Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker
The latest Housing Market Consumer Confidence survey by Ipsos for Halifax has found an upswing in expectations that UK property prices will be higher in 12 months time.
The latest Housing Market Consumer Confidence survey by Ipsos for Halifax has found an upswing in expectations that UK property prices will be higher in 12 months time.
Now, 39% think the average price will be higher with 20% expecting a fall (a House Price Outlook of +19). This compares to equivalent figures of 29% and 22% in January this year (+7).
Bullishness on prices is reflected in an improvement in the percentage who think the same 12 month period will be a good time to sell, up from 10% in January to 24% now. But selling sentiment still contrasts sharply with views on buying – 55% think the next 12 months will be a good time to buy.
On private rents, 71% think they will be higher in 12 months time with the same percentage of private renters sharing this expectation.
Technical note
- Interviews with representative sample of 2,029 British adults aged 16+.
- Undertaken face-to-face, in-home between 23-29 March across Britain.
- Data weighted to the national population profile by age, sex, working status, social grade, region, ethnicity and tenure.
- An asterisk (*) represents a value of less than one half or one percent, but not zero. Where results do not sum to 100%, this may be due to computer rounding.
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