BREXIT VOTING CITIES LEADING UK PROPERTY MARKET CONFIDENCE, ACCORDING TO NETANAGENT.COM
September 26, 2018
Key pro-Leave areas like Hull, Bradford and Stoke-on-Trent are showing the most confidence in property market, according to stats from comparison site NetAnAgent.com
Recent stats suggest some of the most ardent Leave voting areas of the UK are still amongst the most confident in the property market – when it comes to selling homes.
Data from agent comparison website NetAnAgent.com looked at how many website enquiries (those who register their details on the platform) went to valuation with estate agents, helping to show the level of confidence sellers across the nation are currently feeling.
Hull, which returned a leave result of 65%, showed 28% above the national average of properties going to valuation through the NetAnAgent.com. Similarly Bradford (54% leave) was 20% up on the average and Stoke on Trent (69% leave) 4% were more likely to go to valuation.
At the other end of the scale Bristol, Remain stronghold who voted 62% to stay in the EU was at the bottom of NetAnAgent.com‘s confidence index with 44% less likely to list than the national average. Similarly Manchester (60% remain) was down 12% and Brighton (69% remain) down 4% on the national listing index average.
Although London can often seen as something of a property microcosm figures on the capital’s market shows it is holding up well around average with homeowners 4% were more likely to go to valuation.
NetAnAgent CEO, Alex Thorpe, said:
“It interesting to see that the way different areas voted in the EU referendum does seem to have had an impact on how they view the state of the UK property market with a good number of ‘Leave’ areas showing greater levels of confidence than those who voted Remain. It suggests that Remainers are more pessimistic about the prospect of putting there house on the market, measured by how many of them are going to valuation through the NetAnAgent site, a key early indicator of confidence in the market.
Senstive and sentiment driven
NetAnAgent figures also show how online agents may have helped to influence the cost of selling your home with fees from traditional agents down an average of 15% percent across the UK compared to the same period in 2016 with some areas seeing a drop of up to 40%. For example NetAnAgent.com data shows that in Leeds the average agent fee has dropped from 1.45% in 2016 to 1.18% in 2018, a proportional decrease of 18.6% meaning sellers would now pay £2439.65 in fees compared to £2997.88 in 2016*. Across the UK this means that sellers can now expect to save on £307 on their house sale through a traditional local agent.
Conversely online fees would appeared to have increased on average 27% in the past two years from £587.25 to £804.75 as they seek to improve service level and offer more to the vendors.
NetAnAgent CEO, Alex Thorpe, commented:
“We have certainly seem something of a closing of the gap of agents’ fees over the last few year as traditional agents have lowered their fees to compete with the online and hybrid models now in the market. Interestingly ever there are pockets across the country where agents selling more exclusive properties have actually raised their fees to reflect the drop in transactions. They are subject to less pressure from the hybrid agents so have retained some flexibility with regard to fees.”
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