Our first home

[JoM]

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62940739.html

We bought this flat off plan from Second City Homes in 1991 for £34,500. Funny thinking back that we were 21 and 22 and paying a mortgage. It sounds so young now.

We had no sofa when we moved in, just two garden chairs borrowed from my aunty which we replaced a few months later with a Habitat sofa bought in the sale. We had my bedroom furniture from home (minus the wardrobe as there was a built in one in the flat behind the double doors that you see), John's bed, a portable TV, a hob which John's sister was throwing out, a microwave my parents had just replaced, a fridge bought second hand from a friend of the family and in all of the time that we lived there we didn't have an oven

We had three good years living there. It was a strange little place to live though. Houses and flats were built around a parking area and it was quite unfriendly, apart from our downstairs neighbour who was lonely with just her baby son for company (her husband worked long hours, usually 2pm-2am) and would be waiting for me to come home from work. If she missed seeing me she'd phone if she heard me upstairs...oh, and she used to play Take That at full volume

[meriad]

perfectly spaced though and just big enough for 2 people...

[JoM]

It was ideal for us Ria, a perfect starter home and a decent size compared to other flats we viewed at the time.

Definitely big enough for two - although the couple downstairs also had a baby and a Rottweiler in their flat!

[Kaz]

Jo, my sister and her husband had a place very similar to that in Yeading, just by Heathrow, for a couple of years in the mid 80s They then sold up and moved to !uton as it was a lot cheaper

[TheOstrich]

Our first home, a (modernish, back then) 2 bed terrace house in the suburb of Quinton, Birmingham, has recently sold for just over 10 x what we originally paid back in the late 1970's ......

[JanB]

Very similar to our first ho, Jo - but we had 2 bedrooms

And it was co-ownership, so we bought it for 8,000 sterling and then sold it a few months later for 18,000

Very nice deposit on our house in Chipping Sodbury

[cruiser2]

Bought my first house in 1960. A three bed for just over 2K near Luton. Bought the house we are now in for £3k in 1964. It is now worth about £180K. Not selling or moving now.

[Kaz]

My first (joint) purchase in 1979 was a five bed Georgian cottage - two knocked into one - in the middle of a terrace of five. It had two inglenook fireplaces, a huge kitchen, two baths and cost £19,950 It was in a small hamlet, 6 miles north of York.