Home sellers strike it rich in two Shropshire settlements as city folk escape to the country

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Albrighton and Ellesmere have been highlighted by GetAgent as places where sellers have been achieving well over their asking prices as buyers still compete for the best places to live.

The top location in the list, Haltwhistle in Northumberland, has buyers stretching their budgets to a whopping 120 per cent of the asking prices. At the other end of the scale some places - not in Shropshire - are struggling to get anywhere near asking prices. "Living in a particular postcode can add thousands to your home’s value, whether that’s due to having prestigious schools - with catchment areas notoriously hard to get into - or even good transport links for commuters. Surprisingly, while you might assume that homes closer to the capital would fetch higher asking prices, our research actually shows that it’s countryside destinations that are topping the list of expensive postcodes.

 

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