Birmingham

• Birmingham is the Capital of the Midlands and the second largest city of UK
• The city is home to three major universities and has a student population of 60,000
• Birmingham is the largest professional/financial sector outside London, employing over 60,000 people in the area
• The city has its own branch of the London Stock Exchange
• It is UK's largest manufacturing centre
• It is located at the centre of the UK's communication centre, making it an excellent connection to the rest of the country
•  Birmingham International Airport is the second largest UK airport outside London
• The city is home to 20,000 companies with a client base of 182,000 companies
• Birmingham's Bullring Shopping Centre is the most visited shopping centre in  UK with over 36 and a half million people passing through its doors in just twelve months
• Gross Value Added for Birmingham is £11.8billion
• £11.4billion worth of investment is planned for Birmingham over the next 10 years, with over £9.2billion worth of investment planned and underway in the city centre alone

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• Docklands is located in East London and comprises of a number of former dockyard complexes along the north bank of River Thames
• It is the second largest port in the country
• Because of the location and excellent communication links, Docklands has become a major business centre and a prestigious area to live
• The growing financial sector of Docklands posses a direct challenge to the financial dominance of the London City
• Over the past 20 years, the population of Docklands has more than doubled
• The demand in the Docklands areas is greater than the supply of property
• To compliment the high demand, Docklands has become the fastest developing area in the country
• The apartment based rental market in docklands is flourishing
• Canary Wharf in Docklands has one of the biggest clusters of sky scrapers in Europe giving it the name of Mini Manhattan and has the biggest station of London underground
• Docklands has now reached critical mass with some £400million a year ongoing investment bringing the total public and private sector investment to £12billion
• The Worldwide investment interest in the 55 miles of the waterside of Docklands has made it the Europe's fastest growing live/work area

• Leicester is a dynamic cosmopolitan city located in the East Midlands and in the heart of the UK transport network
• It has a vibrant City Life and is home to two major universities attracting 30,000 students
• Leicester is very well connected to London with over 60 trains to London every day.
• The apartment-based residential market in central Leicester is flourishing
• The letting demand for both professionals and students is very high and with new fast rail track being built to London this rental demand and house prices are set to rise
• Leicestershire is a major commercial and manufacturing centre accounting for more exports per capita then Japan or the USA and its Economy is the largest in whole of the East Midlands, accounting for almost a quarter of the region's GDP (£11billion) and providing jobs for 437,000 people
• The £250million investment into the Shires shopping centre has seen the birth of Highcross Shopping centre in 2008 which has become Leicester’s biggest and most successful re-development and has transformed Leicester into the region's number one shopping destination
• Local Government is investing £19million in the city to completely refurbish the streets so that it competes with the best in the Country
•  Leicester Regeneration Company's master plan of five major projects are key to the future prosperity of Leicester

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• Liverpool is situated in the North West of England and is the sixth largest city in the United Kingdom
• Liverpool received the European Capital of Culture 2008 status which created 14,000 new jobs, attracted an extra 1.7million tourists and encouraged £2billion investment
• The city has excellent road and rail connections, along with rapid trans-global sea routes and two international airports within easy reach of the city centre
• Governor's £800 million ambitious redevelopment of the Paradise Street area of the city centre is the largest development project in Europe consisting of 450 luxury apartments, 14-screen multiplex cinema, two hotels, 3000 new car parking spaces and a new bus station
• Liverpool City Centre has witnessed a growing trend towards "City Living", by the end of 2004 the number of city centre residents had reached nearly 12,000, and is expected to continue growing towards 20,000 by 2010
• Over the last five years there has been considerable capital and rental growth in residential values of city centre apartments and the demand remains strong for spacious, luxury 2 and 3 bedroomed apartments
• In addition to the influx of professionals, the city centre has also seen a huge growth in students, with the student population now over 50,000

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• London the Capital of UK has a population of around 7million and is the largest city in Europe
• It is a great industrial city with a huge port and is the largest financial centre in the world
• London is served by five International Airports with Heathrow International Airport being the busiest international airport in the world
• London has the second largest urban rail system in the world
• London has one of the biggest population of students in Europe with University of London alone having over 100,000 students
• Over the next 10 years, London will need 35,400 new homes per year
• Rents in the private sector are 60% higher in London than the national level
• The City attracts around 20million visitors a year
• Oxford Street is the busiest shopping street in Europe, with 200million visitors a year, with a turnover of £5billion
• UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE) are headquartered in central London
• In 2002, the GVA generated by London's residents was £147billion. GVA per head in London is 31% higher than the UK average

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• Manchester is the commercial, financial, educational and cultural capital of the UK's largest economic region outside London
• Manchester International Airport is the UK's third largest airport after Heathrow and Gatwick
• Manchester is well connected to the rest of the country by an excellent motorway network
• The Trafford Park Euro-terminal, opened in 1993 at a cost of £11million, offers fast, direct road-rail services via the Channel Tunnel to the markets of continental Europe
• Rental market is booming in Manchester because of the high number of both professionals and students in the city
• Manchester has one of the largest student populations in Europe, with over 78,000 people choosing to study at one of the area's four universities. Within one hour's drive of Manchester, there is a total student population of over 300,000
• The region is also home to over 157,000 companies and businesses
• The City attracts investors from within the UK as well as abroad, and is in the top ten of European cities for business location
• The impressive regeneration of Trafford Park Industrial Estate, the industrial heart of Manchester, continues to grow at breathtaking pace, successfully transforming the area into Europe's fastest growing business location
• Investment constantly flows into the city, the inner city area has been totally reshaped in a £200million programme of housing renewal
• Manchester has a GDP of £67billion
  

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• Nottingham, the Capital of the East Midlands is a cosmopolitan city, with a diversity of cultures
• It is now the UK's third richest city in terms of Gross Domestic Product
• The city is the fourth best shopping destination in the UK
• It has the 7th highest GDP per capita in the UK
• Its economy is worth £4.4billion
• Nottingham is well-served by road and rail networks that provide rapid access to London and the rest of the UK
• Nottingham has two major universities bringing more than 48,000 students to the City. Making one in twelve city residents a university student
• New substantial developments are underway in response to the significant growth of the city's student population
• In 2005 Nottingham had the fastest rate of house-building for the last 15 years
• With around £7billion worth of development being invested in transforming the city centre, Nottingham holds a real possibility of becoming an important and inspiring European city with an attractive environment and a sound base for property investors

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• Oxford is a bustling cosmopolitan city famous all over the world for its university and place in history
• It is one of the oldest cities in the United Kingdom and it has been home to royalty and scholars for over 800 years
• Oxford is a flourishing industrial city and tourist centre with a population over 180,000
• Well served with fast rail and motorway connections to the rest of the country and in particular to the two largest cities of UK., i.e. London and Birmingham, both being within one hour drive
• The City of Oxford has a strong international image attracting substantial foreign investments
• The new Science Park Business Centre with up to 700,000 sq ft of office space, is just another example of the growing business investment in the city
• Oxford is home to two universities with The University of Oxford being the oldest university in the English speaking world
• Oxford has a student population of over 30,000
• Oxford property market has a huge rental demand making it a city with the lowest number of owner occupiers in SE of England
• The rents in certain parts of Oxford are as high as in London
• The housing figure allocated in the ‘Review for Oxford' is 5,500 additional houses to fulfil the high demand of housing

  
   

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