Rents continue to rise across the UK, as Scotland overtakes London with the steepest hikes in rental inflation.
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A supply and demand problem in the rental market is pushing rents to sky high levels. When will renting prices come down?
Wages are rising faster than house prices right now. If mortgage rates come down, housing affordability will start to improve.
Higher mortgage rates mean that renting has become cheaper than buying a home for the first time since 2010.
The countryside was in hot demand in 2020-21, but cities are now the go-to rental destinations, meaning rural rents are becoming more affordable.
The demand for 3 and 4-bedroom family homes has peaked as buyers with reduced budgets look for cheaper properties and apartments.
Our Value of Housing report tracks the value of 29 million homes in the UK. Here are the types of properties and locations that are losing value in June 2023.
Our Value of Housing report for 2023 finds that 11.1 million UK properties have fallen in value by at least 1% over the last 6 months.
Two-thirds of homes have gone up in value in the last year. Could yours be one of them?
