How interest rate cuts will help revive our flagging housing market
The spring housing market is traditionally a hive of activity, with homes flanked by gardens of tulips and daffodils flying off estate agents’ shelves like hot cakes.

The spring housing market is traditionally a hive of activity, with homes flanked by gardens of tulips and daffodils flying off estate agents’ shelves like hot cakes.
Global financial markets have been on a wild ride in recent weeks, reacting to rapid changes to international trade dynamics as President Trump toys with the America’s tariff regime.
Just as everything seemed to be settling down after the rush to beat last week’s stamp duty tax hike, tariff turmoil has hit.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to present the annual Spring Forecast and economic statement later this week (on 26th March).
With London’s house prices on a go-slow, the place to go to meet a newly-minted property millionaire is Cambridge.
There’s a serene garden square in Notting Hill surrounded by majestic three-storey double-fronted homes. The driveways are as bare as the trees on a cold wintry morning, and many of the windows shuttered.
Property billionaire Nick Candy made headlines when he complained about the £161,000-a-year service charge at his ultra-luxurious One Hyde Park apartment.
Dear American multimillionaires looking to buy a home in the UK, I have good news for you: if you have $1 million to splash, you can now get more bang for your buck in London.
Is it a buyers’ market or a sellers’ market? It’s the perennial question in property. In the case of London right now, the answer is both. Sometimes those markets are just streets apart — sometimes they are different houses on the same street.
Despite talk of a cooling market, the curtain is far from closing on London’s high-end property market.
The Bank of England (BoE) is expected to cut its base rate by 0.25% today as its Monetary Policy Committee (main image) shifts focus from cutting inflation to stimulating the flagging economy.
It’s bad news for homeowners in London: house prices in the capital grew less than the national average last year, new research shows.