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UK sales review Q4 2020
UK house prices finished a volatile year over 5% up on where they started, according to the main indices (+7.3% Nationwide, +6.0% Halifax).
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UK retail market review Q3 2020
2020 has been a difficult year for bricks and mortar retail. It is a commonly repeated aphorism but nonetheless true that the pandemic together with Lockdown 1.0 and 2.0 have crammed five or more years of anticipated changes in markets into the last nine months.
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UK residential sales review Q3 2020
strong summer, defying the economic weakness caused by the COVID-19 lockdown and continuing restrictions. The third quarter of 2020 saw recovering activity levels and price increases, according to the main indicators.
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London development Q3 2020
Activity levels in the London development market bounced back strongly in Q3 across all three main metrics (starts, completions and sales), according to Molior data as shown in Table 1. This suggests the impact of lockdown was short-lived and contained to the previous quarter.
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Greater London sales & rental review Q3 2020
Much of the commentary around London property in the pandemic has suggested that increased working from home and a desire for more space – particularly gardens – could really reshape the market as people and businesses abandon the city.
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UK development overview Q3 2020
We saw last quarter that residential development activity quickly recovered to pre-pandemic levels once sites were able to open up again.
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Forecasts & outlook Q3 2020
Experian’s latest house price forecasts for Cluttons are shown in the table below, based on their central economic scenario of a ‘delayed V-shape’, which sees UK GDP recover to pre-pandemic levels at the start of 2022.
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Wider South East Q3 2020
tracking the national average for several years, whereas London has seen more volatility, according to the Nationwide indices.
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Prime Central London Q3 2020
The Cluttons Prime Central London Index, shown in Figure 1, reported that sales values in PCL were 8.4% lower in Q3 2020 than a year earlier, the seventeenth consecutive quarter of annual price falls.
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UK economic outlook Q3 2020
The economic data reported since our last update appears to have finished off any hopes of a ‘V-shaped’ recovery.
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