House prices are shocking nowadays.

Now back in *1968 - 6 months after we married - my late first wife and I were allocated the tenancy of a newly~built, 3-bedroomed council house. (Indeed, I still stay there, having bought it eventually, courtesy of Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' Scheme).

Because her mother was a widow, who suffered from a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis, she needed looking~after. And, this, in turn, meant coming to live with us by selling the 2-bedroomed detached bungalow she & her husband had purchased in the mid~1930s for a mere £600.

Guess what she got for it 33 years later - just over *£3,000.

.................................................... happened to be the "going rate" for properties similar to hers at the tail~end of the 'sixties.

*Today, I believe the same property would fetch somewhere around the figure mentioned in the thread title ... a WHOPPING £250,000!