Over recent months many reports have highlighted how properties have been picking up in terms of value following a year and a half of month on month falls. For many homeowners this brought some degree of comfort, but one report has suggested that the news of the house price gains will not be good news for all homeowners. (more…)
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House price gains are not good news for all
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Property prices still strong according to RICS
Friday, January 8th, 2010Surveyors from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors have stated recently that property prices in the UK continue to be strong, and earlier this month reported that they were actually increasing at their strongest level in around three years. (more…)
Nationwide predicts downward spiral for house prices
Sunday, November 29th, 2009The leading building society Nationwide has recently warned that we should expect downward pressure on property prices in the UK over the coming year. (more…)
Property prices see annual rise
Sunday, November 15th, 2009Figures that were recently released by Nationwide have shown that there has been an increase of 2 percent in property prices in the UK. The lender has confirmed that house prices are now higher than they were at the same time last year by around 2 percent, and that property prices have increased for the sixth month in a row. (more…)
Slight drop in house prices in UK
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Over recent months there have been modest increases in property values in the UK, and this has sparked renewed hope across the nation, with many industry officials claiming that the property price increases were signs of green shoots in the property market and the economy as a whole. However, a number of other industry experts were quick to predict that the property price increases were only a temporary blip and that the situation would not be sustained. (more…)
Can house price revival be sustained?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Recent speculation about green shoots in the UK economy has been further fuelled over recent months because house prices have seen a small yet sudden revival after over eighteen months of falls. (more…)
Country homes holding prices better than town houses
Monday, September 28th, 2009It has been revealed in a recent report that the prices of homes in the country and in rural areas are holding better than the value of homes in urban areas during the property slump. (more…)
Are Brits paying out a fortune for properties that are too small to live in?
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Whilst it is true that property prices in the UK have fallen over the past eighteen months the cost of purchasing a home in the UK is still high, which makes things difficult for first time buyers. (more…)
House prices increase between April and August
Thursday, September 24th, 2009According to figures that were recently released by the mortgage lender Halifax there was a significant increase in property prices in the UK between April of this year and August, with the average property price said to have increased by around £6000. (more…)
House prices at the end of 2009 could be higher than the end of 2008
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Industry officials have recently predicted that property values in the UK could be higher at the end of this year than they were at the end of last year. (more…)
Fluctuating house prices cause problems with valuations
Monday, August 10th, 2009According to industry experts problems are arising for surveyors when it comes to accurately providing property valuations, and this is because of the fluctuation in property prices. (more…)
Many Brits Still Counting on Making Money From Property
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Even though the housing market is in a slump and house prices have taken a direct hit, there are still millions of people in Britain who feel they will make enough money on the sale of their property to give them the funds they need for their retirement. (more…)
Mixed reports on property market
Thursday, July 30th, 2009A recent report has shown that there is mixed news about the property market in the UK, with good news about increased mortgage lending being hampered by bad news about negative equity levels. (more…)
June saw fall in property prices
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009According to recently released figures there was a drop in property prices for the month of June, following four months of price increases. (more…)
Slight increase in house prices reported for May
Monday, June 15th, 2009According to figures that were recently released in relation to UK property values house prices for the month of May edged up slightly from April, rising by 1.2 percent for the months. (more…)
Buyer interest increases and house price falls slow
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Recently released figures for the month of April have shown that whilst interest from buyers in the housing market increase the pace of house price falls slowed down. (more…)
Slight fall in house prices for April
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Figures that were recently released by the Nationwide Building Society have shown that despite the surprise increase in house prices in March, property prices in England and Wales are continuing to fall, with April seeing a slight dip in house prices. (more…)
House price decline slowest in a year in March
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009According to industry official the decline of house prices across England and Wales continued in March, but was at its slowest level in the space of a year. In addition to this there was also an increase in sales levels, which picked up from record lows. (more…)
Estate agents more upbeat about property market
Monday, May 4th, 2009Nobody can argue about the fact that the past year has been a particularly turbulent one for estate agents and other industries connected to the property market, as the slump in property sales has made things very difficult. (more…)
Are lenders being too optimistic about house price increases?
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Since October of 2007 house prices in the UK have been falling month on month, and have so far plunged by around 20 percent compared to their peak. (more…)
Property sales sink again in February, states RICS
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Since the onset of the global credit crunch credit conditions and mortgage lending have become very restricted, and many people are finding it difficult to get a mortgage or other type of credit, which has had a severe knock on effect on many different industries. (more…)
Falling House Prices Affects the UK Real Estate Market
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009With the world in a recession, house prices in the UK have fallen to levels not seen since March 2005. There has been a drop of 15.1% in prices in the past few months and in January alone, the housing market suffered a 0.8% decrease in prices. (more…)
Are house prices in the UK going to continue falling?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009For homeowners the ten years leading up to the third quarter of 2007 were very fruitful in terms if finances, the main reason being that house prices rocketed, and those that were lucky enough to own a property saw the value of their home soar and the equity in their properties shoot sky-high. (more…)
House prices still falling
Monday, March 9th, 2009According to a recent survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, house prices across the UK continued to fall for the month of December, with the average number of sales per month per estate agent also falling in the final quarter of last year. (more…)
Fall in house prices but increase in lending
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Recent figures have shown that property prices fell for a sixteenth month in a row in January.
House prices have been plummeting for the last year and a half, with homeowners seeing thousands of pounds worth of equity being wiped of the value of their homes. (more…)
15.9 percent fall in house prices last year
Friday, February 6th, 2009According to recently released figures 2008 saw house prices in the UK fall by 15.9 percent. The figures come from a survey from the Nationwide Building Society. (more…)
Further falls in house prices in November
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The Land Registry has recently released figures that show that house prices fell by a nearly 2 percent in November, taking another tumble of around 1.9 percent. Officials said that as market activity fell for yet another month the value of homes also fell. (more…)
Estate agents in London face worrying year
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009According to recently released reports many of the estate agents in the London area have been selling an average of less than one property per month, as the housing downturn continues its downward spiral. (more…)
House price forecasts put on hold by lenders
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Two major UK lenders have decided that they are going to postpone making any house price forecasts for next year in the current climate, even though they have been forecasting house price movement for years. Usually the Halifax and the Nationwide tend to forecast prices for the coming year, but this has all changed following a particularly turbulent year for the housing sector where there are now mixed opinions on what will happen with house prices over the coming year. (more…)
House price falls coming faster than crash of the 90’s
Friday, January 16th, 2009According to a recently released report house price falls in the UK are coming at a faster pace than the hour price falls during the crash of the 1990s. November saw the property market go through a sharp and rapid deterioration, with data from the Halifax suggesting that house prices had fallen by over 2.5 percent over the month. This took the annual house price fall for November to over 16 percent based on these Halifax figures, wiping over £30,000 from the value of the average property on an annual basis. (more…)
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