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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Simon Goodley

Properties in UK national parks command 24% premium, study finds

The high street in Lyndhurst, including the Stag hotel
The town of Lyndhurst in the New Forest, which remains the most expensive national park in which to buy a house, according to the building society. Photograph: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy

Housebuyers are paying a premium of almost a quarter to own a property located within a UK national park, with the New Forest the most expensive national park to live in, according to Britain’s biggest building society.

Nationwide found that a property located within a national park cost 24% more on average than a similar property elsewhere, while buyers were also stumping up a 6% premium for homes within three miles of a national park.

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