Monthly mortgage payments in the city came in at £510 a month – about 16% of the area’s average monthly salary – for such a property valued at £119,350, according to research from the property website Zoopla.
Aberdeen in Scotland is the most affordable city for single people to buy a home in Great Britain, analysis of national property data shows, with the average one- or two-bedroom home valued at just under £120,000.
Aberdeen named cheapest city for single homebuyers in Great Britain Average one- or two-bedroom home is £119,000 in Scottish city, as Liverpool tops list in England and Blaenau Gwent in Wales.
While Aberdeen is the most affordable city, Zoopla found that Edinburgh was the priciest in Scotland, though affordability in the city has improved over the past 12 months, a result of slowing house price growth and rising salaries.
The least affordable borough was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average property was £925,870, or 73% of average monthly earnings, according to Zoopla’s analysis.
