{"id":786862,"date":"2026-02-24T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786862\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:51:14","slug":"wales-house-prices-rise-faster-than-uk-average-see-how-your-area-compares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786862\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales house prices rise faster than UK average &#8211; see how your area compares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For some first-time buyers the barrier is no longer saving for a deposit, but affording the monthly mortgage repayments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Cartwright, 25, from Wrexham, has saved \u00a315,000 and began looking at properties locally, priced at around \u00a3150,000. But he said the ongoing cost of owning a home made buying on his own feel unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re constantly being told 10% deposit. I&#8217;ve got a 10% deposit, but it&#8217;s the additional costs to the mortgage rates,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re talking between \u00a3700 and \u00a31,000 per month for a mortgage, and then you&#8217;ve got your council tax, your heating, your electric, your water&#8230; and that&#8217;s before you even get to food and fuel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some first-time buyers the barrier is no longer saving for a deposit, but affording the monthly mortgage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-786862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-britain","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116128296812410224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}