Asklemmy

Genève (Geneva), Switzerland

Cheapest apartment is 38m², 2 rooms, 570'000 CHF (646'000 USD)

That's very cheap. It's a shitty flat but livable if need be.

https://www.immoscout24.ch/buy/4000814125

Cheapest house is 240m², 6 rooms, 2'950'000 CHF (3'347'000 USD)

https://www.immoscout24.ch/buy/4000610532

Like $15k if you want a total gut & remodel

Edit: found one for $10k. Fun. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1205-Mill-St-Pittsburgh-PA-15221/11379395_zpid/?utm_medium=referral

There's no houses that small for sale near me, but the cheapest livable house is about 3x that size, 4br, 2ba, for $150,000, but it's a townhome. If you want a single family you're looking at about $200,000. Central Pennsylvania, USA

I'm in Ashburn, VA. I just looked at Zillow and saw that the cheapest single family home right now is $625k for 2060 sqft. If you have a credit score >719 and put $100k (~16%) down, it's only $4438/month according to their estimates.

So my wife and I live in an apartment with no kids or pets, and we both work a lot... Maybe one day we can afford a townhouse? I just found a decent looking one that's only $450k so $3200/month...

Here in London, you can easily find for £120k a nice 100m² garage without plumbing outside of a busy hospital where passerbys go to smoke and urinate.

For a “cheap “ suburb of Boston

• $580k for 1,038 sq ft 2 br on a 5,000 sq ft lot. The homes on this area were originally built as summer cottages so they’re going to be expensive to heat. Of 12 single family homes for sale, 7 are over $1M and one is in a different town
• $265k for a 1 br condo, 579 sq ft. The only feature listed is “private entrance”. Second cheapest is a new townhouse for $1.5M

439k, 3 bed , 2 bath.

It gets cheaper, but they are mobile homes and restricted to 55+

Does HOA mow your lawn, make you food and drive you anywhere?

315k GBP for a 2br 'period property' (aka a disgusting dilapidated horder house with the energy efficiency of a tent)

Figure in another 100k and a year to fix it, due to how UK contractors work.

With a quick search on Zillow for Lincoln, Nebraska (~300k pop college town), cheapest I can find is $90k for a 1 bed/1 bath 500 sqft condo. $100k for a 1 bed/1 bath 500 sqft house, though technically that's a foreclosure so you might not consider that to count. The cheapest normal house for sale that I can find is $110k for a 2 bed, 1 bath 1500 sqft house. It's an older home, but actually a pretty decent location (close-ish to downtown).

Saw a listing for a house which has had a fire and all the copper pipes stolen being sold as is for 300K in a really gritty location in the city.

There are houses in my town that have sold in the last 12 months for less than $100,000.
These don't include the shacks that are falling apart that sell for $30,000.

This one was bought, fixed up, and is currently listed for $132,000.

The cheapest home I could find in my hometown of Vancouver, BC is:

1 bedroom, 1 bath, 696 sq/feet 398,000

795 k, and it's an absolute dump 1 br in the worst part of town.

20k. I live in a shit hole

$200,000 for a 1 Bed 1 Bath with an hour and a half commute to the city. It's a unit, so probably has a bunch of other fees attached for upkeep but they aren't listed. Area is far away from necessary services, highly car dependent and notoriously crime ridden. The unit is run down and requires renovations.

Double that for a 2 Bed 1 Bath in a similar area.

My house is a small two story granny cottage with a total floor area of 90sqm (1000sqf) though the upstairs have a low ceiling so the "true" floor are is closer to 60sqm (650sqm). The plot is 1000sqm (10500sqf) and has an additional building with a sauna and a small workshop space. It's located about 10km (6 miles) from the city centre on a residential neighbourhood in Finland. It's one of the major cities in the country. I paid about 105k€ for it which means 450€/month

$80k cad - 3 bedroom and 1 bath. Probably needs a good cleaning and upgrade. Bus stop close by. Not so good area but it's ok.

According to Zillow, a 3 bed 2 bath with 800 monthly HOA fees for 465k.

SE MI - $100k for a rundown piece of shit

Here in Victoria BC the cheapest detached house is just shy of $1m cad. What a shithole

I don't really understand the question. We have a few "houses" you can buy that would need a lot of work (to be livable for most people), that are also probably in high-crime areas (because of the price), that are available cheap.

You can buy a 1/1 in Montgomery, Alabama, downtown, on a 3,000 sq.ft. lot, for $4,000.00 total. 4k, that's it. You can buy a 4/2 for $9,000.00. 9k, that's all. And there's more than one available. Come on down!

The cheapest one is apparently in the town next door. It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 984 square foot single family home built in 1955, on a third-of-an-acre lot with no HOA.

All the pictures are of the outside only, so I'm assuming the inside is pure shit. However, I also have to assume it's some kind of liveable shit, because the places that aren't liveable generally have to list as "0 bedrooms".

It's $60,000, in south/central New Jersey. Or $665 per month, which includes 30 year mortgage as well as property taxes.

I bought my 3BR 1bath SFH, west side of Chicago, for $61K... kinda. To be actually livable it needed another $21K in immediate repairs (electric, plumbing, HVAC).

Luckily I refinanced right before inflation went crazy, so my total mortgage + escrow is $945/mo.

We also looked at a 3-flat building for $2K, but it had a $10K lien on it and all the copper had been stripped, sooooo

$229k NZD for a 2 bed, 1 bath 80sqm slumlord rental in a shit neighbourhood in Christchurch, New Zealand

4.5 Rooms, 95 square meter apartment, 1‘315‘000 CHF.

Edit: Rotkreuz, Zug, Switzerland

38 m^2, 2 rooms, 1 bathroom, 169000 € in a rural part of a bigger city in Western Germany.

That's an exception, though. The house is a bit weird since it apparently stands next to a church in the backyard of some other building...

Excluding mobile homes, you can get a 318 square foot studio in downtown San Diego for only $180,000! Not including the $770/mo HOA fee. I like that the listing includes a lot size of 1.2 acres, as if you get the whole city block to yourself.

$229,000 for 53 sqm (571 sqft)

Lithuania, Telšiai county

14000 Euros

4 rooms

66 square metres

25 ars of land

Link for even more curious

$70k USD - 3 bed, 2.5 bath, 1400sq ft., 0.3 acre lot, two stories and a detached garage. The interior needs plenty of non-cosmetic work (e.g. - new flooring)

$75k USD - 2 bed, 1 bath, 800sq ft., 0.15 acre lot; newly redone floors, electric and paint.

After that, there's about 10 more in the 125-150K range.

Not answering the question really, but it prompted me to check out property prices in my home town in New Zealand - small town near a small city in the south. Example: 3br "character" wooden villa on a small section, NZ$700k (US$434k, £350k). I had heard about the explosion in NZ house prices, but that really took me aback. The house I live in now, 3br mid-terrace with garden in a similar sized Scottish town, would sell for about £250k. Even that seems crazy expensive, but at least it's within half an hour of a fantastic city.

(The estate agent's website lists previous sale prices, it shows the kiwi horror story: 2022: $570k; 2019: $430k; 2011: $271k; 1988: $52k; 1984: $26k.)

Regional Australia.

$250k will get you a 90s apartment or a shitbox in bumsville.

Avg wage is about $80k.

$70k in my area in NC. It's a lovely 2bd/1ba, and can keep the rain off your head (mostly). It totally wouldn't be condemned if actually inspected.

Just a couple of years ago I found two houses on Zillow going for $65,000 in Cleveland. A front house/back house situation.