{"id":764,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/east-midlands-property-prices-defy-national-trend\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T02:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T02:44:54","slug":"east-midlands-property-prices-defy-national-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/east-midlands-property-prices-defy-national-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"East Midlands property prices defy national trend"},"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<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Although property website Rightmove found that sellers across the UK cut property prices by 1.7 per cent in August, property prices in the East Midlands have bucked this trend.\u00a0According to the Rightmove research, prices in the region actually increased in August.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Price rises in East Midlands defy national fall<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">According to the Rightmove figures, <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  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\" >property<\/a> asking prices in the East Midlands rose by 1.5 per cent in August, defying a two-month national fall.\u00a0This fall across the UK has resulted from the over-supply and 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> and reduced buyer activity during in the summer holidays.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Rightmove found that the number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\">houses for sale<\/a> per agent rose to its highest August level for three years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Unusual incentives<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">With East Midlands prices on the rise, it could be the perfect time to locate to the region.\u00a0And, a Grantham house builder is now offering an interesting incentive to <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/london\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/london;http:\/\/sws.geonames.org\/2643743\/;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.04jpl;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/London;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/London\" >London<\/a> workers to relocate to the\u00a0Lincolnshire town.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The Saxon Village development in Grantham is offering new investors a rail season ticket worth almost \u00a36,700.\u00a0The town is just over an hour from London King&#8217;s Cross by rail and houses in the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Real estate development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/real-estate-development\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/real_estate_development;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.028sdw;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Real_estate_development\" >development<\/a> are cost significantly less than their equivalents nearer the capital.\u00a0The aim is to encourage London based workers out of the city to a pleasant, countryside location.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">James Poynor, sales director at developer Barratt East Midlands, says: &#8220;Saxon Court is the perfect development for first-time buyers and with prices starting from just \u00a399,995 for a contemporary two bedroom home, the homes available offer excellent <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Value (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/value-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/value_economics;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0bhr4z;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Value_(economics)\" >value<\/a> for money and an ideal opportunity to buy.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The free season ticket is being offered to everyone who reserves a property in the Coles Way-based Saxon Village during September, and will be given to buyers upon legal completion.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although property website Rightmove found that sellers across the UK cut property prices by 1.7 per cent in August, property prices in the East Midlands have bucked this trend.\u00a0According to the Rightmove research, prices in the region actually increased in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/east-midlands-property-prices-defy-national-trend\/\">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":[16],"tags":[],"wl_entity_type":[602],"modified_by":null,"_wl_alt_label":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wl:entity_url":"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/post\/east_midlands_property_prices_defy_national_trend","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15173,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/15173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"wl_entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wl_entity_type?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}