Where to buy a home in the UK to survive a nuclear attack is revealed by estate agents in bizarre guide
AN estate agent has issued a bizarre guide to the best places to buy a house if you want to survive a nuclear attack on the UK.
Online agents eMoov produced a map showing the property hot spots outside the predicted blast zones if 20 British cities are blitzed by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The estate agent said: "With tensions between the US and North Korea escalating, eMoov.co.uk has highlighted some options for home buyers, that should (hopefully) keep them clear of any nuclear impact from World War Three.
"A back yard nuclear bunker can be a cool edition to a property, but can also be a pain to construct.
"So rather than hide away, home owners can look to radiation free pockets of the nation to save themselves the trouble."
The agent used a web tool called to calculate the effects of 100-megaton strikes on London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Hull, Nottingham, Birmingham, Cambridge, Norwich, Oxford, Bristol, Swansea, Southampton, Brighton, Plymouth, Liverpool and Sheffield.
It described how swathes of the country would become "uninhabitable" due to a 40-mile thermal radiation radius from each warhead.
So it has highlighted some "radiation free options to get on the property ladder" for those fretting about the impending Armageddon.
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Most affordable is said to be Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria - ironically close to the Sellafield nuclear processing plant and power station - which boasts an average house price is £112,279 and "a good chance of being out of the radiation zone".
Other areas deemed safe include Inverness (average £154,150), Anglesey (£161,262), Skegness (£163,991) and the far west of Cornwall (£214,215).
Brixworth, Northants (average £268,932), is cheerfully hailed as "nestled between four impact zones" but the agent warns that "with nowhere to go but into radiation your survival rate isn’t very high".
Trendy Kent resorts Margate (£216,134) and Folkestone (£236, 488) are also predicted to escape the Apocalypse.
EMoov chief executive Russell Quirk said: “Luckily, we’re out of range from any North Korean missiles, but if the world was to descend into nuclear madness the fallout would mean house prices would probably become irrelevant.
"That said, with buyer demand already at explosive levels compared to the ground zero stock levels available, a nuclear war could see these more affordable areas grow in value as demand for a house still standing outside of an impact zone increases."
The guide was ridiculed after it was sent to journalists and emerged online.
Times journalist David Byers tweeted: "Worst. Press. Release. Ever."
He added: "Genuinely in shock! Who could have imagined this press release was a good idea??"
One Twitter user said a "disturbing amount of research" had gone into the guide, and another joked: "Nothing says 'Why not take on a 30 year mortgage' like the threat of imminent nuclear war."
The guide was issued after Donald Trump promised "fire and fury" in response to Kim's threat to launch missiles at US territory Guam.
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