Two Bristol suburbs have been named by the Daily Telegraph has the ‘most desirable’ in the country.
The Telegraph article listed ten most desirable suburbs in Britain, along with another five ‘up-and-coming’ suburbs that are currently ‘more affordable’.
And the leafy suburb of Stoke Bishop topped the list of Britain’s most desirable suburb, while Horfield was named top of the ‘up-and-coming alternatives’.
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The Telegraph’s guide was based on a study by Lucian Cook, the head of research at upmarket estate agent Savills, who looked house prices and demand to find the most popular places in the country on the outer areas of cities.
The Telegraph noted that two Bristol suburbs topped both lists, saying that: “In terms of pace of house price growth, the suburbs of Bristol top both this list of the 10 most desirable burbs and the five up-and-coming areas. This demonstrates the city’s popularity over the past decade with a flourishing tech and media industry.”
The house prices in Stoke Bishop rose 80 per cent since 2012, according to the Savills research, and the average house price there in 2022 is just under £600,000. “One of the big draws for people moving to Stoke Bishop and nearby Sneyd Park is the access to beautiful areas of open space, with the protected parkland of the Clifton Downs and the Sneyd Park Nature Reserve,” Savills’ south west head Richard Brooks told the Telegraph, head of the South West at Savills.
“The area is also bordered by the River Avon and there is a playing field and the University of Bristol Botanical Garden. There is a small selection of restaurants and bars on Druid Hill and Stoke Lane,” the Telegraph helpfully added.
Horfield was named as top of the list of five ‘up-and-coming alternatives’ - a place where house prices have grown by 95 per cent since 2012. The average house price in Horfield is, according to Savills, £356,076 today.
The Telegraph’s guide to Horfield reads: “Horfield spreads itself along the Gloucester Road in north Bristol as the top of the city runs into south Gloucestershire. Employment is provided by Southmead Hospital and there’s a leisure centre and plenty of green space with Horfield Common
“Local pubs include the Crafty Cow, the country-style Inn on the Green and the Golden Lion. A terraced cottage with a big kitchen that opens onto a pretty garden, with a self-contained flat on the top floor, is for sale for £600,000 through Boardwalk,” they added.
The findings are the latest to flag that the cost of homes to buy have increased faster in Bristol than anywhere else in the country in the last ten or 20 years.
Earlier this month, Bristol Live revealed that research conducted by Rightmove to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee found that, of the ten places in the country with the fastest house price growth in the past ten years, four of them were in Bristol.
The location with highest increase in the average asking price of a house in Britain was Margate, the seaside town in Kent where that figure jumped 107 per cent in ten years. But close behind were four Bristol locations in the top ten - with Brislington second, St George fourth, Patchway seventh and Bedminster ninth.
While Savills may well not regard St George, Brislington and Bedminster as ‘suburbs’ of Bristol - given their location fairly close to the city centre, it is unclear why the upmarket estate agent didn’t include Patchway in its list for the Telegraph. Property prices in Patchway, which is further away from Bristol city centre than Stoke Bishop and much more suburban, increased by much more than they did in Stoke Bishop.
The average selling price of a home in Patchway was £153,472, and by 2022 that has now almost doubled - up by 98 per cent to £304,606, a bigger increase than Stoke Bishop’s 80 per cent.
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