MCS operations in North West England are currently focused in Liverpool due to the excellent investment potential and high levels of regeneration. Please contact us if you are looking specifically for a property in other areas of the North West.
Liverpool – City Overview Liverpool is a fast growing, modern, cosmopolitan and dynamic city in Northwest England, and with a population of 447,500 is the sixth largest city in the UK.
The city is well connected by rail, road, sea and air - offering easy access to all UK, European and international markets. Liverpool is well connected to the UK motorway network and has direct rail connections to London and other UK cities. Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) serves more than 70 destinations including daily flights throughout the UK and Europe. In 2008 a new daily direct service was launched to New York JFK, as well as a regular service to Toronto. Already one of the fastest growing regional airports in Europe, LJLA has carried 5 million passengers over 12 months and is set to treble in size by 2030.
Ten facts about the city:
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Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008 and hosted a year long programme of events
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Liverpool has more listed buildings than any other city in the UK outside London.
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Liverpool is the only English city outside London with a collection of national museums and galleries
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The city was designated a World Heritage City by UNESCO in July 2004, placing the famous Waterfront alongside Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China as one of the world’s most important places
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Liverpool is the birthplace of the Beatles with an estimated 600,000 people visiting each year just for Beatles heritage and related events. It is also the World Capital of Pop according to the Guinness Book of Records
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Liverpool has a new £19M cruise liner terminal which opened in September 2007 with the QE2 making a 40th birthday visit to the city. The new terminal allows the world's great cruise ships to return to the Mersey on a regular basis and total of 23 vessels with more than 25,000 cruise passengers have already visited since the opening
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Liverpool is home to the Grand National, the most famous steeplechase in the world, which is watched by 600 million people worldwide each year
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The city has two cathedrals, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, which is the largest Anglican cathedral in Europe, and the Metropolitan (catholic) Cathedral, nicknamed Paddy’s wigwam due to its tepee shape
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Liverpool has three Universities, the University of Liverpool, Hope University, and John Moores University. The University of Liverpool has produced eight Nobel Prize winners and is a member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty UK universities that receive two-thirds of UK universities' research grant and contract funding. The Russell Group is sometimes referred to as the British equivalent of the Ivy League of the United States
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Liverpool FC is the most successful football club in the English league. The club has won a record eighteen First Division titles, seven League Cups, five European Cups (an English record) and the FA Cup seven times
The city itself is currently one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe. In its 798-year history, the city has never seen so much capital infrastructure spending. The Duke of Westminster and his company Grosvenor is spending the best part of a billion pounds rebuilding the city centre.
Liverpool City Council is committed to the future of the city and is willing to make Liverpool the place where people want to work, live and play. This involves encouraging businesses to come to the city and grow, to develop and come up with new ideas from which they can profit, and the city can profit in terms of the jobs this will bring.
Unemployment is at its lowest for 25 years, gross value added is outpacing the rest of the UK, and both average income and retail spend are rising strongly. Liverpool is heading up the retail rankings and ranked 5th in the UK in 2008 Major regeneration projects, inward business investment and an increase in jobs for local people have seen an upturn in the city's economy in recent years. All that and an exemption from stamp duty in certain areas have made Liverpool property an attractive and potentially very profitable investment for a non-resident buyer.
