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UK residential property down 0.8% in July 2012

August 1, 2012 by namawinelake

 

The Nationwide Building Society has this morning published its UK House Price data for July 2012. The Nationwide tends to be the first of the two UK building societies (the other being the Halifax) to produce house price data each month, it is one of the information sources referenced by NAMA’s Long Term Economic Value Regulation and is the source for the UK Residential key market data at the top of this page.

The Nationwide says that the average price of a UK home is now GBP £164,389 (compared with GBP £165,738 in June 2012 and GBP £162,764 at the end of November 2009 – 30th November, 2009 is the Valuation date chosen by NAMA by reference to which it values the Current Market Values of assets underpinning NAMA loans). Prices in the UK are now 11.6% off the peak of GBP £186,044 in October 2007. Interestingly the average house price at the end of July 2012 being GBP £164,389 (or €210,984 at GBP 1 = EUR 1.2730) is 35% above the €155,916 implied by applying the CSO June 2012 index to the PTSB/ESRI peak prices in Ireland. The average home in Northern Ireland in Q1, 2012 was worth €168,347, according to the University of Ulster/Bank of Ireland survey.

With the latest release from Nationwide, UK house prices have risen 1.0% since 30th November, 2009, the date chosen by NAMA pursuant to the section 73 of the NAMA Act by reference to which Current Market Values of assets are valued. The NWL Index is now at 803 (because only an estimated 20% of NAMA property in the UK is residential and only 29% of NAMA’s property overall is in the UK, small changes in UK residential have a negligible impact on the index) meaning that average prices of NAMA property must increase by a weighted average of 24.5% for NAMA to breakeven on a gross basis.

According to the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility which independently monitors and comments on the UK economy, house prices are projected to fall by 0.4% in 2012 before increasing by 0.1% in 2013, 2.5% in 2014 and 4.5% in 2015 and 4.5% also in 2016.  UK inflation has now come down below 3% per annum despite being elevated since the banking crisis in 2007, overall inflation in 2012 is set to stay close to 3%  – remember that UK inflation has increased by over 15% since their peak whereas in Ireland inflation has been subdued and is one third of that – the UK has pumped GBP0.3tn of “quantitative easing” into its GBP1.5tn economy and another GBP50bn has recently been announced. UK interest rates may increase later this year to combat inflation – the base rate has been 0.5% since February 2009.The UK economy is projected to grow by an anaemic 0.8% in 2012 in real terms, close to our own Department of Finance’s projection for Ireland at 0.7%.

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  1. on August 1, 2012 at 7:28 pm SG

    Can’t see the BoE increasing the base rate. For years.

    In my view we’re seeing increasing forbearance by the banks here in Eng & Wales. Something is going badly wrong, but we’re not hearing the why.

    Half-year results from the UK’s bad bank, UKAR – I wonder if you’ve tried a comparison to NAMA (apples & oranges, I guess):
    http://www.ukar.co.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2012/27-07-2012?page=1&nextprev=1

    Note the use of adminstrators in many instances, which don’t turn up in the official court repo figures. I’ve come across a few cases of gross abuse in that process, but that’s another story.

    This article says 100,000 UKAR borrowers – mainly interest only BTL from NRK and B&B – are toast at the end of their terms:
    http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/news_features/We-have-100-000-borrowers-facing-trouble-says-lender

    Thanks for the blog. I wish we had something similar in the UK.


  2. on August 2, 2012 at 12:40 am John Foody

    Speaking of house prices, have you seen the latest from Fitch on Ireland? The report lives here some where
    http://www.fitchratings.com/jsp/general/Research.faces;jsessionid=01A0C5E474EA10EA49E2E7A08C85C377?listingName=criteriaReport
    But appears to be behind a pay wall.


  3. on August 2, 2012 at 12:48 am john gallaher

    @John Foody here is an extract,but full report behind paywall,lots these sites offer free trials.
    http://www.fitchratings.com/web/en/dynamic/articles/Irish-House-Prices-Defaults-Worse-Than-Expected.jsp?cm_sp=homepage-_-FitchWire-_-Irish%20House%20Prices%20Defaults%20Worse%20Than%20Expected



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