Forecasts

Major London agency is optimistic about the year ahead, predicting the return of overseas buyers and little short-term impact from Brexit...

Property portal's forecast of 4% house price inflation in 2021 is "more conservative than the unsustainable 6.

There is an assumption that when the furlough scheme ends, unemployment will spike and house prices will crash. However, 2021 is likely to be far less straightforward, writes Tom Bill...

"The prime and super-prime markets will continue to break away from the core housing market" in the coming year, forecasts Jackson-Stops.

A recent survey has also found that British buyers are more likely to put forward a lower offer than asking price compared to their European counterparts.

Average property prices are likely to be 17% lower after five years than was predicted in March, before the pandemic hit, says the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Prime property markets around the world have proven "largely resilient" in the face of this year's happenings, reports Knight Frank.

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

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.