New Built Houses
New Build House Prices December 2010
November was a surprisingly good month for developers. Property prices bounced back from October's lows to an average of £220,000. This move back upwards according to Steve Lees, Marketing Director of Smartnewhomes.com is due to:-
“Many developers will have priced aggressively in October to tempt potential buyers with the possibility of moving in before Christmas. In November, however, the timescale becomes too short and so those deals would have ended, nudging the average price of a new home back to the level of the recent trend."
The much needed increased stock from September is therefore being snapped up by those keen to move and realising that property prices aren't likely to move much over coming months, so they might as well buy now and get settled for the start of 2011.
Overall though, prices last November were around £218,000 and £220,000 in December 2009, so, as with the re-sale market, prices remain fairly stagnant year on year.
The outlook for 2011
2011 should be a continuing good market for New Build properties. Although bear in mind from a buyer's perspective Steve Less says:-
"Only a small number of lenders are providing loans for new build properties and all prospective buyers should make use of mortgage advice available through developers’ sales offices".
In truth, new builds are a good buy for the future. Likely price hikes as soon as banks have balanced their books will rise and there just won't be the new build stock to go with it. It'll take a good six months or year of price rises for developers to 'upsize' their businesses again, in the meantime, those with fairly recently finished new builds could do well to secure a property now and then look at re-selling in a few years time, or have the satisfaction of knowing they bought when prices were at rock bottom and other new build buyers are having to pay the normal 10%+ applied to premium properties.
Top performing areas for November switched back to London (+27.5% YoY) and the South West (+11.5% YoY) and the East Midlands just managed to stay positive (+0.3%).
Most areas however suffered versus the previous year, especially the West Midlands (-26.1% YoY) and a previously good performer, Wales (-12.8% YoY). Scotland (-5.1% YoY) still seems pretty much to hold it's own and as a region continues to do well in the overall property market.
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New Homes Data from Smartnewhomes
| Statistic Measure | Aug 10 | Sep 10 | Oct 10 | Nov 10 |
| Average new home price | £219,629 | £222,561 | £212,103 | £220,654 |
| Monthly % change | +0.9% | +1.3% | -4.7% | +4.0% |
| Three monthly change | -0.4% | +2.2% | -2.6% | +0.5% |
| Annual % change | +1.2% | +4.9% | -1.3% | +1.1% |
| Statistic Measure | Feb 10 | Mar 10 | Apr 10 | May 10 | June 10 | July 10 |
| Average new home price | £215,186 | £216,188 | £220,190 | £220,464 | £217,845 | £217,660 |
| Monthly % change | -1.6% | +0.5% | +1.9% | +0.1% | -1.2% | -0.1% |
| Three monthly change | -1.4% | -2.0% | +0.7% | +2.5% | +0.8% | -1.1% |
| Annual % change | -5.6% | -1.8% | -0.3% | +2.1% | +1.4% | +2.5% |
| Statistic Measure | Aug 09 | Sep 09 | Oct 09 | Nov 09 | Dec 09 | Jan 10 |
| Average new home price | £217,058 | £212,124 | £214,909 | £218,160 | £220,537 | £218,575 |
| Monthly % change | +2.2% | -2.3% | +1.3% | +1.5% | +1.1% | -0.9% |
| Three monthly change | +0.6% | -1.3% | +1.2% | +0.5% | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| Annual % change | -10.4% | -10.2% | -7.5% | -3.7% | -2.6% | -1.4% |
| Statistic Measure | Feb 09 | Mar 09 | Apr 09 | May 09 | Jun 09 | Jul 09 |
| Average new home price | £227,893 | £220,128 | £220,955 | £215,857 | £214,846 | £212,440 |
| Monthly % change | +2.8% | -3.4% | +0.4% | -2.3% | -0.5% | -1.1% |
| Three monthly change | +0.6% | -2.8% | -0.3% | -5.3% | -2.4% | -3.9% |
| Annual % change | -9.6% | -13.2% | -13.0% | -15.3% | -13.7% | -13.6% |
Useful article to read -
UK house building levels rise
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