Armagh Has Biggest House Price
Rise In Past Five Years
6th November 2007
With city living a popular lifestyle choice and intense competition amongst towns to be awarded city status, new research by Halifax Estate Agents has investigated the movement of house prices in the 66 official cities in the UK.
- Armagh has recorded the biggest increase in house prices of any UK city over the past five years with a rise of 188%. All four cities with the highest house price growth in the last five years are in Northern Ireland, reflecting the phenomenal rise in prices across Northern Ireland in the past few years.
- Bradford experienced the highest price increase on the British mainland with a 131% rise over the past five years. Two Scottish cities – Dundee and Aberdeen – and two Welsh cities – Swansea and St David's – also feature amongst the ten top performing cities over the period.
- Smaller cities have generally performed better than larger cities. Nine out of the top ten performing cities over the past five years have populations of less than 300,000.
- House prices in the UK's cities exceed those in their region by an average £11,000. Thirteen cities have an average house price that is at least £50,000 above their region's average. Thirty-one cities have an average house price above the average in their region.
- Westminster is the UK's most expensive city with an average property price of £601,821.Winchester (£379,643) is the most expensive city outside Greater London.
- Hull (£128,863) and Stoke-on-Trent (£134,978) are the two least expensive cities in the UK.
- Places that have been conferred city status since 2000 have generally recorded higher house price rises since becoming cities.
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