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Limited housing market recovery next year

Regardless of the Brexit outcome, we don’t expect a rebound in either house prices or transactions in 2019. Rather, there is hope of a modest improvement in housing market activity in both 2020 and 2021, assuming a no-deal Brexit is avoided in October. That said, house price growth is unlikely to accelerate anytime soon, although we do think the outlook for rental growth is improving.

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