Asking rents jump by 11% in most competitive rental market ever

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National average asking rents outside of London hit a new record of £1,088 per calendar month (pcm), rising from £982 pcm last year: This 10.8% rise in asking rents is the first time annual growth has exceeded 10% Average rents are now 15% higher than the same period two years ago, just as the pandemic…

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Best ever spring sellers’ market as prices hit another new record

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Another new price record as the average price of property coming to market jumps by 1.7% (+£5,760) this month to £354,564, breaking through the £350,000 barrier for the first time The average monthly rise is the largest seen at this time of year since March 2004, pushing the annual rate of increase to 10.4%, with…

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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 28/02/2022

Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X.   Valocity Partners With Fabrick To Speed European Mortgage Market Lending Fabrick and Valocity have agreed to a commercial tie-up, bringing Valocity’s Australasian-based property valuation solution to Europe. The solution, which has already powered over $1 trillion worth of lending decisions, will now be available to…

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Property Search Engines 2022

Today we are highly likely to pop on line to start or at least continue our property search, the internet provides us with not only websites, but also social media and an endless supply of property listings can be found this way. Leading the traffic for property searches will undoubtedly be property search engines the…

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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 21/02/2022

Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X.   Knight Frank Invests In Proptech Futures Via Fifth Wall Knight Frank, together with a cohort of other real estate luminaries, is putting cash into Fifth Wall’s coffers to invest in Proptech SMEs looking to put forth innovative solutions for the real estate sector. Fifth…

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Margate named house price hotspot as Northern towns lag behind

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Following last week’s release of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, new analysis reveals the areas that have seen the highest and lowest house price growth over the past decade Margate in Kent tops the list of asking price growth hotspots, with prices more than doubling (+102%) in ten years, while Middlesbrough has seen the…

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Bexhill-on-Sea tops new year supply hotspots

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Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, has topped the list of new year supply hotspots – areas where more new properties are coming onto the market for sale than the same period last year The number of new properties coming to market for sale in Bexhill-on-Sea is nearly double that of the same period last year (+88%) High…

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Rents increase at fastest ever rate as tenant competition doubles

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Average asking rents have increased at the fastest rate on record, and are now £1,068 per calendar month (pcm) outside of London – 9.9% higher than this time last year Average rental growth is outpacing house price growth in all but three regions (East Midlands, South West & South East) London rents hit a new…

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Mountain Ash in Wales is this year’s price hotspot

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Rightmove analysis of the year reveals Mountain Ash, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, is this year’s price hotspot, with average asking prices for homes in the area rising by 31% The average price for a home this year in Mountain Ash is £137,220, compared to £104,431 last year Porth, in…

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