Rightmove predicts 5% growth for UK house prices in 2022; 3% in London

Property price inflation "will be driven by mortgaged households who have seen high wage growth, housing equity growth over the past decade and can now also access historically low mortgage rates," says…

But the majority of October's property exchanges in prime London still originated in deals done before the first national lockdown, says Knight Frank.

Average prime values outside of London have climbed beyond their 2007 peak for the first time, says Savills, and now sit some 1.4% above their pre-crash high.