DaveWhitfield published Has the 'Aldi effect' replaced the 'Waitrose effect' on house...

The opening of a new Aldi supermarket near your home adds an average extra £5,000 to property values, it has been claimed.Conveyancing firm My Home Move came up with the figure based on the property values of home in postcode areas three months before and three months after an Aldi opened, for all its supermarkets which have opened this year.It said that while house prices nationally had gone up by £4,903, properties near new Aldis had increased by around £10,000.There were 11.