The company's monthly confidence tracker survey shows that more people now expect prices to rise than at any time since the survey was introduced in July 2009.
A huge 68% of those questioned say that they expect house prices to rise over the next 12 months compared to just 57% in November. Interestingly, 1 in 5 of these expects the rise to potentially be as high as 10%.
When asked if they are benefiting from the current record low level of interest rates a massive 69% said yes; again the highest number since the survey began. But the positive news doesn't end there because 85% of respondents said that right now is a good time to buy UK property and 66% said that they are considering purchasing a property overseas; also the highest since the survey began and an increase of 21% on last month.
Commenting on the results Kevin Wilkes, managing director of the Worldwide Property Group, said: "This just goes to show that people are getting on with their lives and putting economic fears behind them. We have seen a dramatic increase in enquiries over the last 6 weeks, and with the optimism that a new year brings we have no reason to believe that this will not continue."
