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It's Oxford.
According to research by Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, the city is now the least affordable place for locals to buy a property as homes are exchanging hands at a rate of 16 times that of average wages.
From 2013 to the end of 2014, Dorling found that the average property price in Oxford stood at £426,720. This is £38,000 more than the previous year. However, average salaries for local workers only hit £26,500, which is substantially less than the amount properties exchanged hands for in 2014.
That means that in comparison to incomes, house prices are actually more expensive than they are in London.
Dorling's research found that the average London property price hit £501,520. Home prices increased by £45,620 over the year, leaving them 15.7 times the average income of £31,950.
"We have seen the ripple from London affect Oxford house prices - it's like a shockwave coming out of the capital. The average in London is now above £500,000 and once it doesn't look unusual to ask that much for a property there, it will happen in Oxford too. But we don't have London weightings on our wages," said Dorling.
Dorling's findings are part of his research he did the latest edition of his book: All that is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster defines our Times and What We Can Do About It.
Here are the other regions that are the least affordable places to live as a local ,at a rate in which properties changed hands versus wages in 2014:
- Cambridge: 14.8 times.
- Brighton: 12.2 times.
- Reading 10.1 times.
- Milton Keynes 8 times.
And the most affordable:
- Liverpool: 5.8 times.
- Derby: 6.2 times.
- Nottingham: 6.8 times.
- Swansea: 6.7 times.
- Birmingham: 7.3 times.