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Blog February 2, 2021
     

42% Drop in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula Homes ‘For Sale’ in the Last 5 Months

What does this mean for TR13 & TR12 property owners?

 

With most Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula families home schooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming Stamp Duty Holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, less TR13 & TR12 properties have been coming onto the local market since the New Year. This has prompted a 42% drop in the supply of Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula homes for sale compared to September 2020.

 

For the past couple of decades, like clockwork, local estate agents’ busiest times for putting property onto the market is the New Year to Easter rush, with a further flurry of new properties coming onto the market in the mid/late Summer & Autumn. Yet, since the ending of lockdown 1.0 in Spring 2020, nothing has been normal about the Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula property market.

 

Throughout the Summer, the number of properties coming onto the market in our area steadily rose to its peak in September and the number of properties then becoming sold subject to contract (sstc) rose even higher (and whilst statistics don’t exist for the properties sold stc, anecdotal evidence suggests there were just under 50% more Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula properties sold sstc in the last six months of 2020, compared to the same 6 months in 2019).

 

However, back to the number of properties for sale…

 

The peak of the number of Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula properties on the market in Autumn was 235 –  that now stands at 132!

 

The first lockdown caused many local homeowners to want to move with the need for extra space to work from home and in some cases larger gardens. This was further exacerbated by Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula home movers also trying to take advantage of the Stamp Duty Holiday to save themselves money on this tax.

 

This meant many more Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula properties came onto the market (more than a “normal” year) in the last 6 months of 2020. However, those home movers motivated to move for the extra space/save money on the tax, did so in the Summer/Autumn and have already placed their home on the market (and are probably by now sold stc rushing to get their house purchases through before the deadline on the tax savings).

 

So, how does Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula compare to other property markets, and what does this reduction in TR13 & TR12 properties on the market mean to homeowners.

 

 

There are 89% less properties on the market today in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula, compared to 12 months ago!

When we compared that to the national picture, according to Zoopla, there are 12% less properties on the market today (compared to a year ago).

There are currently 47,900 apartments for sale in London compared to January 2020, when there were only 32,600 – a massive rise of 46.9% … all the more interesting when there are only 15.1% more London semi-detached houses for sale and 1.8% more London detached homes over the same 12-month period. The jump in London apartments for sale is being pushed by an upsurge of London up-sizers eager to trade their city living apartment up to suburban houses, and a small handful of panicky London buy to let investors who are wanting to exit the London property market following falling rents for apartments. Looking closer to home, there are…

75% less detached houses for sale in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula than a year ago.

So, whilst there are some differences between the supply of individual types of property in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula, the overall reduction in the number (i.e. supply) of properties for sale can only mean one thing, when there is a reduction in the supply of anything and demand remains stable, this will mean continued upward pressure on Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula house prices in the short term.

Will overall demand for Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula property continue to be stable?

Lockdown 3.0 will probably cause another wave of local people who want to move home (thus increasing demand). The last property crash (the Credit Crunch in 2009) was caused by a huge increase in the supply of properties for sale when people lost their jobs and interest rates were much higher. People couldn’t afford their mortgages and so dumped their homes onto the market all at the same time – causing an oversupply of property for sale and hence house prices dropped.

 

Compared to the 132 properties for sale in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula today, at the height of the Credit Crunch in January 2009, there were an eyewatering 647 properties for sale in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula.

It was this increase in the level of property for sale in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula (mirrored across the whole of the UK) that caused property prices to drop in Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula over the 12 to 14 months of the Credit Crunch. So, as long as there is no sudden change in the demand or supply of properties and interest rates remain at their current ultra-low level – the medium-term prospects for the TR13 & TR12 property market look good.

If you are a Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula homeowner and want to chat about the future of the local property market – do drop us a line.

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The Mather Partnership is an independent estate agent in Cornwall, specialising in property for sale in South West Cornwall. We are based in Helston, the gateway to the Lizard Peninsula and the stunning Helford River, close to the Cornish seaside destinations of Porthleven, Mullion, Coverack and Praa Sands