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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for January
Wednesday, 26 February 2020The start of the year saw a slight uplift in the property market as the backlog of transactions that were put on hold at the end of 2019 start to be unleashed given the improved political climate at the very end of last year.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS Housebuilding Stats, Q3 2019
Wednesday, 12 February 2020No one could accuse the nation’s housebuilders of giving us too much of a good thing. Right across the board – from the private sector to housing associations, and local authorities – building figures have plateaued. Except for a brief spike in late 2018, completion numbers have not approached the 50,000 milestone since the global financial crisis.
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Search Acumen comments on Overview of Recent Trends in Construction Output Housing
Thursday, 30 January 2020Today’s statistics show that Britain’s house construction is experiencing healthy growth – particularly in the private sector. While there is much to hearten, we must not be complacent.
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Search Acumen comments on MHCLG English Housing Survey 2018 to 2019
Thursday, 23 January 2020The housing ladder needs some more rungs. It’s all very well saying that anyone can buy but when the percentage of homeowners has stood still since 2013 it seems clear navigating the housing ladder is too precarious for most people to do so safely.
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ONS Construction output in Great Britain – Search Acumen comment
Monday, 13 January 2020The UK construction industry stands on a threshold – advancing forwards to achieve new heights or slipping backwards to stagnation.
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Search Acumen’s latest comment on MHCLG Housing Supply Statistics
Thursday, 19 December 2019Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The end of the decade can’t come soon enough for those in the housebuilding trade. Since the financial crisis we’ve seen rates of planning applications flat line for nearly a whole decade.”
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October’s statistics point to life returning to the housing market
Wednesday, 18 December 2019Where there is growth there is life. And although we haven’t seen much in the way of house price growth, today’s statistics show life is returning to the housing market – particularly in areas outside of the Capital.
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£21m a day: commercial spending on real estate drops
Thursday, 12 December 2019Brexit uncertainty has contributed to a £20.6m drop in the daily amount spent by commercial buyers on real estate transactions across England and Wales since 2017, as the property market stutters through a challenging year according to the latest report from property data insight and technology provider Search Acumen.
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Search Acumen enhances commercial property platform
Tuesday, 3 December 2019Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider, has enhanced its commercial real estate due diligence platform, ForeSite, by adding new datasets to identify property transaction risks.
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Year-to-date conveyancing caseload down by 100,000
Tuesday, 19 November 2019The conveyancing industry has been forced to react as the market slowdown is aggravated by Brexit uncertainties, according to the Q3 2019 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
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