Owning a holiday home abroad is a dream for many of us, but when the time comes to make the purchase how can you know that you're choosing the right destination? Our interactive tool does the research for you so you can be sure that you’ve chosen your perfect setting. What are you waiting for? Your holiday home awaits.
Methodology
Locations were selected based on the most popular locations for Brits to move abroad based on a study by Rightmove and the ‘Hot Lists’ on their site listing the most searched overseas locations for the UK public. Rightmove and Zoopla were used to gather the average house prices. The UK house price average was taken from a 2017 study by the UK Land Registry.
Temperatures were based on the average daily temperatures for the summer and winter months across the destinations. Rainfall was taken from the number of rainfall days in the season in 2016. Seasons are taken to be the UK-recognised seasons, as such summer is taken to be June, July and August and winter is taken to be December, January and February.
Currencies were converted on 9th August 2017.
English proficiency is lifted from the English Proficiency Index. For those countries without a proficiency score listed an average of neighbouring countries was used.
Flights are based on the daily flights out of all London airports on 12th September 2017. Throughout the research, including for population, in the instance that an area covered an entire region or country the capital or most visited destination within that area was used. For example, Los Angeles was used for California and Florence was used for Tuscany.
Entertainment includes all outdoor activities, zoos & aquariums, boat tours & watersports, museums and fun & games. Shopping centres includes shopping malls, flea & street markets, farmers markets, department stores and factory outlets.
The daily budget for the UK was taken for the UK as a whole, not a particular city.
Sources
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-magazine/top-5-most-searched-destinations-revealed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/abroad/popular-holiday-home-locations-2016-according-rightmove/
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/hot-properties.html
https://www.aplaceinthesun.com/country-advice
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property.html
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/overseas/
https://www.weather2travel.com/climate-guides
https://www.worldweatheronline.com
https://weather-and-climate.com
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/
https://www.travelsupermarket.com
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-magazine/sunny-places
https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/
https://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HR17.pdf
https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algarve
https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore
https://www.hri.org/infoxenios/english/ionian/corfu/people.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antalya_Province