Cambridge is the home of Cambridge University's world-renowned. In 1209, University of Cambridge, is said to have been founded by students fleeing hostile townspeople in Oxford.

One of the busiest tourist spots in the country with over three million visitors a year, Cambridge is also notoriously houses one of the most prestigious universities in the world, which is itself a source of much of that tourism. With some colleges, such as Peterhouse, dating from the 11th century.

The 13th century the monks chose a quiet rural town, then as a more tranquil environment in which to study the Oxford busier (and often hostile). This was the beginning of the University of Cambridge.

Over the centuries, the University has seen some of the largest science minds study within its walls, such luminaries as Sir Isaac Newton, Darwin, Crick and Watson and Stephen Hawking. Cambridge University has more Nobel Prize winners than any other University on the planet.

Cambridge has become an internationally recognized Center for technological innovation, with many of the companies in the world at the forefront of hi-tech-Microsoft, Philips and arm to name a few-represented at the Science Park on the outskirts of the city. Many of the microchips we use in everyday items such as mobile phones and MP3 players are designed in Cambridge.

Cambridge is a magnet for anyone with an interest in British history. This, coupled with the traditional sights of punts, may balls and cyclists, it helps to create a romantic image of Cambridge which is known the world over.

Cambridge real estate market has seen a boom in the last year with house prices in some areas of the city doubled in the last year-houses in Barrow Road sold in summer to 1.7 million pounds when just a year before similar properties were going for £ 900,000; large detached family homes that sold for 1 million pounds a year ago are now on sale for 2 million pounds.

What is causing this extraordinary trend when the rest of the country is in recession? Much of the increase is put down to factors such as the private schools in Cambridge, such as Lost, The Leys, King, St faiths and St Johns at a time when there is so much uncertainty in the State system. This is especially so when Cambridge close proximity to London (44 km, less than an hour trip) is taken into account. While home buyers flee to Cambridge to escape soaring House prices in London, the price of the Cambridge to increase by an average of 26% in the last year. This ' ripple effect ' makes buying a home in Cambridge, one of the safest investments in properties that you can do in the current economic market.




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