Owning your own home

We bought a three bed flat for £190,000.

Yes, it needs a lot of work, but the identical but better decorated flat upstairs went for £250,000 months before we bought ours.

There is a lovely one bed downstairs which is in great order, going on the market for £120,000 shortly.

So, more affordable and nice housing stock is out there, simply saying "all decent 1 bed flats are £300k" is not a true reflection of the market.

Whereabouts are you? Am I imagining it, or have you mentioned in the past that it's a slightly "interesting" area, crime-wise?