January 4th already?! Yikes, where does the time go?
To mark the passing of the year, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the property market’s winners and losers in 2009.
And this being January, we’re serving up two graphs for the price of one … the regional risers and fallers and the [...]

This week’s graph comes from our research team, whose MyHomeLife survey regularly polls our visitors to find out how they see the housing market.
Back in May – just as prices were beginning to pick up again – they were pretty downbeat. Only 11 per cent thought prices were recovering while 23 per cent expected them [...]

This graph probably doesn’t look very exciting, but bear with me.
It comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index and shows an interesting shift in a recent trend.
Prices started to firm up last May and have been on the rise since then, but as our analysis of different market segments (first-time buyers and home [...]

This week’s graph comes from the latest RICS Lettings Survey, published today (2 December 2009).
The report (Q3 2009) reveals that as the sales market recovers, excess stock in the rental market is on the wane and rental prices are edging back up.

RICS spokesperson Jeremy Leaf commented: “It seems the current upward trend in the housing [...]

Ok, this won’t come as a big surprise to parents: a property close to a good school will cost a whole lot more than one close to a … not so good school.
But how much more? Savills have crunched the numbers and concluded that:

Homes in the vicinity of the top-performing 25 per cent of secondary [...]

This week’s graph comes from the latest Hometrack report (published today).
It shows that buyers are finding it much more difficult to get sellers to cut the asking price.
This trend is complemented by our own Asking Prices & Affordability Index – the October edition shows that asking prices have risen by £6k or 2.8 per cent [...]

This week’s graph comes from the latest FindaProperty.com:Rental Index.
It shows the relationship between supply and prices. Interestingly, this month we’ve seen a very significant drop in the amount of property on the rental market.
Stock fell by ten per cent, taking levels back to where they were a year ago.
This has put pressure back on prices, [...]

Here’s an interesting graph from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ last market survey.
It shows the relationship between sales and stock levels.  If the ratio is rising, the market tends to favour sellers and this puts upward pressure on prices.
This is indeed the case: the ratio has risen for nine consecutive months and stands at [...]

This week’s graph comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index.
It shows that the two-tier market continues – prices on the rise for home movers (values are up seven per cent year-on-year) but falling for first-time buyers (down 4.1 per cent on last year).
Why the difference?
Those at the upper end of the market have [...]

Here’s an interesting graph from the latest Hometrack survey. What it shows is the recovery in house prices over recent months.
The proportion of the asking price achieved rose to 92.4 per cent in September from a recent low of 88.3 per cent.

This is confirmed by our own research – our recently launched House Prices & [...]