Countryside dwelling is booming as home costs outpace coastal hotspots

Market evaluation from eXp UK, the platform for private property brokers, reveals that the home worth progress within the UK’s countryside cities is outperforming the nationwide common, whereas coastal cities are failing to match the identical tempo.

eXp UK has analysed home worth change throughout the UK’s coastal and countryside hotspots over the previous 12 months to see which is most in favour with right this moment’s consumers and the way every compares to nationwide worth progress over the identical time frame.

Throughout all the UK, the typical home worth has elevated by 1.7% previously 12 months, rising from £282,777 to £287,546. That is regardless of the previous 12 months bringing with it vital financial and market uncertainty which many commentators mentioned would lead to a slumping housing market.

Throughout the nation’s countryside cities, common worth progress has been even stronger than the nationwide common, rising by 1.8% to sit down at £293,782.

In the meantime, seaside cities are dwindling with annual worth progress of simply 0.7%.

Regardless of this, seaside cities nonetheless proceed to command a worth premium above and past a lot of the UK market, and this ends in the present common worth of £302,578 being increased than each the nationwide common and the typical in countryside cities – regardless of the latter’s sturdy efficiency over the previous 12 months.

A town-by-town evaluation reveals extra concerning the distinction between our coastal and countryside markets.

The best seaside progress has been recorded in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, the place costs are up 5.9%.

In the meantime, the strongest countryside progress, recorded in Market Harborough, is 9.1%.

Moreover, of the 20 seaside cities analysed, six have truly seen home costs drop previously 12 months, which is extremely uncommon for coastal places that often have such buoyant markets. Probably the most vital of those drops is recorded in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the place costs are down -6.1%.

Out within the countryside, then again, solely two places have seen a drop in costs, with Tetbury, Cotswold falling by -2%, and Dumfries, Scotland, falling by -3.3%.

Head of eXp UK, Adam Day, mentioned, “Our best seaside cities have all the time benefited from sturdy and regular purchaser demand which, when mixed with a finite variety of properties and restricted growth alternatives as a consequence of geographical limitations, ends in reliably excessive costs.

These excessive costs typically put coastal cities out of many consumers’ attain, and evidently the current value of dwelling and mortgage disaster has labored to exacerbate this truth.

Maybe that’s why we’re seeing countryside locales outperform the coast on worth progress – consumers who’re being priced out of the seaside are diverting their search to close by countryside spots and people cities are actually studying the advantages.”