Housing supply and demand down but transactions up?

Housing supply and demand down but transactions up?

10:35 AM, 29th May 2019, About 5 years ago 1

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NAEA Propertymark has issued its April Housing Reportwith the headline – Number of property transactions increases despite fall in supply and demand.

Mark Hayward, said: “Despite a fall in housing supply and demand, it’s encouraging to see an increase, for the first time this year, in the number of sales going through. This means that even though buyers and sellers remain uncertain given the current climate, many are continuing to move forward with their transactions and sales are still happening at the rate we would expect to see at this time of year. More than four in five properties are selling for less than the original asking price, so there’s opportunity for house buyers and sellers to negotiate an offer to get a sale moving.”

Sales agreed

  • The number of sales agreed per member branch increased for the first time this year, rising from an average of seven per branch in March, to eight in April
  • This is the highest level seen since October 2018, when the same number of sales were recorded per branch
  • Year-on-year, the number of property transactions remains the same.

Supply of available properties

  • The number of properties available per member branch fell in April, from 37 in March, to 35

Demand for housing

  • After a rise in demand in March, the number of house hunters registered per estate agent branch fell by 10% in April, from 296 to 265
  • Year-on-year, demand was at the lowest level recorded for the month of April since 2008 when 237 house hunters were registered on average per branch. Housing demand also fell by a fifth (21%) from April 2018 when there were 337 prospective buyers per branch.

Sales to FTBs

  • The number of sales made to FTBs in April increased marginally, rising from 26% in March, to 27%
  • Year-on-year, this is an increase of three percentage points from 24%

1 All figures from NAEA Propertymark’s April Housing Report


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Richard Green

13:35 PM, 29th May 2019, About 5 years ago

If you take the muppets who drop out of sales because they lied about their finances you’ll see a much smaller number. I have had three people do this to me, my brother had it happen last week and a friends chain collapsed because someone did not have the finances. The cost to the seller is maddening!

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