article_snippet: Mayfair on the Monopoly board may be worth only £400, but with soaring house prices the reality today is eye-wateringly different.
article_snippet: A four-storey townhouse in the exclusive London area now sells for £40million, while even a flat in the cheapest Monopoly area of Whitechapel has gone for nearly £5million.
article_snippet: In light of such ludicrous prices, one estate agent has now re-imagined the classic board game – set in desirable English market towns.
article_snippet: Mayfair on the Monopoly board is picturesque Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, where homes go for more than £872,000 on average.
article_snippet: both worth £60 and often seen as the game’s dud streets unless you can build a hotel on both – have been replaced by Morpeth and Wooler in Northumberland, where average houses sell for about £220,000.
article_snippet: Upmarket estate agent Savills has also reinvented Bond Street, Regent Street and Oxford Street as Harpenden, Berkhamsted, and Bushey, all in Hertfordshire, where family homes routinely sell for more than £500,000.
article_snippet: Lucian Cook, of Upmarket estate agent Savills, said: ‘Lucian Cook, of Savills looked for towns with the highest average value across different regions of the UK.
highlights_snippet: Soaring house prices illustrate Monopoly's now outdated property values .
  
highlights_snippet: The board game's crowning property of Mayfair costs £400 to buy .
  
highlights_snippet: In reality, properties in the posh London area cost up to £40million .
  
highlights_snippet: A real estate agent has now re-imagined the classic British board game .
  
highlights_snippet: A real estate agent has mapped out the equivalent areas set in desirable English towns .