The five facts hitting the housing market hardest in the last seven days.
- Rightmove asking prices falling
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2025/09/Rightmove-HPI-15th-September-Final-1-1.pdf - 1 in 5 flat sellers in 2025 selling for less than they paid. I was right to warn people back in 2022. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-15018365/amp/As-flat-prices-shrink-home-buyers-fallen-love-single-storey-living.html
- More First time buyers skipping starter homes and going straight for forever home. Barclays. https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/economics/article/first-time-buyers-going-straight-for-forever-home-says-barclays-z8wv6dq0f
- More Bad Jobs Data from the ONS means any hopes of house price growth are a distant possibility https://x.com/moving_charlie/status/1967891859512205619?s=46
- No more rate cuts say Bank economists https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/bank-of-england-may-be-done-with-rate-cuts-economists-warn
- New Home Sales in London crash to record all time low. No wonder flats aren’t selling. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/sales-new-build-homes-london-collapse-all-time-low-molior-sadiq-khan-b1248183.html
- A staggeringly stupid idea to stagger stamp duty. It would cause upward price pressure, and longer indebtedness. It doesn’t improve mobility, it worsens it. https://www.cityam.com/reeves-considering-staggered-stamp-duty-payments-to-boost-housing-market/
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