Area Guide to Barking & Dagenham

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Situated in the East End of London, Barking & Dagenham remains one of the more deprived boroughs in London. With a population of 163,944, according to the Office of National Statistics, 34% of it's citizens live in council property, with 60% owner occupied. The neighbouring London boroughs are, Newham, Redbridge and Havering.

Slum housing which was cleared after the war, was replaced by adequate but far from attractive terraced properties. This has kept house prices and rental values at the bottom of the London housing league for many years, but change maybe on the way.

One of the biggest regeneration projects in the country is under way in the, Thames gateway, with high expectations for a transformation of this tired part of East London. With large areas of land available for redevelopment, such areas as Barking Riverside, Dagenham Dock and parts of South Dagenham are set to accommodate thousands of new homes. Good transport links into the City, along with the expected transformation, are likely to push up property values in the long run. Though currently we are in a London wide price depreciation phase, Barking & Dagenham should suffer less than other over inflated boroughs.