Cheapest and most expensive places to buy property

From derelict homes in run-down areas to £42 million mansions, we investigate extreme UK property prices.

In the great property boom of 1995 to 2007, millions of Brits found themselves priced off the property ladder as prices tripled in 12 years. Today, a typical British home costs an average of £161,094, according to July's Halifax House Price Index.