{"id":3088,"date":"2017-07-25T07:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:15:31","slug":"people-leaving-london-live-somewhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/people-leaving-london-live-somewhere-else\/","title":{"rendered":"More people are leaving London to live somewhere else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since 2012, the number of people leaving the capital in order to start a new life somewhere else has risen by over 80% as more than 93,000 Londoners left the city to find their luck in other parts of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new research was put together by Savills and revealed that the biggest number of those finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/01\/03\/london-exodus-sees-young-professionals-heading-to-the-north\/\">saying their farewells to the capital<\/a> are in their 30s. In total, 68% more people aged between 30 and 39 years have left the city over the last five years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"r87D57DA2m\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/18\/britains-rents-increased-1-1-yearly-dropped-london\/\">Britain\u2019s rents increased by 1.1% yearly, but dropped in London<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Britain\u2019s rents increased by 1.1% yearly, but dropped in London&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/07\/18\/britains-rents-increased-1-1-yearly-dropped-london\/embed\/#?secret=TycsJSeZvO#?secret=r87D57DA2m\" data-secret=\"r87D57DA2m\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another age bracket that\u2019s happy to leave the big city life behind are those aged 50 years and older as the number of departures has increased by 46% over the same period of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The only age bracket that saw an increase in new people moving to London were those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/06\/25\/finding-work-now-top-reason-for-moving-house-especially-for-millennials\/\">aged between 20 and 29 years<\/a> as the number of London-leavers in this group dropped by 9%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main reason to leave London behind is &#8211; according to the Savills data &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/06\/06\/london-renters-being-priced-out-as-costs-rise-faster-than-wages\/\">unaffordable average house price<\/a>. Whilst an average home in London currently sets you back \u00a3579,836, the price for a property across the rest of the country only comes up to \u00a3333,181, and is therefore about \u00a3250,000 cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Where those trying to get away are actually moving to is varied. Whilst some might only move a couple of miles away, therefore close enough to commute into work, otherwise may decide to have a fresh start somewhere further afield.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"43iWlgIkCB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/06\/22\/new-study-locates-10-buy-let-hotspots-englands-north\/\">New study locates all 10 buy-to-let hotspots in England\u2019s North<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;New study locates all 10 buy-to-let hotspots in England\u2019s North&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/06\/22\/new-study-locates-10-buy-let-hotspots-englands-north\/embed\/#?secret=L1ClkTk483#?secret=43iWlgIkCB\" data-secret=\"43iWlgIkCB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of the country\u2019s key cities, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/07\/12\/west-midlands-top-spot-for-house-prices-as-birmingham-attracts-londoners\/\">Birmingham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/07\/05\/finding-property-with-parking-in-manchester-no-longer-priority-for-investors\/\">Manchester<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/06\/04\/more-housing-investment-in-leeds-set-to-transform-the-city\/\">Leeds <\/a>can feel this shift as more and more people moving there. The exciting thing about it is that with more people, more opportunities come along, too.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s arts and culture, dining, entertainment, transport or purely standard of living, Britain is experiencing a lift as it gains whatever it can from the country\u2019s shifting focus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/07\/13\/liverpool-receives-major-investment-boost-as-devolution-deal-progresses\/\">away from the capital<\/a> and more towards its second cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2012, the number of people leaving the capital in order to start a new life somewhere else has risen by over 80% as more than 93,000 Londoners left the city to find their luck in other parts of the country. A new research was put together by Savills and revealed that the biggest number<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/people-leaving-london-live-somewhere-else\/\" title=\"ReadMore people are leaving London to live somewhere else\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[196,11,77,35],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","tag-birmingham","tag-london","tag-manchester","tag-property-prices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096873,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/6096873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}