\u201cIt\u2019s usual for new-to-the-market sellers to price lower in the run-up to Christmas to tempt distracted buyers, so we should not read too much into the mere fact of two consecutive monthly falls,\u201d says Miles Shipside, Rightmove director and housing analyst.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, these falls have been larger than usual, making this the largest fall over two months for six years, showing that there are more than just seasonal forces at play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe forecast that 2019 will see a similar pattern with the north still broadly out-performing the south, though our prediction for the year ahead is slightly more muted with the overall national average flat at 0%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cThere are however some signs of cheaper prices tempting buyers searching for a bargain. There are still buyers in the market for the right property at the right price.\u201d<\/p>\n
Figures from Your Move echo Rightmove\u2019s findings, with an annual growth rate of 0.9%. However, a seasonally-adjusted transaction level of 2.5% is described as \u201cencouraging\u201d by Your Move\/Reeds Rains MD Oliver Blake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A second fall in the price of houses coming to market in as many months means asking prices are nearly \u00a310,000 lower than two months ago, according to new data. Rightmove\u2019s latest House Price Index reveals that there was a fall of 1.5% in the month to 8 December. Their previous report showed a drop… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3875,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[341],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}