Savills is selling this Grade II listed townhouse on Wells' Cathedral Green for £895,000
When it comes to cities in the post-Covid world, it seems that small is beautiful. Urban dwellers may be hankering after more space, but for many of them rural isolation is not the answer.
House price data suggests that our appetite for a “middle way” – something between village calm and metropolitan buzz – means that some small cities are in higher demand than a year ago.
Using data from property firm TwentyCi, the estate agency Savills identified the cities where the rise in agreed sales this year compared with 2019 most outpaced that of their surrounding region.