Sell Your Property Fast in East England

• (i) As at June 2020, the average property price in East England was £295,856 which was a 2.6% rise from the year before.
• (ii) The population at the 2011 census was 5,847,000.
• (iii) The region is made up of the following counties Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.
• (iv) Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous towns.
• (v) The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.
• (vi) In 2019, there was 2.63 million households in East England

Because of a lack of quality local stone, many houses in East England are clad in strips of horizontal timber which is known as weatherboarding. Many properties in the region will also have brick quoins, which are masonry bricks at the corner of the walls. These are either in place for structural support or simply for decoration.

Where brick is used in the region, its coloring is determined by the local clays. For example the bricks sourced by the clays in East Anglia are of a light red colour, whereas the bricks in East Suffolk have more of a yellow hue.

What is also popular in East England is “pargeting” or “pinking”. This is a form of plastering added to the brick walls to give both a waterproof layer but also a form of decoration. In the southern half of Suffolk, and also in Essex and Cambridgeshire, there is much external plasterwork. A local specialty is pargeting, where delicate patterns are formed for decoration.