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HOUSE PRICE ANALYSIS: UK property market ‘remains resilient’
Property market expert, Kate Faulkner, takes a look at the latest indices and the potential impact of inflation and base rate changes on house price activity.
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Regional house price growth higher than inflation
According to the latest data, property prices across all four UK nations are performing strongly year-on-year against inflation, writes Kate Faulkner.
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LOCAL HOUSE PRICE UPDATE: Markets are varied and volatile
Kate Faulkner analyses the latest indices which reveal how house price growth across UK towns and cities are showing mixed signals.
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The Ombudsman Files – Leaseholder claims discrimination and disrepair
A leaseholder experiencing various agent communication and building issues, including broken lifts, brought their dispute to The Property Ombudsman.
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What Google’s algorithm update means for estate agency content creation
If you use AI tools such as ChatGPT to create content for your estate agency website, changes to Google’s experience algorithm could impact your search results.
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HOUSE PRICE ANALYSIS BY REGION – Long term property price growth has halved
Property market expert, Kate Faulkner, analyses house price growth in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Irelance since 2005, revealing a diminishing average annual increase.
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PROPERTY PRICES: The impact of Stamp Duty changes
Kate Faulkner reviews the latest indices from April and May to see how the end of the Stamp Duty holiday has affected property prices.
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EXPERT: ‘Supply and demand all over the place’
Despite an enormous boost in transactions before the Stamp Duty changes, Kate Faulkner reports how supply and demand is not straightforward.
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TOWN AND CITY TRACKER: Property price activity in your area
The latest news from our city tracker shows that although Hometrack and the Land Registry are seeing different levels of property price growth, there is now a close match between the cities that are seeing good price growth and those that are hardly seeing any growth at all – or slight falls. Belfast, Bradford, and Newcastle upon Tyne all show good house price growth year on year. The Land Registry data shows higher rates of growth than Hometrack, but this is likely partly because Hometrack adjusted its index to take into account the fact that more houses were being sold than flats during the pandemic, and partly because the information is more up to date, so its likely that the Zoopla rises more accurately reflect what’s happening currently. And for those cities that are showing little growth, Hometrack and Land Registry agree that Peterborough and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole are seeing the lowest growth, but differ when it comes to other lowest performers with Gloucester, London and Tunbridge Wells struggling according to the Land Registry and Aberdeen, Brighton and Hove and Portsmouth seeing little growth from Zoopla’s report. From a city perspective, we can also see that some still haven’t…
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ADVICE: How to get more Google reviews for your estate agency
Nelly Berova looks at why Google reviews are important for your agency, how to get more and what to do if yours are less than glowing.
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