London home buyers heading for suburbs in record numbers


City dwellers’ small and expensive homes became less appealing last year as governments enforced lockdowns.

LONDON: Record swathes of London home buyers are fleeing for the suburbs, even as the capital reopens and attempts to shrug off the pandemic.

The city’s residents snapped up more than 60,000 homes elsewhere in the United Kingdom in the first six months of this year, according to Hamptons, the most since the broker started tracking the data 15 years ago.

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