How High Will Interest Rates Go This Year?
A day or so after I had pressed the “send” button to file this column last month, ...
A Case of Déjà vu for The Housing Market
We end the year as we began it, gripped by Covid uncertainty. Like an unwelcome guest, the ...
Planning for Higher Interest Rates, & Praying They Are Not Too High
On November 4, the markets were braced for an important announcement from the Bank of England. Expectations ...
Even London Rents Are Joining the Housing Party
The housing story of the past 18 months has been dominated by house prices and transactions. It ...
A Strong Job Market Supports Housing, and will continue to do so
Cast your mind back a year or so, when we were still getting used to the idea ...
Just a Pause for Breath as The Stamp Duty Cut is Scaled Back
It is early days but some evidence is starting to emerge on the consequences of a big ...
The Bank of England Frets that the House-Price Boom Won’t Cool
It is fair to say that most people did not expect us to be in this position ...
A Roaring Market Brings Supply Shortages
We are getting used to superlatives to describe the housing market. Even as the rest of the ...
