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1 month ago | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
In a ‘normal’ year, 1.2 million properties are bought and sold. However, over the last few years, we’ve had anything but a ‘normal’ year – with property transactions varying from just over a million during the first lockdown in 2020 to almost 1.5 million in 2021, when there was a full year of being able to move. I don’t think many people understand the volatile nature of property transactions, especially those outside of the property industry.
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1 month ago | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Out of the 30 cities we track via the Land Registry, since 2005, property prices have risen above the average annual 2.9% inflation rate in 18 cities/towns. The cities with the highest rises range across the country:GlasgowManchesterBristolLondonCambridgeEdinburghBradford, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Gloucester, and Oxford have performed slightly better than inflation, but some are just on a par.
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2 months ago | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Week in and week out we are getting some fabulous data from our research experts around property price growth, and the latest information I saw was a superb presentation from Aneisha Beveridge at Hamptons. One of the trends that I’ve been suggesting over the last decade is that with price growth slowing over the long term, this must be impacting people’s ability to move as they aren’t securing as much equity as they have in the past.
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2 months ago | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Property prices in each region continue to perform quite differently to each other – especially over the long term. According to both the Land Registry and Nationwide, average property prices in England are around twice as high as Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland, heavily influenced by high prices in the Capital and the South.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Based on the figures from last year and the ‘forward’ sales for this year, property supply is looking good as is demand. Interestingly, this isn’t impacting on prices yet as much as it may have done in the past, and that may be due to the ‘drag’ of affordability issues hitting some markets such as London.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
At the city level property market performance, we have two main sources of data: Hometrack, which is around six weeks into the home buying and selling process, and the Land Registry data, which is anything from a few months to six months or more out of date. Of our 30 cities, only four are still recording falls, according to the Land Registry, whereas a slightly more updated picture from Zoopla shows there are no towns experiencing a decline in property prices.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Country wise – bar Northern Ireland which still has a way to go to catch up with house prices seen at the height of the market prior to the credit crunch – the Land Registry and Nationwide are showing that long term trends have resumed, with price growth averaging around its long term performance – on a par with inflation. Local expertise for each country is essential when looking at how the property market is performing.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
It’s a mixed picture as far as the property market numbers are concerned this month. The portals (Rightmove and Home.co.uk) are showing ‘average price’ falls from October, albeit this drop is in line with seasonal changes. However, the mortgage indices show the reverse – small price rises.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
The regional report suggests that Scotland and Northern Ireland are doing well this year in terms of regional property prices. For Scotland, there does appear to be a good short-term uplift in prices (year on year) and long-term (back to 2005), with prices rising annually at 4% vs.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thenegotiator.co.uk | Charlotte Flake |Kate Faulkner OBE
Good reports on property supply and demand, with both up, suggesting we’ll get a good run of property sales through the Autumn which will help everyone survive the slower November and December months. Zoopla’s chart shows how good supply is and this in itself will bring more people to the market as they see more choice and more properties that they would like to buy, all this helps to energise the property sales.
