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<Econ> RICS Survey: UK Home Price Outlook Deteriorates Sharply Amid Iran Conflict and Rising Mortgage Rates
The UK housing market cooled markedly last month as the Iran conflict heightened economic uncertainty, while buyers turned more cautious in the face of rising mortgage rates. The R...
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<Econ> RICS Survey: UK Home Price Outlook Deteriorates Sharply Amid Iran Conflict and Rising Mortgage Rates
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The UK housing market cooled markedly last month as the Iran conflict heightened economic uncertainty, while buyers turned more cautious in the face of rising mortgage rates. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) monthly survey showed that in March, the balances measuring new buyer enquiries, sales expectations and house prices in the UK all declined, with the latter plunging to negative 23 from a revised negative 14 previously.

This marks the steepest decline in UK house prices since January 2024. The balance for house price expectations over the next three months tumbled to negative 43 from negative 19 previously, the lowest level since August 2023. New buyer enquiries also recorded the sharpest drop over the same period.

Tarrant Parsons, Head of Research and Market Analysis at RICS, said the tentative improvement in the UK housing market has come to an end, affected by the Middle East conflict, while the renewed deterioration in the mortgage rate outlook has proven highly challenging. Although a temporary ceasefire between the US and Iran recently led to a sharp drop in swap rates that support the UK mortgage market, they remain well above levels seen before the outbreak of the US-Israel/Iran conflict at the end of February. Parsons said it was unsurprising that buyer demand has weakened due to rising mortgage rates. (da/w)~

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