Mac's Poll - Let's Vote

A large majority of the Uk population think that it is important that Britain retains access to the single market after we leave the European Union. It would, however, be wrong to necessarily interpret this as a public appetite for Britain staying within the single market through an EFTA type relationship. Polls also consistently show that people think it is important that Britain has full control over immigration once we leave the European Union, something that is normally seen as being incompatible with single market membership.

When asked a direct question on which they would choose - 16% said control of immigration, 24% said free trade with Europe, but 40% said it was a false choice and Britain could have both. It looks like they will be disappointed.

When the 40% were asked what they would prefer if they were forced to choose, they split evenly between immigration and trade. Combine those two questions together and it means more people are concerned about trade than immigration, but either way, getting one without the other is going to disappoint some voters who think it should be possible to deliver both. What do you think?

The price of housing continues to rise, and strongly, according to the index (IPV) of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Exactly, households recorded a year-on-year increase of 4.7% in 2016, the largest increase in the market since 2007, when housing costs rose 9.8%. By market segment, new homes went up in value by 6.5% and second-hand homes appreciated by 4.4%.

This annual rebound in prices is already the third followed after six years of tough adjustments. Between 2008 and 2013, the value of housing registered annual declines of varying intensity: from 1.5% in 2008, from 6.7% in 2009, from 2% in 2010, from 7.4% in 2011, from 13% , 7% in 2012 and 10.6% in 2013.

It was not until 2014 that the price of housing returned to positive rates, with an average annual increase of 0.3%, which in 2015 accelerated to 3.6%.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the price of housing increased by 4.5% in relation to the same quarter of 2015, increasing by a half point the year-on-year increase in the third quarter (4%). This meaning that there have been 11 consecutive quarters in which prices have positive year-on-year rates.

In 2016, all the autonomous communities plus the cities of Ceuta and Melilla registered average positive rates in the price of housing. The most pronounced increases in prices were Madrid (8.6%), Catalonia (7%), Baleares (6.2%), Melilla (5.3%) and Ceuta (5.2%), while minors increases occurred in Castilla-La Mancha (0.8%) and Castilla y León (1.1%).

Do you think your property has gone up in value?  

Do you think you could ask more for it if you were to sell it now?  

Have similar properties sold for more or less, or much the same?  

Please cast your vote