UK Property

Few would call it fashionable but Milton Keynes is one of Britain’s biggest urban success stories. Some British cities have well-heeled residents, others affordable homes. The Buckinghamshire new town is almost unique in offering both, and one of the busiest retail centres in the region to boot. To celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee in 2022, the town — created in 1967 from the merger of three smaller towns and more than a dozen villages — was awarded official city status. Given that it now contains more than a quarter of...