ANALYSIS: 8 Reasons Why Flat Prices Grew Slower Than Houses

According to experts, a range of factors including government policies, mortgages rates, and leasehold may have weakened the flats market in recent years.

Estate and rental agents' boards are pictured on a residential street in Hackney in East London on August 9, 2019. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19, mortgage rates, help-to-buy, and the Grenfell Tower fire are some of the reasons why flat prices fell further and further behind in recent years, according to experts in the housing market.

The Epoch Times’s analysis of HM Land Registry property data in the past decade found that the rate of price inflation for flats in England and Wales began to slow at around 2017.