Tom Bill: Jobs market holds clues about direction for house prices & mortgage rates
What happens to core inflation will determine how much higher the Bank of England will push rates, says Knight Frank's head of UK resi research.
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Tom Bill is Head of UK Residential Research, producing reports that include Knight Frank’s flagship Prime Central London indices, the Super Prime London Insight and the London Residential Review. He has written detailed reports on London sub-markets and contributes to The Wealth Report and Global Cities report. Tom, a former Bloomberg and Reuters property journalist, is a regular media contributor on the London property market and has presented at events in Europe and the Middle East.
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