{"id":662,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/london-the-south-east-responsible-for-house-price-increases\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:01:27","slug":"london-the-south-east-responsible-for-house-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/london-the-south-east-responsible-for-house-price-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"London &#038; The South East Responsible For House Price Increases"},"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 align=\"left\" class=\"style47\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"157\" longdesc=\"Birmingham House Prices Down Despite National Average Increases\" src=\"\/uploads\/media\/Birmingham-houses.jpg\" title=\"Birmingham House Prices Down Despite National Average Increases\" width=\"250\" \/>The prospect of a UK housing market in recovery have been put into doubt by the fact that average house price gains seen over the last month seem to be concentrated in <\/span><a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/property-for-sale-LONDON.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">LONDON<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"> and the South East of England. The month on month average house price increase is also being put down to lack of confidence from house sellers who are refusing to put their homes on the market. The lack of inventory is now driving house prices up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style47\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">The UK\u2019s second largest city Birmingham is a good example of how the South East is managing to skew average house price in the UK. The midlands housing market is actually showing house price decreases and average <\/span><a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/house-prices.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">house prices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"> of \u00a3139,146 whilst UK average is \u00a3224,064 see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\" title=\"property for sale\">property for sale<\/a> Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style47\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Hometrack who provide Automated <\/span><a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/property-valuations.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Property Valuations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"> and property market Information for lenders, mortgage brokers, local government and surveyors comment that overall house price rises are being skewed by London, East Anglia and the South-east &nbsp;In fact &nbsp;three-quarters of all growth accounted for were from London and the South-east alone. In the capital, prices climbed by 0.3 per cent in August, after four months that have seen a 2.6 per cent fall in homes for sale and a massive 34 per cent rise in demand. Similarly, the number of houses on the market dropped by 5 per cent in the South-east.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"style47\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack, said: &#8220;Taken at face value these headline results provide further support to talk of the green shoots of recovery, but dig beneath the headlines and the reality is quite different.<\/span> \t<\/p>\n<div> \t\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style52\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Useful resources<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style47\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px\"> \t<a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/property-for-sale-Birmingham.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Property for sale Birmingham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style47\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px\"> \t<a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/houses-for-sale-birmingham.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Houses For Sale in Birmingham <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style8\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/sellers.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">Sell Property<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style47\" style=\"margin-top: 0px\"> \t<a bf3290872e3e56=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk\/houses-for-sale-london.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">House for sale London <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"style55\"> \t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"><strong>House Prices Report ITN<\/strong> <\/span> \t<\/p>\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a UK housing market in recovery have been put into doubt by the fact that average house price gains seen over the last month seem to be concentrated in LONDON and the South East of England. 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