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View all our reports, covering all things housing market. Our in-depth analysis encompases everything from sales and lettings, to stamp duty and mortgages.

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Market Insight Spring 2026

Our Spring Market Insight report, Will higher mortgage rates sour the spring bounce?, explores what higher mortgage rates, stamp duty pressures and looming tax changes really mean for house prices and market activity.

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Market Insight Winter 2026

Hamptons' Winter report looks at what’s shaping the housing market in 2026. From interest rate cuts and easing inflation to the arrival of a new ‘mansion tax’ and rental resets. We also explore why London is losing ground to the Midlands and North – and what that means for buyers and sellers.

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Housing Market Forecasts 2025

Hamptons’ Housing Market Forecasts, A market that mirrors the nations's mood, reveals our predictions for house prices and transactions across the country up until the end of 2028.

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Market Insight Autumn 2025

Hamptons’ Market Insight, Prime Central London's 'lost decade', explores one of the world's most prestigious markets sizable changes as well as unpacking the latest trends from shifting mortgage rates to rental resets and tax reform rumours.

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Market Insight Summer 2025

In this Market Insight, The Generation Housing Game, we explore how generation shifts are reshaping homeownership, a sales market outlook and the latest rental market trends.

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Buy-to-Let Report Summer 2025

Hamptons’ latest buy-to-let report explains why diversifying a property portfolio across different geographies is key and how far you need to go.

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Market Insight Spring 2025

Hamptons’ latest market insight, covers politics, legislation, international buyers, pandemic effects and more.

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Market Insight Winter 2025

In this Market Insight, Who's leaving London?, we explore what might impact the housing market in 2025.

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Market Insight Autumn 2024

Hamptons’ latest market forecast, sets our predictions for the sales and lettings market through to 2027, following Labour's first Budget.

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Market Insight Summer 2024

Hamptons’, Housing expectations from a Labour government, outlines the outlook for the sales and lettings market following the general election.

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Market Insight Spring 2024

Hamptons' latest market insight, London leads the recovery, explores the housing market's outlook including an assessment of previous government schemes tailored towards helping first-time buyers.

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Market Insight Winter 2024

What's next for the property market in 2024?, Hamptons’ latest market insight, investigates what lies ahead for the housing market in the year ahead including what an election can bring.

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Market forecast

Housing Market Forecasts 2023

Hamptons’ latest market forecast, Why rents are set to grow four times faster than house prices over the next four years, outlines our predictions for the housing market, covering the end of 2023 to 2026.

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Market Insight Summer 2023

Hamptons’ latest report, How rising mortgage rates will reshape the housing market, this quarter, focuses on the mortgage market and explore how rollercoaster rates are likely to impact the housing market over the next few months and beyond.

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Market Insight Spring 2023

The return of commuterville, reveals commuter hotspots around the country seem poised to become some of the most popular locales this year, since relocation here became one of the top trends of 2023.

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Buy-to-Let Report 2023

Re-writing the rules - Have higher interest rates broken buy-to-let?, has been written to help you understand the impact of rising interest rates. It delves into whether buy-to-let investments are still profitable, whether landlords should pay down their debts, and how the new generation of landlords can make buy-to-let work for them in 2023 and beyond.

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Market Insight Winter 2023

New year, new start, as the saying goes. We forecast that 2023 will be a year of transition during which buyers adjust to the higher interest rate era – a process that may take time or happen rapidly. However, we also expect that, by 2024, the property market will find its new normal.

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Housing Market Forecasts 2022

Against this fast-moving political and economic backdrop, our latest housing market forecasts give you a sense of where the market could be heading. We explore the impact rising rates will have on house prices and transactions, and question whether rental growth will cool in the future.

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Market Insight Summer 2022

If there are further upward interest rate moves this year, it is likely that higher mortgage costs will start to affect house price growth.

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Build to Rent Report

As Build to Rent developments begin to change suburban streets as well as city skylines, we explore what the BTR premium is and how this might change in the future.

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Market Insight Spring 2022

In this Market Insight, we examine what the cost of living crisis will mean for the housing market, both from a homeowner's and tenants' point of view. We also take a deep dive into the London market to explore what a post-covid capital will look like.

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Buy-to-Let Report 2022

In this report we draw on the lessons learnt from the past about how investors have made money. We look at what the future might hold and how this should shape the way new investors begin their buy-to-let journey, or grow an existing portfolio.

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Market Insight Winter 2022

Our latest report answers the questions on the tips of many households tongues; Why are there so few homes for sale? What will an interest rate rise mean for mortgage rates? What’s in store for the market next year and why are the barriers to going green are falling?

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Market Forecast Autumn 2021

Our special forecast edition of Market Insight outlines our predictions for the housing market over the next few years.

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Market Insight Summer 2021

Mortgage rates are falling to record lows, as lenders loosen their purse strings. Even higher loan-to-value (LTV) loans are becoming cheaper and more plentiful than they were a few months ago.

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Country Market Insight

With around 300,000 fewer people choosing to put their home onto the market in the year since the pandemic started compared to the 12 months previously.

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Market Insight Spring 2021

How is the economy really performing and what lies ahead? What shape could the recovery take? The January growth numbers and March Budget data provide some of the answers to these pressing questions.

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Prime Central London Market Insight

For the first time in 30 years, London’s population is falling. The coronavirus pandemic has stemmed the flow of people moving into the capital, whilst creating new reasons for residents to depart.

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Has the door closed on Buy-to-Let?

For decades, investing in buy-to-let was seen as an attractive and relatively secure way to make money. This is everything you need know about Buy-to-Let.

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Market Insight Winter 2021

What lies ahead for the property market after the extraordinary events of 2020? After the pandemic freeze, the market re-opened to a clamour of demand for relocation that defied all expectations.

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Market Insight Autumn 2020

The economy has taken a hit this year, but the real effects will not be felt until 2021. The rural retreat is beginning to displace the suburban idyll, as urbanites seek more space and a garden.

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Market Insight Summer 2020

Economists are divided over the shape of the coming recession. Will it be V-shaped, that is, a sharp decline followed by a rapid rebound? Or U-shaped, with recovery taking longer to arrive?

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Market Insight Spring 2020

Aligning expectations: At the start of the year, the Boris bounce was the most talked about phenomenon in the housing market, but now, attention seems to have shifted onto the threat of coronavirus.

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The road ahead

Two missed Brexit deadlines, the resignation of one Prime Minister and the election of another. Little wonder the UK’s housing market slowed in 2019. But could there be light at the end of the tunnel?

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Prime Property Market Report 2019

This report is a brief look at the current prime central London property market, the role of international buyers, insight into the market longer term, and why London remains attractive to investors.

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It's not all about London

Back in 2009 one in five postcode districts in England and Wales were more expensive than the average home in London. Today just 9% of postcode districts are more expensive than London.

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Londoners on the move

Since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, businesses, markets and households have all reacted rather differently.

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The rise of the international buyer

"Clouded in uncertainty" were the words used by the Chancellor to sum up the latest official economic forecasts, which he unveiled as part of a subdued Spring Statement.

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Moving back the clock on buyer deposits

In the first quarter of this year, UK unemployment fell to the lowest level since 1974.

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Looking ahead: 2019 and beyond

While Brexit may be casting a shadow over the economy, it’s not the only thing at play.

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The Budget: A focus on property

Better than expected economic news suggests that austerity may be coming to an end.

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After the storm

The tenth anniversary of Lehmans: With a mix of headlines regarding the state of the UK economy, where are we today?

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Time to save

Two years since the Brexit vote and currency remains one of the most affected areas of the economy.

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Bigger slice of the action

The housing headlines over the last decade have been consistent - the country is split in a North-South divide.

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The growth of renting

Why recent policy changes won't stop the growth of renting.

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Leaving London behind

With more buyers moving out of the capital, we look at some of the most attractive areas for those who need to remain within commuting distance.

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London on the move

With Londoners moving from prime areas buying outside of the capital in record numbers, we've joined forces with property data analysts LonRes to better understand the dynamics of the prime markets.

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Profiting from property

In 2017, 92% of sellers sold their home for more than they paid for it, up from 90% in 2016. Every region of England and Wales saw fewer sellers make a loss.

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Prime Moves 2018

New analysis of the country’s prime markets by LonRes and Hamptons International.

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Prime Property Market Report 2018

What does 2018 look like for London's prime property market?

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