Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Four Ways to Beat the Bank and Lower your Mortgage / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: Submissions
Read these four ways you can beat the bank and lower your mortgage
A home is usually the most precious thing we own and the biggest financial commitment we make in our lives. Unfortunately, mortgages typically have expensive interest rates and complicated repayment terms that are designed to make us pay more for our homes than we actually need to. With that in mind, here are four smart ways you can beat the bank and lower your mortgage.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
This US Real Estate Bubble Looks Very Familiar / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Harry_Dent
We called the real estate bubble top in late 2005, just before it began to burst in early 2006. So did Jim Stack, a newsletter writer in Whitefish Montana.Now Jim has a Housing Bubble Bellwether Barometer that’s flashing a sell signal after going up 80% last year. All our alarms are going off as well.
The Confidence Indicator for the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo is at its highest reading in 18 years… higher than it was in early 2006.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
First-time Buyer Mortgage Interest Rates Recover from Base Rate Rise / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
While the majority of rates in the mortgage market have started to edge up, research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that some higher loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage rates have actually fallen since the base rate rise.
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Monday, January 15, 2018
London Property Market Crash Looms As Prices Drop To 2 1/2 Year Low / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: GoldCore
– London homeowners cut property prices by another 1.4% in January
– Average price for a London house dropped by £22,000 to £600,926 in 2017
– Takes 78 days to sell a home on average, the highest level since 2012
– London’s downtrend continues after 2017 performance as worst UK housing market
– UK regional house prices begin to falter as house prices climb slows down
– Gold bullion remains a great hedge for property investors
Monday, December 11, 2017
UK Mortgage Providers Giving SVR Borrowers a Reprieve / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, highlights that the average standard variable rate (SVR) has increased since the base rate rise on 2 November, as expected. Despite this, it falls short of the anticipated 0.25% rise, instead increasing by 0.14%.
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Monday, November 27, 2017
UK Cashback Mortgage Deals Rise by 27% in Just a Year / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Buying a new home or getting a new mortgage can often be an expensive process. Cashback can be a great way for cash-strapped borrowers to reduce any costs that may occur, especially as the latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the number of cashback deals has increased by 27% over the past year.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Instructions to Stop a Dispossession Home Sale and How to Purchase Astutely at Abandonment Home / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: D_Morgan
David Morgan writes: Auctions
On the off chance that you are one among the individuals who are sitting tight for their home, which is going to be sold and a huge number of adjacent individuals have gathered to buy your property, don't feel this is the end. Dispossession has gone up by very nearly 57 rates in the initial a half year of 2008.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Does Stripping Streets of ALL of their Trees Impact House Prices (Sheffield Example)? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's Streets Ahead PFI Contract with the Spanish Ferrovial family owned multinational Amey apparently also means that many of the Sheffield's tree lined suburbs are being stripped of virtually all of their big trees that have taken over 100 years to grow to their current house prices boosting splendour.
The big question is does felling of these community assets valued at approx £50k each (CAVAT method) also mean that the properties on these streets are also being felled?
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Monday, November 13, 2017
Say Goodbye to Sub-1% Mortgage Tracker Interest Rates / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Mortgage providers have reacted quickly to the Bank of England’s base rate announcement on 2 November, with the majority having already increased their variable tracker rates. In fact, the latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that not only has the average two-year variable tracker rate increased by 0.20% since 1 November, but the sub-1% two-year tracker is now no longer on offer.
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Monday, November 06, 2017
UK Mortgage Two-year fixed rate sees highest rise in eight years / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, shows the average two-year fixed mortgage rate has risen from its historic low in October with a significant 0.12% increase, the highest monthly rise the Moneyfacts Treasury Report has seen since August 2009.
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Monday, November 06, 2017
Confidence in the UK Housing Market Continues to Fall / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
According to a recent survey conducted by Halifax bank, 20% of people believe that house prices will drop in the coming year. This is despite inflation continuing to rise and interest rates increasing. Experts believe that this could be disastrous to the health of the British economy, especially with weak wage growth leading to British households feeling under pressure.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Sheffield Leafy Suburbs Tree Felling's Triggering House Prices CRASH! / Housing-Market / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's 'Streets Ahead' PFI Contract with the Spanish Ferrovial owned Amey has been busing ripping the green out of England's greenest city England during 2017. As Sheffield's tree lined leafy suburbs that the estate agents so welcoming advertise are increasingly becoming no more. Trees that have taken more than a 100 years to reach their adult splendour have been felled in there thousands leaving behind either voids or a £20 sapling that rarely survives or is prone to falling prey to vandalism, all in exchange for large trees with capital values of between £50k and £150k now permanently gone!
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Interest Only Mortgage Time Bomb Warning from the CML / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: Kavinesh_A
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has provided a fresh warning that millions of homeowners who had taken out a Interest only mortgage to purchase their home many years ago are now facing the prospect of losing their home when there mortgage product reaches it’s expiry. The debate of an Interest only mortgage ticking time bomb has been rumbling on for many years but things have become more apparent this week as the Council of Mortgage Lenders highlighted that up to 1.9 million homeowners are going to start reaching the end of their mortgage lifespan and asked to pay the outstanding balance of what they owe. Unfortunately for many people who took out their mortgage 20 years ago they are now approaching retirement age and therefore seen as being too old to take out another mortgage product.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 23, 2017
First-time Home Buyers Already Facing Interest Rates Rrise Shock / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
The latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that while the average two-year fixed mortgage rate has experienced an increase at all loan-to-values (LTVs) in the past month, rates at 95% LTV have been the hardest hit, showing a 0.10% increase from September compared to a 0.03% increase in the average rate at 60% LTV.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Are Amey Street Tree Felling's Devaluing Sheffield House Prices? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield City Council's Streets Ahead PFI Contract with the multinational Amey apparently also means that many of the Sheffield's tree lined suburbs are being stripped of virtually all of their big trees that have taken over 100 years to grow to their current magnificent house prices boosting splendour.
The big question is does felling of these community assets valued at approx £50k each (CAVAT method) also mean that the properties on these streets are also being felled / devalued?
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
London House Prices Are Falling – Time to Buckle Up / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: GoldCore
– London house prices fall in September: first time in eight years
– High-end London property fell by 3.2% in year
– House sales down by over a very large one-third
– Global Real Estate Bubble Index – see table
– Brexit, rising inflation and political uncertainty causing many buyers to back away from market
– U.K. housing stock worth record £6.8 trillion, almost 1.5 times value of LSE and more than the value of all the gold in world
– Homeowners and property investors should diversify and invest in gold
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Tools for Doing Successful Real Estate Marketing / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Kavinesh_A
Today you have all kinds of tools you can use for doing good marketing of real estate. Besides the traditional billboards and signs, there are also plenty of other tools that have been very successful if you want to sell property fast. Online marketing is essential of course, but offline real estate marketing should never be neglected. The following are some tools that should help you make successful real estate marketing.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, September 29, 2017
How to Spot Global Real Estate Bubbles / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets
By: Rodney_Johnson
There’s an easy way to identify the cities with the big real estate bubbles. Just find out where the richest citizens live!
Back in late 2016, writer Peter Reegh put together a list of the 15 cities based on population of the wealthiest citizens, which was published on therichest.com. These same 15 cities remain at the top of this list today (only now more inflated than a year ago), allowing us to immediately know what areas to avoid.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
UK Mortgage 90% LTV Fixed Rate Deals Hit Record High / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
While many of the record low mortgage rates launched on to the market are reserved for those with a sizeable deposit, the latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the higher loan-to-value (LTV) market is going from strength to strength, seeing not only a significant drop in rate but also the number of two-year fixed rate deals on offer hitting an all-time high.
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Friday, September 15, 2017
Why it is Often Difficult to Sell a House Fast / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
It is indeed often quite a chore-like process, trying to sell a home for a decent price, without having to cut down on the actual worth of the home so much that you do not make as much profit as you would otherwise need to relocate to a nice home.
When attempting to sell your home quickly, there are some factors which may hinder such a process. This article will look at some of the reasons why such an undesirable sluggishness befalls your sales process.
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