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While they may not have won the U.K.\u2019s Premier League, London soccer clubs dominated the rankings in terms of house price growth.
\nOf the 20 soccer clubs in the Premier League analyzed by global real estate consultancy Knight Frank, Tottenham Hotspur, who missed out narrowly on the title earlier this month, claimed the house price growth crown.
\nAverage house prices in the area surrounding the White Hart Lane soccer stadium in Tottenham in north London jumped 18.4% last year. Prices could rise further if the area\u2019s transport links are improved by a proposed rail link that would connect north and south London comes to fruition.
\nWest Ham United, who will see their stadium redeveloped into a residential scheme as they move into the Olympic Stadium, saw the second highest price growth with a 13.2% increase. In fact, Manchester City, whose players include the likes of Sergio Aguero, and Watford were the only clubs outside of London to appear in the top five. At the other end of the table was Swansea City in Wales, which saw house price growth of just 1.8%.
\nWhile prices rose by just 3.9% last year, properties around Stamford Bridge stadium in posh Chelsea in west London had the highest average house price around the ground at \u00a3638,000.
\nOliver Knight, a senior analyst at Knight Frank, said: \u201cThe findings not only demonstrate the huge differences in value throughout the U.K., but also the variety of performance and prices within London, where sub-markets are moving at significantly different speeds.\u201d
\nAs for Leicester, which unexpectedly won the premiership league, its housing market has taken a long time to recover from the financial crisis and is just 1.2% higher than it was in 2007. But this could soon change thanks to the win.
\nKnight said: \u201cThe local economy can expect a marginal boost following the Premier League win\u2014as the profile of the city is raised and money from Europe\u2019s elite football competition comes in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monitoring Desk While they may not have won the U.K.\u2019s Premier League, London soccer clubs dominated the rankings in terms of house price growth. Of the 20 soccer clubs in the Premier League analyzed by global real estate consultancy Knight Frank, Tottenham Hotspur, who missed out narrowly on the title earlier this month, claimed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n