Economics
BoE raises interest rates to 3%
The UK's base rate of interest has jumped by 0.75% in the biggest single rise since the 1980s.
James Wyatt: Stratosphere versus Reality
The harsh reality of rising inflation and interest rates mean the Goldilocks era is over, writes James Wyatt.
House prices are set for a correction not a crash, says JLL
House prices crashes have been rare in the UK, says JLL's research chief, Marcus Dixon - and average prices have never slumped by more than 20%.
Tom Bill: What Rishi Sunak means for the UK property market
'How far the new PM can wind back the clock is a significant question for the UK housing market.'
Lloyds Bank expects UK house prices to drop 8% next year
Major mortgage lender is focusing on 'slightly better-off customers', as it sets out an array of property price forecast scenarios.
Will global London break from the mainstream?
On the ground, the impact of the recent political chaos is still far from clear, report buying specialists Richard & Sophie Rogerson...
Global housing downturn could see world GDP growth flatline, warn economists
The likelihood of a severe real estate slump is lower now than at the time of the Global Financial Crisis, but a significant drop in residential investment is 'plausible' next year, says Oxford Economics.
The property market ‘will probably polarise more’ – Yolande Barnes
Prime property prices 'may not be as overheated as they are looking in some mortgage-reliant mainstream markets,' argues former Savills research chief Yolande Barnes, in some new analysis commissioned…
Charlie Ellingworth: Chickens coming home to roost
This is a time of maximum gloom, writes Property Vision's Charlie Ellingworth, but property markets are nuanced - and there is no one size fits all...
Lucian Cook on the role of debt in the prime resi market
Savills research chief looks at the implications of increases in the cost of living and mortgage finance for the prime housing market.
Property industry reactions to tax u-turns & another new Chancellor
Thoughts from Savills, Knight Frank Finance, Fine & Country, Benham and Reeves, Anderson Harris, and Propertymark.
New Chancellor Hunt reverses most Truss tax cuts
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has torn down most of Kwarsi Kwarteng's three-week-old tax cuts - but the Stamp Duty cut remains.