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Evening Standard
Anna White

London's hottest areas: 10 postcodes where homes sell up to six times faster than in central London

Manhattan Loft Gardens in Stratford where a penthouse is on the market for £17.5m - (Handout)

The London housing market is more polarised than American politics, according to new data on where people are most desperate to live. Homes in eastern pockets are selling at more than six times the rate of properties in the capital’s central areas.

South Woodford is the hottest local housing market in London with 63 per cent of homes listed on the search portals under offer. According to analysts at Propcast, which measures buyer demand to calculate whether a market is hot or cold, this puts South Woodford in the “very hot” category, meaning homes will sell quickly and often at over the asking price.

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