Landlord Voice Magazine October 2015 - Brighton and Hove | Page 6

Snapshots of Brighton & Hove

Snapshots of Brighton & Hove

City snapshots

BRIGHTON & HOVE
‘You don’t just move to what was voted the UK’s
happiest place to live without paying a premium
and this is certainly the case in Brighton’

B

righton has a big pull for
most walks of life – from
academics both domestic and
international to London commuters
and most recently an army of techsavvy specialists working in the
digital creative industry earning it
the moniker ‘Silicon Beach’.

But you don’t just move to
what was voted the UK’s happiest
place to live without paying a
premium and this is certainly the
case in Brighton.

And so, with a sharp intake
of breath Landlord Voice takes a
look at the city’s residential areas.

Hanover

Just a 15-minute walk to the railway
station and the city centre Hanover
was quite a poor area until the
mid-1980s but is now home to city
workers and commuters, public
servants and academics and is very
popular with the students who can
afford to rent here.

Its streets are tightly packed with
Victorian cottages and it has some
excellent quirky pubs with live
music but for local shops it’s a halfmile walk back along Lewes Road
away from the city.

There is a wealth of twobedroom terraced houses in
Hanover but they vary significantly
in price - between £200,000£300,000.

Kemptown

This part of the city is extremely
popular with young people and is
historically known as the actors’
and artists’ quarter, boasting a
warren of streets filled with shops,
hotels, cafes and pubs.

The area, renowned for its
sizeable gay community, is no more
than a 30-minute walk from the city
centre at its most easterly extreme.

But it does not come cheap
– a three-bedroom terraced house
will cost an average of £500,000.
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Trivia Time:
Q1 - Which 1938 Graham Greene novel was
set in Brighton? - See answer on back page
Photo: Colourful sheds in Brighton
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