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House price growth: the only way is up… or is it?
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “The number of properties coming onto the market is likely to be restricted.”
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Housing supply remains the problem
Kate’s view on individual indices Rightmove: Useful to measure average time to sell and sellers’ sentiment. Nationwide: Measures mortgaged property prices and affordability across the UK. Halifax: Measures mortgaged prices and produces individual research, ie seaside towns. NAEA: Tracks first time buyer sales and provides supply/demand figures from agents. RICS: Excellent for supply/demand analysis and on forecasting the market. BBA: Provides a huge amount of data on the economy/prices/transactions and financing. Agency Express: Analyses for sale/sold board, good for ‘current’ market trends. Hometrack: City analysis across the UK and compares current prices annually and quarterly. LSL: Analyses Land Registry figures, separates out London, good analysis on transactions. THE NATIONAL MARKET Latest National Market Movements Kate says: “The current market stats are all showing that property prices are up year on year and the increases are higher than the annual averages seen over the last ten years. This isn’t a huge surprise given that we’ve spent most of the last 10 years in a credit crunch, but property prices are now recovering. The surprise figure is the Halifax increase which is much higher than any others, suggesting an anomaly. Actual price increases are around 5-6 per cent year-on-year based on mortgaged…
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Stamp Duty change whips up a storm
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Even the higher taxes haven’t dampened investors’ enthusiasm.”
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The big buy-to-let bounce
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “The Chancellor’s increase in Stamp Duty for buy-to-let properties caused a massive leap in activity.”
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Crowded house
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Supply is probably the single most feared issue in the property market. Buyer demand is strong, but the supply simply isn’t coming through. Agents may have to find ways of attracting new instructions.”
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Frozen Britain
Report Headlines Rightmove: “Home-owner confidence sets the scene for higher prices in 2016.” NAEA: “Sales to first time buyers highest in six years.” RICS: “No easing in supply constraint.” Nationwide: “Slight softening in house price growth in November.” Home.co.uk: “Stock of property for sale hits new low.” Hometrack: “Prices accelerate in large regional cities.” Land Registry: “October data shows a monthly price increase of 0.4 per cent.” Kate says: “The property market used to be relatively easy to predict from a business perspective. Things were often quiet for the first few weeks of January then the rush began to the end of May, quiet-ish summers, a flurry of activity post summer holidays and a quietening down to Christmas. Not anymore! Since the credit crunch, from one month to the next, we are never quite sure what is going to happen. This difficulty in forecasting the short and long term future of the property market from an industry perspective is now exacerbated by one government housing announcement after another, many of which are being made at too short notice, causing mayhem in the market! The main game changer though, is that both George Osborne (Chancellor) and Mark Carney (Governor of the…
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Agreed – agents need transaction volumes to rise!
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices.
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Speeding up conveyancing
What's wrong with it, asks Kate Faulkner, and do we go about speeding up conveyancing.
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