{"id":21698,"date":"2018-10-22T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=21698"},"modified":"2018-10-22T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:31:05","slug":"manchester-claims-its-place-as-one-of-europes-fastest-growing-cities-and-property-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/2018\/10\/22\/manchester-claims-its-place-as-one-of-europes-fastest-growing-cities-and-property-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester claims its place as one of Europe\u2019s fastest growing cities and property hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City Council<\/i>\u00a0has published\u00a0The State of the City R<\/i>eport<\/i>\u00a0and its figures confirm that Manchester not only has one of the UK\u2019s fastest growing economies, but\u00a0is also outperforming many other leading European cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Strong economic growth is underpinning the demand for property across the city with price growth and rental yields among the highest in the UK and<\/b>\u00a0attracting\u00a0<\/b>keen\u00a0<\/b>international investment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>For example,\u202f<\/b>a report from Juwai.com,<\/a> China\u2019s leading property portal,<\/b>\u00a0stated that property enquiries about Manchester had increased by 200% in August 2018\u00a0<\/b>c<\/b>ompared with August 2017.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The expanding young generation has helped to boost the population to 572,000 compared to 539,600 three years ago and fuelled the demand for rental property.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Significantly, the rise in the\u00a0City\u2019s\u00a0millennial demographic has seen\u00a0number of businesses who have chosen the city to base their operations\u00a0increasing by 18 per cent since 2015-2016 and is now\u00a0running at three times the national average\u00a0of 6 per cent.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0digital, media, cultural and creative\u00a0sectors are thriving offering excellent employment opportunities and attracting many graduates.\u00a0\u00a0Currently around 40% of Manchester\u2019s population is made up of graduates.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the popularity of this northern metropolis that\u00a036% of graduates decide to return home after completing their degrees elsewhere;\u00a069% of graduates from Manchester universities\u00a0choose to stay on in the city taking advantage of the career prospects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leader of\u00a0Manchester City Council<\/i>,\u00a0Sir Richard\u00a0Leese\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cManchester remains one of the UK\u2019s top cities to live in and we can see this in action as more people choose the city as their home, and we continue to see more and more graduates choosing the region following their studies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City Council\u00a0has published\u00a0The State of the City Report\u00a0and its figures confirm that Manchester not only has one of the UK\u2019s fastest growing economies, but\u00a0is also outperforming many other leading European cities.\u00a0 Strong economic growth is underpinning the demand for property across the city with price growth and rental yields among the highest in the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":21699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,42],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}