TV home deal best for Beale
EASTENDER Ian Beale has the most valuable house in soapland, say property experts.
His four-bed semi-detached with loft conversion in TV’s Walford would be worth £597,233.
Neighbours the Trueman family (£587,337) and the Wicks’s home (£502,391) make up the top three with their proximity to the Queen Vic pub, market and Tube station.
Property valuation website Zoopla matched the four main TV soaps’ locations to real life areas.
EastEnders’ Walford (equivalent to Walthamstow, East London) has top average house prices at £439,785. Emmerdale (Esholt, Yorkshire Dales) was next at £229,207 while Hollyoaks (Chester) was £193,698.
Coronation Street (Salford, Gtr Manchester) came last with £96,341.
EastEnders saw rises of around 25 per cent in the past three years, but they have fallen three per cent since February.
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Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt)
Ian Beale faces financial ruin when his business empire is hit by the credit crunch.
To prove even Walford cannot escape the world’s financial crisis, whining Ian will be forced to tighten his belt or risk losing everything he has worked for.
Ian (Adam Woodyatt, 40) has a number of businesses, including the Square’s café, and a string of properties he rents out.
But in the coming weeks he will struggle to fill his luxury flats, giving him a massive cashflow crisis.
He is even forced to consider cancelling Christmas because he cannot afford to buy presents for his children and wife Jane (Laurie Brett, 38).
Desperate Ian also starts charging café customers and staff to use the toilet in a desperate bid to get the cash flowing again.
A show insider said: “Ian knows he needs to make every penny count or he’ll be ruined.”