It appears the UK housing market ended 2024 on a high, with broad agreement across the usual surveys that the market had grown during the year. Nationwide reports UK house prices ended 2024 4.7% higher than a year ago. Halifax, despite noting a brief fall in house prices between November and December, concluded a 3.3%… Read More
Need to sell this autumn? So far this autumn, we have seen more positive headlines on the housing market – the latest Halifax index for example shows another 0.3% increase in prices Sept vs Aug which is now almost 5% higher than the same point last year. On the other hand, property supply remains very… Read More
Found during refurbishment under carpets, a flashback to the early 1990s in the Bath property market – the Property Chronicle from Friday October 8th, 1993! Oh, the days when the area code was 0225 and the charts were full of Mariah Carey, Billy Joel and Janet Jackson. Headlines in this issue of the Chron included… Read More
Autumn market update September saw a raft of more positive headlines on the housing market, thanks in part to interest rate cuts post election and the anticipation of more in the autumn. The latest Halifax index shows annual growth at 4.3%, Nationwide suggest average UK house prices rose at their highest annual rate since December… Read More
All the news from the Bath property market this summer – right here in our latest market update. National property headlines The Land Registry’s UK House Price Index says the average price of a property in the UK increased by 1.8% between March 2023 and 2024, compared to 2.7% in the previous year…. Read More
Latest Bath property market statistics now available So the kids are safely back to school and the mini heatwave seems to be over but what is the state of play currently with the Bath property market as we move swiftly towards autumn? Plenty of local data to chew through below but do let us know… Read More
Summer holidays are now in full swing after term ending last week but how does the Bath property market look as buckets and spades are being brought out ready for beach days? Has the recent turbulence in the mortgage market had an effect? National summer overview – The first five months of the year were… Read More
Bath Property Market Report – May 2023 Spring market in full flow? Starting on a national level and according to the FT, UK mortgage approvals in April have beaten forecasts to hit a five month high. Nationwide data last month shows an increase of 0.5% in UK house prices ending seven consecutive months of decline…. Read More
Bath property market report – March 2023 According to the Telegraph’s 1st March article citing a survey by Propcast, Bath is the only English city where property buyer demand has risen in the past six months (up 11% apparently). Alternative news was provided at the same time by the Nationwide in their house price index… Read More
At this time of the year, questions to agents from their clients tend to fall into two camps – those involved in current sales who would very much like to be completed by Christmas and newer enquiries keen to know when might be the best time to kick off their New Year plans. With an… Read More
Bath property market update – November 2022 With Halloween and Bonfire Night having passed, there’s now no avoiding the Christmas displays in the shops or adverts on the TV but how has the Bath property market fared during a time of significant economic and political upheaval? Since our last market report in September, we’re on… Read More
Supply rising since the lowest point of January 2022 but still 10% below September 2021. Good news for buyers as the total stock of property for sale in Bath ticked up again this month, reaching the heady heights of the mid 400s in available property across the city in Sept (compared to low 300s in… Read More
