News Centre Nationwide House Price Index, August 2018

Nationwide has released their latest figures from their house price index for the month of August showing a -0.5% drop since July, the most drastic monthly fall in six years. But it isn't all bad news for homeowners with an annual increase of 2%, pushing...

Aug 31, 2018 by eMoov

Emoov News Homeowners – how valuable is it to live near a top state school?

With children returning to school over the next few weeks, our minds turn to catchment areas, property prices and how much parents will be willing to pay to make sure their child gets a place at the school of their choice. According to recent research, carried out by...

Aug 30, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre Where are the top postcodes for property sellers in the UK?

The best location to be selling a home this summer has been revealed by a house selling weather forecast. PropCast, which is available on TheAdvisory website, asks users to simply input their postcode to receive a report on current market conditions, show historic...

Aug 28, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre A quarter of UK cities still feeling the impact of the 2008 financial crisis

The latest Hometrack Cities Index was released today looking at house price growth across 20 of the UK’s major cities. Today’s figures claim that a decade on, a quarter of the UK’s largest cities are still recovering from the 2008 market crash. House prices in...

Aug 28, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre The Notting Hill Carnival Property Price Route

This weekend the Notting Hill Carnival returns for the Sunday and Monday of the bank holiday break, with thousands taking to the streets of one of London’s most prestigious areas. Since the first carnival in 1966, UK house prices have increased by 5,931%! While it’s...

Aug 24, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre Two years on from Brexit who are the UK’s property market winners and losers?

The latest UK HPI release of property price data for June provided the first concrete look how the UK market has performed on the two-year anniversary of our decision to leave the EU. With the headlines showing house price growth is at a five year low across the UK,...

Aug 20, 2018 by eMoov

Statistics Who has been Britain’s best housing minister?

Our research has found that despite Gavin Barwell’s relatively short 11-month term as housing minister, he has had the most success in the last eight years where new housing is concerned. There has been a revolving door with the position of housing...

Aug 15, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre House price growth steady as buyers and sellers return to the market

The latest UK HPI shows that house price growth is currently 3% annually, the lowest rate of growth since August 2013. The UK HPI is the most concrete indicator of the state of the UK property market as the data is based on actual sales completions and not mortgage...

Aug 15, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre Buy to let market showing further signs of trouble as stock levels fall

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released its July report showing further strain to the Buy-to-Let market where stock levels are concerned, which we previously saw a glimpse of in June’s report. There has been a decreased number of instructions...

Aug 10, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre Halifax house price index July 2018

The latest numbers from Halifax show that UK house price growth rebounded in July, with a 1.4% monthly increase, up 3.3% annually which is the largest jump since November this year. This puts the average UK house price at a record £230,280, news that will be welcomed...

Aug 7, 2018 by eMoov

News Centre Interest rates increase could cause further problem for UK homeowners

The Bank of England has today made the decision to increase interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75%, pushing them to their highest in the last decade. Mark Carney also made it clear that we would see further increases every year for the next three years at least. This news...

Aug 2, 2018 by eMoov

Emoov News Chapel conversion hits the market

A chapel converted into a three-bedroom home is listed with us in Llandyrnog, a village in North Eastern Wales. The historic property finds itself on a corner in the heart of the village overlooking the  Clwydian Range, an area of natural beauty with hills...

Aug 1, 2018 by eMoov