"PANIC BUYING AS HOUSE PRICES RISE" 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

This is why the Rightmove House Price Index is extremely unhelpful. https://mhwc.co.uk NOTICE: A HIGHER "AVERAGE" PRICE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN HIGHER PRICES. If more large, detached, higher-value homes are being listed than usual, this too will make the "average" figure higher, EVEN if underlying individual prices are lower. Almost everyone is automatically interpreting today's RM figures as "House prices rising", when it is almost certainly just more large properties coming to mar...