Living & Working in Dundee
Dundee's people are its greatest asset. The city is cosmopolitan in outlook and combines and celebrates many different cultures. Priding itself on its warm and friendly welcome to visitors, Dundee is a university city. Home to thousands of students and academics from all over the world, Dundee has more students per head of population than any other Scottish city.
The city has grown in importance as a regional centre and as a regional centre and has a population of more than 300,000 people within its 30-minute drive time catchment area. With many people attracted to the city to work, rest and play, Dundee is a bustling centre during the day and lively location at night.
Dundee's workforce is well educated, highly skilled and flexible having adapted successfully to a range of modern industrial sectors.
While Dundee's house prices has risen sharply in recent years, it remains around one third of that in London and well below that of Scotland's three other major cities.
Demand for high quality housing on offer in hot spot such as the West End and Broughty Ferry are very popular but the rest of the city offers trendy apartments in converted jute mills to high quality executive houses.