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
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London Housing Chart Book: More price falls to come The brief rise in London buyer activity proved to be short lived, suggesting that the capital’s housing market malaise has further to run. Indeed, even if a no-deal Brexit is avoided, we expect London... 24th September 2019 · 7 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Stuck in limbo July saw the second consecutive monthly rise in new buyer enquiries and house purchase mortgage approvals, as Brexit uncertainty briefly eased. (See Chart 1.) But with house prices very high and... 5th September 2019 · 8 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Rise in demand will be short-lived Housing demand improved in June for the first time in over two years. But with the rise driven heavily by regions with the most expensive prices, and another Brexit deadline looming, that doesn’t... 7th August 2019 · 10 mins read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack London Housing Chart Book: London prices and transactions weaken London’s owner occupier housing market performed poorly, as prices fell and transactions stayed in reverse gear. With house prices high and uncertainty continuing to bite, a recovery in prices and... 20th June 2019 · 1 min read
UK Housing Market Chart Pack Housing market struggles to gather momentum Despite an improvement in mortgage approvals, the housing market has struggled to gather any upward momentum. Indeed, with buyer confidence still weak and house prices still high relative to incomes... 7th June 2019 · 1 min read
