The Buyers Guide to Coronavirus Safe Property Viewings
For buyers on the hunt for a new home, here is some advice as regards making a viewing request through RB&Co.
News & Events
Govt Gives Green Light For Housing Market to Reopen!
Amendments to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 now provided consent for estate agents to open up the housing market and provide the general public with the opportunity to view, buy/rent and move home, once again. We are absolutely delighted for all our customers. At Robert Bell & Company we already have a socially distanced work plan for both our team and customers for prompt implementation and further announcements will be made shortly.
Resilient Buyers and Sellers key to positive housing market response post lockdown
The latest analysis from Zoopla and Hometrack suggests that the hiatus in the market created by the lockdown has paused over 373,000 property sales in the UK, with the combined estimated value of circa £82 billion.
NAEA predicts housing market could reopen in three weeks time!
If NAEA Chief Executive Mark Haywood's prediction is correct that the housing market could be reopened by the end of May/beginning of June, it will be the good news that hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers across the country have been desperately waiting and a great first boost towards the UK's economic recovery from the Coronavirus crisis.
Rightmove: 94% of buyers and sellers positive about post lockdown home moves
Rightmove conducted a survey by live webinar asking consumers whether their plans to move home before lockdown had now changed. The indication from this report is that the UK public is still taking a very positive view of what the future may hold for UK housing market, despite the coronavirus crisis.
Nationwide Building Society Continues To Back Strong Housing Market Rebound
As we reported, in their March House Price Index Report the Nationwide Building Society took what many property pundits thought was a rather over-optimistic view that there could be a positive rebound in the housing market post lockdown. In this weeks report for April, they have continued to support the idea of a rebound, and this view is now beginning to receive more credence and backing by many in the property industry.
