Rightmove HPI February

The Rightmove House Price Index  February 2016 Prices and demand at all – time highs as Year of the First-Time Buyer kicks in. Price of property coming to market increases by a substantial 2.9% (+£8,324) this month, hitting a new record of £299,287 and surpassing the record set in October 2015 by over £2,700 Housing…

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Halifax HPI for November

Halifax House price Index released today. Quarterly house price growth eases to 1.4% House prices in the latest three months (September-November) were 1.4% higher than in the preceding three months. Prices in the three months to November were 9.0% higher than in the same three months a year earlier. Commenting, Martin Ellis, Halifax housing economist,…

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Rightmove HPI September

Asking prices for houses in England and Wales saw their biggest rise in the month to mid-September for 13 years as cheap borrowing and a lack of properties on the market led to market “extremes”. According to the Rightmove HPI  overview, the price of property coming to market continues to rise at a time of…

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July market trend data.

Land Registry’s monthly Market Trend Data for residential property prices in England and Wales releases the figures for July,  data shows an annual price increase of 4.6 per cent which takes the average property value in England and Wales to £183,861. Monthly house prices up 1.7 per cent since June 2015. The regional data indicates…

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Slowdown in house price growth

House price growth in Britain slowed in August, according to the mortgage lender Nationwide, this is confirmed in the results from their monthly survey released today. The price of a home increased at a 0.3% month-on-month pace in August, this was below what economists were expecting at a 0.4%. The year-on-year pace of inflation was…

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Halifax reports house price drop in July.

According to the latest survey by the Halifax, UK house prices fell 0.6% between June and July, with annual house price growth down to its lowest since December 2014, this was despite the stock of homes available for sale falling  to new record lows. Growth in UK house prices dipped to 7.9% for the three…

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Priced out of market

Kerb appeal

According to a report by the Halifax, high house prices and low incomes are seen as strong barriers to getting on the property ladder, this is supported by a recent report in a Shropshire local paper spotlighting a young couple who are typical among hundreds of thousands of young people who are giving up the…

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