
Despite the undoubted certainty caused to the property market by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the European Union, recent statistics have pointed to both demand and prices for property across the country remaining in good health. According to the most recent monthly report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), for example, while it is thought that UK house prices will experience a short-term drop for the first time since 2012, they are also predicted to regain their momentum in the longer term. In the words of RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn, “Sadly, for the many young