Property prices across the
UK expected to rise 35%
within one decade
Halifax and Nationwide recently reports annual house price inflation
rate at 8.7 % and 9.5 %. Explained by the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors the price lift is driven by buyers chasing a continues short
supply of decent properties for sale.
RICs forecasts the average UK house price will be pushed up 35 %
by 2020 and will spread all over the country. While recent records
shows that property values in London soared by 17.7 % in February
compared to the same month a year earlier.
That rate of inflation is now quadruple of the rate of the rising wages,
which ONS figures reveals annual pay now increases at 1.4 %. ‘It is
a major concern that we are not seeing enough houses coming on
to the market. For the market to operate effectively, we desperately
need more homes in areas where people want to buy and want to live.
Until this happens, we’re likely to see prices continue to increase.’ said
ONS’s chief economist Simon Robinson.
Predicted by estate agent Savills house prices are expected to rise by
25% over five years, not only London but some areas outside of the
city are also tipped to rise 25 %. The South East and East areas are
expected to rise even more, by 31 %, while the West could rise 29 %.
英國物業有望持續上
升，十年內將升逾35%
Halifax 和 Nationwide 最近的報告顯示，英國房價的年通脹將達到
8.7 % 和 9.5 %。 英國皇家特許測量師學會（RICs）解釋通脹的原因，
主要來自房產供應持續低落和需求持續上升。
RICs預料英國的平均房價將於2020前將上升35%，這不止限於倫敦
區。從上年度二月份至本年二月， 已有紀錄顯示倫敦的房產升幅達
至17.7%；而四月至五月期間，平均房價更上升逾 £10,000，為紀錄以
來最大的升幅。
最近ONS數據顯示，英國人每年薪金增長為1.4%，而現時通脹的幅度
大概是薪金年增長的四倍。ONS首席經濟師 Simon Robinson表示：
「房屋供應不足是一個主要問題，如果沒有足夠的房屋供應給想在當
地購買物業和生活的民眾，市場必不能夠正常運作。一日未解決供應
問題，物業價錢也只會繼續增加。 」
英國著名物業代理 Savills 預計，房價將於五年內上漲25%，當中不限
於倫敦地區。東部和東南區預計會有更大的約31%的升幅，而西方則
預計有29%的升幅。
英國首相卡麥隆（David
Cameron）在一個BBC訪問中，把計算在
內，房價比10年前其實是更便宜的。他指出，對比2007年的高峰，消
費者現在看到的房產價錢減去通脹後其實更便宜了15%，他預料
2017/18年房價將去到約2007年的水平。
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