TwentyCi Property & Homemover Report – Q2 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of the TwentyCi Property & Homemover Report, providing a comprehensive review of the UK property market, created from the most robust residential research and property change sources available.

New inclusion for this quarter: Retail Intelligence, featuring data and insights to help retailers accurately target the captive high-value homemover audience. 

Our report provides a real-time review of the UK housing market in Q2 2019, covering 99.6% of all sale and rental moves. This property market analysis and state of the nation report provides unique insight into the people behind the numbers, creating a picture of the demographic, regional and socio-economic factors impacting the UK housing market, including:

• Factual data (not modelled or sentiment-based)
• Full market coverage
• Demographic overlay
• Property sales data
• Property rental data

UK Property Research Headlines – Q2 2019:

• Exchanges rise 6% year on year to 992,000 properties along with a 2% increase in new instructions
• Some signs of frustration, indicated by 895,000 properties withdrawn from the market over the last 12 months – often to change agent
• The Top 10 cities nationwide all saw an increase in average asking prices year on year except Peterborough, where prices fell by 2%
• Help to Buy powers 22% growth in exchanges on £15-19.9K household income, 18% rise in exchanges for £30-39.9k household income – while exchangers in ‘squeezed middle’, £50-59.9k household income fall by 11% and households with £150k income rise by 26% year on year
• Online agents market share holds steady at around 7%