It's only a 20-minute drive between Wolverhampton's 'cheapest and most expensive postcodes' - but the difference in house price is stark. An apartment in the city's 'cheapest postcode' - just around the corner from New Cross Hospital - would set you back around £48,000. But just five miles away, at the other end of the city, mansions on the edge of the countryside fetch a whopping £850,000.
Despite the huge gap in value, the difference in quality of life is not what it all seemed. Fast sales company Property Solvers calculated the average property price per postcode using Land Registry data. It looked at the number of sales made since 2019, providing a five-year average.
READ MORE: Life next to Midlands 'most haunted' haunted cemetery where doorbell cameras 'go off on their own' Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp , click the link to join Overall, the WV11 postcode - which includes Wednesfield, The Scotlands and Ashmore Park - came out cheapest to buy a home in Wolverhampton and featured five times in the top 10 cheapest list, including a street in a '£1 housing estate' . Meanwhile, the WV6 postcode - which covers Perton, Bushbury, Tettenhall and Whitmore Reans - was the most expensive place and featured six times in the top 10 most expensive list. The cheapest postcode in all of Wolverhampton was WV11 1XD which covered a high-rise block of flats off Okemont Drive in Wednesfield, called St Cecilia's .
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