Movers and shakers in a slow(er) year

Despite a demographic bulge in housing demand, and demand and supply imbalance, house sales dipped in 2017, says Tommy Barker.

T’S not quite a ‘downer,’ but the property year just now wrapping was down, down, down, on a number of fronts, even if official statistics might superficially indicate otherwise.

House prices are still rising (but there’s evidence of a slowdown of pace of increase, thankfully) and rents might be up at ridiculous, boom-time and beyond levels.