U FANS will need deep pockets if they want to buy a property in Bromley according to a recently released housing prices survey.

Shakespeare’s Juliet asked ‘what’s in a name?’ but the Zoopla.co.uk research has found living on a street in the borough with a name beginning with U could mean rich pickings.

It says properties on U streets are worth more than those starting with any other letter and, crazy as it seems, the figures seem to add up.

In Upper Park Road, Bromley, the current property value is £322,390 according to the website with the average price paid over the last five years listed at £298,055.

Z streets do not fare well in the Zoopla survey with the 180 streets beginning with this letter across the country seemingly having the lowest property values.

News Shopper: In Zelah Road the current property value is £235,902

In the borough’s only Z street, Zelah Road in Orpington, the current property value is more than £86,000 behind Upper Park Road at £235,902.

Zoopla says the last property sold within the last five years went for £195,000.

But homeowners in the tree-lined quiet street told News Shopper a three-bedroom property was sold for just under £250,000 within recent weeks.

And they say the survey is ‘nonsense’.

News Shopper: Zelah Road homeowner Darren Wheel thinks the Zoopla.co.uk survey is nonsense

Forty-six-year-old Darren Wheel (pictured above) has lived in Zelah Road for 14 years and said: “What a load of nonsense.

“We took notice of it because it was quite funny to us and struck us as a load of nonsense.

“If you take this place as an example it will sell for what it’s like and its location in a reasonably quiet street.

“I think being in a street beginning with a Z is a cache in our favour, people caught up on the letter Z will come and seek us out.”

And Sean Clarke, 45, said: “I have lived her for eight years and it is tree lined and the houses are set back from the road.

“It is an oasis and quite a nice area.”

In Upper Park Road homeowners were similarly dismissive of the survey.

Mother-of-two Aimee Mill, 39, said: “I think it’s completely pointless to be honest.

“I think your house value depends on the area rather than the street and I do not suppose the people on Park Road have more or less value in their properties than Upper Park Road.

“It is to do more with postal code areas rather than names.

“But there might be someone out there looking for a U street because of the survey and there’s no harm in it.”

And William Holbrook, 76, said: “I cannot see what difference the name makes.

“It is the location for transport and schools and things like that I think make the difference.”