{"id":124018,"date":"2021-12-30T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/people-seem-to-be-looking-for-another-way-of-living-how-taunton-became-property-hotspot\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:04:13","slug":"people-seem-to-be-looking-for-another-way-of-living-how-taunton-became-property-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/people-seem-to-be-looking-for-another-way-of-living-how-taunton-became-property-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People seem to be looking for another way of living\u2019: how Taunton became property hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGrowth in homeworking just one reason behind house price surge in Somerset\u2019s county townWhen Covid first hit, Jack Battersby, residential sales manager at Taunton\u2019s Wilkie May & Tuckwood estate agents, set up in his spare room and fretted that lean times were ahead.\u201cIt didn\u2019t turn out like that. Business has been great,\u201d said Batttersby as his desk phone rang constantly and messages pinged on his mobile. \u201cWe\u2019re getting customers from all over \u2013 people from London and the south-east who since Covid are working from home so they might as well be here, but also people moving from places like Bristol and Exeter because they get more for their money.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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