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Coastal towns become some of UK’s least affordable places

Coastal areas of the UK are becoming the least affordable places in the UK to buy a house.

Rising property prices have outpaced average local salaries, causing the largest decline in buyer affordability over the past three years, according to Rightmove.

The biggest hike was in Adur in West Sussex, where the average asking price for a first property was 11.6 times the average local salary, up from 8.7 times before the pandemic.

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