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House patrons in Westminster are getting only a quarter of an A4 sheet in ground house per £200, new analysis has discovered, in stark distinction to some areas the place the identical sum can safe greater than two full sheets.
Property web site Zoopla performed the analysis to focus on the numerous variations within the quantity of house patrons can count on for his or her cash throughout completely different UK areas. The examine revealed that in Westminster, a single A4-sized space of ground house carries a median price ticket of £837. This determine stays excessive in different prime London boroughs, with Kensington and Chelsea demanding £686 and Camden £665 for the equal house.
Transferring away from the capital, the evaluation confirmed that £200 may buy a full A4 sheet of ground house in main cities together with Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Newcastle, and Cardiff. For these looking for even larger worth, areas comparable to Hull, Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Blaenau Gwent, and Sunderland provide at the least two full A4 sheets of ground house for a similar £200 funding.
Scotland, in Edinburgh the typical A4-sized ground house prices £204.
And in Yorkshire, an A4-sized ground house in York will set patrons again round £209 sometimes.
Zoopla has a device which permits patrons to set a minimal sq. footage alongside their value vary.
Richard Donnell, government director at Zoopla, stated: “Our evaluation reveals that the hole between what £200 will get you in Westminster versus what it buys within the North West is not only a quantity – it’s the distinction between a sliver of a web page and two full sheets of paper.
“That’s the true scale of Britain’s housing divide, and it’s one thing each purchaser and house owner ought to perceive as they plan their subsequent transfer.”
In harder information for first time patrons, Rightmove discovered earlier this week that in England, they’ve have collectively paid an estimated £307 million further in stamp obligation since a brief aid measure resulted in April 2025.
This was a median of £4,618 extra been paid per purchaser, the property web site discovered. The entire estimated first time purchaser stamp obligation invoice over the previous yr was £408 million, versus £101 million the earlier yr.
