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Guernsey Open Market activity is at an 11-year high

January 10, 2019
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Sales activity in the Guernsey Open Market last year was at its highest level since the financial crisis, according to the latest conveyancing statistics compiled by Unusualities of Guernsey, an independent compiler of local conveyancing statistics.

Figures reveal that there were 75 Open Market transactions in 2018, compared to just 48 in 2017 – marking the first time since 2010 that more than 50 Open Market properties have been sold during the course of a year. However, it is still some way short of the pre-financial crisis levels when 101 and 96 Open Market properties were sold in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Of the 75 Open Market transactions completed during 2018, the median price (realty only) of the 67 Open Market houses sold was £1,256,250, up from the £852,125 recorded in 2017. The eight Open Market flats sold in 2018 had a median price (realty only) of £1,184,063.*

Jason Morgan, head of Carey Olsen’s property group in Guernsey, said: “There has been much attention given to the fortunes of Guernsey’s Open Market in recent times, but the sales figures for last year should demonstrate that Guernsey remains an attractive destination for new residents. Although there has been some softening of asking prices on the Open Market, it is encouraging that activity levels have improved so dramatically. If such levels are sustained in 2019, which there are encouraging signs that they will be, that must bode well for an increase in sales prices going forward.”

“It is also worth noting that in December 2018 alone some 17 Open Market houses and flats were sold in Guernsey, which is higher than any monthly total recorded during the buoyant 2006 and 2007 period. This may have been the consequence, in small part, of the anticipated increase in document duty, effected on 1 January 2019, but more to do, we believe, with the widely predicted negative impact of an unsatisfactory Brexit outcome and in particular the political upheaval in the UK that is likely to follow it.”

On the Local Market, Unusualities of Guernsey recorded 844 houses and flats as having been sold during 2018, up from 776 in 2017 and the highest yearly total since 2011 when 893 Local Market transactions took place.

Of those 844 Local Market sales last year, the median price (realty only) for the 678 houses sold was £433,875,marginally up from the £432,625 for 2017. The median price (realty only) of the 166 Local Market flats sold in 2018 was£245,700, again marginally up on the £242,025 recorded in the previous year.*

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