UK 22:10 Monday, 21 September 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
I know some analysts will be very excited that the latest Nationwide house price survey was flat in September. Reality is still more sensibly covered by the just over 5% year-on-year house price fall (predominately in London and the South East). I still see that the nearby to me seller is still struggling to do a deal, and I am sure that is a reality in many places up to a hundred miles away from the big smoke. Volumes remain horribly mixed at best and, if you want to do a deal, it is most certainly a buyers' market. If you are not desperate to sell, my advice would be to wait until March next year (and to be realistic even then).
Yesterday's announcement from the Government on its plans for expanding spending on defence is, in my view, a demonstration of profligacy and wholly unwarranted as I noted HERE But Boris and his cohort Princess Nut Nuts have an 80 seat majority so the plans will be voted through. But did anyone know what was coming?
