Monday, 18 November 2013

Rent The High Life With Rightmove | Property Blog by Rightmove

Rent The High Life With Rightmove | Property Blog by Rightmove

Written by Sam Collett, www.whatsamsawtoday.com

With everybody getting all wet and sticky about Help To Buy, I decided now was the ideal time to check out the rental market for some exceptional bargains.

So, the obvious thing to do was to get onto Rightmove and begin the hunt for my ideal rental property.Now, the first thing I happened to notice was why people complain about rents in London. OMG I had no idea they were so astronomically high:

Early days of Help to Buy fail to halt usual pre-Christmas fall in new seller asking prices | Property Blog by Rightmove

Early days of Help to Buy fail to halt usual pre-Christmas fall in new seller asking prices | Property Blog by Rightmove

The average asking price of property coming to market fell by 2.4% (-£6,181) in November, in line with the usual pre-Christmas slowdown. This compares with an average November fall over the last three years of 3%, so while this year’s drop is slightly more muted, it still reflects a reduction in the number of good quality higher-priced properties coming to market as the festive season approaches.