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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

Aberdeen named cheapest city for single homebuyers in Great Britain

Terrace houses in Aberdeen, with the sea in the background
Monthly mortgage payments for a one- or two-bedroom home in Aberdeen are £510 on average, about 16% of the average salary. Photograph: Kay Roxby/Alamy

Aberdeen in Scotland is the most affordable city for single people to buy a home in Great Britain, analysis of national property data shows, with the average one- or two-bedroom home valued at just under £120,000.

Monthly mortgage payments in the city came in at £510 a month – about 16% of the area’s average monthly salary – for such a property valued at £119,350, according to research from the property website Zoopla.

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