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The Property Know Team personally love Edinburgh as a city and we were pleased to hear that Edinburgh is UK’s Best Place to live in. Channels 4 - 4Homes 2007 “Best and Worst Places to Live” has ranked and rated the beloved Edinburgh as the number one city to live in.

For those worried about the current UK Property Market, our personal advice is to stick with Edinburgh and London. They are investing over £20 million to redevelop the city’s “Old Town” (refer to The New; Old Town of Edinburgh) and are regenerating Edinburgh’s Northern Waterfront (refer to Edinburgh’s Waterfront - Granton Project). The Northern Waterfront named, the Granton Project, encompasses over 120 hectares of land to be redeveloped!

An excerpt from the 4Homes Guide of Edinburgh - it covers the redevelopment of the “Old Town”:

Edinburgh’s beloved Old Town, with its medieval road plan and Reformation era buildings, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But a £20 million regeneration programme announced in June 2007 will see a series of rundown buildings between the Royal Mile and Market Street transformed into a brand new quarter, set to include 80 flats and a budget hotel. Locals aren’t pleased, but if you’re planning to move, you could snap up some brand new housing in the picturesque heart of the city.

The South side, Edinburgh’s less famous and primarily residential district, can nevertheless boast famous residents: if you like the sound of having authors J. K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, and Alexander McCall Smith for neighbours, this is the place to be. To the east, the port of Leith was controversially merged with Edinburgh in 1920 and has enjoyed a growing profile since the 1980s as an excellent environment for white-collar workers.