{"id":22356,"date":"2018-12-14T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=22356"},"modified":"2018-12-14T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:06:17","slug":"top-seven-recent-stories-in-housing-and-property-investment-14-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/news\/top-seven-recent-stories-in-housing-and-property-investment-14-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seven recent stories in housing and property investment: 14 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Here\u2019s our round-up of some of the best stories that we\u2019ve posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/\">BuyAssociation.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0recently.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>More Brexit-related housing data, regional variations on other research and reports, a look into the crystal ball for 2019, backing for reviving the high street with places to live, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>1. Brexit caution behind fall in new home seekers says RICS report<\/h4>\n<p>Brexit and the uncertain economic outlook lay behind a fall in in numbers of people looking for a new home in November, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/13\/rics-november-brexit-caution-fall-in-home-seekers\/\">the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors\u2019 (RICS) latest statistics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-17448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/brexit-jigsaw-pieces-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"brexit\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>2.North and Midlands asking prices rise while London and south-east slump<\/h4>\n<p>House prices in the West Midlands, Yorkshire and the north-west of England continued to rise while those in the south-east and London slumped again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/12\/north-and-midlands-asking-prices-rise-while-london-and-south-east-slump\/\">according to new figures.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-21163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/North-west-map-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>3.Which are the UK areas where it\u2019s better to buy than rent?<\/h4>\n<p>To buy? To rent? Choosing one over the other is a perennial dilemma, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/11\/which-are-the-uk-areas-where-its-better-to-buy-than-rent\/\">new figures from Zoopla<\/a> are showing areas of the UK where the differences between having a mortgage or going onto a rental agreement are the most marked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-20047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/buy-or-rent-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"buy or rent\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>4.Move to high street living backed by property industry, says survey<\/h4>\n<p>The property scene is excited by the prospect of more high streets in the UK becoming places to live, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/10\/move-to-high-street-living-backed-by-property-industry-says-survey\/\">according to a new survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-22290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/high_street_kendal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>5.Average student rents top \u00a36k per year<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/07\/average-student-rents-top-6000-per-year\/\">A new survey has revealed<\/a> that average annual rents for students rose by six per cent in 2018\/19, and that the popularity of studio flats with those at university has shown a huge increase in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-11891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/read-515531_1280-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A girl reading, yesterday\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>6.Millennials most in need of education on shared ownership<\/h4>\n<p>New research has flagged up that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/11\/millennials-most-in-need-of-education-on-shared-ownership\/\">a surprising number of young people<\/a> are not aware of shared ownership as a way of getting onto the property ladder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-16839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Keys-landlords-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>7.Growing young populations will influence UK property hotspots in 2019<\/h4>\n<p>Specialist property investor Surrenden Invest has taken data produced by the Office of National Statistics and Zoopla to do some number crunching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/12\/11\/growing-young-populations-will-influence-uk-property-hotspots-in-2019\/\">to gauge what 2019 holds for the housing market.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-22309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/2019_feet_water-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2019 beach\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s our round-up of some of the best stories that we\u2019ve posted on\u00a0BuyAssociation.co.uk\u00a0recently. More Brexit-related housing data, regional variations on other research and reports, a look into the crystal ball for 2019, backing for reviving the high street with places to live, and more&#8230; 1. Brexit caution behind fall in new home seekers says RICS<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/news\/top-seven-recent-stories-in-housing-and-property-investment-14-december\/\" title=\"ReadTop seven recent stories in housing and property investment: 14 December\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3875,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-advice","category-regeneration","category-uk-housing-market"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}