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Project 28 brings together lenders, conveyancers, estate agents and technology providers around an ambition to reduce the time between sale agreed and exchange to 28 days.

Rightmove has downgraded its national average 2026 price forecast to between 0% and -2%.

The first half of 2026 continues to outperform both 2023 and 2024, despite buyers facing considerably higher mortgage rates and the absence of any stamp duty incentive.

Millions are at risk of retirement shortfall as the UK fails to join up housing and pension policy, the Society of Pension Professionals says.

Many parents and grandparents already believe their children will struggle to achieve milestones that previous generations took for granted.

Higher running costs have encouraged more holiday let owners to sell, but the wider housing market has yet to see a corresponding uplift.

Instead, this generation is prioritising being debt-free, financial independence and maintaining a high quality of life as their key markers of success.

Annual growth of 0.1% is the slowest rate of house price inflation since November 2023.

Sales were 6% higher than June 2025 and 11% higher than May.

House prices were up 0.1% month-on-month.