UK Property News Recap – 03.11.23
The property portal Zoopla and lender Nationwide top and tailed the week with their house price indices whilst the Bank of England released transactional data revealing a retreating housing market. The Monetary Policy Committee then announcing its decision to hold the base rate at 5.25%, leaving many hopeful that any
UK Property News Recap – 23.10.23
In this weeks Uk property news recap, Westminster continues to leak news. Renters disperse out of the city to cheaper pastures and lenders hold a finger aloft to predict the property wind. Section 21 - stay of execution Section 21 was served notice back in 2019, four years and counting and it's
UK Property News Recap – 20.10.23
This week further demonstrated how the absence of cheap money is unsettling people and prices. The rental seesaw increasing whilst sales volumes and prices plummet. Sellers and buyers' hopes still have a way to go before becoming aligned but movement is afoot. Welcome to another UK Property news recap, covering
UK Property News Recap – 13.10.23
Slightly later than planned, last week's UK property news recap, was full of politics, forecasts and spats. Soaps are progressively looking more probable and optimistic against the current drama unfolding in our day to day lives. Welcome to another update on everything UK property related. The Labour Party Conference The labour party
UK Property News Recap – 06.10.23
This week was largely dominated by HS2 and the absence of any real housing policy at the Conservative party conference. House prices took a further tumble along with the number of new homes under construction, leaving “advisory” targets abandoned in earmarked sites. Welcome to another UK property news recap. Average House
Property News Recap – 29.09.23
This week started off sluggish before building to a crescendo of information on interest rates and transaction data. Sensing property news was slow, Halifax, Rightmove and Zoopla competed for coverage by bringing out fresh data on buyers habits and numbers, before the Bank of England top trumped them, with mortgage
UK Property News Recap – 22.09.23
At the start of the week, UK Property News looked set to be fairly predictable but as the week unfolded the country found itself engulfed in economical and political dramas that changed the narrative. From Rightmove’s predictable HPI analysis to better than expected inflation data that swung the MPC vote
UK Property Recap
It was clear that the first full working week, sans les enfants, meant business for UK Property. After 6 weeks of speculation on what the market would do, there was an eagerness to report on how it had fared during the holiday season. To kick start this weeks UK property
UK Property News Recap
Like all good series, a recap is never a bad thing. Welcome to my new weekly UK PROPERTY NEWS RECAP. This will be released every Friday but to kick start this Monday, l thought I'd run through everything property related that was circulating in the news last week to clear
ONS House Price Index – how reliable is it?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) house price index has long been relied upon as the most reliable of the indices when trying to decipher what house prices have actually been doing. This is due to it being the only index that doesn’t discriminate on how buyers paid, and includes