{"id":429088,"date":"2026-03-31T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/uk-march-nationwide-house-prices-0-9-vs-0-1-m-m-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:40:05","slug":"uk-march-nationwide-house-prices-0-9-vs-0-1-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-march-nationwide-house-prices-0-9-vs-0-1-m-m-expected-429088\/","title":{"rendered":"UK March Nationwide house prices +0.9% vs -0.1% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +0.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">UK house prices unexpectedly rose in March, with the jump being quite a big one at that. The monthly increase in house prices is the most since December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Typically, there is a bit of a &#8220;spring bounce&#8221; in the market. That being said, it could be a case of home buyers rushing to secure mortgage deals with the current rate amid fears of higher interest rates to come later on. That as the US-Iran conflict has significantly changed the central bank outlook and also the general trajectory of the global economy and inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">So, it is arguably a mix of seasonal and psychological factors driving up prices in the past month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">At the same time though, a negative hit to consumption and the overall economy is also a negative hit to the housing market outlook. As such, that is creating a bit of a muddy and messy picture at the moment. The monthly spike above is likely to be a one-off, especially as the US-Iran conflict is more likely to cloud the outlook rather than drive up demand conditions consistently in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.3% UK house prices unexpectedly rose in March, with the jump being quite a big one at that. The monthly increase in house prices is the most since December 2024. Typically,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}