Increasing lockdown restrictions presents the property market with a paradox. On the one hand, putting pressure on the economy, incomes and job security will inevitably prove a threat to job security and inevitably prove a threat to house prices and market activity. On the other, a return to working from home, … [Read more...]
Gazumping Returns to West Wales and it is Bad News for Buyers
The word gazumping is sweet music to some people selling their homes but a nightmare for buyers. It has been many years since this word made the headlines and, after an age, it has made its welcome or unwelcome return, depending on which side of the fence you are sitting on. Since the lifting of the extended … [Read more...]
UK Cities Completely Berserk! “Everyone just Wants to Escape”
You know that in America people are racing to escape to the county. But the USA isn’t alone. Residents of London and other UK cities are looking to escape as well. Many are heading to Wales, where property is relatively inexpensive. Carol Peett, managing director of West Wales Property Finders told the Wall Street … [Read more...]
Call of the Wilds
Call of the wilds: Living in the middle of nowhere has renewed appeal - here's how to find your own rural paradise off the beaten track No one is pretending that the property market is back in full bloom but, equally, no one can deny that there are green shoots of recovery. And one of the growing demands is the wish … [Read more...]
A New Boom for UK Holiday Homes
Wales When the government announced the cut in stamp duty, the Welsh government was quick to say that the "savings" would not apply to buy-to-let investors and second home owners. In all likelihood it would not amount to much of a saving in the pricier go-to resorts of Tenby, St Davids and Newport. Instead Carol … [Read more...]
Why you should move to West Wales
A growing number of people are moving to beautiful Pembrokeshire for its sense of community Jamie Burdett has discovered that he can work anywhere. He and his family have not looked back since swapping the commuter life in suburban Kent for a remote corner of deepest west Wales. He spends his spare time messing about … [Read more...]
Buy a smallholding in the UK and live the good life
It was Tom and Barbara in the 1970s, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the 1990s, and now it is the turn of post-lockdowners to search for a slice of the good life. Driven by a desire to gain space and avoid the masses in Sainsbury’s by cultivating a degree of self-sufficiency, urbanites are queuing up to buy … [Read more...]
Moving to the country: History repeats itself as urbanites flee virus-hit cities for rural retreats
History is repeating itself as city-dwellers flee to the countryside to escape the density of virus breeding grounds and lack of outdoor space. Just as the miasma theories of the 1800s led to the creation of parks as a ‘vital lung’ in London and the well-to-do sought to escape the “Great Stink”; urbanites in the … [Read more...]
