The 10 most expensive streets in England and Wales

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Whilst most of us are either struggling to get a mortgage or finding ourselves trapped in negative equity, the owners of homes on these streets are unlikely to have such worries.

Millionaires looking for their dream home will pay staggering amounts to have a view of the seafront (see above photo of Poole in Dorset) or to share their local pub with premiership footballers.

Here is Times Money's list of the 10 most expensive streets in regions of England and Wales.

North: Runnymede Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Average price: £1,135,625

Rod Matthews of Rook Matthews Sayer, the estate agent, said: “This is undoubtedly one of the top three addresses in the north east. Footballers such as Alan Shearer and Kieron Dyer have lived here. 

“There used to be a lot of old houses set in large grounds, but these have been mainly knocked down and replaced with individually designed mansions. Last year I sold a property in less than an acre for £3.46 million.”

Yorkshire & the Humber: Kent Road, Harrogate. Average Price: £1,173,373

Kent Road is within walking distance of Harrogate town centre and attracts wealthy families as well as premiership footballers.

Philippa Faith of Strutt & Parker, the estate agent, said: “Kent Road is on the Duchy estate, a very desirable area of Harrogate formerly owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The houses are very handsome, mainly Victorian stone builds, with lots of original features such as high ceilings and period fireplaces. They commonly have around a third of an acre for gardens, which is a good size for a townhouse. Buyers will wait years for the right house on this road to come up for sale.”

North West: Congleton Road, Alderley Edge. Average price: £1,684,166

Alderley Edge is a village south of Manchester crammed with multi-millionaires. Home to Cristiano Ronaldo and Peter Crouch, it is the haunt of many premiership football players, pop stars and Coronation Street actors. David and Victoria Beckham also lived here until they moved to Madrid and then Los Angeles.

Crispin Harris of Jackson-Stopps & Staff, the estate agent, said: “Alderley Edge is very convenient for access to Manchester and the village itself has lovely restaurants and shops. The houses are mainly large Victorian villas with big gardens, although there are also a lot of new-builds now as well with modern facilities and technology such as swimming pools and under floor heating.”

East Midlands: Beeston Fields Drive, Nottingham. Average price: £972,214

This wide and varied road features a thatched cottage, a Spanish villa and new build mansions. Robert Bilson of Savills, the estate agent, in Nottingham said: “It backs onto the Beeston Fields golf club, one of the most exclusive in Nottingham, and is close to good independent schools. Owners tend to be entrepreneurs, sport agents and CEOs. Jane Torvill, the ice skater, bought a house here after winning her Olympic gold medal.”

West Midlands: Wellington Road, Birmingham. Average price: £945,500

Close to Birmingham city centre but set on a quiet residential turning, Wellington Road has the Edgbaston golf club, the Priory tennis club and good independent schools all within a stone’s throw.
James Bowkett of Knight Frank, the estate agent, said: “This is a beautiful wide road with large period houses with deep frontages. The plot sizes are good with each house having about half an acre.”

East Anglia: Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Average price: £940,714

Richard Hatch of Carter Jonas, the estate agent, said: “This road is on the biggest site of redevelopment in the city, with new builds ranging from 2 bedroom flats to five bedroom houses. It is close to Cambridge station, the city centre and the university botanical gardens.   

“However, I would not say it is regarded as the most desirable road in Cambridge. Chaucer Road and Latham Road, which feature turn of the century houses, are more sought after.”

South West: Panorama Road, Poole. Average price: £4,158,333

This is a road of two halves – on one side lie mansions with a harbour view, whilst the other side has smaller houses and apartments with no view. Harry Redknapp, manager of Tottenham Hotspur football club, has lived here.

Keith Fensom of Savills said: “The houses on the waterfront can go for anything between £4 million and £10 million. A few are retirement or holiday homes but we are seeing increasing numbers of families here as well.

“The council are trying to protect some 1920s properties to ensure they are not destroyed to make way for new-build mansions. A five-year old house has just been bought for £5 million by a Russian billionaire and he is knocking it down to build another.”

South East: East Road, Weybridge. Average price: £2,805,000

Gary Collins of Hamptons International, the estate agent, said: “East Road is within a private estate called St George’s Hill, a 930 acre site with its own secure entrance. John Lennon, Cliff Richard and Tom Jones have all lived here, and it has its own tennis and golf club. An acre plot could easily go for £3 million, just for the land alone.”

Greater London: The Vale, Kensington and Chelsea. Average price: £4,677,500

Nicholas Leeming of propertyfinder.co.uk, the property search website, said: “The Vale is situated in one of the best residential areas of Kensington and Chelsea and so, not surprisingly, has shown up as one of the highest valued locations. Limited transaction numbers underline the premium that some buyers will pay for position, even in the current market.” 

Wales: Llantrithyd Road, Vale of Glamorgan. Average price: £752,083

David Birt of David Birt & Co, the estate agent, said: “The Vale of Glamorgan is one of the most popular areas for people working in Cardiff. There are some very rural parts but it is only half an hour away from the city centre. Llantrithyd is actually a hamlet with Llantrithyd Road running through it. There are good local pubs, junior schools and a real ‘community feel’ to these places within the Vale.”

By Lauren Thompson

Source: Land Registry figures based on transactions between 2004 and 2008

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Comments

[Gavin William Dawes]

There are no "English" left - no Brtish passport-holding Angles nor Danes as UK - Britain institutions are run by Scots and Germans and their descendants (Parlement, Royal Family etc) which the Welshies would know if not for their boast that English is not taught in Gog land until age 9 - which is why Wales is slipping down the pan, cos 4 year-olds indigenous to the Indian sub-continent are expert English speakers and so have better prospects for 21 Century

[jamie haddon]

Footballers have not got a single 'O' level between them, cant hold a real conversation about anything, are still childlike urchins who have not individuated into adulthood, are usually catapulted into ££££ from deprived backgrounds and nightmare childhoods at the bottom of the heap AND they get all of the bubbly, attractive, blonde, air-head girls - which is why I am training to be a footballer.

Owain and Ben, do these Welshies take any responsibility for the downfall of Wales, or is it all someone else's fault ?

[Nick Dixon]

Cymru am byth , obviously means
" the most inhospitable place on earth ".
Watch some saddo post the real meaning .
Guess what ? We English destroyers of the Welsh " culture " don't care and neither do 99% of the worlds population.

[Ben]

cambridge is one of the best places to live in the UK

[chris in france]

Oh dear, Times online - the comment posting system is in a sulk. That is why this comment may appear twice (sorry)

It is wonderful to see that your article on property prices has raised from slumber several grouchy Welsh nationalists, griping about the English buying up their ancestral piles (at vast profit to non-welsh nationalists, presumably)
The Vale of Glamorgan is ravaged, then - Hmm - coal industry had a pretty good go at Wales, at some point, then the (defunct and sold off) steel industry - still there - very ugly, oh yes.
Southwestern France welcomes such Welsh zealots, having exactly the same view of the English and the same habit of selling their draughty wrecks at astronomic prices to pipe dreaming English with less sense than money (I know, I am one, clearly). You guys will love it over here, a little bit of indigenous racism, average beaches, fine summers, oh yeah and english tourists spending their money here, just like in Wales.
Get a job, you will say to me. I have, in England. Shame, no jobs over here, not even for the French.
Merry Christmas guys.

[chris in france]

Oh dear, griping Ben Williams from Wales and Owain from the 'ravaged' vale of Glamorgan - you do not like the English? Is it that we drubbed you in those battles of yesteryear or that you didn't get an exorbitant price for an unwanted house. Your welsh countrymen rubbed their hands with glee at selling off some draughty pile to an unwise but loaded english twit. You would love southwest France - the indigenous french mirror your opinions to the letter, but even in today's market, it does not stop them offering draughty stone houses at astronomic prices to daft english buyers, who I notice have gone into hiding, having realised the property market is in crisis.

The english have invaded southwest France, mostly from Essex, which is now empty. Try there for a property bargain - you won't have any original neighbours, though - probably all footballers and Russians. Rule Brittania, oh yes indeed. I am returning to the UK soon - I will look out for you if I visit Wales (on holiday, of course).
Smile and get a job. I did.

[Chris]

Unfortunately even the info from Land Registry is flawed as most buyers of properties over 1 million will take up the Stamp Duty avoidance scheme. This is a perfectly legitimate, yet little known, scheme that allows buyers to save a huge amount of money by setting up a company to buy a property that is then dissolved on completion of the sale. The buyer purchases the shares in the company and the money is passed on to the seller. The only losers are the Inland Revenue and the tax payers at large. This way the data never reaches the public domain so no one is aware of what the property has sold for. Thus distorted information.

[Dave]

Get a life "Cymru am byth"! Would you prefer Africans and Asians to occupy your turf? You Welsh better get breeding and then you may claim back your place in the rain. I love Wales and the Welsh. I am a Englishman.

[Joey]

I'd have thought Valley Road in Edwalton, Notts would be more expensive than Beeston Fields Rd... Half the houses have swimming pools/tennis courts, when you have a sneaky spy on Google maps!

[Rob Gray]

Who cares really!

[RS]

worst article I've read for some time, totally wrong throughout

[sophie]

Very surprised Camp Road Gerrards Cross does not qualify?

[OZ]

This really sums up present day Britain - footballers, pop singers and Russian mafia !
May God help you all !

[The Symeister]

I thought Cambridge was a total dump when i visited.

You guys need to get to Hereford. All the property is priceless. Mittel doesn't live there cos he can't afford it.

[Abioye A Oyetunji]

Terrible article. First, the title "10 most expensive streets in England & Wales" is misleading - we simply have the most expensive street in some specified areas. If we were being faithful to the title, we would just name 10 streets in London.

Worse, the London section is just wrong - as pointed out by a few other posters there are at least four streets in London with average sale prices over £10m. £4m only buys you an entry-level home on Bishop's Avenue for instance.

[Jules]

The most expensive road in the whole of the West Midlands area is unlikely to be in Birmingham, and must surely everage more than £945,500. What about all the villages in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and into the Cotswolds? These 'most expensive streets' appear to have been very randomly picked and large areas of the UK seem to have been missed out!

[William James]

The scheme in Cambridge was "so badly designed" that it won the Stirling Architecture prize. It is also so badly designed that I live there with a number of other families in our badly designed houses with our badly designed environment and amazingly are very happy - the triumph of the spirit over bad design. And as for architectural history that sounds like romantic nonsense - its a complete and delightful hotch potch in Cambridge

[Karl]

Steve, given research by Historians, BBC and undeniable DNA/Calcium compound regional evidence that the original ancient britons were welsh, spawned mostly the english (not the saxons as we all thought), and resulted in the birth of scots and 70% irish are derived from Welsh. Your probably decended from Welsh yourself (in fact most UK non-foreign nationals are).

When i went to Wales, welsh culture was stronger than English culture and very alive. I'd zip it if i were you Steve.

[Cruel Drake]

Susan, im sure you do live there!!!

[Susan Hills - ex Cambridge]

Brooklands Avenue in Cambridge is a prime example where the Council approved a badly designed scheme - they seem to be hell bent on ruining Cambridge's architectural history and precedent - Brooklands Avenue is a concrete jungle and the traffic hell and they do nothing !

[Carl]

Apropos the top of the article: Must be nice being a celebrity footballer, if it means otherwise intelligent and successful people act like teenage girls to hang around with you.

[Simon Jobson]

I wonder why Wellington Road in Edgbaston was chosen to represent the West Midlands? A cursory glance at sold prices in the B15 postcode reveals four roads in the vicinity with average prices well over £1m since 2004.

[Amy Davies]

What about Richmond (London)? The houses on the Hill and the Green go for more than anywhere in Wales or the Midlands.

This survey is flawed because it is based on a number of properties being sold over 2004-2008. The truly fabulous properties in Richmond are never sold... so they won't make it into the survey even though their value is much higher.

[Oliver]

I think you are missing Kensington Palace Gardens which must have an average above £20m...

[Mr Loves]

no wonder this world is in a mess look at the comments left about this subject its not important at all !

[Ben Williams]

Owain, perhaps the Welsh shouldn't have sold their houses at such a great profit to the unwelcome English settlers then ?

[GK]

Owain, In case you hadn't noticed, just about every nationality in the world is in the process of destroying Welsh so-called - Culture. Only difference is that it is illegal for you to make racist comments against them, whereas you can still be racist against the English and get away with it. Get real / get a life!

[Anon]

I am disappointed to see such bitter and angry comments. Surely these are completely unecessary in relation to a purely factual article (and this is not the first time I have seen this on The Times' website). The fact that people can get so hostile about something as trivial as this says a great deal about how intolerant people in this country have become.

It is a great shame.

[stephen bluestone]

You omit Randall Avenue,Neasden,London. Neasden has some of the finest houses in Neasden and should be in any list of quality.

[Hayden]

So we should all want to live in a street populated with premiership footballers or coaches? Is that the benchmark? No thanks.

[john loffe]

surely this list is ridiculous in view of the (often witheld) prices of homes in certain areas of london. Streets such as Kensington Palace Gardens, where mittal has three homes, rarely go for sale, but when they do, go upwards of 50 million

[ipd]

Not that it has any relevance to the topic, but the Scottish retained their identity and culture, was not a case that Wales as a nation simply gave it up of their own accord?

[Mark Mulligan]

I would have some interest in reading this article if there were photographs of the properties involved. It strains credulity in this digital age that photos aren't included in articles about property and architecture.

[Adam]

Bishop's Avenue in London must surely have an average house price of well over £10 million, and I can think of a dozen other similar streets in the capital. Who has done the research for this piece?

[Jennie]

Panorama Road sounds excessive until you see that view...

[Mr Edwards]

After visitng Newcastle, Gosforth is the place to live, I am going to retire there, and I'm not from Newcastle. Its expensive but very practical.

Ponteland is too far from the city.

[Susan]

Mrs Patrick, get your facts right. Runnymede Road is the correct spelling - I live there so I should know. In addition, although it is in the county of Northumberland, our postal address is Newcastle upon Tyne

[Anon]

Apparently the main attraction of most of these places is that some posh tart or wide boy has lived there - sounds like a good reason to avoid the slime pits.

[Steve]

Owain, English settlers destroyed Welsh culture 1500 years ago, before them it was the Romans. If I go around most Welsh towns on a Friday night it looks pretty much the same as anywhere else in the UK, pretty grim. Grow up you pathetic racist!

[Mrs Patrick]

Runnymede road is wrongly spelt and is not in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is Runneymede Road, is in the county of Northumberland and in the town of Ponteland.
The other week you had Otterburn in Cumbria, again it is in Northumberland.
You ignorant southerners.

[Owain]

The Vale of Glamorgan has been ravaged by unwelcome English settlers who are systematically destroying Welsh culture.

Cymru am byth