Moving Home with Charlie
Charlie Lamdin shares his wisdom from 25 years behind the scenes of the moving industry on a mission to make moving easier and help find a home for everyone. Everything bad estate agents don't want you to know (but good agents won't mind you knowing!) to help you get a better chance of securing the home you want. He also shares his unique perspective on what's happening in the housing market and economy. Visit https://mhwc.co.uk for more.
Episodes
591 episodes
Ruinous Rates Run Riot: 5FF
5 Fact Friday for 9 October 2026. Average five-year fixes have hit 6% for the first time in three years, and sub-5% deals have all but vanished (1,494 at the start of September, 9 now). Plus Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap stamp duty on main homes...
The next stage of BestAgent's plan to fix the housing market.
Tonight I set out the next stage of BestAgent's plan to fix the housing market. Most sellers have roughly a 50/50 chance of their agent actually selling, and that data is kept hidden, so BestAgent will publish a benchmark score and badge based on ...
Mortgage Rates top 6%. Live Q&A
Tonight I went live on mortgage rates topping 6% - five-year fixes breaking the barrier, what that means for buyers and remortgagers, and your live Q&A from the chat. Thanks to everyone who joined in. Watch the full stream on YouTube: https://www...
5FF Short Cut: Stig Live in the House for 5 Fact Friday Special
Mortgage approvals crashed 19% month on month (Bank of England, non-seasonally adjusted), while HMRC completed transactions fell 11% July to August. Your First Home offers 2.5% deposits and taxpayer equity loans on new builds — housebuilder shares...
Stig Live in the House for 5 Fact Friday Special
5 Fact Friday live with Housing Stig: mortgage approvals down 19% in a month, the new "Your First Home" 2.5% deposit scheme for new builds, average fixes nearing 6%, a quarter of new listings back on the market (six in 10 cheaper), and licences fo...
Mortgage approvals collapse 19% in one month. Live Q&A
Tonight I went live to talk about mortgage approvals collapsing 19% in one month - the Bank of England's August figures against July - what that tells us about where the market is heading, and then took your moving questions in a live Q&A. Thanks ...
The Pros and Cons of 'Your First Home'
Tonight I went live to weigh up the pros and cons of "your first home" - what really matters when you're buying your first place, where people get caught out, and what I'd think about before committing. Thanks to everyone who joined in the chat. ...
5FF Short Cut: Housing market approaches peak pain as deal times reach a record
Deal times have hit a record: PropertyMark's latest survey has more than half of estate agents reporting deals taking over 17 weeks from agreed offer to exchange. That's the first time since they started measuring in 2015, and it backs up the warn...
Housing market approaches peak pain as deal times reach a record
5 Fact Friday: the housing market approaches peak pain as deal times reach a record high. Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChY2hHhzgnM
Rightmove: More Price Falls - For FTB's this time. Live Q&A
Rightmove: More Price Falls — this time for first-time buyers. Live Q&A with Charlie. Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dvu1e25Ubc
Help to Buy Votes coming back?
5 Fact Friday: Help to Buy Votes coming back? Full livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15KnByzo5U
Stig & Charlie on the state of the market and threat of a new Help to Buy
With Housing Stig (audio): state of the market and the threat of a new Help to Buy.Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/URsiJXV5ekQ
Buyers need to hustle before rates go up further.
Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/j9c5teHKJC8
5FF Short Cut: The Housing Market is in Big trouble.
This is an edit of Friday's livestream. The full hour is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-u-DYuXNU Financial-market and gilt-yield turbulence is already feedin...
The Housing Market is in Big trouble.
https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/5-fact-friday-11th-september-2026/All my links: https://linktr.ee/movin...
Bigger Mortgages, Higher Prices: The Bit Most Housing Takes Miss - Charlie & Stig
Vicky Spratt is an award winning journalist who campaigns tirelessly on the housing crisis. We share the objective of affordable homes for everyone. We don't agree on the role of credit in high house prices. Stig and I...
Lloyds: first annual house price fall since 2023 | Live Q&A
Tonight: your moving questions — mark them Question in the live chat. Leading with today's Lloyds House Price Index: first annual UK house price fall since November 2023. August −0.2% month, −0.4% year, average £298,468.
5FF Housing Stig in the House: Bond Market Panic Hits Mortgage Rates
https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/pre-budget-bond-market-panic-hits-mortgage-rates/All my links:
Ex-Agent confesses to corrupt tactics
Damian King is an ex-estate agent who has now bravely revealed all the corruption he witnessed in his book. Order it on Amazon here: https://amzn.eu/d/0guHYucEWatch the video here:
Back to School (of Moving Home)
It's almost 'back to school' time. Bring your moving questions! Mark them Question in the live chat.Friday's facts in your inbox:https://mhwc.co.uk/newsletterIf you want a personal...
Buyer Budgets Drop 9% As Debt Costs Rise
https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/5-fact-friday-28th-august-2026/All my links: https://linktr.ee/movinghomew...
BBC House Price Pumping Guff: Charlie Reacts
The BBC clip I'm reacting to: https://youtu.be/zAvnHgYaNn4Ask live. Mark your question "Question".https://linktr.ee/movinghomewithcharl...
Why the Jobs Apocalypse will kill house price growth for good.
Tonight: record-low graduate job vacancies as a leading indicator of future housing-market weakness. No job, no home.https://www.lbc.co.uk/a...
House prices: ONS says up, Rightmove says down. Who's right?
All Fact Links: https://mhwc.co.uk/5-fact-friday/5-fact-friday-20th-august-2026/🎥 Golden rules of home buying - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T-uZ28a80🎥 Golden rules of home selling -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oR28aWLOs
You can't make homes affordable by lending people more money
Wednesday Weekly Workshop. Special topic tonight: Help to Buy.Housebuilders want it brought back. I have been saying all week why that is a bad idea. You cannot make homes more affordable by giving people more money to spend on them. We...