HOUSE selling might not seem like the best business to be in at the moment — as a home owner or an estate agent.

HOUSE selling might not seem like the best business to be in at the moment — as a home owner or an estate agent.

HOUSE selling might not seem like the best business to be in at the moment — as a home owner or an estate agent.

But if you bought your home around a decade ago, you might like to know that Wales has seen some of the biggest price increases in the country in that time.

Research by high street bank Halifax suggests Wales is one of the six UK regions to have seen the biggest house price gains since 2000, at 108 per cent — behind the north of England with 130 per cent, and Yorkshire and the Humber at 125 per cent. And latest figures from the Land Registry, which put the average cost of a typical home in England and Wales at £163,814, suggest Wales also experienced a 0.5 per cent increase in the average cost of a home during 2010.