York is a thriving city with a well-established all year round tourist industry. The out of town shopping and business areas of Monks Cross and Clifton Moor have been a boom to the city, yet have still left a flourishing City Centre.

Although much of the railway-engineering sector has diminished over the recent years, most of the technical, planning and development work of the railway's structure is housed in the various offices of Network Rail, GNER, Arriva Trains and Jarvis located close to the railway station.

Famous for the manufacturing of sweets and chocolates through Rowntree's and Terry's of York, both factories are very much a major employer especially with the takeover of Rowntree's by Nestle. This group are now second only to the City of York Council in employment statistics.

York University is a historic university and has a good reputation. Student levels continue to increase, hence the increase of campus accommodation and private landlords. Large areas of redevelopment and new development have taken, and continue to take place improving the quality and variety of facilities offered.

Whilst York has not the benefit of a local airport, Leeds/Bradford and Humberside some 35 and 40 miles in distance respectively continue to increase their services both nationally and internationally. The rail links have improved dramatically with the introduction of the high-speed rail services to London and the much-improved services to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Birmingham together with the Cross-Pennine routes to Manchester and Manchester Airport. With the completion of the M1 link road around Leeds joining the M1 and A1 roads together now means York to London is either travelled on dual carriageway or motorway and has brought York to Leeds in less than 30 minutes. York's centre can be entered by various roads leading from a full outer ring road system, a system which encompasses the out of town centres which is attractive for business expanding or relocating.

Since the early 1990's, York has seen some major changes by way of residential housing development right across the city. This is primarily due to the desire to live in York and commute via the improved transport facilities to other destinations, including London.

As the number of residential housing increase so to do their market value making York an excellent choice to invest in property. If you would like further information on this, please contact us on the number below.