A mortgage product now survives an average of just 13 days before being withdrawn from the market. That is not a typo. It means a
One in two landlords across England did not raise rent once in the past year. That single figure, buried in a new industry survey, cuts
£10.7 billion. That is how much buy-to-let lending UK-wide hit in the second quarter of 2026, a 25% jump year on year. Yet behind that
Six days. That is how long Kingston landlords and second-home owners have before Chancellor John Healey stands up on 28 October 2026 and delivers an
A £4,000 jump in a single month. That is what the average London property gained in August 2026, even as the capital remained the weakest
A 64.7 Attainment 8 score has just made one parliamentary constituency the most expensive place in England to buy near a good secondary school, and
Last updated: October 20, 2026 Quick Answer Rightmove's October 2026 House Price Index shows 34% of homes on the market have had at least one
Eighty-five percent. That is the share of Kingston's council housing stock the local authority still cannot fully describe in terms of condition, safety risk, or
A house price net balance of minus 32 sounds abstract until you realise it is the weakest reading most Kingston agents have seen since the
Nine. That is how many mortgage deals in the entire UK market were priced below 5% as of early October 2026, down from 1,494 just
A landlord in Manchester asked a tribunal to approve a modest £50 rise. Instead, the panel slashed the rent by £200 a month below what
One number tells the story of this autumn's housing market: 1.7. That is the average number of viewings a property for sale now attracts, down
A landlord who admitted he had never once visited his rented property after buying it has just been ordered to pay £28,500, and the case
A two-year-old boy died in his cot from a respiratory condition caused by mould his family had reported repeatedly for years. Six years after Awaab
Minus 32. That is the number driving conversations in estate agents' offices across Kingston upon Thames this week, and it is worse than almost every
Six months ago, a buyer in Surbiton locking in a five-year fixed rate could reasonably expect to pay under £1,450 a month on a £250,000
A flat near the river in Kingston upon Thames can sit empty for weeks while a landlord agonises over whether to allow a cocker spaniel.
Zero. That is the number defining the UK housing market this autumn. Not a crash, not a rally, just a flat line at £298,441, the
A single sentence from the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham has set phones buzzing across Kingston upon Thames estate agencies. Shadow Housing Secretary Katie Lam
Five million private rented homes across England. One new annual charge. A bill to the sector that could top £325 million a year. On 5
Four thousand, seven hundred and twenty-four buildings. That is the number of residential blocks across England still officially flagged with unsafe cladding at the end
Twenty-five days. That is roughly how long homeowners in Kingston upon Thames and across south-west London have before Chancellor's officials finalise tax decisions that could
Open-plan ground floors now appear in roughly one in three UK homes listed for sale, yet fewer than half of buyers commission a survey that
A property can lose tens of thousands of pounds in market value because of building defects, yet the repair bill and the value loss are
Roughly one in five UK homes sold each year has had some form of extension or alteration, and a significant proportion of those lack complete
More than a decade. That is how long it has been since the national house price to earnings ratio was this low, and yet, on
Basement conversions in London and other dense UK cities now account for a significant share of planning applications, yet the party wall process for below-ground
A 0.4% monthly uptick in advertised asking prices makes for a reassuring headline. It does not fix a cracked lintel, a failing damp-proof course, or
Deposit disputes cost UK landlords and tenants millions of pounds each year, and the single most common reason adjudicators find against landlords is the absence
Fewer mortgages were approved in Britain last month than in any month since December 2023. Just 54,900 house purchase mortgages got the green light in
