Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Sales boom will turn into a house price inflation bubble soon, says RICS
House prices are already rising in virtually every area of the UK as the unprecedented sales surge continues to see demand outstrip supply.
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The ‘sales party’ will continue until March, predicts Winkworth
Company says furlough wind-down will not dent market confidence and that Sunak's stamp duty holiday will keep sales going until March.
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Homes selling within a week of being listed jump by 125% to highest in ten years
Rightmove says surge in offers being made on freshly-marketed properties is in part down to the March stamp duty holiday deadline.
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LATEST: House prices jump by 2% in August, highest rise for 16 years
Nationwide figures reveal extraordinary data from the housing market as pent-up demand leads to an unexpected boom.
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‘Quiet marketing’ returns as agents try to manage frantic demand
Property search firm Stacks says more agents are using the technique to reserve viewings for only the hottest and best prepared candidates.
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Shucks, it’s time y’all adopted the US system of selling homes, says leading realtor
Leading realtor claims US agents sell 90% of the homes they list and so could UK agents too if they embraced its MLS system.
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Boom! Branches sold 13 properties each in July, extraordinary figures reveal
Trade association says last month was the busiest for sales agents for 13 years as the market continues its astonishing boom.
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‘Astonishing’ August surge doubles listings in many SE commuter towns
Rightmove says some postcodes feature 120% more homes for sale than a year ago but that demand is still outstripping supply.
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Investment bank questions Rightmove’s rose-tinted agent figures
Berenberg says the 3.5% slide in agent branches listing with Rightmove may accelerate soon as the reality of Covid changes kick-in for the industry.
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Mini boom will boost house prices by 8.1%, says portal
Extraordinary flurry in sales market activity in recent months will continue, claims Reallymoving.com
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