 Largely composed of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, East Anglia is home to the cities of Norwich, Cambridge and Ipswich as well as the smaller towns Peterborough and Colchester.
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 The East Midlands forms one half of the traditional central region of the UK and incorporates the counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
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 The centre of the UK's housing market, London has long had higher prices for property than any other region of the country.
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 According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), average property prices in the north-east remain low, at around the £150,000 - some of the cheapest in the country.
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 The north-west as a whole - including Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside - maintains relatively low prices, with the average property in the region costing just over £160,000 - according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
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 Long benefiting from the Greater London sprawl, the south-east has some of the highest property prices in the country, second only to the capital itself, with an average property costing just shy of £300,000 - according to RightMove.co.uk.
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 The south-west is the largest region of England, stretching from Bristol and Gloucester in the north, along the coast of the country to incorporate Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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 Buyers in the West Midlands pay a relatively low average of around £200,000 for their property, according to RightMove.co.uk, but the region has seen prices rise steadily over the last few years.
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 The area includes the cities of Bradford and Leeds, as well as the smaller cities of Sheffield and York, and - according to RightMove.co.uk - the average house price in the region is just over £170,000.
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 Northern Ireland has been one of the most remarkable success stories in British property over the last five years, with house prices often rising by over 40 per cent annually.
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Although shy of the phenomenal growth seen in Northern Ireland, Scotland has nonetheless seen some dramatic increases in property prices in recent years, with the average home now costing £150,000.
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 Much of the new home building in Wales is centred on the principality's capital, Cardiff, and the second city of Swansea, with an average price of £190,000 across Wales as a whole.
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