The five facts hitting the UK housing market hardest in the last 7 days.
- Rightmove asking prices slide £11,000 in 3 months and show close to zero annual growth.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2025/08/Rightmove-HPI-18th-August-Final-1.pdf - Reeves’ inheritance tax raid could cost homeowners £82k https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/inheritance/labour-inheritance-tax-raid-cost-average-homeowner/
- Reeves may impose a mansion tax https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-plans-to-tax-high-value-homes-to-plug-fiscal-black-hole-bmrdwr62c
- Reeves plans to implement an annual property tax https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/20/reeves-not-stopped-every-inch-britain-property-state/
- Capital Gains Tax on home sales could destabilise the whole housing market. Government’s capital gains proposal on main residences ‘complete madness’ – Property Industry Eye. Inflation increases faster than Gov wants, dousing chances of any further rate cuts from BoE. https://x.com/moving_charlie/status/1958072023239864794?s=46
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