5 Fact Friday – 9 January 2026

The five facts hitting the property market hardest in the last 7 days.

  1. 2026 House Price Predictions/Guesses from “experts”
    https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-15421881/Will-house-prices-2026-six-property-experts-return-verdict.html
  2. Crisis Report highlights spiralling homelessness because of backfiring government incentives. https://www.crisis.org.uk/media/v1houc4m/863_cr11215_movingthdeckchairs_a4_digital_final.pdf
  3. Bloomberg reports on the failure of government incentives to help social housing supply https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-05/the-uk-housing-crisis-is-hitting-new-depths
  4. Home Builders Federation shows new homes project starts at all time low https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-home-builders-federation_housing-approvals-have-been-in-a-steady-decline-activity-7413852073076682753-FGav
  5. Halifax concurs with Nationwide on -0.6% house price falls in December, cites feeble yearly growth of 0.3% https://www.halifax.co.uk/media-centre/house-price-index.html

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