Asking prices leap in March – but annual growth remains subdued
Biggest March rise since 2007, reports Rightmove, on a par with last year's stamp duty-beating surge
Asking prices fall in May for the first time in five years
Rightmove recorded an unseasonal but not unpredictable fall in asking prices before the election.
How have median house prices changed since 1996?
Here's a nice little animation from the ONS to show just that.
There were only a very few south eastern pockets with a median house price of over £300,000 20 years ago;
Subdued Edinburgh ‘still absorbing’ LBTT changes
Edinburgh's market is "still absorbing" the move to LBTT, notes Knight Frank, as prime property prices in the Scottish city nudged up by 0.4% in Q2.
Annual growth has now slowed to +3.4% from +5.
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