South Wales is one of the UK’s most resilient and opportunity‑rich property regions, with strong rental demand, ongoing regeneration, and house price growth expected to outperform the wider UK over the next five years. Tailoring your market knowledge to this region gives you a major edge—especially in Cardiff, the Valleys, Read more…
Wales Property Market: Key Insights for Investors & Professionals Over the past 12 months, Welsh cities have shown a mixed housing landscape: Neath leads in price growth with a +10.3% annual rise. Cardiff and Newport offer standout rental yields—8.4% and 8.8% respectively. Transactions are down across all cities, with Newport Read more…
Why Investing in Cardiff and South Wales Property Still Makes Sense. Despite economic headwinds and shifting market dynamics, Cardiff and South Wales remain compelling regions for property investment. With strong rental demand, resilient yields, and a diverse housing stock, investors can still find excellent opportunities—especially when armed with local insight. Read more…
You may rent out one property; you may rent out many. Either way most landlords are now choosing letting agents to do this for them. Agents take the burden off the landlord with the mine field of legislation, hard work finding the right tenant, getting the tenant referenced and moved Read more…
Its great to have the Cardiff property data from the Census. Analysing this we can compare Cardiff of 2011 to Cardiff 2021. There are about 358,883 people now living in Cardiff. The overall population has increased 3.9% in the ten years between 2011 and 2021. How does 358,883 break down Read more…
Tim Bannister, Rightmove’s director of property science, said: “The interest rate brakes being applied more strongly to slow the economy are now beginning to bite in the housing market”. The number of sales agreed in June is 12% behind 2019’s more normal market level. Transactions in Cardiff are 21% lower Read more…
Our outlook scenario for house prices is of a market slowdown and mild price falls. Lower transaction volumes but better than suggested by recent low mortgage approvals data. There are reasons to be positive about the housing market and the outlook has improved since Liz Truss stepped down. The interest Read more…
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This shows the change in average asking prices of property in Wales to August 2022. Note, this is not actual sales prices where our data is normally calculated from. Need help with a property? Selling, renting, managing? Get in touch. Press the chat button below or visit the agency website Read more…
With inflation running high, the Bank of England increased its base rate to 1.25% in June, with another 0.5 percentage point rise forecast before the end of 2022 and potential for a further 0.25 percentage point rise in 2023. The typical margin between mortgage rates and the bank rate (1.5 Read more…