Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Many estate agents ‘fail to check buyers have funds in place’
Nearly a third of homebuyers do not have funds in place when they make an offer, and many agents are not making checks, new figures show.
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Homebuyers see boost in ‘negotiating power’ amid jump in listings
Yopa's Verona Frankish says the property market is showing real signs of growth this year, with the number of homes for sale well up.
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Have eye-watering borrowing costs finally peaked?
Mortgage pricing may have peaked amid the first week-on-week fall in average fixed mortgage rates since the Iran conflict began, says Moneyfactscompare.co.uk
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House prices hold firm in face of global headwinds, Rightmove data shows
Rising inflation fears and higher borrowing costs limiting growth in asking prices, says portal's property expert Colleen Babcock.
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Property fall-through rates edge down despite economic turmoil
New figures from data firm TwentyEA, for the first three months of this year, show a small drop in property deals collapsing.
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Winkworth reveals profit down 11% and warns this year “uncertain”
CEO of property franchise firm says its profit figure fell to £2.11 million in 2025, and gives big warning that 2026 is difficult to forecast.
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Home flipping falls to decade low as profits plunge
Second home Stamp Duty now wipes out nearly half of gross profits, leaving flipping unviable across much of the South, says Hamptons’ Aneisha Beveridge.
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Gulf crisis could deepen housing market downturn, warns leading economist
Ex-Treasury analyst Andrew Wishart says the continuing global disruption puts us in danger of a steep and nasty recession.
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Gulf ceasefire builds hopes for lower mortgage rates
Improved market sentiment has fed into rate expectations, but Capital Economics’ Ruth Gregory warns mortgage costs are unlikely to fall quickly.
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Property market ‘takes a knock’, RICS reports
RICS's Tarrant Parsons says a positive feeling in the housing market has been hit by war in the Middle East, and the outlook is now flat.
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