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Jess Denham

The rise of the suburbs: average house prices hit £500k in two thirds of London areas

Just 36 per cent of all London wards have an average house price below £500,000

(Picture: (Yui Mok/PA))

House prices have now hit at least £500,000 in two-thirds of London areas, according to new research from Savills.

In 2019, nearly half of all wards in the capital had an average house price of less than half a million pounds. But by 2021, this figure had shrunk by 12 per cent to just 36 per cent, making London even less affordable for those with smaller budgets.

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