Hotspots where home buyers will get more – or less – floor space for their money

Buyers in Westminster would have to pay £837 typically for floor space equivalent to one sheet of A4, or £686 in Kensington and Chelsea, and £665 in Camden, the website found.

And £200 could get buyers at least two full sheets of A4 floor space in locations including Hull, Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Blaenau Gwent and Sunderland, according to the calculations.

Looking at Scotland, in Edinburgh the average A4-sized floor space costs £204.

And in Yorkshire, an A4-sized floor space in York will set buyers back around £209 typically.

Zoopla has a tool which allows buyers to set a minimum square footage alongside their price range.

Richard Donnell, executive director at Zoopla, said: “Our analysis shows that the gap between what £200 gets you in Westminster versus what it buys in the North West is not just a number – it is the difference between a sliver of a page and two full sheets of paper.

Here are the most and least affordable locations in nations and regions, according to Zoopla, with the average cost of an A4-sized floorspace:
Least affordable: South Northamptonshire, £206
Least affordable: St Albans, £351
Most affordable: Barking and Dagenham, £273
Least affordable: Westminster, £837
Most affordable: Sunderland, £83
Least affordable: Northumberland, £134
Least affordable: Trafford, £212
Most affordable: Argyll and Bute, £74
Least affordable: Edinburgh, £204
Most affordable: Portsmouth, £171
Least affordable: Elmbridge, £363
Most affordable: Plymouth, £133
Least affordable: Christchurch, £243
Most affordable: Blaenau Gwent, £84
Least affordable: Monmouthshire, £179
Most affordable: Stoke-on-Trent, £104
Least affordable: Warwick, £213
Most affordable: North East Lincolnshire, £90