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Everyone's reading the twelve-year stock high as bad news. I'd read it the other way.
Rightmove's August 2026 index shows average new seller asking prices down 2.0% to £364,999, the largest August fall since 2018. The more useful figure for agents though is stock, which is at a twelve-year high for the time of year, making competition for buyer attention the central marketing problem this autumn.
Adam Graver
7 min read
Four in five flats aren't selling in six months. You can't market a flat like a terrace.
Four out of five flats aren't selling within six months. Across the rest of the market it's about half. If you've got flats sitting on your board right now you already knew that. You just didn't have the number, and now you do.
Adam Graver
8 min read
One in eight new builds is unsold after six months. The price is not the problem.
Four thousand four hundred homes in England have spent more than six months waiting for a buyer, and the whole conversation about it is a finance conversation. What's missing is the work that should have started before the ground did.
Lucy Collinge
7 min read
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