House Prices
New-builds top the price chartNew-builds are going up in price faster than ordinary homes, rallying by 12 per cent over the past five years. |
Asking prices on the increaseAsking prices are booming, reaching an average of £244,706 for April, say Rightmove. |
Halifax: House prices up over last three monthsA rise in house prices over the last three months is the first year-on-year increase in this measure for two years, say Halifax. |
UK house prices rise by 0.6% in OctoberNationwide’s House Price Index also revealed that the average cost of a domestic property is just 0.9% lower than it was one year ago, coming it at £164,153. |
Families stuck in the middle of house price battleThere is no good news for families looking to make headway on the property market. House prices have reportedly dropped by 0.4 per cent in August and for those families living close to a school it seems the GCSE results could have just as much of an impact on house prices as the economic climate. |
House price recovery says NationwideHouse prices have rebounded according to the August index from Nationwide. Prices increased by 1.3 per cent from last month and the average home now costs £164,729. Prices are down by 0.7 per cent from the same time last year but experts still believe the housing market is in recovery. |
Families are stalling the Scottish housing marketIt seems families are causing supply problems in the Scottish housing market. According to Ran Morgan, from Knight Frank, the family market previously moved to larger housing helping the chain of supply on the property market. |
Funding opens up new homes marketIt seems the UK government’s NewBuy scheme along with the Get Britain Building Fund is opening up the new homes market to families and first-time buyers alike. The popularity of both schemes is also having an effect on house prices, see the data. |
London Olympics forecast to stagnate house pricesThe London Olympics will further stall house prices amidst the summer slowdown according to Hometrack. The Hometrack house price index has shown no movement in house prices for June blaming the seasonal slowdown and the Eurozone for the stall. |
House prices for June show improvementJune has clocked up a minor improvement is house prices according to an index out today. The Rightmove house price index has seen a one per cent monthly rise in asking prices compared to May. |
House prices show improvement as market stabilisesThe forecast for UK house prices is a stable one following a recent price rise. UK house prices have recorded a slight rise for May for the second consecutive month. |
Family upsizing is driving property market growth says expertAcross the UK sellers are putting their property on the market to down-trade to something smaller, causing demand and supply to drop. This has seen house price figures stagnate in May according to the Rightmove house price index released today. |
Good neighbours can costNew research has found that some people would pay an additional £15,321 for a home with good neighbours. The research from FindaProperty.com found that 40 per cent of people would pay to ensure they had good neighbours. |
House prices dropped again in AprilHouse prices dropped by 0.9 per cent in April according to Nationwide’s index released today. The 0.9 per cent drop was clocked up as the annual decline while the monthly price also fell by 0.2 per cent. |
Parents pay up to 159% more to live near primary schoolsFamilies are willing to pay an additional £91, 000 to live near a coveted primary school in the UK. According to figures from PrimeLocation.com both rental and house prices increase in the streets surrounding the top schools in the country. |
Minor house price increase in JanuaryUK house prices experienced a minor 0.2 per cent year-on-year increase in January. According to figures released today by the Department for Communities and Local Government prices jumped up by 0.7 per cent during the month. |
Decade price increase of £130, 000 in spa townsHomeowners in spa towns across England and Wales have seen their house prices rise a whopping 88 per cent in the past decade. The 18 towns have seen prices rocket upwards by nearly £130, 000 according to figures from Lloyds TSB. |
House prices rose in FebruaryFebruary saw house prices rise but the summer months will tell if the property market is staging a comeback. The average UK house price in January was £162, 228 and this rose by 0.6 per cent in February to an average of £162, 712. |
Who has been named as the nosiest neighbour?Your neighbor could be tracking the price of your property, according to new research from Zoopla.co.uk.There is an increasing trend for homeowners to track their own and their neighbour’s property values to better themselves in the local market. |
House prices level out in 2011 as market stallsFamilies who bought their home in late 2007 are at risk of negative equity, as new figures show prices have fallen, or stalled, ever since. The average price of a new home is now £195,166, 9.26% less than at the peak of the market in October 2007. |
New build property prices ‘up 7.7% in 12 months’Average prices for new homes in the UK were 7.7 per cent higher in November than the year before, while prices for pre-owned properties typically fell 0.9 per cent, according to data from the Department for Communities and Local Government. |
House prices ‘down 0.5% in 2011’The average cost of a house in England and Wales was around £220,385 in December, up 0.2 per cent on the previous month, latest analysis suggests. Over 12 months, however, house prices took a slight dip of 0.5 per cent. |
Fewer homeowners expect house prices to riseFamilies are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the property market, it seems, as Zoopla.co.uk Housing Market Sentiment Survey figures show fewer homeowners expect house prices to rise over the coming months than at any point in the last year. |
Property prices ‘resilient in 2011’The cost of the average British home ended 2011 one per cent higher than the previous year, latest figures from Nationwide Building Society reveal. A typical house is now worth around £163,822, the index shows. |
Woking 'UK's top house price performer in 2011'Families with homes in Woking have some good news to blow away the January blues. It seems Woking is the UK's top house price performer in 2011, rising a whopping 16% in a report comparing 130 towns by the house price team at Halifax. |
House Price Index
- House price recovery says Nationwide
- London Olympics forecast to stagnate house prices
- House prices for June show improvement
- House prices show improvement as market stabilises
- It’s a seller’s market in some parts of the country
- New build property prices ‘up 7.7% in 12 months’
- House prices ‘down 0.5% in 2011’
- Property prices ‘resilient in 2011’
- Property sales to rise, but house prices to fall in 2012
- Buyer demand and sales ‘lift in November’
Energy Bill
- Investigation into consumer understanding of energy bills
- EDF Energy to cuts gas costs by 5%
- Energy saving tips from ConserveEnergy
- UK fuel poverty hotspots revealed
- Ofgem outlines Smart Meter protection plan
- E.ON energy price rise to kick in tomorrow
- Northerners paying more for home energy
- Families blame each other for energy wastage
- A quarter of UK boilers 'at risk of breaking'
- UK homes braced for biggest ever energy bills
