The second home council tax premium has "decimated" local property markets, with house prices falling and the number of homes for sale soaring. The policy was supposed to make properties more affordable for those living there by encouraging second home owners to sell up. But sellers in tourist hotspots have told … [Read more...]
The Second Home Trap
High Council Tax and mortgage rates are making holiday homes unaffordable - leaving the market flooded with cottages no one wants to buy say Rachel Mortimer and Jack Simpson. ....Local Authorities in Wales have been able to charge extra council tax on second homes and vacant properties since 2017. ... A glut of … [Read more...]
Wales crackdown on second homeowners in county dubbed ‘Little England’ massively backfires
A mass exodus has occurred in one iconic seaside town as homeowners have been forced to sell up. Second home owners are packing their bags and abandoning their second homes in Tenby One of Wales’ top seaside towns risks becoming empty of tourists as a hike in council tax on second homes … [Read more...]
I inherited my parents’ house, now I’m classed as a second-home owner
Kath Nugent, 52, was devastated when she lost both of her parents within weeks of each other in 2020. After her mother died of dementia, her father died from lung cancer on the day of the funeral two weeks later. Nugent and her brother, Richard Ellis, knew they would inherit the two-bedroom bungalow near the seafront … [Read more...]
Wales’s second homes crackdown is in tatters (England take heed)
Policy to double council tax charges on additional properties has had bleak repercussions for locals. Tenby’s cobbled streets are littered with “for sale” signs. A look in the window of any of its six estate agents shows a kaleidoscope of pretty pastel-coloured properties for sale. More than a quarter of … [Read more...]
Magic Pembrokeshire Village Named One of the Best in the UK
A "magic" village in Pembrokeshire that will make you "jack in the day job and move to the coast pronto" has been named among the best in Britain. Britain's 30 greatest villages have been revealed in a list by The Telegraph ... Solva was one of four Welsh villages to be named among Britain's best. The … [Read more...]
Sunday Times Best places to live in Wales 2025
According to the Sunday Times Maenclochog in Pembrokeshire is one of the best places to live.... The Pembrokeshire National Park has a spectacular coast, but it can get very busy in the holiday season. Drive 20 minutes inland to the foothills of the Preseli Mountains and this village, pronounced ‘mine-cloch-og’, has … [Read more...]
The Welsh town named one of the coolest postcodes in the UK
Do you live in a cool Welsh postcode? According to The Sunday Times there's only one place to be in 2025 in Wales if you want to boast that label and it might not be where you first think. No, for once it's not the vibrant Cardiff suburb of Pontcanna - this postcode is much further along M4 and beyond. Every year … [Read more...]
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