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5FF Short Cut: Housing market in 'Limp Mode', listings backing up into a jam
This is an edit of Friday's livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDkFh1DFZIo Five facts from the week's housing market: 1. Mortgage rates are still climbing: an average of 6% on five-year ...
1. Mortgage rates are still climbing: an average of 6% on five-year fixes and almost 6% on ...two-year fixes. Every rise mechanically cuts what mortgage buyers can borrow and offer, so sellers waiting for their price are watching the market fall away from them. Plus one number to take away: across the whole market, the gap between the asking price of listings and the asking price of homes that sell is 17.8%.
2. Viewings per property have halved in two years (Propertymark). You should be getting 12 to 15 viewings. Presentation, promotion and price all matter, and price matters most.
3. Connells offered upfront search packs to 4,000 sellers. Half took them up, and those sales had 43% fewer fall-throughs and exchanged 37% faster. Getting the search pack done early is the most overlooked, easiest fix in moving house.
4. The gap between new listings and agreed sales has hit a 12-month high: September listings up 15%, agreed sales down 16%. More choice for buyers, but a slower, stickier market for everyone moving. The ones who move are the ones with realistic asking prices.
5. Rightmove: average advertised rents have passed £1,400 a month for the first time, and London is at around £2,800, with homes to let down 9% in the capital and demand up 6%. The predictable result of the Renters' Rights Act.
Bonus: the government says 470 more buildings have completed cladding remediation. Welcome, but far too slow.
Housing market in 'Limp Mode', listings backing up into a jam
Links to all sources: https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/5-fact-friday-16th-october-2026/ All my links: https://linktr.ee/movinghomewithcharlie 🎥 Golden rules of home buying - ...
My concern? They were tricking people into buying when they shouldn't have.
My concern? They were tricking people into buying when they shouldn't have.
My concern? They were tricking people into buying when they shouldn't have.
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Facts and Figures About BestAgent: An Update
Tonight 8pm UK: facts and figures about BestAgent, an update on where it stands. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat. BestAgent Club: ...
Tonight 8pm UK: facts and figures about BestAgent, an update on where it stands. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat.
Tonight 8pm UK: how to buy in a buyers market. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat. Friday's facts in your inbox: https://mhwc.co.uk/newsletter If you ...
Tonight 8pm UK: how to buy in a buyers market. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat.
Tonight 8pm UK: how to buy in a buyers market. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat. Friday's facts in your inbox: https://mhwc.co.uk/newsletter If you ...
Tonight 8pm UK: how to buy in a buyers market. Live Q&A, bring your moving questions and mark them "Question" in the live chat.
This is an edit of Friday's livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFkiwh1msVg Five facts from the week's housing market: 1. Five-year fixed mortgage rates hit 6%, in line with what I've ...
1. Five-year fixed mortgage rates hit 6%, in line with what I've been warning. It makes buying ...and selling harder and slower, increases fall-throughs and seizes up housing market liquidity. For anyone coming to the end of a fix, my personal view is to accept the reality and fix, no matter how painful, because waiting would only make it worse. That's what I'd do, not advice for you.
2. Kemi Badenoch and the Tories plan to abolish stamp duty on all primary residences. I strongly endorse it: a buyer who pays slightly more for the house but no stamp duty is no worse off, and it's the single quickest, easiest, biggest win any government could have overnight.
3. Your First Home: some first-time buyers could need a deposit of just £3,600. That's up to 97.5% debt on a home that could lose 16% of its value the day you move in. And a big housebuilder wants stamp duty cut on new homes only, claiming a £4 billion windfall. That would distort the market.
4. The RICS survey: a sentiment survey of qualified agents says buyer demand is subdued, prices face downward pressure and agents expect slow, low transactions for the next twelve months. Every area bar Scotland and Northern Ireland expects prices to fall over the next three months. If you need to sell, meet the market or lose more.
5. Land Registry completed prices: London down 9.8% over twelve months, detached homes in London down 18% and in the South East down 10%. Waiting costs roughly 1% a month in the South East. Across England and Wales prices are 4% down year on year, and different property types and regions are all doing different things.
