The average house price in the UK rose for 6th month in a row, fueling optimism that a full scale recovery was on the cards for early 2010, driven by the low prices of the last two years plus low interest rates and prices still being forced down for products and services (apart from those related to fuel such as petrol and utilities).
The mortgage market is still recovering but the same old stories about 90% and 100% mortgages are circulating so competition must be hotting up and lenders are worrying more about getting a bigger share of the market than stabilising their investments. These deals dont go away, they just retreat a little under cover!
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have been more occupied this week with trying to save their jobs at the Labour conference with pledges about delaying ‘fat cat’ bonus payouts until assured results are seen. This will not attract the best to the industry but seems to keep the public happy, personally I think we can agree that the average Joe does not really care what bonuses bank bosses get when times are good-so you keep the times good rather than threaten bosses with reduced payouts! Get the best in to do the jobs and regulate what they do more tightly! Trying to claw back agreed bonuses is no way to bring life back to the market, its a soft soap those who have lost out rather than a plan for the future.
Posted in General October 2nd, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
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Posted in General September 28th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
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Posted in General September 25th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
As mentioned in a previous blog we have added local link listings to every city in England, Wales and Scotland to give our users more detail on the local areas they are interested in. They will feature links to useful websites such as airports, colleges, universities, local councils, tourism and many more.
There is now more details than ever on House Price Spy with estate agent listings, local links, free sold prices, statistics and a wealth of geographical detail for every area! We hope to add more features and details for every area in time, just remember to tell everyone you know about the site – spread to the word about House Price Spy!!
If your website is suitable and you want to have it featured just link back to us (thus giving your users a link to a great website) contact us and we can set up your link. Just add a link to the relevant page of House Price Spy with a text and use out contact form to let us know.
Posted in General September 21st, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
As you can see from the data on House Price Spy for England, Scotland and Wales the average price are still rising but number of sales contunue to fall. So the housing bubble is holding but with the end of the summer comes a drop in sales so the situation in fragile with many people still staying out of the market until things settle. I think its fair to say that we will not see a truly rebliable financial recovery until true market confidence comes back and the total number of sales reaches nearly 40,000 for England, 6,000 for Scotland and 2,000 for Wales.
The next phase of the property saga will be a slight drop in avergae prices followed by a media based panic that we are lurching back into a recession, dont be fooled it appears now that the process of rising prices will take years to complete and never be something to bet your shirt on.
Gordon Brown/Alistair Darling have been busy behind the scenes and brown has enought to deal with what with expenses, Libyan bombers, smiling for the cameras (?) and planning for the next election.
Posted in News September 18th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
House Price Spy is looking to swap links with relevant, good local website that our users would be interested in. We are looking for local websites to link directly to the area their users would find useful on our site and in exchange we will link back to your site from the local area listing.
In this example, say your site is all about Glasgow, you simply link to http://www.housepricespy.com/scotland/glasgow-city/ using any text you see fit, an example could be “Free house price information for the Glasgow area from House Price Spy” or “Glasgow house price information” or whatever you feel is best to describe your area and what we offer. In return we will link to your site from your area in this example this is what the Glasgow one looks like http://www.housepricespy.com/scotland/glasgow-city/local-sites.html with a screen shot that we have taken, your site title and URL and a short description that you have supplied.
Example Not To Scale, See Live Version On Site.
Simply put our link up and contact us via http://www.housepricespy.com/contact-us.html tell us where we can view it and we will put your link up in return.
Please note we don’t accept all sites, if we feel your site is not going to enhance our users experience as a relevant site we will let you know, also we are going to be very targeted so if your site is about an area inside say Glasgow it will be listed in that section, this is both good for our users and your site as the link exchange is even more targeted. Please don’t stuff your description full of keywords, as that just looks rubbish.
Posted in General September 16th, 2009 by Clarke | No comments
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Posted in General September 14th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
The Bank of England have held the low mortgage interest rate. Government blurb has not been quiet about mentioning that this has put billions back into the into the economy but anyone who is trying to get a mortgage or saving the money will have a different story! When will the rate go back up, while House Price Spy can’t too political with an election coming up it cant be too near that time.
Who is the nosiest person you know? With all the property details given on House Price Spy you can find out if someone you know is telling the truth about what they paid for their house and loads more details about them!
Posted in News September 11th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
The property news for September is that the bubble is still going strong, prices keep rising and confidence is rising once more. As mentioned its the fastest rise. in 5 years.
For house builders however the news is not quite so good, most builders have recorded losses for the last period with Bevis posting a £8.6 million pre-tax loss for the first half of this year. With the demand for housing focussed on reliable housing in established areas new housing has not looked the good investment it once was.
Other news is that holiday homes in the UK are reaching the highest sale prices for many years with many opting for cheaper holidays nearer to home, with flights being more expensive and the Euro and Dollar rising prohibitively overseas holidays are seen as expensive. Overseas property developers are even more heavily hit than the UK. this is seen as a major factor in the recovery of average UK prices.
So as always there is good news and bad news, but overall the picture looks better than at the start of the year. Even US house prices have started to rise, with slow but significant rises across the board!
Posted in News September 7th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
You may have noticed that we have added another feature to the free property information at House Price Spy: Estate agents listings at Town level for every every area covered by the site! Ready to take your property dealing to the next level? Then here is the place to find the perfect company for the job!
There are thousands of estate agent listings with address and contact details for each one letting you get in touch!! You can evern search them by area, postcode or town!!
We hope to be adding loads more features in the months to come while keeping the good things from House Price Spy that have attracted many thousands of loyal members. Check out our estate agents listings now!!
Posted in General September 4th, 2009 by Kenny | No comments
