20 18 basic types of houses in Britain

People who buy a house in Britain will definitely care about their own house types, so what are the types of houses in Britain? This is a problem that many people care about. Let's know the basic types of houses in Britain. Welcome to reading.

Basic types of houses in Britain

I heard a joke a long time ago: The happiest man in the world lives in an English house, takes an American salary, marries a Japanese wife and has a China chef. The most unfortunate man is living in a Japanese house with China's salary, marrying an American wife and having an English chef. I always think this joke is very vivid, especially after living in Britain for more than four years, and I think the houses in Britain are really worthy of the name and different.

I have lived in England for four and a half years and changed five places. I move almost every year, and every time I move, find a house or rent a house, I always encounter a lot of trouble. So after starting work, I hope to have a relatively stable residence more and more. So in the past four months, I have been paying special attention to the British real estate market. House prices in Britain have doubled in the past five years, and increased by 3-5 times in the past 12 years. Although British housing prices did not continue to rise since the end of last year because of the decline in the US housing market, they have definitely not declined. So looking at high housing prices really gives me a headache.

Talking about houses in Britain for the first time, let's talk about the basic differences between the types of houses in Britain and buying houses in China. Let's talk about the difference first. The housing market in China is basically divided into new houses and second-hand houses (I haven't stayed in China for a few years, which is my impression). Different from China, more than 95% of the housing market in Britain is old houses, and newly-built houses are a minority. Unlike people in China, the chances of British natives buying a new house are almost zero. I may buy a new house to invest and rent, but I live very little. Because the old houses in Britain are of good quality and have large gardens, if you can buy a Victorian house, you will usually have a big living room with a high roof, which makes you feel very bright when you enter the house. So the older the house in England, the more valuable it is. 17- 18 th century there were many good houses that sold for more than one million pounds.

The second difference is that the houses in China are basically the same, and they all look alike (I made a joke when I returned to China that I couldn't find my own door! For example, except in recent years, all houses in Britain were built by the same developer. Basically, every house has its own characteristics. Relatively speaking, the selectivity is much higher than that in China. I used to think that the town where I live now is very shabby and underdeveloped, and rich people will definitely not choose to live here. After I began to pay attention to houses, I found that even in bad towns, there are actually millions of pounds or more very high-end houses. For example, there are two roads in our town, Victoria Road and St. Thomas Road. Most of the houses here are around 500 thousand pounds. Go to those two streets and see the quality of the houses there and the cars parked outside. Suddenly I feel that there are many rich people in a rotten town like trowbridge! Another big difference between China and other countries is that houses here are not sold in pounds per square meter. It is precisely because each house has its own characteristics, so the house is sold by the house, and there are many reasons that affect the house price. The age, decoration, living environment, surrounding environment, garden size, internal facilities, area, decoration and many other factors will lead to the price of a house.

Let me talk about the basic types of houses in Britain. The first category: detached houses, the so-called single-family villas, have their own gardens and garages. As shown below.

The second category: semi-detached houses (I don't know how to say it in Chinese), that is to say, a house will have two houses, but it will also have its own garage and garden (some semi-detached houses may not have a garage, depending on the house), as shown below:

The third category: townhouses, that is, a row of houses as shown below is called townhouses. Some people translate it as "townhouse", and I don't know what Chinese is. The house in the middle of a row of houses is called the middle row house (that is, there will be a wall between you and your neighbors on both sides), and the last house in a row of houses is called the end row house, which is separated from your neighbors by a wall. Most of these houses have no garage or small garden.

The fourth category: bungalows, which are also independent and unique (unless designated as semi-detached bungalows, they will be separated from their neighbors by a wall). It differs from detached houses in that it has only one floor.

In the case of the same basic conditions, I mean that if they are all in the same geographical location, the same street, and there is little difference in the interior of the house, the bungalow is the most expensive, followed by single-family, semi-single-family and terrace. In fact, I have never understood why bungalows are so expensive. I once asked the British, and they couldn't explain why, but LG once told me that bungalows are expensive because of the same living area. It's only one floor larger than the detached two floors, and the land in Britain is also very expensive. In addition, there are two ways to buy a house in the UK: freehold and lease. Lifelong tenure means that you buy the land occupied by the house at the same time, while the leasehold only buys the house, not the land. But most houses in Britain are kept for life, so first-time buyers should pay attention to this problem.

The price is basically as mentioned above, but the real price of buying a house depends largely on the number of bedrooms, bedroom area and decoration, garden area, kitchen area and decoration, so it cannot be said that a single-family house is definitely more expensive than a semi-single-family house. Or terraces must be cheaper than detached houses. For example, the following three-bedroom townhouse costs 225,000, and the three-bedroom single-family house costs 265,438+04,950, because the interior decoration is different and the bedroom size is different. It is precisely because there are so many different houses in Britain that many factors should be considered when buying and looking at houses.

Although there are only the above basic categories of houses in Britain, almost all houses in Britain have their own characteristics, which can meet the needs of different people. Even if you want to buy a castle, it is entirely possible to buy a church and decorate it into your residence. For example, the following four-bedroom detached house, valued at 395,000, was converted from the church Methodist Church.

In addition, there is also a kind of English house called hut, most of which have a history of hundreds of years and are expensive. The picture below shows a 4-bedroom detached house, which costs 645,000. Don't underestimate that these houses are shabby on the outside, but there are holes in them.

The picture below shows a 3-bedroom semi-detached cottage, 399950.

The other is the Parliament Building. In Britain, the government has the responsibility to provide public housing for the homeless and their families, especially low-income families or individuals. Of course, government services are aimed at social groups below the poverty line, so the conditions for obtaining such housing applications are also very strict. According to the GDP in 2005, the per capita income in Britain is 65438 +07867. If the total income of a family of three is 10400, the per capita income is only 3466, which is 19% of the per capita income in Britain, less than 2/3 of the middle income, and belongs to a family below the poverty line. In 2005, the population living below the poverty line in Britain accounted for about 17% of the total population, which was about10.27 million. It is this group that the British government provides services to the parliament building.

Generally, low-income individuals or families apply to the local town government or local council for this kind of government relief housing, and then they can arrange for occupancy after examination. The monthly rent is just a formality, about one month 100 pounds. If you really can't afford it, you can apply for relief according to the situation.

As far as the situation in Britain is concerned, the public security in rural areas is better than that in metropolis, and the public security in small and medium-sized towns will be better than that in metropolis. In a metropolis like London or Manchester, the areas with poor security are usually such places with parliament buildings, and the residents are mainly working-class and immigrant minorities. The British government allows residents living in public housing to buy at a low price after living for more than a certain period of time, and the house has changed from public housing to private residence. This kind of parliament is usually called the former parliament. When buying an auction house, you should pay attention to investigating how many houses there are around or auction houses. If the proportion is high, it means that the proportion of poor people is high and the crowd is mixed. The investment risk of houses in this area is relatively high. First, it is not safe. Second, it will affect future housing prices.

Another kind is apartment (as shown below), which is the most common apartment in China. However, most apartments in Britain are single or small apartments, and few families of four or five live in apartments. Moreover, most of the flat sales are leasehold, not freehould, that is, they don't own the land built by the house. There are few high-end apartments in Britain like China and Hongkong, but there may be high-end apartments in a big city like London. But apartments in general towns are on the third floor to the fifth floor.