Forecasts
FORECASTS: ‘Ugly Betty’ properties, the £2m opportunity, and the rise of rural – Stacks
Property search agency Stacks has canvassed its senior types to come up with a series of mini-forecasts for next year
FORECAST: UK Prime Regional Towns +4% to +7% next year; PCL -2% to +1% – Carter Jonas
Forecast season started early this year. So much so that it still feels a bit too soon for mince pies, yet we've already had 2015 predictions from all these firms.
FORECAST: 2015 to be ‘reverse image’ of 2014 – Winkworth
Next year will mirror this year's market, says Winkworth, with May's election as the pivot point between a quiet first half and a following rally.
FORECAST: Mansion tax could mean a 10% fall for superprime London next year – Savills
Savills has issued forecasts for two scenarios for the prime market in 2015: one with and one without a mansion tax. It makes quite a difference..
FORECAST: +4% for UK house prices next year; +1.5% for PCL – JLL
JLL has predicted that UK house prices will rise by 4% next year, and is expecting Greater London to significantly outperform PCL.
Growth in prime central London will stand at 1.
FORECAST: +5% for UK house prices next year, but only +2% for PCL – Strutt & Parker
Strutt & Parker is more optimistic than Knight Frank about what 2015 holds in store for the UK's property market, but there's not much in it
FORECAST: PCL values to double over the next ten years – D&G
There's value in prime central London's £2m-£4m bracket if you take a longer term view, says D&G Asset Management.
FORECAST: +3.5% for UK house prices next year, but 0% for PCL – Knight Frank
Average UK house prices will rise by 3
The top ten risks to the UK’s residential property market, ranked and rated
Knight Frank has qualified it's 2015 and five year market forecasts (read all about them here) by issuing a breakdown of risk profiles and scenarios.
House prices set for a fall – but not a crash – next year
Average UK house prices are likely to drop for the first time since 2009 next year, according to the latest batch of forecasts by the Centre for Economics & Business Research, as "the market is adjusting…
Savills hikes this year’s price growth forecasts
"House price growth has exceeded all expectations over the past year," notes Savills as it significantly boosts its annual forecast for the mainstream market but drops next year's outlook
Didn’t See That Coming: 2013 Forecasts in Review
The Lonres Quarterly Review has delivered again, with a smorgasboard of stats, insight and trends from the last three months and beyond