A TOP 10 of investment hotspots, best for value in England, has been named by housing experts.

Research by Hometrack, a housing information business, due to exhibit at the Property Investor Show in September, looked into the top 10 affordable investment hotspots.

These are places where the average prices of a starter home are still below the stamp duty level of £125,000 and places which are also set to deliver the highest house price inflation in the UK over the next few years.

Ipswich was placed top as it is benefiting from large-scale regeneration projects and two of the top five emerging hotspots, Gillingham and Chatham, are in the Thames Gateway, where there are plans to build 200,000 homes and improve transport links into London.