{"id":78230,"date":"2025-08-05T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78230"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:19:14","slug":"revealed-the-most-and-least-expensive-market-towns-for-first-time-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/revealed-the-most-and-least-expensive-market-towns-for-first-time-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The most and least expensive market towns for first-time buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JBQ5d.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"First place: The picturesque market town of Leek, Staffordshire, is the top spot for first-time buyers with homes for just \u00a3191,359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buyers in search of their perfect first home dream of a quaint cottage in a picturesque market town \u2013 but soaring price tags in these sought-after locations often push that ambition out of reach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/homeandproperty\/revealed-the-most-and-least-expensive-market-towns-for-first-time-buyers\/ar-AA1JBQ5m?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=839915900b0044babb7c7c33ad8b32dd&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Buyers in search of their perfect first home dream of a quaint cottage in a picturesque market town \u2013 but soaring price&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Estate-agent.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78231,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78230\/revisions\/78231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}