{"id":894,"date":"2026-05-13T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:40:35","slug":"housing-market-in-england-and-wales-weakening-due-to-iran-war-say-estate-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Housing market in England and Wales weakening due to Iran war, say estate agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homebuyers more cautious due to possible mortgage rate rises and higher inflation as sellers sit on properties<\/p>\n<p>Fears of higher mortgage rates and rising inflation as a result of the Middle East conflict are leading to a subdued and downbeat housing market, according to estate agents.<\/p>\n<p>Demand from potential homebuyers across England and Wales has shown a \u201cnoticeable softening\u201d recently, according to a monthly survey of estate agents by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/14\/housing-market-in-england-and-wales-weakening-due-to-iran-war-say-estate-agents\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homebuyers more cautious due to possible mortgage rate rises and higher inflation as sellers sit on properties Fears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}