The cheapest and most expensive places to buy a home in every Greater Manchester borough

In a region as big as Greater Manchester, it can be difficult to know which are the best areas to buy a home. For house hunters wanting to purchase their next properties in the region, looking at house prices is usually a good place to start.

House prices are great indicators of where you are most likely to find a bargain, and the most expensive areas which are often the property hotspots where demand - and incomes - are greatest. Over the last year Greater Manchester had an overall average price of £240,000, but the cost of a home varies hugely from one borough to the next.

Using Rightmove's latest house price index, we've looked at property prices in each of the region's 10 boroughs and found the cheapest and dearest areas to purchase a home within them.

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Homes across Bolton sold for an average price of £198,345 over the last year, making it one of the region's more affordable boroughs to buy a home.

The majority of sales were terraced properties, selling for around £139,783. Semi-detached properties sold for an average of £198,212, with detached properties fetching £371,952.

For house hunters looking for a bargain, the area with the cheapest property prices is the town of Farnworth, where homes sell for around£151,146.

On the opposite end of the scale, the most expensive part of Bolton is Westhoughton, where you can expect to buy a property for around£214,382.

Over the last year house prices in Bury were around £233,760 on average, rising by 2 per cent on the previous year.

The most popular type of property that sold in the borough was terraced homes, with an average house price of £174,102. You