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UK Home Prices Have NOT Reached A New Record High NOT In Real Terms
Ben Mountifield, April 17th, 2012
It makes a good headline, UK Home Asking Prices Now At All-Time High, but it’s only true in nominal terms, and it’s real (inflation adjusted) terms that matter. According to the Rightmove House Price Index, the rise of 2.9% in April helped “national new seller asking prices to reach an
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UK Property: Buying vs. Renting
Steve Wilson, March 15th, 2012
It seems more and more people are looking at buying a home rather than renting one, citing that “it’s cheaper to pay a mortgage than it is to pay rent”, and they have a point. The average UK home now costs £162,712 (Nationwide figure), and the typical Standard Variable Rate
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In Real Terms UK Property Has Fallen 25% Since The 2007 Market Peak
Ben Mountifield, March 6th, 2012
In nominal terms the price of the average UK home has only fallen 10.5% since peaking in Q3 2007 at £184,131. In real terms however, i.e. adjusted for inflation (RPI), the price of the average UK home has fallen 25%. The chart below shows average UK house prices in nominal
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In The Late 80’s UK Property Prices Fell 37% & Anyone Who Thinks That Can’t Happen Again Is Deluding Themselves.
Ben Mountifield, March 5th, 2012
How many times have you heard someone say “property prices never go down”? Well here’s the truth. Between the second quarter of 1989 and the final quarter of 1995 property prices in the UK fell 18%. But that was in nominal terms, i.e. the average price of a UK home
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Great Depression 2.0 – A Very Dangerous Game Of Chicken
Ben Mountifield, December 16th, 2011
There is a scene in the film Wall Street in which the main character Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen, is about to be carted away by the Feds for insider dealing, and a colleague of his comes over for a quiet word. He says “Man looks in the abyss,
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In Real Terms London Property Prices Have Fallen 16% From Their Peak In 2007
Ben Mountifield, November 9th, 2011
In real terms, i.e. adjusted for inflation, the price of the average London home has fallen by 16% since its peak in 2007. As I’ve mentioned before, in nominal terms London property prices have rebounded back to near their 2007 peak, however if we adjust these prices for the Retail
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Property Price Chart: Regional Prices for England Q1 1992 to Q3 2011
Ben Mountifield, November 3rd, 2011
Today’s property price chart shows the average price of a home across the different regions of England. The chart shows the entire run up in home prices that began in 1996. Average Property Prices for the Different Regions of England: Q1 1992 to Q3 2011 Source Data: Nationwide The chart
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Property Prices: London Booms While Rest UK Flatlines
Ben Mountifield, October 24th, 2011
Despite falling more than 20% during the 08/09 global financial crisis, average London property prices are now down just 2.9% from their peak in the fourth quarter of 2007. Meanwhile the average price of a home across the whole of the UK remains 9.5% below its peak. UK housing market
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UK Home Prices Have Fallen 30% In 4 Years
Ben Mountifield, October 19th, 2011
In real terms, i.e. adjusted for inflation, average UK house prices have fallen by 29.9% since their peak in July 2007. This puts the price of the average home back to the level it was in September 2002. Part of the reason these numbers from Halifax are so shocking is
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