Britain’s housing market has proved a challenging one for buyers to navigate amid high interest rates and a tight cost-of-living crisis through 2023. Even as house prices in some parts of the country have shown signs of cooling, property prices are generally much higher than pre-pandemic times.
That’s perhaps why remarks by British bank NatWest’s chair Howard Davies sparked a slew of angry responses after he said it wasn’t all that difficult to buy a house in the U.K.
