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London property slump drags back UK house price growth

ondon property prices fell 1.7% in the year up until October 2018. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images London house prices slipped in October, dragging the growth in average property prices to its lowest level since July 2013. The slump in the capital, which began after the Brexit vote in 2016 and reached a fall of 1.7% […]

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UK-House prices 2015: growth slows, but still outpaces wages

House prices may be becoming a little “saner”, in the words of the Financial Times’s FastFT blog, but they’re still rising faster than average earnings – which means its getting harder to gain a foothold on the housing ladder. One of the main house price indicators published by Nationwide showed what City AM describes as a “surprise” […]