Lootman wrote:CliffEdge wrote:There is no such thing as a local in Devon and Cornwall.
That is because the locals all chose to sell to non-locals.
I'm afraid few people would consciously choose to do otherwise.
After all, often one does not even meet the buyer, and if one tells one's agent that one wishes to sell only to locals, half the time they will ignore it anyway and play the innocent after the event.
The only way would be to apply a covenant which as already commented would undermine the price... that's a rich idealist's
game and in any event not going to be enforced in subsequent sales.
And then if the vendors have inherited - vendors who are no longer 'local' - that's another seller who's just going to sell.
The only parties with feasible control are local Councils who could at least restrict second homes, but that bird has largely flown.
V8