Forget the North-South divide – it s all about East versus West now
Rising evidence of an east-west divide is shaking up the property market. Could Norfolk be the new Cornwall? And Essex the new Oxfordshire?
26 June 2021 • 6:00am
Countless Londoners are clamouring for houses in the east and west of the UK, and it’s easy to see why
Credit: Olivia Whitworth
It didn’t surprise me when Karl Manning, head of residential sales at Savills Chelmsford, told me that sales in Essex in the first quarter of this year were up 167 per cent compared with last year.
Combine this with a lack of available properties, then add countless Londoners who are clamouring for houses to the mix and it’s easy to see why the roads and schools out in the east are slowly filling up.
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