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Oxford needs little introduction. It’s the home to the oldest university in the English-speaking world and a hive of business activity – there are 4,600 businesses providing 114,000 jobs. For all its dreaming spires and period architecture, Oxford is a forward-thinking city.

Whether it’s down to the ongoing BREXIT saga or the crippling stamp duty levy at the premium end of house buying, some parts of the prime Central London property market are on the verge of capitulation. House price growth in some of the most affluent areas is stalling or even in reverse, and the office/commercial markets are cautious over the possible mass exit of banks and financial institutions.

Towering skyscrapers of glossy glass and steel, a city airport ready to whisk jet setters off to super power cities and enough high-end restaurants to keep even the most fervent gourmet in gout.

York is one of the North’s greatest cities and it’s considered by many to be the traditional county town of the whole of Yorkshire.

York is an enticing blend of old and new, and has even been voted as Britain’s most beautiful city*.

Much of the recent public transport limelight has been hogged by the launch of the 24-hour weekend service on the Underground – we even wrote about it ourselves recently.

Before August, many Londoners enjoying late-nights over the weekend suffered from something we call the ‘Cinderella complex’ – cutting short celebrations to dash to a Tube station before the last train.

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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.