{"id":431521,"date":"2026-06-05T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/uk-house-prices-ease-just-a-touch-in-may-as-housing-market-keeps-more-resilient\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:40:07","slug":"uk-house-prices-ease-just-a-touch-in-may-as-housing-market-keeps-more-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/uk-house-prices-ease-just-a-touch-in-may-as-housing-market-keeps-more-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"UK house prices ease just a touch in May as housing market keeps more resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Halifax house prices -0.1% vs +0.1% m\/m expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior -0.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">UK house prices dipped a little in May, with the average property price dropping to \u00a3298,806 compared with \u00a3299,251 in April. The annual growth continues to hold up by 0.5% though, reaffirming continued resilience in the market despite more challenging conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Halifax notes that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&#8220;Property price trends continue to reflect the uncertainty linked to developments in the Middle<br \/>\nEast. Despite recent cuts to mortgage rates, higher inflation expectations have kept<br \/>\nborrowing costs above the level seen at the start of the year, continuing to stretch affordability<br \/>\nfor many buyers and temper demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Even so, overall activity has held up well, reflecting the underlying resilience of the UK<br \/>\nhousing market. Latest industry figures show transaction levels remain relatively stable,<br \/>\nsuggesting buyers and sellers are still moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Consumer sentiment and the inflation outlook will be two key things that will continue to impact housing demand and house price growth moving forward. So if the US-Iran conflict does drag on for longer, expect that to have a more (negative) profound impact on the market in due time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">But for now, it seems that housing market sentiment is still holding up quite decently in the second quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax house prices -0.1% vs +0.1% m\/m expected Prior -0.1% UK house prices dipped a little in May, with the average property price dropping to \u00a3298,806 compared with \u00a3299,251 in April. The annual growth continues to hold up by 0.5% though, reaffirming continued resilience in the market despite more challenging conditions. Halifax notes that: &#8220;Property [&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-431521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431521","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=431521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}