Housing Market Analysis, SE London Housing Partnership

Carole Oliver, December 2010

Transactions by borough 2008

Transactions by borough 2010

Housing liquidity has dried up …

Average house prices (overall) September 2008

Average house prices (overall) September 2010

Price change by Borough – last 12 months

House price to income ratio (lower quartile)

Up to 63% of young working households (aged 21-39) incomes too high for HB, but too low to purchase a LQ priced home

Continued pressure on higher LTV borrowers

Average FTB in Lewisham, could raise a mortgage* of £80k, however the lowest priced flat is £157k

Subject to the availability of mortgage finance, average household income £20-25k p.a. Based on an advance of 75% LTV on 3 x income, 25 yr re-payment mortgage, figures correct as of September 2010

Tenures and financial capacity in housing

Cost of living across various tenures – LB Lewisham

Innovative affordability calculator to inform strategy & policy makers

Comparable market evidence of terrace properties in SE6 1

Visual comparable evidence for specific site appraisal & viability

Over a third of LA’s rely on robust evidence from Hometrack

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About Hometrack

Hometrack is the property analytics business providing independent intelligence solutions to the UK housing and financial industries. The company, established in 1999, delivers automated valuations and risk analysis services to over 90% of UK mortgage lenders. These include valuation for mortgage application, portfolio whole loan trading and securitisation, fraud protection, unsecured credit decisions, client segmentation and profiling.  An automated valuation model (AVM) lies at the heart of Hometrack’s business. The AVM contains the industry’s largest database of surveyor valuations with over 17 million records, over 30 million price points and digital data records on every residential property in the United Kingdom. This represents the largest source of mortgage valuation records available to any single lending or surveying institution.  Hometrack also supply information and consultancy services to the land and property sector including national and local government, housing associations, developers and institutional investors where data records exceed half a trillion updates per month.  In 2007 Hometrack opened an office in Australia.

For further information:

Carole Oliver

T: 07889 995764

E: coliver@hometrack.co.uk

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