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New sellers drop asking prices

Home owners coming onto the market have dropped their asking prices for the first time this year, according to Rightmove.
The property portal reported a 0.6% decline in the average new vendor’s ambitions in July, amounting to £1,435 in hard cash.
The website is currently accommodating an additional 30,000 properties a week, up 45% compared to a [...]

Rightmove: asking prices set to fall

The average asking price for a home in the UK increased by 0.3% in June, compared with May, according to Rightmove.
However, the sixth consecutive monthly rise left prices falling in real terms, with the Retail Prices Index showing an annual increase of 5.1% in June, compared with a year-on-year rise in asking prices of 5%.
The [...]

Estate agents link with UK Google Maps

UK Google Maps users can now search for listings from estate agents and property websites directly from the maps.
Available properties are indicated by a small circle that provides a link to a particular agent’s website.
The new facility also means that potential home buyers and renters can enter a location and see the available listings from [...]

House sellers respond to rising stock levels

Rightmove has reported that the week before the General Election saw the highest number of new sellers entering the UK property market since June 2008.
However, the property portal observes that the lack of mortgage finance is now beginning to tell, with 2010 unsold stock levels continue an “inexorable rise”.
As a result, new sellers [...]

Asking prices rise in April

House sellers increased the average asking price for a home by 2.6%, or £5,898, in the month to the 10th April, to £235,512.
New figures from Rightmove.co.uk show this month’s rise taking prices 6% higher than a year earlier, having built on a 0.1% increase in March.
However, with over 25,000 properties put up for sale each [...]

Asking prices up just 0.1% in March

Property website, Rightmove, has today reported the annual growth in asking prices for residential property in England and Wales for the four weeks to March 6 slowed for the first time in a year.
On an annual basis, growth slowed from 6.1% in February to 5.3% in March, while on a monthly basis, asking prices rose [...]