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Home sellers Rightmove lift U.K. house prices up
By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:September 21, 2009
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U.K. home sellers raised asking prices in September as confidence in the property market improved and the supply of homes dwindled, Rightmove Plc said.
The average cost of a home increased 0.6 percent to 223,996 pounds ($364,000) after falling 2.2 percent in August, the owner of the U.K.’s biggest residential property Web site said today in a statement. Price gains in London, the southeast and East Anglia outweighed declines in the rest of England and Wales, Bloombers reported.
As per property web site, Rightmove, the cost of a house in England and Wales during the period of five weeks to September 12 jumped to 223,996 pounds, only 1.5 per cent less than September 2008.
On an average price of a house soared 0.9 per cent in London from previous month, while southeast of England and East Anglia recorded an increase of 1.5 per cent and
8.4 per cent respectively.
Righmove commercial director Miles Shipside said, “Confidence is up, stock is down and the number of people searching is high.” The rebound says little about the health of the economy, however, with low supply being the dominant force behind higher home values according to a report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) released last week.
Consumer confidence has tracked the rebound in the FTSE 100 benchmark UK equity index with a correlation of over 90% since March, making this part of the equation highly vulnerable to any reversal of the recent rally in risky assets. For our part, we have long argued that the markets have done too much, too fast over the past six months, with global equities trading at levels unseen since 2003 relative to earnings. The world economy grew nearly 3% in real terms that year, whereas virtually every credible forecast calls for the first post-WWII contraction in real growth in 2009, pointing to lackluster revenues and overextended asset prices.
Further, trading volumes have steadily declined for the bulk of the equity rally (the past 5 out of 6 months). While some of this may be chalked up to a seasonal slowdown that is typical for the summer, it may also be hinting at waning conviction behind the up move and a forthcoming reversal as traders return from holiday and volumes pick up into the Fall.
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