The five facts hitting the UK housing market hardest in the last 7 days.
- Renter’s Rights Bill would see 20% of all private rented properties wiped off the market for not meeting decent homes standard. A two-edged sword:
- It would force those properties to be sold (but increase homelessness in the process.
- It would create significant upward pressure on rents.
2. Tax hikes slam brakes on wage growth https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-10/reeves-tax-hike-tightens-grip-on-uk-jobs-market-rec-poll-finds
3. Average rents fall for the first time in 15 years.
Greater London continued to record the steepest declines, with rents falling by 3% year-on-year in July — its seventh consecutive monthly decline and the biggest annual drop since May 2021 https://www.ftadviser.com/buy-to-let/2025/8/11/average-rent-falls-for-first-time-since-2020/
4. Another 34,000 job losses announced in one month.
5. RICS shows worries for housing market in August survey https://www.rics.org/content/dam/ricsglobal/documents/market-surveys/uk-residential-market-survey/WEB_July_2025_RICS_UK_Residential_Market_Survey_tp.pdf
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