Some Very Welcome Rate Relief for A Resilient Housing Market
Before noon’s announcement from the Bank of England on interest rates, I was all ready to write ...
Rents Are in the Spotlight & Add to the Inflation Problem
There are three housing stories competing for attention at the moment. The first is house prices, which ...
The Bank of England Lays Bare the Pain from Higher Mortgage Rates
In my last two columns here, I have described how the mortgage rate outlook has gone from ...
Crunch Time for Mortgages
When I wrote here a month ago about the outlook for mortgage rates, I noted that we ...
Confidence is Up, But Higher Interest Rates Are Biting
This is an interesting spring for the housing market. For every negative indicator, there is usually a ...
No News Wasn’t Necessarily Good News in The Budget
It is fair to say that Jeremy Hunt’s first budget did not send many pulses racing in ...
Landlords Are Selling – And it Isn’t Hard to See Why
The downturn in the housing market is continuing, roughly as expected, a slowish puncture rather than a ...
Looking for Brighter Spots Amid the Gloom
The new year has started gloomily, and not just because of the weather and an unfortunate start ...