I f last week felt like a holding pattern, this one has been more like a turning point. Fresh data from property portal Rightmove suggest...

The UK property market offered a small surprise this week. Halifax, the country’s biggest mortgage lender, said that the average house price rose by 0.3% in August, its third consecutive monthly increase and enough to leave prices 2.2% higher than a year earlier.

N ews from Washington rarely reverberates through British property circles, but last week’s U.S. housing data caught my eye. The Commerce...