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Rate rise will not cool property prices

The housing market will continue to boom, which is bad news for first time buyers trying to get a foot on the property ladder

The Bank of England’s latest increase in interest rates may have been intended to calm the UK property market but a new survey has found it will make no difference to expected rises in house prices. What’s more, the rate rise will hit first time buyers hard.

Yorkshire Bank’s latest Housebuyers Survey, which polls more than 2,000 adults nationwide, reveals that rather than significantly dampening property prices, all that rate rises in 2004 look likely to do is squeeze determined buyers’ already overstretched finances even tighter.

We’ll still be house hunting this year

Nearly three out of four housebuyers admit they expect further interest rate rises this year, yet their determination to move house in 2004 is undiminished. Indeed the number of people intending to buy a house in the next 12 months has increased from 11% last quarter, to 14%.

In London, one in five people are intending to move house this year.

First time buyers get desperate

Yorkshire Bank is warning this latest hike is leaving first time buyers with fewer options for shelter from rate rises, and many look set to go to desperate lengths to secure their first home.

Geoff Greer, Yorkshire Bank’s chief operating officer, says: “Our new year survey shows the pressures are really beginning to bite. First time buyers seem to be hardening to the situation and taking more risks to afford their first home. Compared with the average housebuyer, they’re more likely to consider skipping getting a full survey on a property to avoid stretching their finances further.

“They’re also less likely than the average buyer to go for a slightly more expensive fixed rate mortgage, despite the shelter it would provide from further rate rises. And in their desperation to get on the property ladder, many are prepared to leap in immediately with an offer at, or above, the asking price.”

There may be trouble ahead

This behaviour will lead to many first time buyers coming a cropper in the years ahead. They could end up with a mortgage they cannot afford if their personal circumstances change or they may find they own a house with severe structural defects that a full survey would have detected.

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