Relocating to Liverpool: the lettings market
Liverpool is well qualified as an alternative to London, with a population of almost half a million, a large university, two cathedrals and a well-serviced airport. It’s been a recent European Capital of Culture and has World Heritage City status – underpinned by its musical legacy that stems from The Beatles.
The Americans are coming!
The Americans are coming as Trump proves a business turn off
Just how quickly can things turn 180˚ and change completely? We were just lamenting the downside of the EU referendum and a possible mass exodus of financial institutions from London – taking staff with them – when Donald Trump goes a wins a presidential election, sending America into a tailspin.
Northern Powerhouse News
Northern Powerhouse project gains momentum
There is life outside of London and if the Government gets its way, big business will look just as favourably at the North of England as it does the capital city.
Relocating to Oxford: the lettings market
Oxford needs little introduction. It’s the home to the oldest university in the English-speaking world and a hive of business activity – there are 4,600 businesses providing 114,000 jobs. For all its dreaming spires and period architecture, Oxford is a forward-thinking city.
The Northern Powerhouse Plan: Leeds to rival London?
Whether it’s down to the ongoing BREXIT saga or the crippling stamp duty levy at the premium end of house buying, some parts of the prime Central London property market are on the verge of capitulation. House price growth in some of the most affluent areas is stalling or even in reverse, and the office/commercial markets are cautious over the possible mass exit of banks and financial institutions.
Is the love affair over between banks and London?
Towering skyscrapers of glossy glass and steel, a city airport ready to whisk jet setters off to super power cities and enough high-end restaurants to keep even the most fervent gourmet in gout.
Relocating to Reading: the lettings market
The town of Reading is popular with businesses looking for a permanent headquarters of size outside of London. Its rail links (approximately 28 minutes from Reading train station to Paddington) and proximity to the M4/M3 have singled it out as a destination of note.
Relocating to York: the lettings market
York is one of the North’s greatest cities and it’s considered by many to be the traditional county town of the whole of Yorkshire.
York is an enticing blend of old and new, and has even been voted as Britain’s most beautiful city*.
Crossrail: the transport revolution that will shape relocation in London
Much of the recent public transport limelight has been hogged by the launch of the 24-hour weekend service on the Underground – we even wrote about it ourselves recently.
The Night Tube and London’s lettings market
Before August, many Londoners enjoying late-nights over the weekend suffered from something we call the ‘Cinderella complex’ – cutting short celebrations to dash to a Tube station before the last train.
Relocating to Tower Hamlets: the lettings market
Whether you’re for or against the ‘gentrification’ of London neighbourhoods, it’s hard to ignore the transformation of East London, with Tower Hamlets one of the boroughs to emerge as a leading light in the residential and commercial property sectors. Already well serviced by the London Overground, mainline rail, the DLR, the Tube, river taxi and […]
Relocating to Islington: the lettings market
Islington has always been a destination of note, with a thriving creative community, the Business Design Centre and a fondness among public figures that has beguiled everyone from George Orwell to Lilly Allen. An Islington address carries a lot of weight in influential circles, somehow marking its residents out as social and academic elites.
