Bright Street and Sunny Bank among district's happiest streets

But what are Bradford’s happiest streets?

When house hunting, most of us don’t pay much attention to the road name; in fact, 62 per cent of Brits state that they aren’t concerned with the street name of their next potential home.

However, Bankrate.com/uk has discovered that this seemingly small feature can have a significant effect on the value of your house.

- Having a happy street name increases your home’s value by £24,830.86 on average in the UK

- Hope is the most popular positive road name, featuring in in 216 street names across the UK. This is followed by Summer (127), Sunny (126) and Love (123)

- Overall, there are more happy street names in the North West than any other region in the UK

- There are 199 happy streets in Yorkshire and The Humber – the second highest in the UK – but only 38 in the North East

- Chipper is the most valuable street name - adding over £56,000 to your home on average

Here is a list of the Bradford district’s 25 happiest street names and where they are:

Bright Street, BD14, BD15 and BD23, Skipton, Queensbury and Allerton

Hope Hill View – BD16, Bingley

Hope Lane – BD17, Baildon

Hope View – BD18, Shipley

Pleasant Street – BD7, Great Horton

Sunny Bank – BD18, Shipley

Sunny Bank Avenue – BD21, Thornbury

Sunny Hill Avenue – BD21, Keighley

Sunny Mount – BD20 and BD21 – Both Keighley

Sunny View Terrace – BD13, Queensbury

Summer Hill Street – Great Horton

Summer Lea – BD10, Idle

Angel Street – BD17, Baildon

Friendly Street – BD13, Thornton

Paradise Road – BD9, Heaton

Paradise Street – BD1, Bradford city centre

Flower Bank – BD2, Swain House

Flower Court – BD18, Shipley and BD2, Eccleshill

Flower Garth – BD10, Greengates

Flower Hill – BD9, Heaton

Peace Street – BD4, Laisterdyke

BankRate also discovered that hope is the most popular happy street name.

They Bankrate found that the North West is the happiest region – with 237 positive road names.

This is followed by Yorkshire and The Humber (199), South East (175), South West (157) and East of England (139).

Meanwhile, Hope makes an appearance in 216 roads in the UK and increases property prices by £20,434 on average.

In second place is summer which is included in 127 different streets across England and Wales, closely followed by sunny which is found in 126 roads in the country.

The 10 most popular happy road names are as follows:

1. Hope - 216

2. Summer - 127

3. Sunny - 126

4. Love - 123

5. Pleasant - 118

6. Paradise - 109

7. Angel - 90

8. Bright - 65

9. Rainbow - 48

10. Flower - 31

The happy road name with the highest added value is chipper - this can potentially add £56,571 to your home’s selling price, and is most popular in Wiltshire, South West England.

This is followed by pretty, which boosts your home’s value by £44,918 on average and is most popular in the East of England!

Other names that can increase your property’s value and the area they are most frequently found in are as follows:

Gay: £40,293 (South West)

Pleasure: £39,029 (South East)

Dancers: £32,029 (East of England)

Beam: £30,623 (North West and North East)

Heaven: £29,273 (London)

Merry: £27,619 (East and West Midlands)

Bankrate used an online thesaurus to gather as many synonyms of “happy” or other words associated with positivity as they could.

After amassing a list of 120 or so words, the team then entered the names onto Streetlist.co.uk to find if there were indeed streets with those words in their names, and where they were located. 

After finding the average house price on that street, they went on to find the average house price within that postcode using Zoopla.

After this, we used the average value of a home on each ‘happy’ street to determine how much they increase the value of your home in comparison to the average house price in that postcode.

Regional Price Variation was accounted for.