What will £150,000 buy you in the UK property market?

This house in Gwyned. Three original fireplaces and panelled doors survive in this three-bedroom pad in Tregarth, near Bangor in Gwynedd. From the garden that meanders lengthily beyond the outbuildings and garage you can see the foothills of Snowdonia. The rooms are compact but handsome with three sash windows in the sole reception room. The kitchen will accommodate family dining and there’s room to create a study area on the landing. You have to commute downstairs to use the bathroom at night.
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This flat in Cumbria. Within a former chapel in Carlisle that has been converted into flats, £150,000 funds two bedrooms on the second floor. Dramatic beams and trusses dominate the vaulted rooms, the downside of which are Velux windows which restrict the view of the communal gardens. There’s a bathroom for each double bedroom and a large open-plan living and kitchen area with a fireplace.
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This three-bedroom cottage in East Anglia. Transplant this property to one of Suffolk’s coveted coastal villages and you’d have to double your budget. Because it’s in the seaside town of Lowestoft, on a busy main road near the industrial sites along the estuary, and because most people would wish to replace the vivid swirly carpets, it’s £150,000. Although it’s svelte, there’s a separate dining room off the galley kitchen, a cellar and the three bedrooms are doubles. A long front lawn buffers it from the A146 and there’s allocated parking behind the back garden.
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This house in Plymouth. Just over half a mile from the town’s main station and a couple of minutes' walk from the waterfront, this four-bedroom house needs refurbishment, hence the amount of space for the money. It’s spread over four storeys with the kitchen and one reception room in the basement, two more ground-floor receptions and the bedrooms in pairs over the upper levels. Oddly someone has turned the dining room into an immense bathroom and removed the bath from the upstairs bathroom (once a fifth bedroom). The garden is the downside, being a small courtyard. At auction on 17 June.
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This end-of-terrace in Southampton. In the suburbs of the city is this good-looking three-bedroom home. If you can live with textured walls and ceilings and fake wooden beams you can move straight in and rejoice in a revamped, albeit ground-floor bathroom, a polycarbonate conservatory and a secluded back garden. Two of the bedrooms are less than two-and-a-half metres wide and there’s only one modest reception, which will have to accommodate your dining table given the compactness of the kitchen.
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