Brickonomics

Rightmove data suggests a testing time for house prices

One figure in the commentary alongside the latest set of Rightmove statistics caught my eye - apparently there has been a 20% increase in sellers coming to the market compared with the previous year. Rightmove puts this down to resurgence...

Posted by Brian on July 20, 2009 8:51 AM

Surveyors feel a stronger pulse in the housing market

The latest survey of the housing market by the surveyors' body RICS has provided yet more evidence that the rate of decay in the housing market may be easing, with the average surveyor busier than at time since last November....

Posted by Brian on May 12, 2009 8:20 AM

Home prices slide but rate of decline has eased, says Nationwide

The latest Nationwide data on house prices is yet another pointer to suggst the slide in house prices is far from over. The April figure saw the average price fall by 0.4% in April after the upward blip of 0.9%...

Posted by Brian on April 30, 2009 9:25 AM

More buyers sniffing around for bargain buys in the housing market, says RICS

More green shoots appear to be sprouting in the housing market with the surveyors' body RICS finding an increase in interest among potential homebuyers over the past three months. Sensibly RICS economists are not getting over excited by this, after...

Posted by Brian on February 17, 2009 1:58 AM

Rightmove wrong interpretation?

Why is it that when I looked at the data presented in the press release covering the newly launched Rightmove consumer confidence survey I came to a very different interpretation from that given?...

Posted by Brian on February 5, 2009 5:39 PM

Hard cash or car crash - what's driving visitors to Rightmove?

A press release from the property website Rightmove that dropped into my inbox this morning caught my eye. Of course it was promoting its wares - that's fair enough. But what I found interesting was the interpretation Rightmove has put...

Posted by Brian on January 8, 2009 10:13 AM

No Christmas present for estate agents or the economy in RICS figures

Two bits of good news for house sellers and builders in the latest housing market survey by the surveyors' body RICS. The graph showing the proportion of surveyors reporting prices falls appears to have bottomed out. And the graph showing...

Posted by Brian on December 9, 2008 9:44 AM

"There is no housing market"

It is always a worthwhile experience chatting to Hometrack's Richard Donnell, there are always ideas and sparks of ideas. Having tracked him down this morning we talked, unsurprisingly, about the weirdness of the housing market. He made one particular comment...

Posted by Brian on June 24, 2008 10:09 AM

Bleak Bank figures confirm downward trend in homebuyers

More desparate news for house building as the evaporation of homebuyers in the UK housing market is further underlined with the release of the Bank of England figures showing mortgages approvals for house purchases in April diving to a new...

Posted by Brian on June 2, 2008 10:33 AM