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Annual house price growth slowed to +13.6% in August – UK HPI
The latest official House Price Index shows "a slight cooling in year-on-year growth, but it’s far from being a blizzard," comments Jackson-Stops boss Nick Leeming, while Knight Frank points out that…
Home-buyer & seller sentiment ‘remains robust’, says portal
'There’s evidence that buyers feel the market is moving in their favour,' says OnTheMarket boss Jason Tebb, as the portal reveals results of its September Sentiment Survey - conducted before the now-unravelled…
Asking prices continue to climb as some buyers pause while others rush deals through
'The vast majority of buyers who had already agreed their purchase are still going ahead,' says Rightmove, but some buyers 'have had their plans dashed by the sudden nature of the mortgage rate rises.
London rents reach a record high as supply shrinks and demand climbs
Foxtons has listed 38% fewer rental properties so far this year compared to last, while tenant demand is running high.
Global housing markets are ‘at the tipping point’, warns UBS, with ‘significant price corrections’ imminent in many world cities
'We are witnessing the owner-occupied housing boom finally under pressure globally,' says UBS, which warns of 'significant price corrections' in a majority of the highly-valued global cities in the coming…
‘Storm clouds clearly visible’, warns the RICS as ‘dial shifts’ on the housing market
The property market 'has clearly shifted in a negative direction', says the RICS' Chief Economist, with surveyors expecting house prices and transaction volumes to fall in the coming months.
Most home-buyers & sellers ‘remain undeterred’ by property market turbulence
One in six home-movers have changed plans as a result of recent mortgage market catastrophising, according to a London estate agency's latest survey, but the majority of buyers and sellers remain 'level…
Prime global rental growth ‘has peaked’
Knight Frank's latest Prime Global Rental Index shows a slight dip in the pace of luxury rent inflation across ten international cities.
Prime Central London property prices and rents continue to climb
'We sense increased downward pressure on both prices and activity in the year ahead' for mainstream property markets, says JLL's research chief - 'but we don’t think this is necessarily the path the…
London’s prime property market shows ‘signs of a slow but steady return to health’ – but super-prime sales struggle
Demand for £2mn+ homes in London continued to climb in Q3, according to analysis of property portal data, while a lower proportion of open-market £10mn+ properties are finding buyers than last year.
Homebuyer demand eases across the country
A lower proportion of property listings were marked as sold in Q3 this year than last, reports GetAgent - with Bristol and London the only places to see an increase.
‘Intense’ tenant demand fuels record prime rental growth in London
Current growth rates 'cannot be sustained,' says Savills, as its prime lettings index records the highest annual increase since it started in 1979.