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5FF 18 Aug 2023

Land Registry (provisional estimate) June Completion Average Transaction Price Up +0.7% on previous month.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/housepriceindex/june2023  

Q2 Wage growth at record levels, but still not enough to overtake inflation. CAVEAT: SAMPLE!

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/august2023 

Number of births in 2022 lowest since 2001 at 605,000 (net Migration at June 2022 606,000)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2022 

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06077/ 

Retail sales volumes are estimated to have fallen by 1.2% in July 2023 following a rise of 0.6% in June 2023 (revised from an increase of 0.7%).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/july2023 

Global Bond Yields signal the end of the low interest rate era.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/bofa-s-warning-of-a-5-world-sinks-in-as-bond-yields-surge 

Rent Caps fail to prevent faster rising rents in Scotland

https://thenegotiator.co.uk/rents-rocket-upwards-despite-cap-in-scotland-new-figures-show/ 

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