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STREET NEAR BRADGATE PARK IS MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE MIDLANDS
A LEICESTERSHIRE road has been named as one of the most expensive places to live in the UK.
According to analysis of average house prices in England and Wales, Benscliffe Road, near Bradgate Park and Woodhouse Eaves, is the most expensive road to live on in the Midlands, and one of the most expensive outside London.
There are only a handful of properties on the Newtown Linford road, which stretches between Bradgate Park’s Hunts Hill and the junction with Shepshed Road, but it was enough to become the region’s most expensive street. Properties average out at £3,288,000 each – making it more expensive than any found elsewhere in Leicestershire, Nottingham, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
It’s the most expensive street in the Midlands overall, too, beating Birmingham’s Carpenter Road, which has an average price of £3,088,000.
It also beats the most expensive streets in Wales, the North and North East of England, and Yorkshire and the Humber.
The average prices were calculated by Halifax with transactions between 2016 and 2021, using Land Registry figures. The top five of the list were all London-based, with the winner being Tite Street, where Oscar Wilde once lived, in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, coming in at an eye-watering £28.9 million average price.
In second was Kensington’s Phillimore Gardens with an average house price of nearly £25.2 million.
The research found Benar Headland in Pwllheli was Wales’s most expensive street with an average price of £2,152,000.
In Cardiff, the most expensive street was Llandennis Avenue, where the average price will set buyers back £1,361,000.
In the North West of England, Barrow Lane in Altrincham was the most expensive street with an average of £3,706,000.
In Yorkshire and the Humber, Fulwith Mill Lane, Harrogate, at £1,797,000 was followed by Ling Lane in Leeds at £1,551,000.
Chaucer Road in Cambridge was the most expensive street in East Anglia, with an average of £3,610,000. Pearce Avenue in Poole, £3,478,000, was top in the South West, while Old Hall Road in Windermere, £2,508,000, was top in the North region, which includes parts of the Lake District as well as the North East of England.
In Newcastle, Montagu Avenue was the most expensive in the city at £1,369,000.