The five facts hitting the housing market hardest in the last seven days.
- Fraud investigated in homelessness REIT
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/uk-fraud-office-arrests-six-in-gEQQt0NnTKmxJgFfWh3c_Q - UK Rents fall for first time on record. Great news all round, further downward pressure on house prices https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytolet/article-15470117/Rents-fall-annually-time-15-years-Typical-new-tenant-pays-10-month.html
- Payroll jobs lost at the fastest rate since the pandemic, with net 43,000 more people out of work in one month, at Christmas https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/january2026
- Inflation ticks back up, reducing chances of a base rate cut https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/december2025
- Media goes nuts over Rightmove’s Jan “record jump” in asking prices. No one mentions that their FTB asking prices are lower than a year ago, even after “record jump” https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2026/01/Rightmove-HPI-19-January-Final.pdf
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