Cost of living and energy crisis and rising inflation and interest rates fail to slow house price surge in the UK, says Rightmove in its latest report.

Only last month I wrote a piece about how positive the outlook was for the housing market following Covid. Since then, dark clouds have returned with a vengeance.

But only if you can afford it! Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property pulls together the lastest leading house price indices.

House prices continue to rocket skywards, but with war in Europe and inflation and interest rate on the rise, it can't last, as Kate Faulkner of Designs on Property reports.

Kate Faulkner asks, will wages, interest rates and unemployment impact less on property prices in today’s market?

The average house price in the UK is now £25,000 more than in November 2020, but property experts say it's not all good news.

Perhaps Mr Gove has already delivered a ‘levelling up of house prices for England’ for his new department, without lifting a finger, suggests Kate Faulkner.

Fine & Country boss says this is the 'new normal' with constrained supply and the search for space an enduring legacy of pandemic.