UK Property prices back to September 2003 levels
Friday, November 7th, 2008House sellers can cash in on the credit-crunch rather than waiting for too long.
The real estate market prices fluctuate in accordance with many factors prevalent at the time of the deal, namely the national economic conditions and the global economic outlook and their impact on the financial markets of the country. The residential property prices come down steeply when the economy is hard hit by circumstances beyond anybody’s control.
In UK, a prime housing market in the European Union, the residential properties prices started to go upwards from 2003 and the momentum was witnessed in rapid strides up to the later part of 2007. The global economic negativity had its impacts heavily to show up in the real estate markets of the developed countries once the mighty US dollar fell in its value. The US economy showed its downward trend in the closing months of 2005, pulling down the real estate business to never before levels from then onwards. Eventually the foreclosure crisis swept that country, rendering millions of home owners in US to forfeit their equity to the foreclosure epidemic, arising out of the ballooning effect of the floating rates of interest on their mortgage loans. Home owners today are the distressed lots as they are not getting even their purchase value, let alone making any profits on sale of their estate.
However in UK the upward trend in asking prices by home owners continued owing to the gap in demand and supply. The peak in real estate boom was reached in 2007 and the sliding down started in the beginning of 2008 fiscal. A comparison of the residential property prices will show this in real perspective.
The Global economy, as every one knows, has taken a heavy blow just last month with stock prices nose-diving to rock-bottom levels in all countries without exception. Financial experts predict that the recovery from this global depression will be far away from now.
In the present bleak financial scenario with credit crunch emanating from stark liquidity problems, the knowledgeable circles in UK real estate market have come out with calculated projections. According to them, the crash of real estate business has already started and we are half-way through the crash, while projecting the outlook for UK residential property dealings.
Further, they forecast the price fall will be in the range of 30% from that of the peak in 2007 and go down quickly to hit the bottom level somewhere in late 2009 or early 2010. The average sale volumes of UK residential properties will be at 30% of their long term average figuratively. This is because of the anxiety existing among house buyers watching the trend closely. Only by the second half of the year 2009, the volume will pick up slowly to about 60% of their long term average.
The prices of UK residential properties will recover to their 2007 price levels not before 2015, where Central London will lead others during 2012 and complete recovery turned out by Northern Ireland in 2019.
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