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Housing Market
Vendors slash prices as property market stalls ahead of Budget
New figures reveal around 6% of listed properties see a price cut within 30 days, in another sign the housing market is slowing down.
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Sales pipeline ‘largest for four years’, Zoopla claims
The portal says estate agents are set to receive £1 billion in commission from current sales agreed – and points to relaxed lending rules driving it.
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TOWN AND CITY TRACKER: Manchester lows and Belfast highs
Property market expert, Kate Faulkner, reports varied house price activity from one city to the next, with few areas keeping pace with inflation.
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Industry reacts to surprise jump in house prices
The latest Nationwide HPI reports a 0.5% increase in house price growth last month, which was higher than many experts expected.
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PROPERTY MARKET UPDATE: Subdued end to 2025 expected
Kate Faulkner, property market expert, says the latest indices suggest a quiet period of activity until the end of the year.
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TOWN AND CITY TRACKER: House price rises ‘unusually high’
House price expert, Kate Faulkner, analyses the latest data, revealing double-digit growth in some regions according to figures from the Land Registry.
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Kate Faulkner
HOUSE PRICES UPDATE: the forecast is bright
News from property price indices is positive, writes Kate Faulkner, and indicates we are as 'near' to normal as we have been in years.
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Kate Faulkner
HOUSING MARKET ANALYSIS: what’s behind supply and demand statistics
Property sales supply and demand appears to be less reactionary to market trends and headlines, reports Kate Faulkner.
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Kate Faulkner
TOWN AND CITY TRACKER: Belfast boasts biggest house price rise
Kate Faulkner analyses the latest regional house price data, which shows prices rising year-on-year at roughly the pace of inflation.
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Kate Faulkner
ANALYSIS: Property market potential locked by inflation
This month’s economic and property market data offers a broadly positive outlook across much of the UK – though there’s still room for improvement, and some of that may arrive as early as 7th August if the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee decides to cut the Bank Base Rate to 4%. A key obstacle to unlocking the full potential of the property market remains inflation, which continues to prove stubborn. Currently sitting at 3.4% – well above the Bank of England’s 2% target – inflation remains “sticky,” making further rate cuts in the near term less likely unless we see clearer signs of it easing. However, Capital Economics, one of the best inflation and interest rate forecasters, in my opinion, are more buoyant lower interest rates are on their way due to the government’s increase in employers’ costs: “The falls in employment triggered by the Chancellor’s rises in National Insurance Contributions for employers and the minimum wage have increased our confidence that it is only a matter of time before wage growth and CPI inflation slow to rates consistent with the 2.0% inflation target. As a result, we think the Bank of England will cut interest rates from 4.25%…
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