Reading Property Market Update – September 2024 By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties The latest survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), which represents the majority of UK surveyors, has revealed a notable shift in the property market. For the first time since October 2022, their key price growth metric turned positive. […]

Reading Property Market Update – August 2024 By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties Following a typically subdued July in the Reading Property Market, the Bank of England’s interest rate cut on the 1st of August triggered a flurry of activity that looks to be the start of a busy Autumn. With increased numbers of […]

  By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties Reading Property Market Update – July 2024 With the recent constituency boundary changes of Reading East and West to the new parliamentary constituencies of ‘Reading Central’, ‘Reading West and Mid Berkshire’ and ‘Earley and Woodley’, making sense of winners and losers could have been tricky but with […]

By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties in Reading Steady as she goes in the Reading Property Market as Inflation hits government target With the media dominated by coverage of the upcoming General Election, surprisingly, the local property market in Reading is pretty much business as usual. Throughout June, the Reading market has been busy, […]

By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties Interest Rate Cuts and Strong Demand Push Asking Prices to New Record      The recently announced mortgage interest rate cuts brings good news for both buyers and sellers as we approach the prime late spring market in Reading. Three of the UKs big mortgage lenders recently confirmed the […]

  By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties Buyer Demand Pushes Asking Prices Close to New Record     The recently released April House Price Index from the Propetery Portal Righmove confirms that the average asking price of property coming to the market this month has risen by 1.1%, just short of the record in May […]

  Reading House Prices Continue to Rise.   By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties With the earlier signs of spring, the traditionally buoyant springtime market has already started with more homes being listed and increasing buyer demand. The local Reading market has been increasingly busy from the first few weeks of January and the […]

  By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties Local Reading market continues strong start to year as house prices increase.   Following the strong start to the property market in January, the local Reading market strengthens further in February. And with continued positive media coverage confirming higher average house prices, we are experiencing increased buyer […]

Top Ten Trending January 2024 #10 – House for Sale in Reading – Guide Price £475,000 Presented to the market is this gated and secluded three bedroom detached chalet bungalow with excellent access to parks, Sainsbury’s shopping centre, Ikea, M4 Junction 12, schools and frequent bus routes… Read more > #9 – House Sold in […]

  Strong Start to the 2024 Property Market in Reading.   By Charlie Higgs – Owner Village Properties With the Reading Property market having largely defied the expected and much reported crash in 2023, as property prices remained above pre-pandemic levels. The 2024 property market has certainly started much stronger than anticipated, with much media […]