Estate agents see a 125% increase in people looking to relocate to villages amid the coronavirus work from home boom as the top rural hot spots being targeted by city dwellers are revealed

Homebuyers living in major cities are planning their escape to the countryside as a property website reported a 125 per cent increase in people looking to move to villages after the coronavirus lockdown. Rightmove said it is seeing an uplift in city dwellers considering moving to the countryside – and this is outperforming an increase it is also seeing in home hunters looking to move from a city to a town. Across the past two months the number of buyer inquiries from people living in 10 major cities increased by 78 per cent overall compared with the same period last year as the market picked up. Contacts from city residents about buying a home in a village rose by 126 per cent in June and July compared to the same period last year, outperforming a 68 per cent uplift from people in cities inquiring about towns. Among the top ten villages (pictured above) near cities are Iver in Buckinghamshire (near London), East Leake in Nottinghamshire (near Nottingham), Whiston in South Yorkshire (near Sheffield) and Banwell in Somerset (near Bristol). 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8598011/Escape-country-Surge-city-dwellers-inquiring-homes-villages.html

NWN: This will further 'polarise' the UK. 'White Flight' will be much more discernible and pronounced  now this Covid pandemic has focussed peoples minds. One can just imagine the thoughts of people that live in or near Bradford, Leicester, Oldham or Rochdale ?