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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Anna White

Are London house prices about to crash? Warnings of ‘year of pain’ amid rising interest rates and inflation

House prices in London are set to fall by 10 per cent over the next two years after the Chancellor’s mini-Budget sent the mortgage market into meltdown.

Higher interest rates and mortgage repayments, tighter lending and the cost-of-living crisis could mean “a year of pain” for first-time buyers and existing mortgage-holders while sales plummet and prices slide.

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