The five facts hitting the housing market hardest in the last seven days.
- When the very industry that provided the debt that has, above all else, priced a whole generation out of home ownership, is now proposing that easier access to more debt is the solution… 🤷🏻‍♂️ But it’s government policy that has caused this. The lenders will always lend as much as they can. That’s the widget they sell. Widget sellers sell widgets and campaign to be able to sell more widgets. https://www.cityam.com/generation-locked-out-of-home-ownership-in-uk-housing-crisis/
- UK car production falling even before JLR shutdown https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/uk-car-production-slumps-even-before-jaguar-land-rover-shutdown
- Bond buyers (the investors who lend the UK government money) are losing confidence in the government. This creates more problems for Reeves even before the budget. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/uk-budget-angst-hits-gilt-auctions-as-investor-appetite-fades
- Kirstie Allsopp newspaper story “The Property Market is Dead” will have an impact. Rightly or wrongly a lot of people trust here. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buying-selling/kirstie-allsopp-the-property-market-is-dead
- We may have a new Labour leadership challenge from a man who wants to borrow £40bn to build council houses. That gets my vote. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/24/andy-burnham-mps-want-me-to-challenge-starmer/#:~:text=%C2%A340bn%20of%20borrowing%20to%20build%20council%20houses
- Overvaluing Agents delusion shines through in Telegraph article on why multi-million pound homes won’t sell: “Ryan’s agent, Anthony Jevons, advised that knocking half a million off the price wouldn’t help, as it wasn’t the reason the property wasn’t moving.” FFS! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buying-selling/millionaire-homeowners-cant-sell/
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