Forecasts

£42 billion of additional capital is due to be committed to the UK’s residential investment sector by 2025, predicts Knight Frank. 7

Estate agency Strutt & Parker has revised its 2020 forecasts for the UK's property market after a "mini-boom" in transactions in the last few months

Birmingham is tipped to be the strongest regional property market over the next five years, says JLL, as the wider UK market "shows its resilience" despite a tricky-looking 2021

Agency expects prices to dip in 2021, before rising ‘quickly and steadily’; transactions to remain well down on pre-Covid predictions

London is likely to see the slowest rate of property price inflation in the coming years, according to some analysis of various property market forecasts.

Values have now fallen by -8.1% in a year in the capital's most expensive postcodes - the biggest fall over a 12-month period in more than a decade - but the agency sees a turnaround on the cards in 2021..

A poll of property pundits a 2% rise for UK property prices this year, before a "flatline" in 2021.

"Previous UK recessions have been associated with house price falls, but 2020 looks set to be the exception," says Savills as it "significantly upgrades" is forecasts for both property prices and transaction…

More vendors are cutting asking prices, notes Knight Frank, demonstrating "a flicker of nervousness" in the property market as summer turns into autumn

2021 will be "challenging", but estate agency brand Hamptons International expects the national average property price to end this year higher than it started it, despite Covid-19 and Brexit, and to climb…

Knight Frank has looked into how Covid-19 is accelerating design trends and impacting housing delivery, suggesting some key evolutions for the future of the global prime residence.

"This does not feel like a re-run of 2008/09 for the UK property market," says Knight Frank, as it forecasts minimal property price drops against a complex economic backdrop.