Show Notes
Sources for every fact: https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/5-fact-friday-11th-september-2026/ This is an edit of Friday's livestream. The full hour is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-u-DYuXNU Financial-market and gilt-yield turbulence is already feeding through to movers. The Lloyds (ex-Halifax) house price index has annual growth trending down for about a year — it was roughly 2.3% year-on-year last August and has now gone below zero — another nudge for sellers to stop believing pr...
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5 Fact Friday for 23 October 2026. 41% of homes for sale in England have now had a price cut, two in five sellers chasing the market down, but are they too late? Plus inflation up to 3.5% in September pushing rates higher, government borrowing of £24.5bn in September with total debt now over £3 trillion, job vacancies down to 691,000 with unemployment at 4.7%, and the average mortgage deal now lasting just 13 days compared with 43 in 2019. Live questions from viewers too.
One week until the Budget, I went live to take your questions. I started with the latest borrowing figures: the government borrowed another £24.5 billion in September, and interest on our national debt is now £11 billion a month, which is more than it would cost to scrap stamp duty on main homes for a whole year. With inflation up again and a base rate rise likely in November, uncertainty is only going one way, so I set out exactly what I would do right now to make a move more certain as a se...
Tonight I went live on Rightmove's u-turn on house prices. After months of headlines about record asking prices, Rightmove now says September 2026 was the busiest month for asking price reductions since 2011, with just over 3,000 listings a day being cut, and that homes priced competitively from the start sell far faster. I explained why that message comes too late for many sellers this year, why buyers set prices, why overpricing pushes buyers away for good, and whether now is a good time to...
Sources for every fact: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-16th-october-2026/
5 Fact Friday: the housing market is in "Limp Mode", with listings backing up into a jam. Five facts on what's happening in the UK property market right now, plus your questions from the chat.