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    United Kingdom Sees Property Prices Increase

    By Harvey Raybould | UK Property Market News | 0 comment | 27 February, 2018 | 0

    UK house prices increaseIn February 2018 the price of property in the United Kingdom has jumped by over £2,000. This means that the average price for a property in the UK has risen to more than £300,000 and is the first price rise since November 2017.

    Rightmove, the property portal, reported that there had been record house buying activity at the beginning of 2018. Rightmove track 90% of the property market in the UK. The company discovered that in February 2018 the average sale price for a UK home was up 0.8% to £300,001 which was an increase on the January 2018 numbers of £2,414.

    Prices Fell in the Previous Two Months

    In December 2017 and January 2018 property prices had fallen. The average UK property price in December 2017 was £295,520 while in January 2018 it was £297,587. Rightmove stated that January 2018 had been the busiest month for property sales ever. They experienced 141 million visits to their website.

    Despite property prices rising in February 2018, Rightmove claims that the percentage increase is less than the normal 1.6% monthly average increase that has been seen at the same time of the year for the past decade.

    Sellers should act with caution despite Price Increases

    Rightmove advised sellers to act with caution despite the recent price increases. They said that a seller should not over price their property because the buyers are already stretched when it comes to affording to buy a property.

    They also said there was good reason to be optimistic about property prices in 2018. In fact they were more optimistic about house prices now than they were in the same period a year ago.

    Sellers cannot control economic and political uncertainty but they are in total control of the prices that they ask for their properties. Rightmove felt that in general sellers do not price their properties too high or become overly ambitious.

    Properties in Scotland Moving Fast

    It is interesting that in Scotland properties are being purchased at a faster rate than they are elsewhere in the UK. The fastest sales are occurring in West Lothian with homes there selling in only 17 days when the UK average is 72 days.

    Falkirk in Stirlingshire was the second fastest property mover where properties are being sold in an average of 20 days. The next fastest localities for house sales are in England. Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, Nuneaton and Rugby in Warwickshire and Hitchin in Hertfordshire were all selling properties in around 21 days.

    Mixed Views over UK Property Prices

    Recent government figures indicate that UK house prices may be recovering. They estimate annual growth to be at around 5.2% in the year to December which is 0.2% up from November.

    But experts in the property market are warning that the property market will stay sluggish in 2018 and there are differences of opinion about the estimated price rise percentages for the year.

    JJL have predicted that the average UK property price will increase by just 1% in 2018 while Capital Economics have estimated a 2% growth. Then there are Standard and Poor’s who predict a very small growth in 2018 of just 0.5%.

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