Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker
The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker finds that a majority of the British public think that the next 12 months will be a good time to sell property.
The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker finds that a majority of the British public think that the next 12 months will be a good time to sell property.
This is the first time positive sentiment has exceeded negative sentiment in eleven Ipsos surveys for Halifax since April 2011.
Now, 51% of the public think 2014 will be a good time to sell, compared to 39% who think it will be a bad time. Sentiment is more positive among owner-occupiers: 56% to 36%.
There has also been a rise in the proportion of Britons who think the next 12 months will be a good time to buy, up six points since September to 63% now, while 28% think it will be a bad time. In London the balance is a more circumspect 57% to 39%.
Just under four in ten Britons, 38%, think the next 12 months will be a good time to buy and a good time to sell, an increase from 30% in September and just 9% recorded a year ago. Among owner-occupiers, the current 44% is up from 34% in September, and 9% in December 2012.
HPO, the headline House Price Outlook balance (i.e. the proportion of people that expect the average house price to rise in the next 12 months less those who think it will fall), has reached +66.This is a small rise since September’s +64, and a substantial one since +20 recorded a year ago.
Technical note
Interviewing took place with 1,640 British adults aged 16+ between November and 5 December 2013. Data has been weighted to the known population profile.
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