The UK's property map is being redrawn along an unfamiliar axis. New figures show Scotland's housing market accelerating with annual price growth running at around 5.8%, while London has slipped into near-stagnation, with some boroughs registering outright annual declines of 1-2%. This is not simply a story of two regional markets diverging — it is a signal that the assumptions underpinning UK property investment for the past two decades, where London led and the regions followed, have been inverted.