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Henry Pryor

Consultant at

CLEA Ltd.

& founder at

HousingExpert

Friday 3rd June 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

The Halifax survey at the end of May interviewed 8,000 ‘not-yet home-owners’ and found that two-thirds never expect to own their own home...

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Monday 13th May 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

The latest report from HM Land Registry piles yet more statistics on to our collective knowledge of the housing market in England and Wales...

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Monday 11th April 2011

Is one man’s introductory commission another’s back hander? I need the help of the thousands of highly moral and big-hearted EAT readers to give me a steer on the sensitive subject of ‘introductory commissions’...

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Wednesday 16th March 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

Is the Ombudsman a eunuch? Of course, I do not mean that personally, as I have the highest regard for the Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, and his hard-working office...

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Friday 11th February 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

How many houses actually sell? Reaction to last week’s article ‘Only 40% of homes on the market will sell – warning’ stirred up direct and indirect comment from EAT readers. Some understood what I was saying, while to others I should have been clearer...

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Monday 7th February 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

Most homes are 15% over-priced, or ‘The Year in Numbers’. We ended 2010 with calls for the monthly house price barometers to be reformed to try and reflect the differences between Clapham in SW11 and Clapham in north Yorkshire...

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Tuesday 25th January 2011

Henry Pryor Blog

Each month over the past three years I have summarised the latest data from Land Registry, Halifax, from Rightmove.co.uk, CML and the Bank of England, and I have also been distracted by other sources. Many people are getting ‘index fatigue’...

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Monday 20th December 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

In November, the Great and the Good of the NAEA stood in the Palace of Westminster and announced their ‘licensing’ scheme...

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Monday 6th December 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

There’s something interesting happening in the ratio of homes for sale and the number selling. The overhang of unsold property is on the way back up but it needs to go some to compare with January 2005 and October 2008...

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Monday 29th November 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

Having confidently predicted the peak of the market at Christmas in 2006, I accept that some humility must be shown for my erroneous suggestions that 2010 would show a ‘double dip’...

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Wednesday 3rd November 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

In this column I don’t draw conclusions. This is the raw data and compares the last full month’s figures (September) from the most respected sources all with the same month each year back to 2003...

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Wednesday 20th October 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

In its latest survey, the Halifax reported that house prices had fallen 3.6% in September. Days later, on Monday, Rightmove says that asking prices rose 3.1%. What is going on?..

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Monday 4th October 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

Seven major indices are published every month, plus any number of ad hoc property surveys and of course the outpourings of legions of so-called experts...

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Monday 1st September 2010

Henry Pryor Blog

Welcome to a new monthly blog by Henry Pryor, estate agent turned entrepreneur, inventor and expert media commentator on the housing market...

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