{"id":2860,"date":"2017-06-07T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:00:43","slug":"newcastle-leads-uk-family-living-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/newcastle-leads-uk-family-living-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle leads UK Family Living Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good schools, low crime rates and an average house price of around \u00a3161,000 makes the Northern city the ideal place to start a family, a new research shows.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A survey put together by MoneySupermarket.com revealed that Newcastle has been voted best place to raise a family due to its low crime rates, good schools and affordable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/30\/uk-house-prices-waitrose-effect\/\" target>house prices<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ijDRECYYDi\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/06\/06\/city-house-price-growth-uk-city-made-biggest-jump\/\">City house price growth: Which UK city made the biggest jump?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;City house price growth: Which UK city made the biggest jump?&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/06\/06\/city-house-price-growth-uk-city-made-biggest-jump\/embed\/#?secret=KVC1xKHzGs#?secret=ijDRECYYDi\" data-secret=\"ijDRECYYDi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During the survey, the city had to compete with 34 other places across the UK to gain the biggest backing and most support for its family-friendly environment. <\/p>\n<p>The research was based in six categories, including the number of outstanding schools, job opportunities, parks, burglaries, house prices as well as average income. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In the end Newcastle ranked top or above in most of the six categories. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/12\/uk-house-prices-least-affordable-regions\/\" target>affordable housing<\/a>, the North\u2019s rising star scored highly due to its low average house price of \u00a3161,255 compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/18\/5-surprising-factors-impact-house-prices\/\" target>country\u2019s average<\/a> of \u00a3232,885. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the city was awarded 10 out of 10 for its outstanding schools per head of population and low for house burglaries. <\/p>\n<p>Whilst Newcastle also ranked above average for its variety in parks, it dropped slightly when it came to job opportunities due to a lack of available positions. The MoneySuprmarket.com research also found that the city\u2019s average income of \u00a325,573 is higher than its neighbour\u2019s, Sunderland, of \u00a324,767. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"w6Ci2MiN6L\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/08\/uks-affordable-areas-buy-home\/\">These are the UK\u2019s most affordable areas to buy a home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;These are the UK\u2019s most affordable areas to buy a home&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/05\/08\/uks-affordable-areas-buy-home\/embed\/#?secret=iF7J3SGbYu#?secret=w6Ci2MiN6L\" data-secret=\"w6Ci2MiN6L\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MoneySuperMarket\u2019s Kevin Pratt said: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cParents naturally want the best for their children, whether it\u2019s a good school, a safe and leafy neighbourhood, or plenty of career opportunities when they grow up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that this study is only the first one in a long series of interest backing the new property star on the horizon with Newcastle and Gateshead councils recently also revealing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.gov.uk\/services\/planning-building-and-development\/planning-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big vision for the area by 2030<\/a>, including thousands of new jobs, office space and homes to suit its growing population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good schools, low crime rates and an average house price of around \u00a3161,000 makes the Northern city the ideal place to start a family, a new research shows. A survey put together by MoneySupermarket.com revealed that Newcastle has been voted best place to raise a family due to its low crime rates, good schools and<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/newcastle-leads-uk-family-living-index\/\" title=\"ReadNewcastle leads UK Family Living Index\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[305,97],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regeneration","tag-newcastle","tag-northern-powerhouse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}