A Welsh town has moved 166 places up a prestigious property guide to be in the top 10 places in the UK to live. The coastal town Kidwelly is ranked fifth in Garrington’s Best Places to Live in 2022 research report.
In 2021, the Carmarthenshire town that is ideally situated as a centre for touring west Wales, the Pembrokeshire National Park, the Gower Peninsula and the Brecon Beacons was in 171th place. The researchers say that the pandemic has changed the property market pointing out that millions of people are now keen to continue working remotely at least some of the time, meaning that many are "reassessing what they want from their home – and this shift is transforming Britain’s property market for good".
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