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Often considered a time-consuming chore pre-Covid, working in the garden is now seen as a pleasure. Clearly, this has had a dramatic effect on the housing market.
However, this is by no means a local phenomenon. An estimated 53,700 households have moved from the city to the countryside in the past year according to Hamptons International and it is going on nationwide. 'I'd say one-in-ten buyers bid blind now,' says Jo Ashby, of John Bray estate agents who sell property in north Cornwall. 'Many know the area from holidaying here, but they'll bid for a house without having viewed it.' In Pembrokeshire, where prices do not compare to the south-west peninsular, the story is the same. 'Buying unseen has been going on constantly in West Wales since the first...