Business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown is predicting house prices will still rise, even after a possible hike in interest rates later this year or early next.

Rightmove is warning that it’s “highly likely” interest rates will rise in the near future.

Research by Share to Buy has revealed the top locations to buy houses, with the biggest increase in property value over the last decade.

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat the stamp duty holiday deadline. 

More landlords are quitting the sector and bringing properties to the sales market, according to research from Zoopla. 

Annual house price growth remained in double digits for the fifth month in a row in September, though there was a modest slowdown to 10.0%, from 11.0% in August.

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the property tax system.  

The national average price of property coming to market has hit an all-time high, rising by 0.3% (£1,091) last month, to £338,462, according to data collected by Rightmove.