{"id":335978,"date":"2025-12-26T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335978\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:45:08","slug":"the-pretty-little-uk-villages-being-taken-over-by-american-millionaires-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335978\/","title":{"rendered":"The pretty little UK villages being taken over by American millionaires | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States of America came into being after British colonies broke away from their motherland over taxes, identity, enlightenment ideas and restrictive laws. But centuries later, many modern Americans<\/a> have grown to like the United Kingdom very much indeed, and have even decided to move here.<\/p>\n

After seeing Blighty’s green and pleasant rolling hills, scattered with little historic<\/a> villages in BBC<\/a> television<\/a> series and films<\/a>, some of our friends across the pond have found themselves dreaming of a slower-paced life in the old world. This year, an estate agent based in the Cotswolds has seen an increase of as much as 20% in the number of American clients exploring the possibility of buying a home.<\/p>\n

This part of Britain has become a firmly established favourite with our trans-Atlantic cousins, inckuding celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres. It was even rumoured earlier this year that Beyonc\u00e9 and her husband Jay-Z were eyeing up a place in the area of natural beauty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buying agent Katy Campbell told CNN<\/a> that Americans purchase what is usually their second, third or fourth home for between \u00a31million ($1.3 million) and \u201ctens of millions”.<\/p>\n

The main selling point seems to be a degree of anonimity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can wander in villages and people don\u2019t really turn and stare,\u201d Ms Campbell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can be fairly incognito in the Cotswolds.\u201d<\/p>\n

In previous years, it has usually been the case that people from the US of A buying properties in the English countryside already lived across the pond, perhaps in London.<\/p>\n

However, it is becoming more common for Americans to be moving all the way from across the sea, straight to the UK’s quieter patches for a more serene existence.<\/p>\n

The US Vice President, JD Vance, who is widely thought likely to become Donald Trump<\/a>‘s successor, visited the Cotswolds in the summer<\/a>, proving that their attractiveness has even affected the highest echelons of America’s political leadership.<\/p>\n

The region is made up of more than 100 villages, with the most visited including Bourton-on-the-Water and Bibury.<\/p>\n

There are also larger towns, like Cirencester and Stow-on-the-Wold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States of America came into being after British colonies broke away from their motherland over taxes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,65367,56,54,55,659,120416],"class_list":{"0":"post-335978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-the-cotswolds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-usa","17":"tag-villages"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}