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UK estate agents gloomiest in 14 years as house prices and sales fallRics survey points to ‘sluggish housing market’ as high mortgage rates hit demandHouse sales and prices fell across the UK in August as high mortgage rates hit property demand, leaving estate agents at their gloomiest about the market in 14 years, according to a leading survey published on Thursday.The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said its house price balance, which measures the difference between the percentage of surveyors seeing rises and falls in home prices, fell to minus 68 last month from minus 55 in July.The reading is the lowest since 2009, and well below the minus 56 forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.The professional body’s report found that new buyer inquiries, a measure of housing demand, declined by two points from July to minus 47 in August, while new sale instructions slid nine points to minus 26.Surveyors also reported the weakest assessment of newly agreed sales since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the property market was in effect shut.Simon Rubinsohn, Rics chief economist, said the survey pointed “to a sluggish housing market with little sign of any relief in prospect”, adding: “Buyer inquiries remain under pressure against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and the high cost of mortgage finance.”Mortgage rates have risen sharply over the past two years, following 14 consecutive interest rate increases by the Bank of England, contributing to the fall in house prices, transactions and mortgage approvals.Rates on two-year and five-year fixed deals have fluctuated in recent months as financial markets reassess the likelihood of more interest rate increases, but they remain well above 2022 levels.Markets expect the central bank to lift rates by a further 0.25 percentage points to 5.5 per cent next week in its bid to tame inflation.With the cumulative impact of the 14 rate increases since December 2021 yet to be fully passed through, estate agents’ expectations for the months ahead were also more gloomy.The net balance of price expectations for the next three months dropped to minus 67 in August from minus 60 in July, while the 12-month horizon was largely unchanged at minus 48, indicating a sharp contraction.By contrast, soaring mortgage payments boosted rental demand, with survey respondents reporting a net reading of 47 for tenants’ demand and expecting rental prices to rise in the next three months.New landlord instructions continued to fall, as many landlords leave the sector amid higher interest rates and taxes.Limited rental supply and high demand have pushed rental affordability to the worst level in 10 years, according to separate research published by property portal Zoopla on Thursday, with the average rent consuming 28 per cent of average gross earnings.Myron Jobson, analyst at investment platform Interactive Investor, said that with mortgage rates likely to remain elevated in the near term, buyers would “have little option but to buckle down and figure out how to make the numbers work in the new era of high mortgage rates”.
Cita de: el malo en Septiembre 14, 2023, 11:34:52 amVamos Christine, no nos defraudes, que vosotros sois los únicos que de verdad estáis haciendo algo por la economía. Aunque sea tarde y mal.Tus orasiones fueron escuchadas .https://www.elconfidencial.com/mercados/2023-09-14/bce-christine-lagarde-tipos-de-interes-inflacion_3735020/Un cuartito de punto más. Hasta el infinito controlar la inflación y más allá.
Vamos Christine, no nos defraudes, que vosotros sois los únicos que de verdad estáis haciendo algo por la economía. Aunque sea tarde y mal.
Cash usage increases for first time in over a decade as cost of living crisis bitesCash payments increased for the first time in a decade last year as concerns over the cost of living crisis prompted Brits to turn to physical currencyThe number of cash transactions increased seven per cent year-on-year to hit £6.4bn in 2022, according to a report on the payments market from UK Finance.“Growing fears about inflation and the rising cost of living have meant some people are makinggreater use of cash as a way of managing budgets,” the report said.(...)
ECB Hike Crosses Rubicon of Pain With Lagarde Warning of Hard Times Rate increase ratchets up pressure on feeble economy Officials acted to quell inflation still seen as too highThe prospect that euro-zone interest-rate hikes may be over will do little to soften the blow as the European Central Bank tightens the screws on a faltering economy.Thursday’s move to raise borrowing costs for a 10th consecutive time marks the entry into new territory for policymakers led by President Christine Lagarde as their visible hesitation points to awareness of how they’re dialing up the pain to pummel inflation.The decision to bring the deposit rate to 4% came with the vague hope of bringing consumer-price growth below 2% at the very end of the ECB’s outlook in 2025. But the accompanying near-term message was far bleaker, as Lagarde admitted that growth will be “very, very sluggish” and forecasts acknowledged that the economy may even be on the verge of shrinking.The danger for the ECB is that closed-door warnings from dovish officials that this was a hike too far prove correct, risking that the fingerprints of policymakers on a possible recession will expose them to populist criticism. Meanwhile financial markets are already betting on a reversal as soon as next June.“This hike is not justified,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg in London. “I’m afraid the ECB is still underestimating the economic downturn — the ECB is still too optimistic on growth.”In their own words, officials “significantly” cut the outlook for expansion, with annual projections through 2025 all reduced.Their forecasts show the economy now flat-lining before eking out expansion of only 0.1% in the final quarter of this year — a profile that wouldn’t need much to go wrong to result in a recession.That outlook was compiled before revised data revealed an even worse performance for the euro region in the second quarter, showing that the economy barely expanded.“The difficult times are now,” Lagarde told reporters, explaining that more tightening was needed “not because we want to force a recession, but because we want price stability.”Such remarks haven’t tended to play well in countries such as Italy, which is feeling the impact of higher rates and just suffered a quarterly contraction. Thursday’s result was no different.“This new decision — taken I believe by a majority, and therefore opposed by some — will not, I believe, help the economic recovery of Europe,” Industry and Made-in-Italy Minister Adolfo Urso was cited by Ansa as saying. “Germany is already largely in recession, and with it, other countries linked to the German system such as the Netherlands.”The problem for policymakers is that inflation — in their own words — is still anticipated to stay “too high for too long.” On both the headline gauge and an underlying measure that strips out energy and food, price growth is stuck above 5%.Given that outlook, Peter Praet, a former chief economist of the ECB, reckons the 25-point rate hike was justified.“The ECB is in a very difficult position because you have stagflationary pressures, so no growth — a little growth — and inflation,” he told Bloomberg Television.But Praet also reckons that the ECB is too optimistic on economic expansion — and pointed to how investor views have now shifted.Money markets brought forward bets on the timing of the first quarter-point interest-rate cut to June from July following Thursday’s hike. Almost three 25-basis-point reductions are priced across next year’s outcomes, the most since the start of the month.“The hawks won the decision, but the doves won the market reaction,” said Karsten Junius, chief economist with Bank J Safra Sarasin in Zurich.Lagarde was adamant that the prospect of a rate cut didn’t even pass the lips of officials during the meeting in Frankfurt, with attention now on maintaining the current level.“The focus is probably going to move a bit more to the duration, but it is not to say — because we can’t say — that now that we are at peak,” she said.With the market backdrop having shifted, the challenge for Lagarde and her colleagues will be to convince investors that they really are willing to stay the course with tight monetary policy.That may even be one reason why rates had to rise again this month, according to Skylar Montgomery Koning, director of macro strategy at Globaldata TS Lombard.“It’s very much an environment of stagnation, and the ECB is finally recognizing that,” she told Bloomberg Television. “I think the thought process this month was, either we hike now, or maybe we lose the opportunity to do a final hike because the data deteriorates so much — and we want to signal to the market that we still are going for higher for longer.”
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Aunque para mucha gente pueda ser algo muy duro de leer, las cosas hay que decirlas: la compra de una viviendo vía hipoteca es la decisión económica más difícil que suelen tener que afrontar los ciudadanos. Y es de ingenuos creer que durante todo el tiempo de pago de esa hipoteca no va a haber un periodo de inflación. Esa contingencia hay que preverla.
La compraventa de viviendas cae un 18,4% interanual en jul-23Continúan cayendo la compraventa de viviendas y sus precios. De igual forma, la concesión de préstamos hipotecarios registró un retroceso mientras que la constitución de sociedades avanza.2023.09.14La compraventa de viviendas cayó en la totalidad de CC.AA., destacando las caídas en Canarias (-37,4%), Navarra (-35,3%) y Baleares (-30,7%)El precio del m² baja un 4,6%. Destacan los ascensos en Baleares (18,7%) y el País Vasco (7,1%) y las caídas en Castilla y León (-13,0%) y Extremadura (-9,5%)Los préstamos para adquisición de vivienda disminuyen un 25,7%. Destacan las caídas en Navarra (-34,9%), Castilla y León (-33,2%) y el País Vasco (-32,8%)La constitución de nuevas sociedades crece un 5,1%. Destacan los aumentos en Extremadura (26,6%), Cataluña (15,2%) y País Vasco (14,3%) y los retrocesos en Madrid (-7,0%), Cantabria (-5,8%) y Navarra (-4,1%)Informe compraventas, préstamos hipotecarios y sociedades de julio 2023 (PDF) (495 Kb)Anexo tablas: series estadísticas correspondientes al informe hasta julio 23 (XLSX) (2122 Kb)