Current and future rental market performance Impact of Covid-19 on rental statistics The property market was locked down at the end of March and re-opened on the 13th May, although most offices didn’t open until the end of June. As such, we were missing around six weeks of ‘real’
Property price update - August 2020 Property recession pushed back to 2021? What’s happening in the property market currently? After the media have tried to use data to ‘talk down’ the property market over the last couple months, even they couldn’t ignore the ‘mini boom’ that the housing
Latest Government changes and consultations to be aware of! Over the last few months there have been a huge amount of announcements coming from Government about the property market – and it isn’t easy to keep up with them all! Bear in mind there tend to be two types of
July 2020 property price report Impact of Covid-19 on property statistics We are looking at any indices with a great deal of caution. Due to a lack of robust data there are some that have even been suspended, including our ‘main report’ we rely on: the Government’s Land Registry.
The Stamp Duty holiday due to Coronavirus - is this really the support the housing market needs? Kate Faulkner on BBC Radio 4 Money Box programme (listen to Kate here: approx 15 mins in) Stamp Duty is a tax paid by buyers when they purchase a home. The rates differ
Below we have listed everything you need to know ‘at a glance’ Here are the top three guides we’ve found: Trading down checklist Gov.uk - How to sell guide TheAdvisory - Buying and selling a home guide Have you got a question about trading down and want an
How do landlords - and tenants - cope with the eviction ban? When lockdown was announced in March, those who had a mortgage were offered a ‘mortgage holiday’ ie a way to defer their mortgage payments for those that were struggling financially. However, with 20% of people renting in the
Kate Faulkner on BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours This week I chatted with Miles Shipside from Rightmove on Radio 4 You and Yours about the property market. You can listen here: we were on just after 35 minutes (12.50pm). For some more information though, here are my
Housing on BBC1's Your Money and Your Life It was great to be invited onto the new BBC1’s Your Money and Your Life with one of my housing heroes, Matt Allwright and meeting the lovely Kym Marsh. As ever, we never seem to have enough time to
What will happen to property prices and transactions next? Property prices and transactions will spike – then we’ll see what the ‘new’ housing market will look like The Land Registry data shows an incredible mix of property price performances going into the recession and in theory, as prices are in
June 2020 property price report Covid-19 – can you rely on property price indices? Recently the media are using property price indices in the ‘hope’ that they get evidence that property prices are going to fall – this helps to drive scary news headlines which the media believe increase eyeballs to their
What's really happening in the property market? On Sunday I was interviewed on 5Live talking about the housing market. You can listen again here (approx 43 mins in). One of the key things mentioned at the start was the Nationwide index which stated:- “UK house prices fell