The uk housing market is on its way back

Banks in the UK are under huge pressure to start lending again by the British government after the global credit crisis hit the housing market hard. This is in response to the Bank of England cutting interest rates for the 2nd time in a month to their lowest level in over 50 years, they now stand at 2% but some are already saying that they need to be cut to as low as 1% in order to get the market kick started. These rate cuts have led the government to put huge pressure on banks to pass on these savings to their mortgage customers but as yet very few banks are reacting to this. HSBC announced they would be looking at passing this onto their customers a swell as doubling lending next year to £15 billion, they have enjoyed huge growth this year and now have a market share of 15%. Also 5 other banks have said they will be passing on the rate cut to its customers whilst some other banks will only partially cut rates which has angered a lot of government officials and the general public.
Experts in housing market say they are already seeing a small growth pick-up and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has said it has been carrying our slightly more Surveys during that latter half of the year.
With mortgages being cheaper than ever it makes sense for people to buy now even though the country as a whole is struggling in the middle of a mini recession, many people are realising that with interest rates being so low and the fact that house prices have gone down so much there has never been a better time to buy, also the renting market is very strong at the moment, i have been researching into some of the rental properties, mainly 3 bedroom houses to rent in Worthing as i myself am looking at moving house and i have found that rental prices are very high at the moment as there is so much competition in this market aswell as there being high competion in the local area with many bungalows for sale in Worthing.