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Residential Demand Set To Plummet

LONDON-The UK's booming market for houses and apartments is starting its slide into oblivion, according to mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester. Housebuyers are becoming increasingly nervous about taking on new commitments.

By Charlie Jacoby | Updated on October 08, 2001

LONDON-The rat run has begun. Consumer demand for property looks set to fall by 25% this autumn and the current global crisis has had an immediate impact on homebuyer confidence, according to new research from mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester.

The findings are from A&L’s quarterly ‘movingimproving’ index which tracks people’s intentions to buy property in the future. Over the last 12 months, the proportion of respondents intending to move house has remained constant–at just under 10%–and these figures have correlated with a property market that has defied commentators’ predictions of a slowdown by continuing to grow. The latest figures, however, show that for the first time there has been a major downturn in people’s intentions to move house in the next 12 months, with a fall to 6%.

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