{"id":165,"date":"2015-11-18T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/number-of-uk-properties-for-sale-falls\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T08:48:45","slug":"number-of-uk-properties-for-sale-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/number-of-uk-properties-for-sale-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of UK properties for sale falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p>A new report has found that the number of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/home\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/home;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01l0mw;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Home\" >homes<\/a> for sale in the UK has fallen by over a third since the recession began. The startling data from the National Association of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Estate agent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/estate-agent\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/estate_agent;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.02dzpr;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Estate_agent\" >Estate Agents<\/a> (NAEA) shows that there are 38 per cent fewer <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Property\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05wrt;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Property\" >properties<\/a> for sale in 2012 than there were back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Falling prices and the struggling <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"house building\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house-building\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house-building;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0bryz6c;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House-building\" >house-building<\/a> sector have been blamed for the shortage in property available to UK buyers, as we see next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The UK has 38 per cent fewer <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Real estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/real-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/real_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.023907r;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Real_estate\" >houses for sale<\/a> than in 2008<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The NAEA report found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/compare-estate-agents\" title=\"estate agents\">estate agents<\/a> had an average of 62 properties available for sale per branch during September, well below the average 100 per branch in December 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mark Hayward, President of the NAEA said: \u201cThis comparison shows the true extent of the drop in the levels of available <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"houses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jm5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House\" >housing<\/a> since the economic downturn took hold. A combination of increased seller caution and a seizing up of activity within the house building sector has led to a significant reduction in the number of homes on offer for would-be house buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhile it\u2019s important that house hunters have access to funding and mortgage finance, a more meaningful commitment to delivering higher volumes of new homes is required to get the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Market (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/market-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/market_economics;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Market_(economics)\" >market<\/a> moving again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New figures from Halifax show that house prices fell by 1.2 per cent in the three months to September. With pessimism about property values, it\u2019s no real surprise that vendors are reluctant to put their homes on the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhen you also consider how few new properties are being built, homebuyers are currently faced with the worst choice of properties in recent years. Even if you can manage to secure mortgage finance, you have far fewer properties to choose from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Author : Nick Marr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report has found that the number of homes for sale in the UK has fallen by over a third since the recession began. The startling data from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) shows that there are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/number-of-uk-properties-for-sale-falls\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"wl_entity_type":[602],"modified_by":null,"_wl_alt_label":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wl:entity_url":"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/post\/number_of_uk_properties_for_sale_falls","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14870,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"wl_entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wl_entity_type?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}