Where do you live that 200k gets you enough land to grow your own food? Mine was £230k and all I can realistically grow a years supply of in a year is a few types of herbs.
Easy enough. Every country has an area where nobody wants to live. On the side of a mountain, hours away from the next city, maybe on an old garbage tip or an old industrial chemical spill. In Eastern Europe you might even find a cheap piece of land in a mine field. Should be possible.
I really don’t recommend to grow your food on an old garbage pit or an old industrial chemical spill or zone, just in case someone was going to take this seriously.
There isn’t really any unowned land left in England. Some patches that are abandoned perhaps but its not exactly publicised as someone would probably take it if it was well known that there was free land somewhere.
I’m sure there are better offers similar to the ones I gave above for other countries, but for some reason UK real estate sites are really hard to navigate, at least for me.
I’m sure if you include North Wales and Northern Scotland in the search you’d find some plots of land that are close to free.
Tbh I would rather a patch of woodland and stick up a cabin, but you normally won’t have permission to live on your land and if you do then it usually costs a lot more.
There are still cheap places to live all over England and Scotland - I bought a 1 bedroom flat with small garden for £90k in Peterborough (a smaller city about an hour north of London) 3 years ago, and the garden has enough space for a few raised beds with vegetables in them
Don’t flats like that usually come with the worst of renting and owning though, as you usually still have ground rates that cost quite a bit and the leasehold expires eventually? Plus they usually don’t have gardens.
Kinda yeah, but I was still able to buy it with only £10k down, my mortgage is only £350/month, and I’ve repainted the place to suit my taste and cut out a wall to make space for a washing machine (I put a dishwasher in the kitchen instead).
Not saying it’s for everyone, but it worked for me 🤷
Where do you live that 200k gets you enough land to grow your own food? Mine was £230k and all I can realistically grow a years supply of in a year is a few types of herbs.
Easy enough. Every country has an area where nobody wants to live. On the side of a mountain, hours away from the next city, maybe on an old garbage tip or an old industrial chemical spill. In Eastern Europe you might even find a cheap piece of land in a mine field. Should be possible.
I really don’t recommend to grow your food on an old garbage pit or an old industrial chemical spill or zone, just in case someone was going to take this seriously.
There isn’t really any unowned land left in England. Some patches that are abandoned perhaps but its not exactly publicised as someone would probably take it if it was well known that there was free land somewhere.
Free not, but there’s really cheap land.
I quickly had a look and for example in Burgenland, Austria there’s a 1100m² building plot for €50k.
It’s far away from anything resembling civilization, but it is land that is buyable.
I found a similar one in Györ-Moson-Sopron in Hungary, with 3000m² for €16k.
You can find similarly priced plots of land all over Europe. Just not anywhere where anyone wants to live.
Edit: sorry, misread England as Europe, my bad. Looking up examples for England.
Edit again: For the £200k that we were talking about before, you can have this nice 6000m² plot of land complete with an old barn: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/70879656/
I’m sure there are better offers similar to the ones I gave above for other countries, but for some reason UK real estate sites are really hard to navigate, at least for me.
I’m sure if you include North Wales and Northern Scotland in the search you’d find some plots of land that are close to free.
Tbh I would rather a patch of woodland and stick up a cabin, but you normally won’t have permission to live on your land and if you do then it usually costs a lot more.
There are still cheap places to live all over England and Scotland - I bought a 1 bedroom flat with small garden for £90k in Peterborough (a smaller city about an hour north of London) 3 years ago, and the garden has enough space for a few raised beds with vegetables in them
Don’t flats like that usually come with the worst of renting and owning though, as you usually still have ground rates that cost quite a bit and the leasehold expires eventually? Plus they usually don’t have gardens.
Kinda yeah, but I was still able to buy it with only £10k down, my mortgage is only £350/month, and I’ve repainted the place to suit my taste and cut out a wall to make space for a washing machine (I put a dishwasher in the kitchen instead). Not saying it’s for everyone, but it worked for me 🤷