The areas where homes sell the quickest (and the places where it takes 69 days to get an offer)
The typical length of time between a home in the UK going on the market to being 'under offer' is 47 days
HOMES in Northampton get snapped up quicker than properties in other UK towns, with the time between a home in the area going on the market to being "under offer" just 27 days on average.
The east Midlands town receives offers 20 days faster on average than the rest of the UK, where homes typically take 47 days to go under offer.
Edinburgh, Milton Keynes and Croydon are also among Britain's biggest property hotspots, as homes in all three towns secure offers in under five weeks.
Property website Zoopla made the findings after looking at the typical length of time between a home going up for sale on its website and the property listing changing to "under offer", in 50 large towns and cities outside inner London.
Northampton was identified as having the fastest-moving property market, while Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire was in second place, with properties taking an average of 29 days to go under offer.
The south London town of Croydon was in third place, with homes there taking 30 days typically to go under offer.
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Edinburgh and Glasgow also made it onto Zoopla's top 10 property hotspots list, with properties there taking 32 and 33 days respectively to go under offer.
In London, Sutton is ranked as the fastest moving London borough, with listings there only taking an average of 28 days to go under offer.
On the other end of the scale, Bradford was revealed to be the town where properties take the longest time to get snapped up, with homes taking a whopping 69 days to go under offer - 22 days longer than the UK average.
From a regional perspective, properties in the south east of England and the east of England are the quickest to get snapped up, with the average "for sale" listing going under offer in 42 days.
Properties in Wales sit on the market for the longest length of time typically, taking 66 days on average to go under offer.
In Swansea, for instance, it takes an average of 65 for a property to go under offer, while in Newport it takes 61 days.
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