Aberdeen named cheapest city for single homebuyers in Great Britain

Average one- or two-bedroom home is 119,000 in Scottish city, as Liverpool tops list in England and Blaenau Gwent in Wales

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Aberdeen in Scotland is the most affordable city for single people to buy a home in Great Britain, analysis of national property data shows, with the average one- or two-bedroom home valued at just under 120,000.

Monthly mortgage payments in the city came in at 510 a month - about 16% of the area's average monthly salary - for such a property valued at 119,350, according to research from the property website Zoopla.