Meet the families who have been spending their savings getting back to nature during the pandemic.
Record house prices and a lack of foreign travel may have helped an unexpected boom in one niche market."It's just so tranquil," said Iain Rich, 57, from his newly-purchased woodland in rural west Wales.
It was disconcerting at first, when the last bar of phone signal vanished at least half a mile ago, but then it was peaceful. Helen added: "We'll pass it on to the next generation and then, hopefully, they'll pass it on to next generation after that."Until the pair bought their woodland, it had been left relatively untouched and unexplored for decades.Companies, such as the one Iain and Helen bought from, said it was gradually acquiring huge forgotten plots and selling them off in manageable chunks to wilderness enthusiasts.
"There is a lot of woodland across the whole of the UK, but particularly in Wales, that is undermanaged," explained specialist Chris Colley from Woodlands.co.uk "Up to the start of the pandemic it was a steady business, the average wood that would go on the market would probably take two or three months to find a buyer," said Chris.
"My husband has always been a chef, and a very good one, so he's always had to work away and the kids hardly ever saw him," she said.
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