Nationwide Building Society House Price Index December 22

[Martin@AS Financial]

Happy new year and hope you all had a fantastic break.


Key points for this month:

- Fourth consecutive monthly decline drives annual house price growth down to 2.8% in December

- All regions record a slowdown in annual price growth in the final quarter of the year

- East Anglia the strongest performing region in 2022, while Scotland was weakest

It is good to see areas outside London performing. Now more people have the ability to be able to work from home, being close or within commuting distance of London is not as essential as it once. Whilst the train strikes undoubtedly causes havoc, it does not seem to have the devastating impact it would of say 5 years ago.


Full report here:

https://www.nationwidehousepriceinde...y2-irpy2-8mch4

[mattster]

Happy new year and hope you all had a fantastic break.


Key points for this month:

- Fourth consecutive monthly decline drives annual house price growth down to 2.8% in December

- All regions record a slowdown in annual price growth in the final quarter of the year

- East Anglia the strongest performing region in 2022, while Scotland was weakest

It is good to see areas outside London performing. Now more people have the ability to be able to work from home, being close or within commuting distance of London is not as essential as it once. Whilst the train strikes undoubtedly causes havoc, it does not seem to have the devastating impact it would of say 5 years ago.


Full report here:

https://www.nationwidehousepriceinde...y2-irpy2-8mch4

Thank you Martin.

I can only speak for myself, but few things currently give me greater joy than hearing a new train strike announcement and knowing I'll get another few weeks 100% WFH.

[d000hg]

Thank you Martin.

I can only speak for myself, but few things currently give me greater joy than hearing a new train strike announcement and knowing I'll get another few weeks 100% WFH.

It's quite timely as all those companies who embraced WFH during Covid but then started backsliding "well of course you need to be in 1...2...3 days a week so we can check on you" might have to reevaluate.

[mattster]

It's quite timely as all those companies who embraced WFH during Covid but then started backsliding "well of course you need to be in 1...2...3 days a week so we can check on you" might have to reevaluate.

I wouldn't have such an issue with going into the orifice if it wasn't so completely pointless. I don't know how it is for others, but we have recently been put on a "2 days per week" regime, having previously been on a 4 days per month (any combination). Firstly, 2 days per week barely saves any money on a full season (I am a ways out of London so £77 return each day ) but the bit I find most annoying is that we don't make any attempt to sync our office days, so working from the office is exactly the same as wfh, with all meetings still on the headset etc. which I find strangely pointless and infuriating.

[northernladuk]

I wouldn't have such an issue with going into the orifice if it wasn't so completely pointless. I don't know how it is for others, but we have recently been put on a "2 days per week" regime, having previously been on a 4 days per month (any combination). Firstly, 2 days per week barely saves any money on a full season (I am a ways out of London so £77 return each day ) but the bit I find most annoying is that we don't make any attempt to sync our office days, so working from the office is exactly the same as wfh, with all meetings still on the headset etc. which I find strangely pointless and infuriating.

That's because you are looking at it from a purely personal view as a supplier to a client.. but off topic anyway,.

[mattster]

That's because you are looking at it from a purely personal view as a supplier to a client.. but off topic anyway,.

So what benefit is it to the client? Literally no one that I interact with at work wants it this way - this is a big commercial bank and the directive has come from on high.

[northernladuk]

So what benefit is it to the client? Literally no one that I interact with at work wants it this way - this is a big commercial bank and the directive has come from on high.

Start another thread rather than taking this one off topic and we can reply

[d000hg]

It's largely down to HR types desperate to cling on to a job which has shown to be superfluous, or middle-managers who don't trust the employees to actually do anything with having their necks breathed down.

Start another thread rather than taking this one off topic and we can reply