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West Wales Property Finders Changes Hands Having founded West Wales Property Finders in 2014, and worked as a buying agent in the Welsh property market for well over 20 years, Carol Peett has sold the company to Emma Salmon.  Carol will retain all her existing clients and will remain as a Consultant to the company for the foreseeable future. “West Wales Property Finders has been my baby”, says Carol, “and I have loved working with so many wonderful clients and property professionals over the...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves can’t expect many Christ­mas cards this year from own­ers of expens­ive homes after intro­du­cing a ‘man­sion tax’ in last week’s Budget.Prop­er­ties worth more than £2mil­lion will have to pay thou­sands more in tax each year, with the most expens­ive facing an addi­tional tax of up to £7,500 annu­ally. But how will this affect the prop­erty mar­ket? The new tax doesn’t come in until April 2028, so we can expect a glut of houses priced just under £2mil­lion com­ing...

...Accord­ing to a recent study by the Homeown­ers Alli­ance, one in seven homeown­ers aged 55 or older has put plans to downs­ize on hold in the past two years, largely because of a short­age of suit­able prop­erty. Many downs­izers who approach Carol Peett, of West Wales Prop­erty Find­ers http://www.westwalespropertyfinders.co.uk , are after a house that will delay their mov­ing into a care home. “One-storey liv­ing is a huge bene­fit ... import­ant cri­teria to think about are a...