property demand
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Incentivise investors to build!
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Imagine if 10 per cent of landlords decided to build, with the help of local agents, surveyors and builders. That would be 200,000 homes and a massive investment into the UK economy.”
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Time to talk the talk!
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, It’s time for estate agents to really engage with their local community – people won’t be walking through the door as much, so it’s time to go out and give helpful advice.
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House price growth is failing to keep up with inflation, says expert Kate Faulkner
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Property has, in the past, been seen a ‘sure-fire’ earner with some people earning more in a year from their home than from their wages. Now it’s failing to keep up with inflation.”
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House price indices: why we’re Living on ‘Hope Terrace’
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Lower rates of growth appear to be here to stay, but I don’t think the public or investors appreciate this major shift in property price growth fortunes; we need to be prepared for what happens when they do.”
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Read Kate Faulkner’s comprehensive property market snapshot
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “As we know, politics is very fickle. Housing is in danger of falling off the policy agenda as Brexit issues take over.”
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Brexit + Election = slowing market
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “The issue is stock; NAEA Propertymark reports the lowest number of properties for sale since their records began in 2002. As a result, price growth may slow, but not ‘collapse’.
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Housing Market
Property demand continues to soar
With uncertainty regarding the outcome of the general election over, demand to buy and rent property rose sharply in May, according to the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA), but property supply is not keeping pace. The NAEA report that demand from buyers hit an eight-month high last month, with 383 house hunters registered on average per branch in May, up from 344 in April, and the highest number recorded since September 2014, when 406 house hunters were registered. The supply of properties coming onto the sales market also rose in May with 46 houses up for sale per NAEA member branch, compared to 43 in April, but remains well below the level needed to help meet rising demand levels. Nevertheless, this led to a marginal rise in the number of sales per member branch, with nine sales agreed in May, compared to eight in April. Mark Hayward (left), Managing Director at NAEA, said that the increase in the volume of house-hunters searching for homes was owed to a rise in confidence following the certainty that the outcome of the General Election delivered. He commented, “The housing shortage will not be solved…
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