article_snippet: Sophie Chick, associate director at Savills, said that the cost of housing in cities and towns means that villages now offer comparatively good value for money.
article_snippet: We’ve actually found that since the credit crunch, villages on the whole have underperformed villages on the whole neighbouring towns and cities,’ she said.
article_snippet: This is because there has been a marked preference for living within an urban environment, closer to a work place, resulting in affluent UK cities and towns outperforming living within an urban environment, closer to a work place neighbouring villages and rural locations in the housing market.
article_snippet: This means villages now represent good value and there is a currently good buying opportunity.
article_snippet: The 100 most affluent villages in Britain are scattered across the regions – from Brockenhurst, nestled in the heart of Hampshire’s New Forest, to the Cornish holiday hotspot of St Mawes.
article_snippet: But millionaire city dwellers in search of comfortable country living have ensured that villages within the London commuter belt – especially those with a handy railway station – dominate the list.