Where can I buy a house? 🏠 (London, Manchester, Edinburgh etc)

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I'm (virtually) off to tour some property in London, Manchester, Coventry, Edinburgh and more, whilst asking the question: where could my money have gone if I hadn't put it in landlord's pockets?
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@novpriory6624 2 жыл бұрын

I live in the midlands, my parents bought our bog-standard house for 99k in 2001, it's now worth over 300k. It has literally tripled in price in 20 years. Meanwhile my mums NHS wage has barely budged since she bought that house. It would be impossible to buy her house with that job now.

@theonlyenekoeneko 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at houses I will never afford has always been a good fun Monday afternoon activity. Growing up, if a house had two toilets, two stories, or a pool, it was immediately fancy schmancy.

@mikabithell1047 2 жыл бұрын

And if they had a fridge with a water dispenser extra fancy

@heevans94 2 жыл бұрын

Such a good video, the gorilla in that mansion 😂😂 me and my boyfriend bought a 2 bed house last year at 25/26 in Hertfordshire for 300k but we were extremely lucky to have half of our deposit gifted from family, otherwise no way would we have been able to buy yet, to be honest of all the people my age who own properties I would say at least 90% of them had money from family, its near impossible to do it without! Xx

@ellienelson11 2 жыл бұрын

You know you're an adult when you get excited about the original wooden floors being in the property.

@tribbleofdoom 2 жыл бұрын

In Toronto houses are always well over a million dollars, and even the suburbs surrounding the city it's hard to find anything for under a million SO, I will pay rent until I shuffle off this mortal coil.

@erica8645 2 жыл бұрын

truly, I live in BC and you'd be hard-pressed to find a home for under 1.5 million (just over a million eur). just about anywhere in the province. I would cry tears of joy if a found a house for 400K CAD, that is not even something available in the prairie provinces anymore.

@Mayeko 2 жыл бұрын

Also Torontonian, also absolutely gobsmacked that the UK, a country the size of one of the Great Lakes that has a miles of red tape on new building projects has more affordable housing supply than Canada with it's basically infinite room and ability to build winding McMansion hellscapes and HALF the population. Something doesn't add up here... and something tells me it has to do with shell companies, offshore banking accounts and half empty condo buildings...

@erica8645 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mayeko Big time. Canadian real estate is basically just another means of offshore investing. The number of houses that are bought by people overseas then kept empty? Staggering. Also the money we are funneling into suburbs while the core areas of almost all the major cities die... I could go on and on about how catastrophic this will be for land use and affordable housing alike.

@danaikritsotaki6848 2 жыл бұрын

Same here from BC… my rent is more than a good chunk of current home owners pay for their mortgage, good fun

@candace3493 2 жыл бұрын

Hell even some Barrie suburb homes are 1 mil.

@leahwilton785 2 жыл бұрын

Recently watched Hank Green's nerdfighter census analysis, and was surprised to find Leena on the popular list of other youtubers nerfighteria watches! After thinking abt it, it makes total sense to me based on values. Anyways, just wanted to say hello to any other nerdfighters who may be browsing the comments :] dftba

@LunarLugh 2 жыл бұрын

Hello! :)

@cloz333 2 жыл бұрын

🙅‍♀️ dftba

@felikso 2 жыл бұрын

hello!! late happy P4A to you, as well!

@OrangeYetti 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Another one here! Happy P4A!

@issymcinnes8226 2 жыл бұрын

Oh hi! :)

@northenalaska-4287 2 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to watch you move to an old church in the middle of wales and having a bookshop there

@filibusterfirework74 2 жыл бұрын

Literally I feel like that would be the content of my absolute dreams

@LeahandLevi 2 жыл бұрын

Well... turns out we would be much better off buying a house in the UK even with the exchange rate! Canada has gone way off the deep end...

@leenanorms 2 жыл бұрын

You'd be most welcome! 🇬🇧

@9thgalaxy778 2 жыл бұрын

Same in Australia. It's HORRIFYING

@patchouliodonovan9529 2 жыл бұрын

Legit will only get on the property ladder here by either living in a trailer or moving to Nova Scotia and even house prices there are soaring. I'd love to do vanlife to save on rent for a few years, but out here anything drivable you can stand up in either needs gutting down to welding or is no cheaper than a deposit on a house (which I can't afford, so).

@AnnaTalks-videos 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not someone who gambles, but this video gave me the insatiable urge to buy a scratch card

@JessiferHill 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Cornwall and we get a lot of second home owners or holiday let’s/caravan homes for use for the summer season. It’s incredibly difficult for people who actually live here to get a property and it’s devastating when lots of properties are left empty in the autumn/winter. I look at houses online all the time but feel like I have no chance of ever owning one unless things change here.

@ClarityTheParody 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of my fav things to do also, lol I love looking at million dollar homes and saying “wow so ugly I wouldn’t want to live there anyway”💕but it’s almost a self torture thing because I don’t think I will ever be able to afford a home

@katierose6424 2 жыл бұрын

Judging what they do when people have the money to own these houses and they decorate them like THAT?? Always fun

@rachiefish04 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video 😂 It's wild to me how different house prices can be across the UK. My partner and I are actually homeowners, but we recently did a search and found that if we moved up north we could have a house about 3 times the size for the same (if not actually slightly cheaper) price as our current home. Not that we even need that much space, but there was a little part of me that was like maybeeee 😏 It's so true how effed the housing market is though - I genuinely don't know many people who have bought a house without significant help from family, and even if they have most of them saved for many, many years whilst still living with their parents. I despise all those articles that are like "we're mortgage free at 25, this is how you can be, too!" and the answer is always either 'we were gifted £300,000 from our parents' or 'we literally weighed out every grain of rice we ate for 7 years so we didn't overspend on groceries, and we never go out to socialise under any circumstances' as if they're viable options for everyone 🙄

@aShadeBolder 2 жыл бұрын

arguably, living rent free with parents IS significant help from family. (I say this as someone who is currently living rent free. it's a huge help that 1. no one has to do for their adult offspring & 2. some people literally can't do, because of the parent's age/financial issues/location)

@binamc1125 2 жыл бұрын

If you published "estate agents in their natural habitat " I would buy it 🤣

@catherine6714 2 жыл бұрын

'Delectable' feels like the word of this video! I'm in my late 20s and very much doubt I will ever be a homeowner as me and my partner are both on minimum wage and can't count on family support for deposits etc. Would have loved to have seen Northern Ireland included in this search as that's where I'm from originally and suspect that it's a cheaper part of the UK to buy in!

@loveableweirdo9335 2 жыл бұрын

Last week fiance and I found the perfect house - actually slightly affordable if we were careful, right in front of the beach, more than one bedroom. Sure, it was run down, but fixable. Go to the inspection and WELP the house has NO TOILET OR SEPTIC TANK. The agent just straight up lied about the toilet in the house plans. So yah, I got some feelings about houses. (Also where was the previous owner pooping??)

@sallys.2707 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry how is it even legal ?????? 😆😆 Best of luck finding your dream house !

@JoanieDS 2 жыл бұрын

The home lurking is one of the favorite hobbies of my boyfriend lol!!! But! Because of this hobby, he managed to find us a cute oldy house with an appartment in the gargen for 160 000$ ... just 3 days before the first lock down lol. Talk about luck!! This house needed a lot of love but still, it is a freaking house!!! Continue your reasearch for fun Leena!! Maybe you will be lucky too! ♡

@teresafoo 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been in a terrible mood today but this video made me laugh aloud. The “online window shopping for houses I can’t afford” experience really does transcend cultures. Thanks Leena 💕

@atrixa1991 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that I live in the North East of England and I can buy an entire house (with yard!) for £65k. I would gleefully abolish private lets for anything other than holiday/luxury accommodation. I think landlords got around £40k out of me before I saved up a deposit. Best of luck with your goal :)

@sallys.2707 2 жыл бұрын

I disagree with the phrase "if you can afford to rent, you can afford to buy". Buying a house mean you need a certain amount of money already in your bank account (at least in France) in order to have a mortgage. It's not because your able to spend, let's say, 12000€ on rent over 12 month that you can save the same amount.

@alessazoe 2 жыл бұрын

THIS. And the lesser money you can bring in (relative to the overall amount), the bigger the interest rates will be. Also, don’t know about GB, but at least in Germany, the house/property price itself is only one big part. There’s a real estate transfer tax added to it and in 99.99% of the cases you will also have to pay the estate agent.

@lauraserafina5242 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a phrase in the UK because monthly mortgage payments are significantly lower than rent payments. Of course there are extra costs to being a homeowner, but the system is unfairly weighted against people who rent.

@SecretTwilightGirl 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! People say that all the time in the U.S. and I’m sitting here like ah yes the bank totally has a great history of loaning black ppl money for mortgages, especially ones with historically less family wealth to prove them ‘trustworthy’ and less access to high-paying professions that banks will trust. Let me just magically rustle up $500k out of the quarter of my paycheck I’m left with after bills.

@testosteronic 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, funnily enough the money that could be saved _gets_ _spent_ _on_ _extortionate_ _rent_

@daisydog 2 жыл бұрын

Also, I lived in several different cities in my 20s. If I had bought a house in the first or second city that I lived in after college, then I would have had little to no career growth or dealt with commuting 2-3 hours per day.

@deeanndavis1256 2 жыл бұрын

I thumbs it up directly after the cackle, after you pointed out the millennial in a shed. ☺️ Both that fact and your cackle gave me a moment of joy in a very tough year (in length) in which it has been difficult to find or hold onto anything joyful. Rather, anything happy.

@MidwinterNightingale 2 жыл бұрын

The gorilla smacks of 'what do you buy for your loved one's birthday when they are so rich they can immediately buy anything it would occur to them to want'

@puffmaggie 2 жыл бұрын

I get anxious just thinking about buying a home because it's not only a huge amount of debt, but also there's always extra costs of shit breaking and having to fix it lol i would just be happy with a little house that got a ton of sunshine tbh

@Baddylongway 2 жыл бұрын

I moved to Edinburgh from Sweden for studies and was always amazed at how poor quality of housing the UK had. From top to bottom! Big stuff like just expect there being mice in your flat, or double glazing not being a given and the heating is prohibitively expensive as a consequence of localized heating. Things such as low quality countertops and bathroom walls, usually laminate on wood composite, which is a concern when those surfaces are exposed to moisture and the work isn't good enough to keep it out so the laminate comes loose and you get water damage underneath. Also small details such as strange placements of light fixtures and wall outlets, or overarching issues such as inefficient floor plans. Part of this is probably Sweden being very focused on high quality housing and things being heavily standardized. Our situation isn't ideal either but our issues are more along the lines of homes in the cities not moving fast enough, rental buildings being converted into private ownership organizations, etc. We are fixer-upper crazy and spend outrageous sums of money on renovations and modifications and watching this video is so funny because all the photos are just.... Godawful compared to anything you would see in the big city regions here. Are you even an estate agent if you're not bringing in a house stylist and a professional photographer for any home you're selling?

@testosteronic 2 жыл бұрын

Correct me if I'm wrong, I seem to remember something about washing machines being in bathrooms in Sweden, rather than the kitchen like here in the UK? The idea of a bathroom big enough for that is amazing, I want that. You should've seen some of the student places I lived in in Cambridge, the bathroom was always a tiny extension through the kitchen, bc all the houses were older than indoor plumbing. One place had the tiles falling off over the bath when we moved in, had to tape them up while we waited for the landlord to send someone. And not a single student place I lived in had double glazing, and I wonder why I became obsessed with sweatshirts as a student lol

@Baddylongway 2 жыл бұрын

@@testosteronic if we're talking apartments - I have never lived in a flat that didn't have a communal laundry room. In my mum's flats there's always been space for washing machines in the bathroom but I've never had the space for that myself. To me having personal laundry in the kitchen rather than a dishwasher seems like a terribly inefficient use of space - a washing machine is used every few days and even when not in use it is part of a storage solution to make the kitchen more useable. A washing machine is loud, used less frequently, still needs space or machines for drying. Part of it is age - what was the building designed for? There was a massive examination of household habits done here in the 30s and 40s which directly influenced how the modern home was built - height of countertops, layouts of rooms, placements of lamps or outlets - which still carries over. But another part is ownership regulation. I've never encountered a situation where the entire building wasn't let by the same landlord and private landlords as they exist in the UK isn't a thing. So it makes sense that issues like heating and laundry are all done on larger, building-spanning scale, which I understand is very difficult in the UK when landlords don't want to bother with the organisation and financial difficulties of such projects as multiple landlords have to come together? Also just in general my roommate who is much more used to letting than I was always astounded at how slow and inefficient UK letting agents were about fixing even fairly serious issues such as heater problems and rats.

@saartjhh 2 жыл бұрын

Same goes for the Dutch, while I was watching the video I felt a bit sorry for UK people paying a shit ton of money to get something that looks like it needed renovating some decades ago. In the Netherlands you mostly find modernised houses but the prices are even more ridiculous than in the UK.

@dianapalenzuela5298 2 жыл бұрын

Yesss and what about the awful soundproofing of UK apartments?

@9thgalaxy778 2 жыл бұрын

Forget House Hunters, make Leena looking at houses on Zoopla a series!!!

@rebeccac4501 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video, feels very timely! I rent in Edinburgh and am currently looking to buy in Glasgow southside (we're talking 190-210k for a nice two bed tenement flat). Currently have a 10% deposit saved, but because of the offers over system here, I would not be in the position to buy without the help of my parents

@georginahird3211 2 жыл бұрын

Fun video, most properties in the uk are selling for 20k plus over asking, so even the cheaper places aren’t that cheap anymore 😭 we can still dream though haha

@aej92 2 жыл бұрын

That was so fun! I love doing the same in the United States just looking at random homes at crazy expensive prices. But I am really lucky to be a homeowner already in a fairly small city so my husband and I got a home that is only $50,000. And we have been spending way less than we did on rent since we were 24.

@BellaHardcastle 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video! Definitely what me and my husband do with houses in our local area. We also spend a lot of time trying to work out what people do to be able to afford these houses! We bought our first house last year, it needs a lot of work which is how we could afford it and we have just started doing thinks to the house. We can't believe how much houses have gone up in just that time. A house on our street was sold a few months after ours and went for an extra £50000! It's crazy!

@bassoonrckr 2 жыл бұрын

I was a Zillow addict at the beginning of quarantine and as of 8 months ago I am now a homeowner! Instead of moving across the country during Covid (because I do have an in-person job, despite all my farmhouse dreams). My partner and I bought a house in my hometown/current city in North Carolina for $220,000 (1,000 sq ft). And it was hard to find something in our budget that wasn’t literally falling down. But we loved this house and this neighborhood so it is totally the right fit. We honestly did not have to save up for as long as we thought, and renting a house (instead of an apartment) before we bought a house really made us want to buy a house of our own. Also doing a down payment on a house instead of a wedding is definitely the way to go as some of our friends did that when weddings couldn’t really happen!

@Natalanium 2 жыл бұрын

This is literally exactly what I do in my spare time so I absolutely love this video. Highlight has to be "they've got enough carpet for all the floor AND the walls" (made me chuckle)

@lucysweeney8348 2 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely perfect rainy day viewing. ❤

@JustLikeSara 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for giving me the best laugh I´ve had for quite a while! 🤣 Prices here in Sweden have gone crazy since the pandemic. The type of houses I dream of buying normally are listed for around 3 million SEK (~ £230´000). But after everyone is done bidding they end up at 6 million instead. So we have been talking about maybe it would be cheaper to actually build a house instead 🤣

@ifyouseenatalieE 2 жыл бұрын

I always think its worth looking at areas that aren't thought of as sought after. We bought a 3 double bed, 2 bathroom, terraced house in Shipley (Bradford) for less than 120k a couple of years ago. It's at least 130k less than a similar house in the nearest Leeds town, about an 8 minute drive away. Shipley also has a train station, great transport connections, and gorgeous Saltaire

@sammagowen1448 2 жыл бұрын

I did an apprenticeship instead of conventional university (living with my parents till I was ready to buy at 23) and that seems to be the only way to buy a property before the age of 30, had to do ALOT of overtime to buy mine though as the bank would not give me a decent mortgage otherwise!

@TheLunarFire 2 жыл бұрын

My family home literally appraises as 3x what my family paid for it 20 years ago. Is that great for building assets for my family to retire on? Yes. But as a reflection of the market that I'm now trying to break into myself, paying 3x as much for a house on a single income is nearly impossible

@thoroughlyenjoyedbooks8565 2 жыл бұрын

I spent 8 years living in the midlands (4 in Nottingham, 4 in Leicester) but decided to move back to my hometown in West Cumbria (very blinking North!) purely because I was sick of paying rent and wanted to buy a house... 3 bedroom house fro £95k. My friends came up from Leicester recently to have a look. My house is pretty much identical to what she's just bought in Leicester for £240k!

@constancellc 2 жыл бұрын

Lol I grew up in Orpington and the way you said "some place called Orpington" felt like the Keir Starmer coventry put down haha

@TheFantazingo 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Leena. Hoping you could do a vid on having World anxiety. In light of recent events. Love your work. Thx for all the good vids already online

@odhtate987 2 жыл бұрын

On the note of weird church halls, I know a family that bought a church and converted it into a house. Like added a loft with a bedroom and washroom, under the loft was 2 more bedrooms and another washroom. They made the sanctuary the kitchen/living room. Made the stage an office area with like little cutouts. They hadn't done the basement when I knew them, but they were talking of making it a rec room. Would definitely be a "100 pounds to build yourself" situation, but like also very cool

@clairesilverspar 2 жыл бұрын

Lucky enough to have been able to buy at the age of 28. It was only because I was buying with my husband, in the north west (nr Manchester), and we got a two bedroom terrace with no heating, a broken kitchen and leaky bathroom. We also needed the help to buy scheme. BUT! Our mortgage is cheaper than our rent for the house we were in before we bought. I used to love surfing various property websites. I wasn't just judging people's decor choices, honest! 😂

@samd77666 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine showing this to someone 50-70 years ago and how depressing they would find it to see us excited about having enough yard for a trampoline

@natkutcher5150 2 жыл бұрын

This is extremely relatable content! Housing prices in the US are going up, and in my area specifically rents and home prices keep going up (my city doesn't have the highest rent in the country, but we do have one of the highest increases in rental prices in the country in 2020, which is upsetting). I think owning a house by the age of 40 is probably a good and reasonable goal, and perhaps one that I should strive for as well. (PS lol at your pebble limericks)

@abidavies154 2 жыл бұрын

I'm only a homeowner because my old flatmate let me buy him out with my fiance owned the other half. Very lucky to own in Bristol too. I might try and calculate how much I spent on rent too!

@jenjones90 Жыл бұрын

So you're a joint home-owner.

@kerriish3391 2 жыл бұрын

This must be what it’s like to watch me on the laptop on any given sunday, or any weekday during lockdown. For me it swiftly went from houses I desire and aspire to, to “I wonder what they wear if they decorate their kitchen like that”

@evelister8228 2 жыл бұрын

Fave video YET leena genuinely I felt like we were living our millennial home buying dreams together

@isabbygabbyorcrabby 2 жыл бұрын

Ooh I love a zoopla deep dive! I was impressed that there were sub £100k properties in London but also not shocked to see they were the kind of tiny studios/cupboards where Harry Potter spent his childhood! My parents bought their first house in the early 90s for like £30k...a 3 bed semi near enough to Mcr to commute in... I cry 😂

@DreamsAreMakeBelieve 2 жыл бұрын

My granddad bought a house in tooting (sw london) for like £12k in the 60s or 70s, then SOLD IT to move to Nigeria. Same house is worth £800k now 💔😭

@MargaretRose723 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this! Please do a part II 😊 I love looking at houses and dreaming about them as well

@KatheD 2 жыл бұрын

This was definitely an education for me, having spent my life in small town US (where I am, and have always been, part of a homeowning family)

@kimberlysidor9427 2 жыл бұрын

Best video ever!!! Canadian housing prices are absurd also. Our starter home will more than likely be our forever-until we downsize to a retirement village, which wasn’t the plan. I’m still holding out for a cabin in the woods by a stream or fresh water lake in British Columbia. Pipe dreams. We bought our home for $317,000. in Edmonton Alberta 12 years ago, it hasn’t really appreciate much since then.

@LetsWasteTimeHere 2 жыл бұрын

I could NOT stop thinking about that church hall... so much potential!

@merin7286 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this fun video Leena! I love snooping around houses for sale too 😂

@parkgeonhees 2 жыл бұрын

oh this is SUCH a fun past-time i love doing this. its like being nosy but youre invited in

@LadetteM 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that this became a 'politely roasting houses on Zoopla' and I could honestly watch you do that for HOURS XD Also, that Church was super cute. I'd love to buy an old Church and renovate but currently my budget is 'Can I interest you in this garage with a broken door?'

@natalie8457 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Leena! Just scraped through on buying a house by 40 with my partner a few months ago, it was hard work to get here! Good luck with your searches.

@tinydragon42 2 жыл бұрын

I love doing this sorta thing. There’s a castle for sale near us and I keep checking up on it - it’s been on the market as "price on application" since 2016!

@Lucadonta 2 жыл бұрын

Ahh!! Does this mean they're ready to accept my £1000 offer so I can fulfill my dream of living in a castle...

@imbryonykate 2 жыл бұрын

Love this legit a fave past time, so here for this 👌

@regenfunken3628 2 жыл бұрын

The cottage in Cornwall is too cute! Might add it to my own saved folder...

@sarahg3479 2 жыл бұрын

More videos like this please! I enjoyed the fridge freezer jauntily stacked on the washing machine in the Bristol terrace

@georginachard8604 2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to be starting my renting journey in the summer with my first flat, the london sections of this video give me another reason to be happy I'm doing it in the north east :)

@BreakingProtocol 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at London prices makes Edinburgh prices look reasonable (when they are absolutely not)

@madriarc2445 2 жыл бұрын

"they have enough carpets for the floor and the wall and they want you to know it" had me gasping 😂😂😂

@FitforAdventure 2 жыл бұрын

I was so invested in this 😂 Great video 🙌🏻

@rebeccaturner8340 2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely not alone. It's actually a fun way to learn about other cultures. For example, I can purchase a CAVE HOUSE in Spain cheaper than a basic builder grade one where I live. Did anyone not from Spain know they had cave homes? Because the history on those is something I had no idea about prior to real estate shopping online....

@CandySoulAndSoil 2 жыл бұрын

This is literally me every other evening.

@phoenixperson8296 2 жыл бұрын

You buying that church and making it into a bookshop would be absolutely amazing!

@ashleykerr3163 2 жыл бұрын

It's so interesting to see what's available in other countries (it's why I occasionally binge House Hunters International)! We were lucky to find the apartment we have, but most of the rental rates go for about $1,000/month not including utilities. Houses are expensive here in western New York even in "farm country," but it feels worse to be spending so much money on rent and having nothing to show for it so we're definitely looking to buy a home in the next five years or so. Great video!

@yulebones 2 жыл бұрын

I'm 35, just moved to an unincorporated "locality" in rural Maryland with about a thousand residents, and it still cost so much to buy a house with holes in the floor and broken HVAC, water heater, and garage door that we had to borrow from my in-laws to make the down payment. Our mortgage payments are completely doable, but at this point everyone is so frenzied to buy a house that buyers are waiving all contingencies, so the buyer who wins is the buyer who puts down the most up front. It's completely unfair for people who *need* to move and can't rent (which was our case). I worked in real estate from about 2009-2013 across 3 states, and never saw anything even remotely like this market.

@wendyhere7204 2 жыл бұрын

In my country the average price of a house has risen over 20% over the last year. It's insane. My fear is being able to possibly buy a house in the next couple of years, only for prices to drop again (for some reason I have no clue of yet) and losing a lot of money over it. I love playing this 'game' too by the way! Really enjoyed watching it from a British perspective :)

@ayeletrk Жыл бұрын

I loved this!! The prices in Israel where I am currently trying to live are horrendous and getting worse every day, I swear… I don’t believe I will ever own a house, my father told me he’s still hoping at the ripe age of 65 to be successful in his new start up so he could help me buy a house because I have no chance of doing it on my own 🙈 which is sweet and depressing. My ears perked up when you mentioned turning a big house into a commune- maybe you could do a video about commune life! Or how you would imagine your commune to be… Would love to live in community with others

@lotta_kannfastalles 2 жыл бұрын

I also sometimes look at houses for sale on German craigslist. I usually just sort cheapest first, and then you get all the compulsory auctions of huge farms that have been abandoned for years, or tiny homes that need restauration but are under preservation order so you can't do much, but they are all like just over 10k € and then I dream about starting my own animal sanctuary on my farm with checkerboard floors and gothic arched ceilings..

@bookworm00187 2 жыл бұрын

Such a random video. Loved it so much.

@saraatppkdotpt8140 2 жыл бұрын

Great video from you!

@gingerprice9221 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the many lives I've lived through real estate-site cruising during the pandemic. I, too, have been a bookshop proprietor in semi-rural parts of the country. I also seem to have really latched on to running a B&B not because I have any desire to work in hospitality but because I have a firm belief that I could make a damn fine place. Glad to know I'm not the only one with this particular hobby ;)

@dariab2558 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this video!! I also love to do that in my spare time and sometimes feel weird as a 24 y/o who definitely doesn't have the funds to buy a house any time soon.

@DreamsAreMakeBelieve 2 жыл бұрын

I'm also 24 and been browsing houses since I was a teenager - I think there's more of us than we think! (or it's just us two lol)

@blubimnotafish 2 жыл бұрын

This is content we didn't know we needed! Love your commentary. In my city prices have increased by 20% in the last year... Kinda feel lucky we moved into a much bigger flat 1.5 years ago, which is a lot of rent, but could've been much higher. I don't find renting too bad, but it does depend on the quality of your flat and what kind of landlord you've got. And it's just mad that prices are increasing (for rent as well) so much. Seems rather unfeasible for the next few years to have even a chance of buying a house...

@holliebetts8465 2 жыл бұрын

I love the honest shock reaction to discovering how much rent money you've thrown into landlords pockets! 😱 I haven't dared calculate mine yet...

@Hannah-ks2kc 2 жыл бұрын

Fantasy shopping on Rightmove is my favourite hobby

@mariemaier5630 Жыл бұрын

If I could have a friend like you I would pay as much as how much those houses are. You are a delight!

@alexandrax7110 2 жыл бұрын

loved this vid

@katyferenczy-dakin 2 жыл бұрын

My husband and I bought a 2 bed terraced house last year at 23/25 on the edge of Brighton. We were very lucky to have a bit of inheritance which we were able to use to up buying power as the mortgage we were offered wasn't quite enough. And even then we could only afford it because the house had £50k slashed off the asking price for a quick sale (they had got rid of the renters for a previous sale but it fell through so was losing the owners money). I was never expecting to own a house this young but so grateful we can. The only people I know who have properties under 30 have had family help.

@silliepixie 2 жыл бұрын

This was fun to watch! I do this but with Zillow. I live in a place where the houses around our apartment building are between 1 and 3 million dollars. I would never be able to buy where I live now.

@ChloMikell 2 жыл бұрын

As a 28 year old I doubt I will ever be a home owner. I live in Utah in the US and home prices are outrageous. I currently live in a mobile home. The home has been paid off for 4 years but I still pay almost $600 for the "lot rent" 😭 It's rough times out here! Love you Leena! Thanks for the laughs 💕

@thatssojessicaful 2 жыл бұрын

This could genuinely be a series. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and I would recommend looking at house prices there because compared to other parts of the UK it’s very cheap. (Though there is a reason it isn’t the nicest place) but there is genuinely a house up the road from me going to auction with a guide price of £9000. And you can buy a flat for about 50k. And some terrace houses start from 60-70k

@lilybeech9756 2 жыл бұрын

Make this a series 😍

@milkpowell1 2 жыл бұрын

I love this video!!! I didn't think many people liked to look at houses they cannot afford. Since we moved to California, my husband and I are hopeless. In San Diego, where we live, property prices keep going up since the pandemic started. We make significantly more money than we did when we moved here 4 years ago, but are much farther away from being able to buy a house. It's insane. We could definitely afford a house in many places in the UK, though. That's good to know.

@ccampbellmusic 2 жыл бұрын

“Scoffed at by keir starmer” Hahaa he really did scoff it was like the epitome of scoffing 😂

@luciewalton6896 2 жыл бұрын

This is my hobby too. Love this video. Currently trying to search for our first home but I'm fussy on location (and not a millionaire) so it'll probably take at least a year.

@aditimelkote2757 2 жыл бұрын

lolol absolutely loved this video!! the gorilla in the mansion tho 😂 also yes that church hall was lovely 😍

@SolracFS 2 жыл бұрын

That was fun :)

@aliceprobably 2 жыл бұрын

This was oddly soothing despite also being horrifying in subject matter. If I recall correctly Sydney officially has no one bedrooms under a milly so that’s how we’re doing.

@katierose6424 2 жыл бұрын

Australia often has surrounding suburbs well over $1m AUD for a house, but trying to remember that 1m pounds is closer to $1.6-8 mil Aussie which is very much more realistic for home ownership in a city. Lots of apartments in lower ranged but unless you want to buy something that looks like it's one bad storm from toppling over... We rent on

@AngelaThomas1 2 жыл бұрын

Did I go down a rabbit hole of my own because that fancy green wallpaper with zebras look familiar in the way weird expensive designer wallpapers do? Yeah i did.

@heyheyitsJoanna 2 жыл бұрын

Leena, thank you for filming yourself doing my favorite pastime.

@POWWOWKAT 2 жыл бұрын

I went down a rabbit hole of looking at riads for sale in Marrakech last night and was pleasantly surprised at the attainability!

@hannahproctor7161 2 жыл бұрын

You should definitely do an update of this video including Northern Ireland, comparing all 4 provinces with each other would be super interesting

@elletaylor2199 2 жыл бұрын

Leena, you MUST buy that church in Wales! What! Amazing! --- also, I am in the North East of England, moved from near Toronto, I can actually afford to buy a home here!!

@louklake5552 2 жыл бұрын

I love house shopping, too! This is such a fun video. I live in the US and my partner and I have been looking for a place recently. The prices are outrageous where I live! The current average is nearly $600k. But somehow people are still paying cash over asking price within a day of listing. On our piddly teacher’s salaries the only thing we can afford is a used trailer 😭😂

@WaistHighView 2 жыл бұрын

What great timing, I'm looking into buying a flat in Birmingham at the moment - not totally ideal, as it would be a leasehold, but still feels better than just paying someone else's mortage. And I'm hoping near the city center will be easy enough to re-sell as I'll probably move before paying it off.

@leenanorms 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Espen in the Midlands, come and join the team!