UK Housing

UK housing demand seen recovering on clearer post-Budget outlook

Analysts expect pent-up demand to bolster the traditional spring selling season as buyers return to the market

Gauges of buyer demand and sales volumes also weakened, putting downward pressure on house prices.

Budget fears slam brakes on UK housing market

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said its index of homes put up for sale deteriorated to minus 20 in October

The increase in British property prices has been slower this year than in the second half of 2024.

UK house prices rise by most since January: Halifax

House prices increased by 0.6% in monthly terms in October after a 0.3% fall in September

House prices were 2.4 per cent higher than a year earlier, speeding up from an annual increase of 2.2 per cent in September.

UK house prices rise in October, defying pre-budget nerves

The house price index increased by a monthly 0.3% after rising by 0.5% in September

There is neither the incentive nor ability to finance the rebuilding of Britain’s affordable rental stock.

Britain forgot subsidised housing needs a subsidy

[LONDON] There’s no shortage of explanations for Britain’s affordable-housing emergency – overregulation, environmental worries, planning bottlenecks, labour shortfalls or a toxic combination of them ...

The pub, which first opened in the 1830s, is one of tens of thousands across the UK forced to call last orders over recent years.

Villagers win race to save UK pub, as thousands close

UK pubs, a quintessential cornerstone of community life, are increasingly under threat

The CMA launched an investigation last year following concerns the builders exchanged competitively sensitive details about sales including pricing, number of property viewings and incentives offered to buyers.

UK builders to pay £100 million to housing programmes after competition probe

They agreed to refrain from sharing information except in limited circumstances

Halifax said that average prices were unchanged in June at £296,665 (S$515,457) after declining 0.3 per cent the previous month.

UK house prices stagnate as tax rise takes toll

Values rose 2.5% from a year earlier, the slowest annual growth since July last year

The government shelled out £35 billion in housing benefit last financial year – triple in real terms what it was paying at the start of the 1990s. And yet the number of homeless has soared.

Britain’s housing splurge is long overdue

The government could save £1.5 billion a year by investing £5 billion annually to build more affordable homes

Homelessness in the UK is almost 40 per cent higher than France, and the problem is getting worse.

All the wrong moves for British homeowners

The law of unintended regulatory, fiscal and monetary consequences has stopped investment in its tracks