In the wake of April’s Stamp Duty increase, market activity was a little subdued over Easter but it has since recovered. Average capital growth rates have slowed but rental growth and yields have remained very rewarding.

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Showing its customary resilience, the UK residential market remained very active in April, with several indices showing strong yields and inflation-beating growth in both rents and capital values.

Despite the imminence of a rise in Stamp Duty, March was another busy month for the sales market. Indices suggest that values have risen on both a monthly and annual basis, and growth in rental incomes has also remained impressive.

Transaction rates were unusually high in January and February, but predictably more subdued in March. Overall, however, price growth remained positive, particularly in those regions where average prices are more in keeping with average earnings.

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February was another busy month for the market. Sales have continued to exceed seasonal averages, and several indices suggest that house prices are growing at or above the rate of inflation. Rents, too, are producing real-terms growth.

January proved to be a busy month for the residential market. Listings and sales have both seen a sharp upturn, and capital values are also rising strongly according to

RightMove, Zoopla and others. Rental growth is still outpacing inflation in most regions, as are average yields.

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The fundamental forces that shape the UK residential property market continue to look encouraging. Demand is outstripping supply in both the house-buying and rental markets, and the affordability pressures that limited growth in 2023 and early 2024 are gradually easing

In December, sales continued apace, while rental growth and yields once again exceeded the rate of inflation. There are still regional disparities, but returns in most regions have displayed real-terms growth, and the encouraging conditions look set to persist in 2025.

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In November 2024, property sales activity ramped up, rental growth and gross yields grew at inflation beating rates, and so too did capital growth in the UK’s more affordable markets.

On 30 October, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, laid out details of the UK Government’s Autumn Budget.

No one yet knows how the economy will rebalance itself, or whether the Budget will do as the Chancellor hopes and fuel a revival in the UK economy

October has produced further evidence of a steadily reviving property market, with most indices showing real-terms growth in terms of capital and rental values, and in terms of gross yields. In this report, we summarise the key developments and consider how the market might be affected by the Autumn Budget.

The market optimism that began towards the end of the first quarter of the year has continued, buoyed up by rising market activity and the first, long-awaited cut in the base rate. That has prompted an upturn in buyer enquiries, property sales and average values across nearly all parts of the UK

Numerous sources point to a continuing improvement in market confidence. Optimism about falling mortgage costs is certainly helping to buoy the property market, as is a slow easing in cost-of-living pressures.

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There will still be challenges ahead – the Prime Minister has warned that the Autumn Budget is “going to be painful” – but there is little doubt that the underlying conditions in the property market are continuing to improve.

Regardless of one’s political leanings, the removal of any remaining uncertainty in that regard should now work in investors’ favour in the sense that market activity often tends to accelerate once an electoral result is confirmed.