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With publication of the latest Land Registry index we now have all the main numbers including HMRC, Halifax and Rightmove. Here are the trends in asking prices, sale volumes, sold prices and the difference between London and the rest of the country. I’ve also included a look at both the top (over £1m) and bottom [...]

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Easter traditionally marks the start of the main selling season but the damp weather that has hung over many parts of the country in the past month seems to have depressed buyers. Figures published this morning by HMRC suggest that the anticipated pick up in the housing market has not materialised. 72,000 homes were sold in April across [...]

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Imagine being able to shave 26% off the asking price of the house of your dreams. Well, it’s taken one client two years to do it but last week we exchanged contracts on a lovely Hertfordshire house that was first marketed at £2.5m back in 2009. Savills had the first run at it launching the [...]

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“My client simply won’t take less” said the bubbly selling agent when I first bid on the pretty four bed flat in Belsize Park. When the flat was first marketed last summer the guide price of £1.65m had produced a little interest. When we first viewed the property the selling agent had dropped the asking [...]

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With the publication of the latest numbers from The Land Registry we can now review the market and see how the year is shaping up. Remember that the samples or ‘baskets’ of properties used by the various brands who provide the data are not all the same and to complicate matters further each uses a [...]