What this means for you

Expect increased competition and potentially longer hiring cycles as AI-driven layoffs create more candidates and company caution. Focus on demonstrating immediate value, adaptability, and a strong understanding of how your skills mitigate future risks or drive efficiency. Mass layoffs dominate headlines and unsettling social media feeds, but their actual effect on property prices is more nuanced and slower-moving than most people assume. The relationship between job losses and housing values is real, but it operates through several layers of human behaviour, economic conditions, and geography that together determine whether a wave of redundancies transla…