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Article: Your choice of city centre living
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- Hull Daily Mail (UK)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2006
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A Boom in city centre living is pushing up house prices in Hull.
This was the verdict today from estate agents, following research
that property prices in the city are among the fastest-growing in
England and Wales.
The latest figures from the Land Registry's House Price Index
(HPI) show Hull had an average annual growth of 10 per cent, coming
second to Blackburn, Lancashire.
According to estate agents, city centre redevelopment has created
more choice in the lucrative young, professional market.
Equally, the large number of new developments - and their
relatively high cost - has pulled up the average prices across the
city.
Alisdair Bott, area manager for Larards estate agents, said:
"There ...