Supply, demand, selling times and plenty more besides. Lots of the latest information on the Bath and national property market right here! Key national headlines Rightmove – “Market activity across September shows a dip compared to last year, which was influenced by August 2024’s Bank Rate cut and early moves by some homebuyers in England… Read More
Supply, demand, selling times and plenty more besides. Lots of the latest information on the Bath and national property market right here! Key national headlines UK house prices recorded their biggest monthly fall for more than two years in June – prices fell by 0.8% last month, the sharpest decline since February 2023, Over the… Read More
Bath property market report – April 2025 More sales completed nationally in March than the previous two months combined (Halifax reports) as buyers rushed to beat the latest Stamp Duty deadline but the market is now returning towards normality as buyers and sellers adjust to the new levels of taxation, ponder the likely effect of… Read More
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
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
What if I told you there was a 40% greater chance of selling your house if you picked one Bath estate agent over another? That’s a pretty substantial difference to your odds of moving just for choosing the right agent. You might not believe me but read on and I’ll explain. Have you ever asked… 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
Should you be using video to enhance your property marketing? Trying to carry on working during lockdowns forced many estate agents to look at using video to sell property as physical viewings weren’t an option at the time. As we returned to normal operations over the last year, videos seem to have gone back to… 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
