Property News · January 28, 2012

Let's move to: Headingley, Leeds


It’s a smashing place to live (yes, even with all those students)What’s going for it? Rule 456 of successful property buying: go to university. University districts might be full of smelly students, but they are also full of smelly lecturers and academics and people who think they’re academics and have money to spend and like bookshops and cafes and nice places to live in; and they’re usually a safe bet for investment and nice places to live in. Headingley is sandwiched between two. Rule 457 of successful property buying: cricket grounds. Stick close to them. And Headingley, of course, is the land of Dickie Bird (OBE congrats). Rule 458 is buy near a botanical garden: Leeds got rid of its one, but there’s still the Hollies, off Weetwood Lane. Throw in the neighbourhood’s lovely old art-house Cottage Road Cinema, its great community spirit aka busybodyness (loving the community orchard and pig co-op, chaps) and waddayagot? A smashing place in which to live, that’s what.The case against Students, not because we’re prejudiced, but for the attendant crime rate and competition for housing. Still, there is a real drive on to attract more families to Headingley. The Arndale Centre: I rarely like an Arndale. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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