D_Property
August 3, 2017
New research from hybrid estate agent, eMoov.co.uk, has revealed that Prime Central London is starting to find its feet again after two years of declining buyer interest. Demand levels across PCL are currently at 13% on average, up +25% in the last six months and +39% annually. Current Demand As far as current buyer demand goes, Chiswick is the hottest area at 32% and is likely benefitting from its close proximity to Acton and the over spilling benefit and impending opening of the Crossrail service. There is no surprise that both Islington (25%) and Camden’s Belsize Park (18%) are some of the hottest as far as demand goes, recent data from Zoopla shows that both boroughs […]
August 2, 2017
Buyers in the UK are increasingly looking wider afield or their first home and despite the costs and financial pressures of getting on the housing ladder they see it as an exciting time of their life, new research suggests. Many first time buyers who have bought in the last two years say that they had to make compromises, with locations being a major one as they sought properties within their budget. Some 70% ended up buying a home an average of 26 minutes away from their original and preferred location, according to the study from Post Office Money. While 16% didn’t have to adjust their expectations at all, 5% compromised in terms of having a suitable […]
August 1, 2017
Annual house price growth was little changed from June in July, down from 3.1% to 2.9%, reports Nationwide in its latest House Price Index. House prices also saw a modest increase of 0.3% over the month – down from 1.1% in June. This takes the average house price to £211,671, which is up slightly from June’s £211,301. The Chief Economist at Nationwide, Robert Gardener, comments on the figures: “The annual pace of house price growth remained broadly stable in July, at 2.9%, only a touch lower than the 3.1% recorded in June. “On the surface, this appears at odds with recent signs of cooling in the housing market. The number of housing transactions dipped to their […]
July 31, 2017
Homeowners spend an average £12,693 in total on stamp duty as they move up the housing ladder, according to the latest research from Lloyds Bank. A typical first time buyer would have paid an average stamp duty of £758 in March 2001, £1,989 for their second home in March 2009 and £9,946 for their final step in March 20171. Homebuyers in England and Wales paid £8.3 billion in stamp duty in 2016 – £1.2 billion2 more than in 2015. This rise reversed the £571 million decline between 2014 and 2015, which resulted from the stamp duty reforms that came into place in December 2014. The highest overall stamp duty bills are faced by buyers in London […]
July 26, 2017
New data and analysis from NAEA Propertymark has shown that sales for homes are up as buyers push through summer property transactions. According to the figures, the number of sales agreed per branch rose from 10 in May to 11 in June with the proportion of sales made to FTBs rising to 30% in June – the highest amount since January. The number of house hunters registered per estate agent branch increased by 10 per cent last month. In May, there were 350 per branch, compared to 384 in June. This is also a 16 per cent increase from June 2016 when 330 potential buyers were registered per branch. Supply of properties Indicating that gap between […]
July 26, 2017
The UK is the top country that private property investors are most likely to buy commercial real estate as more and more wealthy people consider it as an investment asset. Overall private investors are already a strong presence in the commercial market and as a result are becoming an increasingly important force in the global real estate marketplace, according to the latest report from Knight Frank. It says that 27% of all global commercial property transactions in 2016 involved a private buyer and a quarter of private wealth is held in real estate investments of some kind, excluding primary residences and second homes, which is the highest allocation since records began. The report also reveals that […]