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The average time it takes to sell a home in the UK has been revealed to be just over three months, a slowdown on what it was a year ago. It takes an average of 96 days to sell a home, according to the latest data from Post Office Money, compared to the 91 days it took 12 months previously. The fastest place to sell has been revealed to be Edinburgh, where it takes just 41 days on average. This is closely followed by Glasgow at 50 days, just over half the average. Despite London’s reputation as a place where property gets snapped up fast, it fell below the UK average at 111 days. The average […]

A new report carried out by the Centre for Economics and Business Research and commissioned by Santander Mortgages, has found that amongst other things, Stamp Duty Land Tax (Stamp Duty) is having a significant effect on the UK property market by impacting people who move more. The report looks at the effect of Stamp Duty on the UK’s residential property market. Titled “An examination of residential Stamp Duty Land Tax”, the findings reveal that over the course of a five-year period2, an additional 146,000 property transactions would have taken place if Stamp Duty had been removed. It also argues that the incentive to build more property would have been higher as under Stamp Duty the seller […]

A record 65% of landlords bought property paying in cash, more than at any time in the last decade, new research shows. Most of them are buying property in the North where homes are cheaper with 78% paying cash in the North East of England but just 42 doing so in London where values are much higher. The move comes at a time when rents are rising, according to the latest index report from Countrywide which shows that in October rents increased by year on year, driven by growth in the Midlands and Wales. A breakdown of the figures show that year on year rents increased the most in Wales with a rise of 2.6% to […]

The latest UK housing index shows that the property market remains resilient with prices in the three months to the end of October some 2.3% higher than in the previous three months, the fastest price growth on this measure, since January. The figures from the Halifax index also show that prices over the three month period were 4.5% higher than in the same period in 2016 and the annual rate of growth at 4.5% was higher than in September and the highest growth rate since February. On a monthly basis house prices rose by 0.3% between September and October, following a 0.8% increase in September, taking the average price of a home to £225,826, the highest […]

Residential properties in the UK are selling more quickly than they were five years ago, with the time from being put on the market to being under offer four weeks faster than in 2012. The average time to sell is now 61 days compared to 87 days but the quickest sales are in Bristol with an average of just 34 days to sell, followed by Coventry at 35, Edinburgh at 36, Glasgow at 37 and Gloucester at 39. The research from agents Strutt & Parker also shows that overall only three cities in the UK, Cambridge, Oxford and Aberdeen, now have slower property markets than in 2012. The biggest difference in days to sell between 2012 […]

The most recent data from Land Registry has revealed that both the mainstream and premium sectors of Prime Central London have shown a recovery from price falls which followed the introduction of graduated Stamp Duty in Q4 2014. The data, which was analysed by London Central Portfolio in conjunction with independent analysts Acadata, also found that the mainstream sector, where property is priced under the top stamp duty band and which largely represents buy to let property, has seen prices increase by 5.6% from the pre-ARSD peak. This brings average prices to 15.6% above their high point three years ago, pre-Stamp Duty changes in 2014. The mainstream sector is now outperforming England and Wales which has […]