THE ORACLE
READING
Located 37 miles outside London, just off the M4 motorway, Reading is surrounded by affluent commuter towns and villages. As the largest town in the UK with a population of 345,000*; it boasts a world renowned university and is the location of choice for 13 of the world’s top 30 brands including Pepsico, Microsoft, Cisco and Ericsson.
Best
place in the UK for first time buyers
(The Sunday Times April 2019)
4th
highest average wage in the UK
(Centre for Cities 2019)
No1
Retail destination in the Thames Valley
2nd
best place to live and work in the UK
(PWC.co.uk)
No2
highest number of businesses by population in the UK
(Centre for Cities)
No5
highest start-up rate in the UK
(livingreading.co.uk)
The opening of the Queen Elizabeth line by Crossrail Ltd in 2022 will allow Reading commuters to travel right through central London without having to change trains. The new railway will stretch more than 60 miles from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east and is expected to serve around 200 million people each year.
*Source: macrotrends.net
