UK Housing Market Chart Pack Buyer demand appears resilient to end of tax break There are clear signs that the end of the stamp duty holiday is causing the housing market to slow. In January the RICS reported a sharp drop in new buyer enquiries and seller instructions, and house... 16th February 2021 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack A year of two halves After falling in May and June, house prices shrugged off the collapse in GDP and the decline in employment to surge in the second half of the year. (See Chart 1.) As a result, annual house price... 18th December 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London house prices rally while rents drop The increase in working from home that appears to have led buyers to put less emphasis on location and more on space has not undermined London house prices. As of September, house price growth in the... 9th December 2020 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Summer surge in prices subsides Housing market activity is booming as pent up demand from the first lockdown is expended and buyers rush to take advantage of the stamp duty cut. There are some tentative signs, though, that the surge... 11th November 2020 · 9 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London housing recovery falls behind London’s housing recovery is lagging the rest of the UK. The post-lockdown rise in housing demand has been weaker than elsewhere, while the latest evidence points to no resurgence in house price... 25th September 2020 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack V-shaped housing recovery emerges The housing market has so far seen a V shaped recovery. House purchase mortgage approvals have already recovered to their pre-virus level, while house prices have reversed the dip recorded earlier in... 16th September 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Housing market turns the corner Despite a rather lacklustre economic recovery, the housing market is already turning the corner. Demand has bounced back, helped by a decline in mortgage interest rates. The stamp duty cut will... 11th August 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London prices leap from boom to bust The coronavirus extinguished a nascent surge in London house prices in Q1. Instead, housing demand in the capital collapsed during lockdown, and has been comparatively slow to return. That... 1st July 2020 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Housing market on a knife edge While the housing market has reopened, there are still limited data on the pace of improvement. Given the economic damage, uncertainty and weak pipeline of in-progress housing sales, we expect the... 10th June 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Gradual thaw for the housing market The housing market ground to a halt in response to the coronavirus lockdown, but looking ahead, restrictions on housing activity have been eased. Still, the huge hit to the economy from the virus... 20th May 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London Housing Chart Book: Staring into the abyss While London’s housing market showed signs of life in the first quarter, the coronavirus has ended any hope of a recovery. Indeed, like the rest of the UK, London housing transactions are set to... 8th April 2020 · 6 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Housing recovery to be cut short Measures of activity and house price pressures were strong in February. But with the coronavirus set to disrupt activity and confidence over the next few months, the housing market recovery is... 13th March 2020 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Signs of a Boris bounce House price growth and transactions picked up, as political uncertainty eased following December’s general election. In the near term, leading indicators hint at a further recovery over the remainder... 6th February 2020 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London Housing Chart Book: Downward price pressures ease in London Downward price pressures in London have eased, driven by a slump in homes coming up for sale. But with house prices high and mortgage interest rates close to their floor, that is unlikely to drive a... 20th December 2019 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack A subdued end to the year for housing Housing market activity and house price growth showed few signs of improvement at the end of 2019. Indeed, activity has, if anything, been cooling. That partly reflects economic and political... 9th December 2019 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Fresh dip in activity After a brief mid-year recovery, economic and political uncertainty is once again discouraging housing market activity. In all, the near term outlook for both housing sales and house prices is... 8th November 2019 · 8 mins read
