Blog: LSL Land & New Homes

The average property price in the UK rose 4.7% last year adding about £3,300 to the cost of buying a typical home.

PwCs’ UK Economic Outlook report published today predicts that house price inflation driven by decades of undersupply will continue. They commented that in recent years prices have grown fastest in the outer boroughs of London and London’s commuter belt cities...

In the year to end June 2017 new build house prices rose on average by 5.4%across the UK which is marginally down on last year’s figure of 5.6%. As noted in previous months, the picture seems to be of a slowing market in Greater London and South East regions whilst outlying regions enjoy some lim...

Remember when life was simple? When the postman only had to deliver to a Street, Road, Close or Lane. You could determine a home's stature by how its address sounded. And the greatest example of this would be the good old Monopoly board. No-one wanted Old Kent Road for example, but Bond Street or...

In the year to end May 2017 new build house prices rose on average by 5.5% across the UK which is marginally down on last year’s figure of 5.6%.

In the year to end March 2017 new build house prices rose on average by 5.7% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 7.0%.

In the year to end February 2017 new build house prices rose on average by 5.3% across the UK which is approaching 2% down on last year’s figure of 7.0%.

In the year to end January 2017 new build house prices rose on average by 5.8% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 7.2%. But if Greater London is taken out of the calculation and we take a crude average of the remaining regions, then the average house price growth is 4.4% compare...

Evidence of the classic ripple effect moving out from Central London can be seen when looking at the next best performing regions of the South East (8.1%), the South West (6.4%) and the East Midlands (7.2%). All three of these regions are experiencing houseprice inflation which is ahead of the sa...

In Christmas’ gone by, the top item that was on every future builders Christmas list was either Lego or Meccano. These toys would let imaginations run wild creating wonderful constructed masterpieces of futuristic cities and houses.Moving to the present day, the building industry is finding its n...