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The best up-and-coming areas to invest in the UK for 2022

From Folkestone to Ferryside, Okehampton to Oundle, we pick the next generation of star locations

Folkestone is now packed with shops and galleries and at the centre of the Creative Quarter. Right: colourful beach huts along the seafront
Folkestone is now packed with shops and galleries and at the centre of the Creative Quarter. Right: colourful beach huts along the seafront
ALAMY
The Sunday Times

The great location, location, location game is about identifying those dreary overlooked suburbs, down-at-heel city centres and middle-of-the -road addresses that have all the right ingredients to be something bigger and better than the sum of their parts, and are set to change. The idea is to buy in early and enjoy being part of the transformation, while also transforming your own bricks-and-mortar fortune.

The annual Sunday Times celebration of the best of Britain is an ever-changing feast, and not just because it would be boring to feature the same locations time after time. A few places have consistently been too good to leave out — take a bow Kirkby Lonsdale, Penarth and North Berwick, among others. But places change. High streets decline, traffic builds