{"id":18527,"date":"2023-08-29T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2023\/08\/29\/residential-property-review-august-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:15:31","slug":"residential-property-review-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2023\/08\/29\/residential-property-review-august-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Residential Property Review \u2013 August 2023\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Demand down but activity remains robust<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The residential sales market experienced further negative indicators in July, according to the latest UK Residential Survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), with new buyer enquiries and agreed sales volumes continuing their decline.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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At the national level, new buyer enquiries recorded a net balance of -45% in July, little changed from the previous month\u2019s reading of -46%. This was described in the report as \u2018symptomatic of a market losing further ground in the face of higher mortgage rates.\u2019<\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The headline new instructions net balance dropped to -13% in July (compared to -3% in June). Agreed sales slipped to a net balance of -44% in July, down from -36% in June. This new figure is the weakest for the agreed sales measure since the early stages of the pandemic. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Separate data released by HMRC, however, paints a slightly different picture, with the number of completions rising in June to 94,690. At 86% of their 2017-19 average, this figure is up from 77% in May. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Simon Rubinsohn, RICS Chief Economist, commented, \u201cThe recent uptick in mortgage activity looks likely to be reversed over the coming months if the feedback to the latest RICS Residential Survey is anything to go by.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Commercial hotspots for conversion<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Almost 28,000 sites across England have the potential to be converted into residential properties, according to new data released from Searchland, with the combined market value estimated to be over \u00a31.5bn.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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London has roughly a third of England\u2019s sites and an estimated market value in the region of \u00a3928m. In a speech in July, Housing Secretary Michael Gove referenced some of the commercial hotspots that are easier to convert into residential accommodation, including shops and restaurants. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Mitchell Fasanya of Searchland commented, \u201cDisused commercial sites are a cornerstone of the government\u2019s approach to solving the UK\u2019s housing problems [\u2026] developers already have the opportunity to turn thousands of commercial properties into residential developments and these sites currently hold significant value in the current market.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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New-build price premium soars<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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 The price of an average new-build property is now 52% higher than for existing homes, according to research by Sourced Franchise.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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 In the last year, price premiums for new-build property have increased by 20% to reach this average uplift of 52%. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The North East (83%) is home to the strongest new-build price premiums, with Scotland (72%), the East Midlands (66%), the North West (65%), West Midlands (63%) and Wales (62%) next in line. At the other end of the scale, London is home to the smallest new-build house price premium \u2013 just 17%. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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All details are correct at the time of writing (21 August 2023)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Demand down but activity remains robust  The residential sales market experienced further negative indicators in July, according to the latest UK Residential Survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), with new buyer enquiries and agreed sales volumes continuing their decline.  At the national level, new buyer enquiries recorded a net balance of -45% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,37],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18551,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18527\/revisions\/18551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18527"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=18527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}