Cardigan is full of surprises. Once one of the most important ports in Wales, with a thriving shipbuilding industry and seven times as many ships registered there as Cardiff, today the town on the River Teifi is busy with paddleboards, kayaks and sailing boats, and a community buzzing with creativity. A cowshed on the … [Read more...]
Why Narberth, Pembrokeshire, is one of the best places to live 2024
A high-class high street is the main attraction in this posh but practical town High streets across the UK may be struggling, but not in Narberth. This colourful market town continues its upwardly mobile march. The turbocharged town centre now has both the Small Luxury Hotel of the Year 2023 (The Grove) and one of … [Read more...]
Where to buy a house in 2024 — the best places to invest in the UK
How do you spot the next big thing? Whether you are a first-time buyer or an investor, wherever you are on the property ladder, everyone wants to back a bricks-and-mortar winner. But which towns, villages and city neighbourhoods will be the best places to live in the future? The Sunday Times has identified 25 … [Read more...]
Pembrokeshire named UK’s most beautiful place to live
Pembrokeshire has been crowned the most beautiful place to live in the UK for 2024, finishing ahead of the likes of The Lake District and The Cotswolds. Rest Less - the UK's fastest growing digital community for people over 50s - has revealed the top nine most beautiful places to live in the UK for 2024. The list … [Read more...]
In praise of the suburban semi – they’re hot property, whatever the snobs say
In 1939 George Orwell took aim at burgeoning British suburbia and its population of lower middle class lackeys in his novel Coming Up for Air, memorably describing the new homes being built on the fringes of cities as ‘semi-detached torture chambers where the poor little five-to-ten pound a-weekers quake and … [Read more...]
Best places to live by the sea in the UK 2023 – Tenby & Solva
Two Pembrokeshire towns have been named among the best places to live by the sea in the UK by The Times. Tenby and Solva join fellow Welsh towns Penarth (Glamorgan) and Barmouth (Gwynedd) in The Times’ list of the best places to live by the sea in 2023. Solva, Pembrokeshire This month’s Solva Edge Festival (July … [Read more...]
What’s really going on inside Britain’s broken rental market
There are an average 13 renters battling it out for every property available to let — but are landlords profiting or selling up? It feels genuinely hopeless and it’s making me ill,” says Lottie, who privately rents a two-bedroom property in outer London. Like thousands of private tenants right now, her biggest worry … [Read more...]
The Last Seaside Towns were you can Bag a Bargain
When the sun shines, few things beat a trip to the British seaside. Whether a day on the beach with a bucket and spade, catching a wave or a clifftop stroll, these are simple yet rewarding pastimes. It is no wonder properties by the sea command such high prices. Homes in fashionable Salcombe, Sandbanks and … [Read more...]
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