UK’s 20 most affordable areas to buy a home revealed – including properties with house prices starting from £117k

PROPERTY experts have revealed a new list of the UK's 20 most affordable areas to buy a home - including towns with average house prices of £117,000.

ONS and Land Registry figures show the cheapest places to get onto the UK property ladder.

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The reports that the most affordable spot in the UK is Burnley in Lancashire, where houses only cost £117,320.

Inverclyde near Glasgow has the second-cheapest house prices, with local properties fetching £124,700.

There are several other Scottish locations on the list, including North Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayshire, East Ayshire, Dundee and Aberdeen.

Blaenau Gwent has the cheapest house prices in Wales, with the average home selling for £137,000.

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English house-hunters can pick up a property for under £140,000 in County Durham, Hartlepool, Blackpool, Hyndburn and Kingston-upon-Hull.

The remaining spots on the top 20 are occupied by Pendle, Stoke, Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.

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There are now no areas of Britain where a typical home costs less than £100,000.

In 2013, £100,000 would have bought you a house in 28 areas of the UK.

It comes after a new map revealed the cheapest spots to snap up a seaside town home in the UK.

Halifax property experts ranked 209 coastal locations by their average house prices in the 12 months to December 2022.

Scotland dominates the top 10 least expensive seaside spots, with Greenock in Inverclyde ranked the cheapest of all at £97,608.

Girvan, Millport and Saltcoats in Ayrshire are all on the list, with average house prices ranging from £105,410 to £116,414.

Invergordon in Ross and Stanraer in Dumfries and Galloway also rank among the top ten, along with Wick and Thurso in Caithness and Campbeltown in Argyll and Bute.

The only spot outside Scotland to make the list is Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland, where the average price of a home is £117,663.

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