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In my last blog post I looked at why I do not think rents would fall much, even in real terms over the next year. I also don’t think house prices will fall much in real terms either, at least not over the next 12 months. OK, I will admit when the Covid “pandemic” and the insane lockdowns had just […]
Read moreThere has been a lot of comment in the personal finance pages of the press about where house prices and rents might be heading in the next year or so. House Prices, Rents and Inflation The big worry, is of course, inflation – and its effect on everything as a dampener of demand and hence of a dampener too on […]
Read moreMake sure you are comparing like with like when you are looking at the performance of different areas in terms of property prices over time. COMPARE LIKE WITH LIKE WHEN EVALUATING DIFFERENT AREAS AND HOUSE PRICE TRENDS OVER TIME You often hear people saying how much their property has gone up over time and how it is worth x% more […]
Read moreWill House Prices Keep Rising? A very interesting article appeared in a recent edition of the “Financial Times” says David Lawrenson of LettingFocus.com. In the article, Merryn Somerset Webb asked, “Will house prices will ever rise again?” A fair question. Her view was that it was nearly impossible to answer this question if you do not have a good understanding […]
Read moreRegional Variations in Property Prices Since 2008 Savills, who are always great for data analyses, have used some data from the Land Registry and the Registers of Scotland to look at how house prices have moved in the ten years since the credit crunch in 2008. London has seen a near 80 per cent rise in house prices but prices […]
Read moreThe more I look at it, the more I am convinced that we might be “at or near the top” for a little while, as regards house prices for London. House Price Falls Look More Likely Than Not Why do I say this? Well, first, and to understand things, you have to go back a while to see what’s been […]
Read moreAre we in a house price bubble? Should I buy now, or have house prices reached their peak and are about to fall or even crash? These are some of the questions that private landlords and institutional investors often ask us at LettingFocus. And the fact is I don’t now the answer. There is an old story from rural Kent […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of private rent consultancy LettingFocus.com takes the papers to task over the way they report house prices. House prices are the subject of regular conversations all around the UK. We talk about it a lot and the government knows rising house prices makes much of the voting public “feel richer” and hence, possibly happier too and more inclined […]
Read moreIf more land could be built on more readily then house prices would fall. However, this may be politically unacceptable says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com in this new piece which looks at the things that drive house prices. There was an interesting piece by Stephen Wilmot in the Investors Chronicle last week, called “House Prices are Still Key to Buy […]
Read moreFor some reason, investing in residential property has often made a fool out of otherwise sensible people (and banks). All too often, they cannot see a bubble until it is about to burst. In this blog post David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com mulls over the wreckage. Every now and then you will read of a banker (or one of their supporters) […]
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