Zoopla: housing market returns to growth

Zoopla expects property market activity to surge in 2025 as its latest house price index shows a return to growth for the wider housing market in the UK

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UK house prices are expected to increase 2.5% in 2025, according to property website Zoopla.

Across the whole of the UK, house prices increased 1.5% in the four weeks to 17 November, Zoopla’s latest house price index revealed. This is up from 1% the previous month, and marks a return to year-on-year increases from the same period the previous year when prices fell by 1.2%.

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