Carol Vorderman has sold her home in her native Wales (Image: INSTAGRAM)
has been hit with a shocker after the council tax rise on her home in Wales.
The tax on her house in the idyllic seaside village of Solva has increased threefold. The eyewatering price hike can’t have been well received – and she has now decided to sell up, according to new reports.
The annual bill for a property she once declared was her “forever home” has risen from £1,700 to over £5,000. Labour is said to believe that the increases will deter the wealthy from holding onto multiple properties – especially in tourist areas, where they can be used as AirBnBs – and free up space for those looking to get on the housing ladder for the first time.
According to an estate agency’s website, Carol’s apartment sold for £450,000 within just days of first appearing on the market, reports . However, the sale may still sting for her, as she posted on social media less than three years ago revealing how fond she was of her property find.
“Can you actually be in love with a place??? This is my heaven down here, I think I’m actually in love with it,” she exclaimed. The ex-Countdown star – once the wealthiest woman on television – added that she’d like her funeral to be held in the picturesque village.
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The picturesque Welsh village of Solva, where Carol Vorderman had a home (Image: GETTY)
She waxed lyrical on social media about being “lowered from a helicopter onto a funeral pyre on a Viking raft going down Solva harbour”, as she planned the dramatic funeral scenes.
Now locals in Solva have had their say about the sale, which Carol is said to have made a £100,000 profit on.
“She must have decided it wasn’t worth paying all that money just to be here for a few weeks every year,” one home owner suggested, according to a report by Mail Online.
They added: “It’s in a block of four holiday apartments and not suitable for a young couple who probably couldn’t afford it anyway.”
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Carol Vorderman previously revealed she was “woke as f***” (Image: INSTAGRAM)
Carol had told of how she hoped to live out her retirement years in Solva – a village in her native Wales which has been branded one of the best to live in the UK.
Estate agency Country Living Group described her apartment as “one of the finest to be found in the picturesque seaside village”.
Carol, who also has a home in Bristol, has been a keen supporter of Labour’s policies for years now and has even written a book, Now What? On A Mission To Fix Broken Britain, about her political leanings.
However, after hearing of ‘s plans to axe winter fuel allowances for pensioners, which she admitted she found flawed.