mrken30

There are occasionally concrete pre-fab houses that come up for sale in South Bucks , about 40 minutes to London by tube. 20 mins to Heathrow. Mortgage lenders will not lend on the houses, but they are 3 bed and set in the Chilterns.

There is one for sale at the moment for £265k for a 3 bed semi.

3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Lynton Road, Chesham, HP5

scot47

A quarter of a million for a prefab ?

mrken30

I didn't realize they had gone up so much. Couple of years ago they were around £150k to £200k

Benson55

You can get a house in these places, BUT there is a reason they are cheap.....the neighbourhoods could be crime infested, the house could be a real dump, near big lower class estates...etc etc........you get what you pay for and 200k is LOW LOW.

mrken30

The reason these houses is low is not because of crime so much, more to do with it is difficult to get a mortgage on prefab properties. Similar brick built house would be double that price in the same area.

4 Bed brick built house is same neighborhood $575k

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-49499799.html

robtuck

You'd be looking North of Birmingham for the price range on the house, other than my home town of Swindon - we are selling a 3 bed end of terrace right now for just under 200k. It's not the prettiest Town in the world mind, but it has good links to London as well as the coast and is pretty much the only place for about 100 miles around in the price bracket.

You might find similar prices around Birmingham and it outlying areas, which still retains good links to the SE (I assume you mean by car).