The optimistic view on UK house prices

If mortgage rates stay put and the labour market remains strong, a UK house price crash isn’t a certainty.

On Monday, I took a romp through a set of charts depicting what I view as some of the most important themes in markets right now.

In a somewhat throwaway line, I said that the UK’s housing market is clearly on the wane, and the only question now is whether house prices are going to drop by 10% or 20%. 

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