We don’t plan to acquire kids and would like to avoid paying the premium for being near a honorable schoolQ My partner and I would like to buy a property and don’t plan on having kids. We know that house prices are expensive around honorable schools, but how achieve we find properties that are not near honorable schools in order to benefit from this? BTA You are not wrong that properties near honorable schools tend to cost more. Research by Lloyds in August 2014 which looked at prices of properties in the catchment areas of England’s 30 best state schools found they were an average of £21000 higher than the average house price in the county in which the school is based. More recent research by estate agents Savills in March this year found that the cost of homes near the top 400 best-performing schools can be more than 25% higher than in other areas.
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Source: theguardian.com