article_snippet: The highest average house price was in W8 in Kensington, London, where buyers were set back around £2.65m, The Sunday Times reported.
article_snippet: The data was collected by property website Zoopla, which compared average house prices in districts across the UK.
article_snippet: Kensington Palace Gardens (above) has typically been the most expensive street in Britain with an average house price of £36million in 2013 .
article_snippet: Kensington Palace Gardens (above) also showed that the number of areas where houses were worth more than £500,000 increased by nearly 25 per cent.
article_snippet: UK house prices rose by an average of £16,000 - or 8.5 per cent - in 2014, according to Halifax.
article_snippet: It is where the Thames Zachary House (above) went on sale for just over £6.25million in 2012 .
article_snippet: A total of 18,000 properties in Britain changed hands for more than £1m last year.
article_snippet: Prices in some areas of London surged by almost 25 per cent, Halifax suggested.
article_snippet: The highest average house price was in W8 in Kensington, London, where buyers were set back around £2.65m .
article_snippet: Hampstead (pictured), along with Highgate, is the top traditional comfort zone in London - with an average price of £1.04m .