thank you | forjoining us, richard donnell.st from sicily. these are live pictures of the search, four bodies being located today in the search for six passengers from that sunk yacht. bethany bell are correspondent going tojoin us from bethany bell are correspondent going to join us from sicily bethany bell are correspondent going tojoin us from sicily in bethany bell are correspondent going to join us from sicily in the next moment or two, but first the weather. hello there. it looks like the weather's in a very unsettled pattern now for the rest of this week — particularly across more northern and western areas where we'll see rain and gales. and today is looking pretty unsettled across much of the north and west of the country — but drier further south, closer to this area of high pressure. but this area of low pressure contains the remnants of what was hurricane ernesto. so there'll be a lot of moisture in it, some heavy and persistent rain continuing through the day and into the evening and night across scotland, northern

let's unpack all of this with richard donnell, executive director of zoopla. welcome to the program. thanks for being here. this shows up home prices are rising, but so are supplies. characterize it for me. what are you seeing out there? >> the market has been adjusting to higher mortgage rates. we had a number of drops in transactions. the transactions are back, dropping to below 5%. obviously means more buyers, means more sellers. the prices are up, volumes are up. you're still having a certain proportion of peegs asking to cut the option price to actually find buyers. >> indeed. house prices were up around 1.4% the first seven months in the year. that's a dekrenlts turnaround from some of the performances we've seen in the last few years driven by the fact we have interest rates coming down. what is the trajectory for home prices in the country and what will ultimately determine where values move from here? >> i think we're on track for home values in the uk to be up by 2.5% this year. prices fell by around 2% last year. there's quite a big divide across th