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12 Apr, 15 tweets, 5 min read

🏙️Coronavirus has people rethinking big city living.

🏡Buyers are no longer happy to sacrifice a bigger home and greenery for the sake of a shorter train journey. So where should you buy around London?

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🌳There's been a surge in demand for village properties in rural locations with extra bedrooms and outdoor space.

We take a look at 4 places you can move to near London with £700,000 👇

📍South west of London: Chaldon sits by the Surrey Hills Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

It is just a 33-minute commute from nearby Oxted station.

Homes in the Surrey Hills cost on average £696,264

📍North west of London: Princes Risborough station has a 38-minute train link to London Marylebone.

North of the town is the parish of Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh, where homes cost £649,898.

🛤️Little Kimble has its own station with a link to Princes Risborough

📍 North east of London: Ingatestone and Fryerning is a parish in Essex that encompasses two rural villages.

The average house price is £628,635

Ingatestone has a station with a 34-minute line to London Liverpool Street, and a selection of independent shops and delicatessens

📍 South east of London: In Chevening, Kent, homes cost £682,682 on average.

⛵️The property market here is centred around the village of Chipstead, which has a lake with a sailing club.

🌳Londoners hoping to escape traffic can head south to Chiddingstone in the High Weald

The pandemic has revolutionised homebuyers' priorities.

In this new series, we have found the best places to relocate to for a hybrid commute, working between home and a London office.

Read more: telegraph.co.uk/property/uk/le…

Do you think the pandemic has made more people consider a rural move?

Many companies are now preparing to return to offices, promoting a new hybrid way of working.

Last week the companies that make remote working possible – Microsoft and Google – told employees that they will be expected to return to the office
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Are you looking forward to returning to the office?

Sir John Timpson believes that office-based organisations, even those promoting hybrid working, will have an advantage over remote competitors:

"Zoom meetings are no substitute for the catch-up office chat"
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How often do you plan to commute to work once restrictions allow?

This is part three of our four-part series looking at the best places to relocate to for a hybrid commute.

You can read part one here 👇
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In part two we looked at the best commuter villages to buy a home in for less than £500k 👇

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“This was going to be the first time I could get out... Older people like me don't have this computer knowledge” - David Walters, 78

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🍻 Pubs and restaurants reopened on Monday after months of lockdown.

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📱@age_uk have found that 70% of the UK’s over-70s do not use a smartphone.

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😎 Sitting on wonky wooden benches, donning sunglasses and SPF when it hits eight degrees and scoffing on the bar’s offering of deep fried anything come 10pm – I want it all.

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The UK is facing a slowdown in the number of first vaccinations being offered, after the delivery of a batch AstraZeneca jabs from India were delayed.

Use our tool to see if your area is ahead or behind target 👇
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📌 In the last week, there has been a 57.46% decrease in the rollout of first doses across the UK

📌Ministers have told the NHS to stop booking new appointments in April, with the rollout instead switching focus to giving people their second dose

📌 The slowdown also comes as UK vaccine advisers recommended people aged 18 to 29 should be offered a different vaccine due to evidence linking AstraZeneca jabs to blood clots

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