Study offers hope to residence owners
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House price growth is projected to average 2% a year in real terms between 2012 and 2025, with a lack of available homes pushing up prices later in the decade once housing demand recovers from current subdued levels, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said. The rate would give a more modest return than the growth seen over the last 30 years, with increases of around 4% a year between 1984 and 2007. Nevertheless it does offer homeowners some hope compared with the situation over the last five years, as real house prices have plummeted by around a fifth since 2007, leaving many people stuck in unfavorable equity and unable to take their next step on the housing ladder. Lenders have also been tightening their borrowing criteria in recent months, making it tougher for people to take out a mortgage in the sluggish market. A landlord with a buy-to-let property could expect an average real return of 3% a year before tax but after running costs between 2012 and 2025, the study suggested. Much of this added value would come from rents, which have soared in recent months as people have become trapped in the rental sector because they have been unable to raise a deposit or meet borrowing criteria. Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders on Thursday showed that buy-to-let lending had increased by nearly a fifth in the space of a year, although lending volumes were still at about a third of their peak in 2007. The PwC study found that by comparison, a 50/50 mix of index-linked gilts and equities were likely to provide an analogous return to housing over the next 13 years, with an expected real return of around 3% a year. John Hawksworth, PwC’s chief economist, said: “There remains significant uncertainty in the UK housing market and it’s likely to remain relatively subdued in the short-term while economic uncertainty persists at high levels and dampens down demand. “But in the longer term, we expect supply shortages to reassert themselves given recent low levels of UK house building, pushing up house prices later this decade. Our analysis suggests that the prospective return on housing in the period to 2025, while not as good as many people have got used to in recent decades, could possibly be broadly similar in terms of both risk and expected return to a balanced mix of index-linked gilts and equities.” Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/business/uk-money/2012/08/10/study-offers-hope-...
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House price growth is projected to average 2% a year in real terms between 2012 and 2025, with a lack of available homes pushing up prices later in the decade once housing demand recovers from current subdued levels, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said. The rate would give a more modest return than the growth seen over the last 30 years, with increases of around 4% a year between 1984 and 2007. Nevertheless it does offer homeowners some hope compared with the situation over the last five years, as real house prices have plummeted by around a fifth since 2007, leaving many people stuck in unfavorable equity and unable to take their next step on the housing ladder. Lenders have also been tightening their borrowing criteria in recent months, making it tougher for people to take out a mortgage in the sluggish market. A landlord with a buy-to-let property could expect an average real return of 3% a year before tax but after running costs between 2012 and 2025, the study suggested. Much of this added value would come from rents, which have soared in recent months as people have become trapped in the rental sector because they have been unable to raise a deposit or meet borrowing criteria. Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders on Thursday showed that buy-to-let lending had increased by nearly a fifth in the space of a year, although lending volumes were still at about a third of their peak in 2007. The PwC study found that by comparison, a 50/50 mix of index-linked gilts and equities were likely to provide an analogous return to housing over the next 13 years, with an expected real return of around 3% a year. John Hawksworth, PwC’s chief economist, said: “There remains significant uncertainty in the UK housing market and it’s likely to remain relatively subdued in the short-term while economic uncertainty persists at high levels and dampens down demand. “But in the longer term, we expect supply shortages to reassert themselves given recent low levels of UK house building, pushing up house prices later this decade. Our analysis suggests that the prospective return on housing in the period to 2025, while not as good as many people have got used to in recent decades, could possibly be broadly similar in terms of both risk and expected return to a balanced mix of index-linked gilts and equities.” Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/business/uk-money/2012/08/10/study-offers-hope-...
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