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Sales of London properties worth at least £5 million have increased.

More contracts were signed throughout the first nine months of 2022 than in any year from 2015 to 2020. According to a survey released by Savills on Tuesday, London’s luxury real estate market has had its most significant year on record due to the city’s appeal to wealthy homebuyers. There were 461 house sales in the city between January and September for £5 million (US$5.73 million) or more. According to Savills, this is more sales than any entire year from 2015 through 2020 combined, and it’s the biggest for the first nine months of any year since the real estate

March 8, 2024 No Comments

Australia News

Queensland Housing Minister Implores Sympathy Following an ‘Appalling’ Proposal to Increase Rents By 20%.

Queensland’s housing minister deems it “appalling” that landlords have been persuaded to boost rates amid a rental crisis after a Brisbane real estate agent advocated for rises of over 20%. Leeanne Enoch’s remarks came after Guardian Australia reported that Ray White West End emailed landlords pushing them to increase rents by more than double the inflation rate. “It is awful to see several real estate agents implementing significant rent hikes amid enormous demands on the whole housing sector,” said Enoch. “I would strongly urge real estate agents and homeowners to have compassion when we gather at the Queensland housing summit

March 7, 2024 No Comments

Australia News

NAB predicts that by 2023, home prices will fall by much to 22.3%

The National Australia Bank predicts that between 2022 and 2023, house values will decline by 23% in several states. The majority of Australia’s metropolitan cities, except Sydney, will witness a severe decline in housing values in 2023 due to the pandemic. NAB discovered that Hobart will have the most significant decline in home prices next year, with prices expected to decrease by 16.6% after falling by 6.4% this year. This could result in a 23 percent decline in Hobart home prices over the next two years, shaving as much as $174,000 off the price of a $758,000 median-priced home. The

March 7, 2024 No Comments

New Zealand News

New Zealand Home Prices Suffer Close Quarterly Drop

The New Zealand housing market saw one of its worst quarterly dips in the three months leading up to September, and it may not be done yet. CoreLogic New Zealand reports that the 4.1% quarterly decrease is second only to the 4.4% reduction during the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred 14 years ago. CoreLogic said on Wednesday in Wellington that property values had fallen for the sixth straight month, decreasing 1.5% after falling 1.8% in August. The annual rate of gain also reduced to 2.8%, the lowest since 2019. Property Slide The housing market quarterly declines the largest since 2008.

March 7, 2024 No Comments

Australia News

The Australian Real Estate Market Declines Resulting To The Rise Of Domestic Rates

September results in property price reductions in capital cities as of October 4. In September, property values in Australia decreased by 1.4% as the market continued to cool in reaction to rising interest rates and greater living expenses. According to statistics supplied by CoreLogic, the reduction represented a little improvement over the 1.6% price decline in August. Tim Lawless, director of research at CoreLogic, said that “the lack of momentum in the speed of value drop was visible in the majority of capital cities and broad rest-of-state areas, with a few exceptions.” Sydney property values decreased by 1.8% in September,

March 3, 2024 No Comments

UK News

The return of the world’s wealthy to London’s housing market and why it matters

If you’re searching for a barometer of the global economy, you might do worse than investigate the ultra-luxury segment of London’s real estate market. Prime Central London (PCL) has become a haven for the money of affluent foreigners for several decades, regardless of whether or not they choose to reside there. This resulted in a number of unintended consequences, the most notable being that trophy prices were established, and PCL was largely bordered by vacant buildings. Because of these exceptional conditions, PCL is again drawing attention as a preferred safe haven for international players seeking to conceal their wealth. Since

March 2, 2024 No Comments

Finance

London’s Property Market Is Seeing Improvements and a Rebound

London’s real estate market is more active as a result of increased post-Brexit certainty. The fourth quarter of 2019 witnessed a surge in sales in London’s luxury real estate market due to a 3% tax on foreign buyers of houses in the United Kingdom, which was included in Boris Johnson’s Conservative party’s election agenda. Compared to the same period a year ago, the number of transactions involving London’s most costly houses increased by 78%, as did the number of home sales in the city’s most expensive areas. As 2020 diminishes much of the uncertainty after the conclusion of the Brexit

March 2, 2024 No Comments

New Zealand News

New Zealand housing goes up by 76% in a year

WELLINGTON, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — According to the most recent Trade Me Property Price Index, issued on Thursday, the number of properties for sale in New Zealand continued to skyrocket in August, rising a record 76 percent compared to August of the previous year. Director of Property Sales at Trade Me, Gavin Lloyd, stated that the national property supply has increased annually for the past nine consecutive months. “While last month’s surge was somewhat attributable to the statewide lockdown in August 2021, these increases have been rising all year, and the current supply is substantially above pre-pandemic levels.” “Last month

March 1, 2024 No Comments

Australia News

Australian borrowers will highly experience mortgage stress due to high rates

How many Australians are now likely to have trouble with their mortgages? The sharp rise in mortgage rates over the past few months will force families to make complex changes to how they spend their money. What is mortgage stress? There is no official definition of mortgage stress, but it is when a family has trouble making home loan payments. People who spend more than 30% of their income on mortgage payments are often used as a measure. However, it doesn’t do an excellent job of expressing this idea. Situations are different for everyone. This is usually easy for households

February 29, 2024 No Comments

News

London property prices hit £544,000, but a ‘softening’ is expected

The average house price in London went up over £6,000 in July, but experts say sales were made before the cost-of-living squeeze. The average price of a home in London has risen 9.2% in the year leading up to July—a significant increase but still below the rate of inflation. In July, the Land Registry reported that property prices in London hit a new high of £543,517. Because of this increase, the average value of a home in the capital has increased by more than £45,000 in a year and by more than £6,000 in just one month. In all of

February 28, 2024 No Comments