby is quite reasonable, and when you go out to Port Moody or something, it's pretty cheap.

War4ever · May 15, 2003, 23:53

i am talking about westside vancouver , wehre i live....and your right, some places are cheaper.....

west van, BP's westside, some places in burnaby, whiterock, etc...all suburbs have their expensive areas

the housing market in vancovuer is on fire...too bad its becoming stackable housing, condo condo condo.

will only get worse once the olympics come.

heck , even on the first block of the east side, property has increased waaaaaay too much

Urban Ranger · May 16, 2003, 00:00

Westside Vancouver is expensive sure. Probably second only to West Vancouver.

Kontiki · May 16, 2003, 00:00

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger

Not necessarily. It's much cheaper in some areas than others. Of course, West Vancouver is expensive, but Richmond is not bad. Burnaby is quite reasonable, and when you go out to Port Moody or something, it's pretty cheap.

It all depends where. I grew up in Port Moody, but on the north shore, near IOCO (don't know if you know where that is). Not too cheap there, but if you're in the heart of PoMo, yeah, it's much more reasonable. Of course, the same goes for all the other suburbs too.

War4ever · May 16, 2003, 00:02

actually, shaughnessy is more expensive than both of them...the BP's are way up there...

but then again, there are 4-12 million dollar houses in a few parts of the citieis

westvan is nice, but has bridge problems which will keep its land value below shaughnessy until they fix the lions gate bridge.....

urban, you ever live in van, i am born and raised here, you have alot of knowledge of the town i live in

Worthingtons · May 16, 2003, 00:08

My parents own a very large 3 bed detatched property in a pleasant suberb. The house has plenty of land around it, and is in the what is called the 'golden mile' - ie the nicest place to live in the town. It is however in one of the crappiest towns in the Country, and is therefore worth about £240-£250k.

Saras · May 16, 2003, 01:56

180 sq.m, 1 master bedroom, 2 other bedrooms, a big space with a kitchen, dining and living room (HATE WALLS!), a big terrace and 0.12 hectare of land, 8 min drive from downtown - ~LTL 600k, or EUR 170k.

orange · May 16, 2003, 02:41

My parents purchased our house 6 years ago for $174,000. They sold the half-twin we had been in for $151,000, which they had purchased in 1981 for $56,000.

orange · May 16, 2003, 02:49

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Montgomery County, PA
Housing units, 2000 - 297,434

Homeownership rate, 2000 - 73.5%

Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 - 24.4%

Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 - $160,700

Households, 2000 - 286,098

Persons per household, 2000 - 2.54

Median household money income, 1999 - $60,829

Per capita money income, 1999 - $30,898

Persons below poverty, percent, 1999 - 4.4%

Sikander · May 16, 2003, 04:25

I live in Boulder, Colorado in a three bedroom / two bath house. It's not large, with about 1500 finished square feet of space. I have about 1/3 of an acre of property and have been slowly doing good things to the landscaping since I bought this place in '94. The house was built in 1904 and was moved by the previous owner from a flood plain to its current location. I bought it for $125,000, gutted it and rebuilt it. All told I put about $80,000 into the place bringing it up to code and replacing all the wiring, plumbing etc. Almost everything on the inside of the house was replaced.

Today it is worth $460,000 (at least that what it is assessed for). I paid off the mortgage last year, which is nice.

Urban Ranger · May 16, 2003, 05:50

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Originally posted by War4ever
urban, you ever live in van, i am born and raised here, you have alot of knowledge of the town i live in

Oh, I have been in and out and around town for a few times

Great city

Wouldn't mind living there.

MikeH · May 16, 2003, 05:56

I only rent the house I'm in at the moment.

5 bedroom* terraced house including a loft conversion, bathroom with toilet, shower room with toilet, toilet, 1/4 acre garden 2 offroad parking spaces out front reasonably large kitchen. Gas central heating. 5 mins walk from town center.

Fairly poor state of repair, good enough for renting but if I bought it to live in I'd want to totally rework the plumbing and plastering downstairs and replace all the carpets etc. absolute minimum £10,000 of work to be done on it I'd say.

Just changed landlords and was sold for £250,000.

*It has 5 bedrooms for rental purposes but we use one of the bedrooms as a spare room/box room/weights room.

Zopperoni · May 16, 2003, 05:56

My parents bought our house for ~65-70,000 euros in 1995.

Its current value is ~200-250,000 euros

muxec · May 16, 2003, 06:11

3-room apartments (about 80sq. meters) 120k$ - Israel, Modiin.
3-room flat (about 60 sq. meters) 10k$ - Kharkow, Ukraine

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 06:51

3 bed semi reasonable area just ouside Leeds £120000 aprox

*End Is Forever* · May 16, 2003, 06:52

Last time I went to Leeds I spotted a guy on the railway track near Cross Gates with a shotgun...

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 07:02

Cool, I go on that train line to work, you get jumpers from time to time round there and you are 4 hours late getting in to work. Selfish bastards, why can't they just slit their wrists

*End Is Forever* · May 16, 2003, 08:48

I live in the nice part of Yorkshire.

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 08:58

My bits ok, i just have to travel through horrible bits, did you see the report where north east leeds was the 3 rd richest part of the UK

Az · May 16, 2003, 09:02

We rarely have houses here. We have appartments, land value is too high.

my parents' ~70 square meter 2 bedroom appartment in a working/lowermiddle class neighbourhood costs for arounnd 105k USD.

*End Is Forever* · May 16, 2003, 09:06

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Originally posted by TheStinger
My bits ok, i just have to travel through horrible bits, did you see the report where north east leeds was the 3 rd richest part of the UK

You still have to admit that you live in Leeds though...

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 09:11

I don't think that is a bad thing to admit to, its not like its Bradford.

*End Is Forever* · May 16, 2003, 09:18

Well, close enough.

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 09:21

Well I like it.

Actually if you smartened up Bradford that could be a great palce. As it is its a dump.

I might be moving anyway, to east yorkshire infact

Pekka · May 16, 2003, 09:34

Depends where you live just like everywhere, but there are no cheap areas here. In the relatively cheap area (somewhere with no civilization) house would go $250k cheapest. And that can be a crappy house too. In better areas, helsinkin suburb area or so normal houses are from $300k ->. But that's still relatively cheap, still in normal areas the land only (not even big!) goes often for $200k and then you still have to build them damn house.
My parents have been living in house they have here for a long time, but now the land value is over $200k and with the house, the whole thing is $390k to recent estimation (last year), but prices have gone up since then. And no, this is not a mansion, just a normal house in normal area. It's sick. Just few days ago it was in news that even our ministers have loans to pay because of their houses. You have to include, that we make less money with higher income tax, so it's really very super expensive after that!

SO basically it means, that if you get a house, you'll have to go to bank and pay loans back for the rest of your natural life. It's normal procedure here. They get you like a prisoner. Makes me sick. With $25k a year I'll be making after degree, you can count how long it takes me to a get house after all other necessary expenses. Yes. Forever. I want to get out of heeeeeeeeereeeeeeee..

*End Is Forever* · May 16, 2003, 09:37

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I might be moving anyway, to east yorkshire infact

Well if you're prepared to pay for your groceries with two sheep and a pig...

TheStinger · May 16, 2003, 09:39

I've gut some duckets saved up, and if ive been given some majic beans by kindly old man on the way to market..