Recent Articles

Kate Faulkners property price report for November 2020 (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Nov 18, 2020

We all know that the market is ‘booming’ at this moment in time, but it is important to appreciate this is more of a boom in transactions rather than a boom in house prices. There is one surprise though and that’s despite this huge uplift in volumes, property prices, although rising potentially ahead of a recession, are not doing so at the pace we would normally have seen in the past. Read the full article to find out what's happening in your area.

What about 2021? Are we going to see crashes? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Nov 11, 2020

I must admit, before the forecasts came out I was expecting to see falls, perhaps anything between 5-10%, but remarkably the property price forecasters are incredibly optimistic versus a few months ago. 2021 is also going to be a tough year to predict and get right – we don’t know if the ‘stamp duty’ cliff edge will be retained, the Help to Buy Scheme is being restricted, will home movers have ‘burned’ themselves out for the next few years, or are there plenty of home movers left to keep the market going at least for the first half of the year? Read my article here.

How have the forecasters performed in 2020? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Nov 4, 2020

It’s perhaps a little unfair to see how the forecasters have performed versus the ‘actuals’ from the Land Registry for the first six months of the year, but it’s still a good exercise to do as it shows us how the market has performed so far. Read more to find out my verdict on the forecasters' predictions versus actuals for the first half of the year.

Kate Faulkner's property price update - October 2020 (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists)
Oct 14, 2020

Over the last few months, we have been checking and scrutinising house market statistics as many were still being influenced by lockdown as the market didn’t open until mid-May. However, we are starting to see similar trends emerging between the indices suggesting that the stats are being less affected. But I would still only take averages with a pinch of salt. What matters to home movers and investors is what’s happening to property prices/rents on a particular street as at a local level, we see huge variations versus the ‘average’. Read my latest property price article here.

The planning system in England - all change? (in: Building a Property Checklists)
Oct 7, 2020

You may have seen the headlines about the government’s pledge to make the most radical changes to the planning system in England since our modern way of deciding when people are allowed to build was set up in 1948. It’s certainly true that in the summer of 2020 there were so many announcements about planning that it’s been hard for the experts to keep up, let alone everyone else. So we’d thought we’d take a moment to clear up what has already happened – a lot – and what the government is proposing will happen – even more, but there’s some way to go before we get there.