Leyton is officially one of Time Out’s Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World for 2024!

Every year, Time Out puts out feelers to it's team of writers and editors around the world in the name of deciding which city neighbourhoods are the planet’s coolest. Time Out’s global editors then whittle down the selection and rank them according to the quality of stuff like food, drink, arts, culture, street life and community.

They have published this year’s ranking of the Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World – and, as always, a London neighbourhood made the cut. We at OC Homes are proud to announce that representing the capital this year is the home of our head office: Leyton!

Leyton placed 24th overall (out of 38), sandwiched between Buenos Aires’s Chacarita (at 23) and Dublin’s Inchicore (at 25). Time Out contributor Matt Blake praised Leyton’s growing food scene, lively nightlife and ‘wealth of proper boozers’, also calling out Francis Road as the area’s ‘main drag’.

Blake also said: ‘There’s also a handful of gorgeous hidden green gems, from parks to community-growing gardens.

A steady stream of young, middle-income families have recently moved to Leyton, but with them has come a quiet breath of new life that enhances rather than sacrifices the neighbourhood’s identity.’

All of which won’t likely be news to most Londoners. Leyton is a trendy place and has been in the spotlight in recent years for attracting residents from surrounding areas. As London’s coolest neighbourhood for 2024, Leyton joins recent victors and our office neighbours Walthamstow, who won back in 2022.

Thinking of visiting Leyton soon? Or thinking about moving in to the area? Get in touch with us at OC Homes Leyton (our London Office) on 020 8556 1212, or e-mail us at: hello@ochomes.co.uk