Wages up, mortgage rates down 🎉 (right?)

5 Fact Friday – 17th May 2024 – 5 Facts hitting UK housing hardest

Real Wages rise again, but more slowly

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/may2024

Unemployment rises, job vacancies fall, again

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/employmentintheuk/may2024

Britain is officially the worlds worst in homelessness 

Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness

Agent Regulation Abandoned after 5 years

RoPA has no hope of becoming law as another minister rules it out

3 banks cut mortgage rates

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/16/three-uk-banks-announce-cuts-to-cost-of-fixed-rate-mortgages