Are holiday homes pricing locals out of houses?
We ask the people of Cardiff whether holiday homes in Spain pricing out locals would put them off their holiday, in a similar way that has been happening across parts of Wales.
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00:00It's helping with the economy. If you've got people in the early 90s or mid-90s,
00:06Spain went through a really bad phase of not building properties and not selling properties.
00:15So if they can invite other people from other nations to start buying properties,
00:21it puts money into their economy.
00:24Gentrification is happening there, which obviously the people who live there currently
00:29won't be happy, or trying to live there, won't be happy, but say 20, 30 years down the line.
00:34No, we tend to go to hotels anyway, because of, you know, that.
00:42But then again, you see the ordinary people, what do they do?
00:45I mean, at the moment, they can't stay there, can they? They've got to go away,
00:50because it's so difficult to actually stay there, because no work.
00:55You know, it's a bit of a pity, really.