Events this year have persuaded more people than ever that relocating to the countryside is for them. Liz Shankland looks at the implications for the rural property market - and the expectations of potential buyers. There can be no doubt that 2020 will go down in history as one of the most stressful and unsettling … [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...]
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...]
A Change of Pace and Lots More Space
"There was a considerable increase in numbers relocating from London and the South East last year," says Carol Peett of home search company West Wales Property Finders. "Their stories are always the same: they are fed up with the overcrowding and frenetic pace of life in the Home Counties. They come here for a … [Read more...]
