212 Properties For Sale in Burgess Hill. Is this an issue?

2017 has started with some positive interest in the Burgess Hill property market.  Taking a snap shot of the Burgess Hill property market for the first quarter of 2017, the picture suggests some interesting trends when it comes to the number of properties available to buy, their asking prices and what prices properties are actually selling for.

Let us first consider the number of properties for sale, compared to 12 months ago:

Type of Burgess Hill Property	Number of Properties on the Market 12 months ago	Number of Properties on the Market now	% change
Detached	44	104	+136%
Semi	31	55	+77%
Terraced	12	24	+100%
Flat	21	21	no change

 

 

So when we add in building plots and other types of properties that don’t fit into the four main categories, that means there are 212 properties for sale today compared with 113 a year ago, a rise of 88%.

Next, Burgess Hill asking prices, compared

                                               to the same as a year ago, are 7% lower.

With that in mind, I wanted to look at what property was actually selling for in Burgess Hill. Taking my information from the Land Registry, the last available six months property transactions for RH15 show an interesting picture (note the Land Registry data is always a few months behind due to the nature of the house buying process and so November 2016 is latest set of data). The price shown is the average price paid and the number in brackets is the number of properties actually sold.

	Jun-16	Jul-16	Aug-16	Sep-16	Oct-16	Nov-16
Detached	£446,900 (11)	£441,490 (20)	£554,905 (11)	£547,675 (16)	£494,917 (6)	£463,625 (8)
Semi Detached	£327,982 (19)	£351,382 (14)	£353,514 (16)	£314,925 (18)	£317,263 (11)	£329,250 (8)
Terraced	£289,056 (16)	£271,307 (21)	£286,783 (9)	£273,250 (14)	£280,195 (10)	£262,868 (15)
Flat	£319,095 (10)	£283,333 (3)	£225,786 (7)	£241,323 (13)	£250,177 (11)	£216,714 (7)
All	£338,632 (56)	£349,941 (58)	£370,272 (43)	£350,723 (61)	£316,139 (38)	£310,605 (38)

 

So what does all this mean for the property owning folk of Burgess Hill?

Well, with more property on the market than a year ago and asking prices 7% lower, those trying to sell their property need to be mindful that buyers, be they first timers, buy to let landlords or people moving up the Burgess Hill property ladder, have much more price information about the Burgess Hill property market at their fingertips than ever before.

Those Burgess Hill people who are looking to sell their property in 2017 need to be aware of the risks of over pricing their property when initially placing it on the market. Over the last 12 months I have noticed an increase in inflated asking prices. The down side to this is that when offered to the market for the first time, buyers will realise it is overpriced and won't waste their time asking for a brochure. They won’t even view the property, let alone make an offer. So when the price is reduced a few months later, the property has become market stale and continues to be ignored.

  

Whilst the Burgess Hill property-market has an unassailable demand for property – there is one saying that always rings true - as long as the property is being marketed at the right price it will sell.

If you want to know if your Burgess Hill property is being marketed at the right price, send me a web link and I will give you my honest opinion.