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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.

Gastronomy is described as the practice or art of choosing, cooking and eating good food, and there’s no better city in which to eat well than London. Today’s home movers are looking for delis, street food markets and secret supper clubs alongside traditional restaurants to fulfil their food desires.

While there are always going to be peaks and troughs in the property market – influenced by the bigger economic and political picture – one thing is always guaranteed to have an impact and that’s improvements to public transport.

Canary Wharf in E14 is the very embodiment of reinvention, with a slick image and 24-hour community totally at odds with its part industrial, part-wasteland history.

It wasn’t too long ago that arranging property viewings and orientation sessions involved oversized A-Z maps, reams of printed materials and paper diaries bulging with a myriad of appointments*.

Cardiff is the capital of Wales and the country’s economic hub. It’s a city selling itself on affordability and connections, with its bold claims well substantiated. Recent research from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) revealed that Cardiff has one of the highest levels of ‘gazelle’ firms of any city in the UK (gazelle being a high-growth company that is increasing its revenues by at least 20% annually for four years or more). There’s also a supportive Government and local council, with a £100m Wales Life Sciences Investment Fund and a £150m fund from Finance Wales to support micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Budgeting is a big part of relocation and when it comes to finding a property for clients – especially in London – rents can mean the difference between straying into the red or keeping in the black.

Cambridge is a city with a global reputation, thanks to its world-leading university that has seen the likes of William Wordsworth, Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Marlowe and countless monarchs and royals pass through its doors. Cambridge’s academic status has spawned a thriving postgraduate and academic business landscape that positions the city as a major employer outside of London. 

Edinburgh’s cultural riches, royal connections, festival scene and world-class universities make the city a premier destination among a wide variety of people. In fact, Edinburgh was voted as the fourth most beautiful city in the world in a 2015 poll of Rough Guide readers, and the city also featured highly (6th) in a list of the dozen most dynamic cities in Europe, compiled by commercial property specialist Jones Lang LaSalle.

Newcastle is the North East’s tour de force, with a thriving economy, successful regeneration projects and a lively cultural scene. In fact, the city’s economy contributes around £13 billion to the UK’s gross value added.

Relocating a professional is a tough job as it is, but add into the mix a family facing a complex school admissions process and finding the right property for your client becomes a different ball game.