{"id":584861,"date":"2026-05-15T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584861\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:45:08","slug":"money-distilled-britains-housing-market-continues-to-stagnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584861\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Distilled: Britain\u2019s Housing Market Continues to Stagnate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Welcome to the award-winning   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/money-distilled?source=NLintro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> Money Distilled<\/a>   newsletter. I\u2019m   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AV8F0VYKcHY\/john-stepek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> John Stepek<\/a>  . Every week day I look at the biggest stories in markets and economics, and explain what it all means for your money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The British housing market is in an odd state. House prices, broadly speaking, are flat or slightly rising in nominal terms, depending on which index you use. Transactions continue to clip along at the same sort of post-financial crisis rate as always \u2014 despite the market being generally regarded as slow, there\u2019s no real sign of it actively drying up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the award-winning Money Distilled newsletter. I\u2019m John Stepek . Every week day I look at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4229,1294,5366,1431,585,388,11750,25949,199875,56,54,55,636,5351],"class_list":["post-584861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-house-prices","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-london","tag-mortgage-rates","tag-mortgages","tag-royal-institution-of-charter","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}