Thinkproperty.com, arch chump acreage portal, has appear that a four-bedroom, alone acreage by the bank in the south east is the a lot of adapted home in the UK, according to a new Desirability Report.
Nearly 1million homes are bought and awash anniversary year in the UK, but over bisected of the nation are not blessed active in their accepted home according to the new Desirability Report, which was conducted amidst 500 home owners nationwide.
The 2007 Desirability Report showed that a four-bedroom property in the countryside in the south west was the a lot of adapted property, admitting the 2008 Desirability Report shows that the area has afflicted dramatically, highlighting the aftereffect that the ‘credit crunch’ has had on acreage owners this year. Seaside towns are apparent by abounding acreage investors as accouterment stronger advance and accordingly accept become a added solid investment accustomed the accepted bazaar conditions, acknowledgment to top appeal from those gluttonous to retire and their acceptance for additional home-buyers.
The after-effects appearance 18% of respondents would like their ideal home to be anchored in the South East followed by London (16%), South West (15%), North West (10%) and Wales (8%). Over one third of respondents would like to abide by the seaside, 24% ambition to abide in the countryside, 21% would like to abide in a rural apple and 16% would adopt to abide in a city.
For over a division of the nation’s home owners, a family-sized alone abode would be their a lot of adapted property to buy, with 21% analytic for a country abode and 10% analytic for a artist flat. Seven per cent of home movers would like to abide in a mid sized semi-detached house, while beneath than 5% would like to abide in a baby terraced property, with the aforementioned amount absent to abide in an controlling home or a burghal mansion. Just 1% would accede their ‘ideal’ acreage to be a flat flat.
Nearly 50% of homemovers would be able crop beneath big-ticket holidays in adjustment to acquiesce their ‘dream’ home, with 39% able to dip into their savings, a third would borrow added money and 31% would decline their cars to free-up some money to acquiesce to move. Just 16% were not able to cede annihilation to abide in their ideal property.
Additionally about 85% of home movers said they would alpha analytic for their a lot of adapted property in the UK via the internet, through acreage portals like thinkproperty.com. Ten per cent would initially go to an acreage agency anon and just 3% would aboriginal attending for their ideal acreage in the bounded newspaper.
Mark Goddard, Managing Director of thinkproperty.com commented: “Our 2008 Desirability Report gives a acceptable adumbration of what home owners ambition from a acreage and what they would do to buy it, giving acreage agents a clearer account of what consumers are analytic for.
He continued, “With the abbreviating of mortgage lenders’ belts, bisected of all home owners feel ashore in a acreage that they are not blessed active in and this should not be the case - the Government needs to sit up and crop apprehension of this apartment crisis and actualize added affordable apartment in areas of the country area humans in actuality ambition to live.”
About Thinkproperty.com
Thinkproperty.com is a major, absolute chump acreage aperture and now welcomes over 2 actor visitors (Source: Hitbox March 2008).
Thinkproperty.com holds over 600,000 backdrop from the UK and overseas, including 40,000 rental properties, and is currently alive with over 6,000 agents who are uploading their banal to the website and account from an accretion amount of leads basic from the acreage portal.
Thinkproperty.com places Web 2.0 alignment at the affection of its functionality, with market-leading functionality including Google mapping, acreage ranking, RSS and Video Tours accepting amount features.
For added information, amuse contact:
Karen Hughes
The Drum Consultancy
18 Soho Square
London
W1D 3QL
Tel: 020 7025 8044
Fax: 020 7025 8100
www.thinkproperty.com
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