Brighton and Hove is Britain’s sixth least affordable city when it comes to buying a home, according to Lloyds Bank.
The bank calculated affordability using average prices compared to average earnings, with Oxford topping the list.
The ratio of house prices to earnings in the university city was 10.7, slightly ahead of London and Winchester with a ratio of 10.5.
Next came Cambridge with a ratio of 10.3, Chichester with a ratio of 10 and then Brighton and Hove where the ratio was 9.6.
The banking group looked at the figures for 61 towns and cities around the country, with the most affordable concentrated in the north of England as well as Scotland and Wales.
Hove is not a city
Hey Gary, I guess that’s why they put “Brighton AND Hove”…
The city is called ‘Brighton and Hove’.
‘Brighton’ and ‘Hove’ are towns, and Hove itself is a combination of the towns of Hove and Portslade.
And calling ‘Brighton and Hove’ a city is, IMO, really stretching the definition of what is basically an overgrown seaside conurbation.
Whereas Chichester is a massive population centre with a huge industrial heritage, massive manufacturing output, large central business district and sprawling suburbs and thus qualifies by anyone’s definition of a modern city?
Or is it just that it has a cathedral and thus rides on the back of the church’s power in earlier times to achieve city status?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove
Hove is a suburban cling on.
PS – You’re welcome
It’s shit, full of hipsters and people that think their shit dosnt stink because they eat hummus and carrot sticks for lunch, I’m selling my home in hove after buying it only 1.5years ago and it’s safe to say I’ll never return. Plus it’s a dump
We’re going to miss you too Tim x
Ha ha I cant wait to move after 6 years here. The homelessness, drugs, attacks, sexual assalts. The students, the hens and stags err no thankyou.