Home News Top ten towns Holly Kirkwood October 4, 2007 According to Nationwide’s latest research, the following towns are the hottest and coolest for house prices at the moment: Five hottest towns 1. Belfast 2. Aberdeen 3. Sheffield 4. Bristol 5. Reading Five coolest towns 1. Newcastle 2. Birmingham 3. Northampton Town 4. Nottingham 5. Coventry Recommended videos for you Click here to read our story on the growing divide in house prices between the north and the south of the country. Related The Catch-22 that’s clogging up the housing market? The over-50s sitting in half-empty houses while young families struggle to find homes that are big enough More than a quarter of parents ‘bend rules or even lie’ to get their children into the right school Dawn Chorus: An 11-bedroom castle in Sussex up for sale at just £1 million, plus the world’s poshest festival and a mind-blowing fact for the day