Designs on Property
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What will the first part of 2021 hold for the housing market?
Housing market expert Kate Faulkner asks what the coming weeks have in store for us and whether agents should be allowed to work.
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Feeling the squeeze?
Everything and everybody is flat-out, says Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property, so what’s stopping prices going through the roof?
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Busy, busy, busy…
With reports of some of the busiest activity in the housing market in 13 years, Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property, wonders how you’re all feeling…
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How does your garden grow?
By moving out of the city, says Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property, as the need for more space shows in the indices.
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Making hay – selling houses while the sun shines!
It’s harvest time for agents too, says Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property in her latest analysis of the emerging housing market data from key players in the industry.
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Life after Covid
Housing market analyst Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property foresees three big changes the pandemic will bring to people’s lifestyles and the property market.
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Don’t believe everything you read
According to the newspapers for UK house prices, it’s all gloom and doom, says Kate Faulkner of index-tracker Designs on Property. But if you ignore the averages, the outlook is actually a lot brighter.
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How long for the lockdown bounce-back?
Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property makes sense of the plethora of property indices to give agents a clear snapshot. Here’s her latest summary.
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Property price growth is lower than inflation
Kate Faulkner says, “The shock statistic is that for the first time in a long time, property price growth over the last 12 years is way below the inflation rate, which property normally beats.”
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The market: strong… ish not necessarily stable
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “With prices showing little movement in 12 months, you see where the market description of ‘stable’ comes from. Reading the prices by region shows vastly different performances.”
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