, external<\/span><\/a> of all properties were second homes in 2023-24.<\/p>\n“When I did have a look around, there was no chance I was going to be able to afford a house,” the 23-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“So, yeah, I had to move back in with mum and dad, unfortunately.” <\/p>\n
Rhodri is a Welsh speaker and like many other people, he said he worries that a lack of affordable housing for local people can affect the language. <\/p>\n
“Tourism is fantastic for us for three months of the year in the summer,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But then the other eight, nine months, where a lot of the second homes, for example, don’t have people in them, it just kills the community for the rest of the year.” <\/p>\n
Rhodri is planning to travel in the near future and hopes he’ll be able to afford his first home upon his return.<\/p>\n
Carol Peet, who sells properties in Pembrokeshire, said she believed in some areas there are two housing markets: one for locals and one for second homes.<\/p>\n
“The obvious answer to it, I think, which I’ve been selling for the last 25 years is to stop houses under the average price of a property in this area, which at the moment is about \u00a3250,000, being sold as second homes,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Those are the properties that young local families can afford, not the million-pound houses that second homers buy.”<\/p>\n
She added that a number of “chocolate box pretty cottages” are great for holidays but are “totally impractical” for full-time living as “they’re cold, damp and dark in the winter”.<\/p>\n
She said that while second homes were “absolutely vital” to her local economy in Narberth, she understood the need for affordable housing for local people. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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