Falling prices and a shortage of property have affected the property market in Chiswick. The latest official figures suggest that both prices and volume are down since the spring according to the Chiswick news website
ChiswickW4.com.
The average sale price of property in W4 since the end of February is £590,268, well down on previous levels, and volumes have been relatively anaemic with 67 properties changing hands during that period.
Christian Harper of Oliver Finn estate agents in Chiswick: “It is my impression that some agents were even resorting to unprofessional methods more accustomed to the 1980’s with examples of knocking on doors directly making statements such as ‘I have a special buyer for your house’.
Quality not quantity
“However, I am not overly concerned with the latest figures and am confident they will improve next month. Even though transaction numbers are down this year I have found the quality of instruction to be very high.
"Most sellers and buyers have been highly motivated to move and our fall through rate at OliverFinn has been next to nothing which leads me to continuing on my chosen path of doing more for less rather than simply trying to throw mud at the wall and watching it slip away.
Despite this, at the high end of the market, the past few months recorded the tenth highest ever price for a property sold in Chiswick… read
more.
List of all the
sold properties in Chiswick for March/April 2012.
