INVESTING SHOW: Are house prices due a fall or could there be a Brexit deal bounce?
The property market is one of Britain’s great soap operas, with plenty of twists and turns and heroes and villains along the way.
At the moment there is a cliffhanger: will house prices start falling?
Steady growth has been swapped for a slide towards stagnation in the headline figures, but how much does that mask a regional divide, with things looking far healthier outside of London and the commuter belt?
In this Investing Show special, Andrew Montlake of mortgage broker Coreco, joins us to discuss what’s going on in the residential property and buy-to-let markets.
He also looks at why mortgage rates are near their all-time lows despite a base rate rise and how long that could last.
Shares start the year on a strong run
The stock market has put a bad 2018 behind it and jumped at the start of 2019. Major markets in the UK and US have added between 5 and 8 per cent since the New Year, so what’s fuelling that and can it continue?
Richard Hunter, of Interactive Investor, joins Simon Lambert on the Investing Show to discuss it.