{"id":88876,"date":"2026-05-08T20:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88876"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:33:45","slug":"uk-house-price-growth-halved-as-iran-war-fallout-hits-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/uk-house-price-growth-halved-as-iran-war-fallout-hits-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"UK house price growth halved as Iran war fallout hits housing market"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22FC1n.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The war in Iran has caused uncertainty in the UK housing market, with buyers fearing interest rate rises this year. Photograph: Anna Barclay\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UK house prices fell for a second consecutive month in April, as Halifax halved its estimate for the annual rate of growth owing to the conflict in the Middle East.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/uk-house-price-growth-halved-as-iran-war-fallout-hits-housing-market\/ar-AA22G8r8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69fdad3b70e5414583d7795c46da86a8&amp;cvpid=65c414b460d247f6fdc043069c849654&amp;ei=27\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>UK house prices fell for a second consecutive month in April, as Halifax halved its estimate for the annual rate of growth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-netanyahu-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88877,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876\/revisions\/88877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}