Home-seekers despair as affordable property vanishes from UK hotspots

Lockdown exodus from big cities further complicates housing crisis in attractive parts of the country Jonathan Taylor was pleased by his first peek at a sparkling new studio apartment that could one day become his home. The 24-year-old from Exeter has been living in YMCA accommodation since he was 19 but, as he viewed freshly painted white walls, the reality of a more settled home dawned. "If I lived in this place I'd feel more important," he said. "I'd feel I've landed on my feet."