Brickonomics

Home sales perk up in March

Another little ray of good news for estate agents and house builders came from the latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs for property transactions. They do provide a hint of a glimmer of hope that the housing market may...

Posted by Brian on April 22, 2009 4:58 PM

Is the frozen housing market beginning to thaw?

Looking at the most recently released housing market data for October it is tempting to interpret it as showing signs of a thaw in a market that has almost frozen solid. On the month transactions rose according to the revenue...

Posted by Brian on November 21, 2008 12:31 PM

New depths reached in housing market sales

The latest statistics from HM Revenue & Customs show that new record lows have been plumbed by sales in the UK housing market. On a seasonally adjusted basis, sales in September dropped to just 38% of the peak level reached...

Posted by Brian on October 21, 2008 10:40 AM

Treasury faces £4.5 billion hole as house sales and stamp duty receipts slump

The steady decline in the UK housing market has been underlined by the latest numbers to come out of HM Revenue & Customs. They show sales of homes dropping to 72,000 in August, compared with 164,000 last August The figures...

Posted by Brian on September 24, 2008 1:30 PM

House sales drop a third as credit crunch bites

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue & Customs underline the industry fears of a collapse in home sales. They show that sales of property worth more than £40,000 have fallen by more than a third since the credit crunch...

Posted by Brian on June 23, 2008 11:56 AM