Six months into a period of heightened geopolitical instability, the UK property market has confounded early predictions of a sharp downturn. Rather than the collapse in transactions and pricing that many analysts warned of when conflict first erupted, the data now points to a market that has absorbed the shock and, in several regions, continued to grow. Average asking prices nationally have edged up by around 1.2% over the past six months, according to industry indices, while mortgage approvals have stabilised after an initial wobble in the immediate aftermath of the crisis. For an industry accustomed to volatility driven by interest rates and domestic policy, this resilience to an external geopolitical shock is a notable data point worth unpacking.