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HOUSING MARKET SHOWS RESILIENCE AS TRANSACTIONS AND PRICES INCH UPWARDS

? Average house prices registered a 0.3% increase in October. This is the sixth consecutive month in which the market has seen a marginal gain in price (Page 5).
? Year on year house price growth slowed...

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? The housing market stalls in May Page 2
Both the number of homes sold and the prices achieved fell, during the month, indicating that the housing market stalled in May although it remains unclear as to whether this is the start of a sustained decline. There were modest p...

Despite a fall in transactions, the monthly average price of all residential property sold in England & Wales in April 2010 was an estimated 0.5% higher than in March. This is the twelfth month in succession in which the AcadHP...

Savills residential research predicts the prime east of City market to outperform the mainstream markets of Greater London over the next five years, much in the way that it did in the early 1990s.
 
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- House prices in February rose by 1.9% Page 4
The average price of all residential property transactions completed in England & Wales in February 2010 was 1.9% higher than in January. This is the tenth month in succession in which AcadHPI has increased on a monthly basis. This fi...

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With investors still smarting from losses incurred during last year’s financial crisis many remain wary of complex financial instruments, preferring instead to invest in assets such as residential property where it is plain to see what the investment “does.”

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The average price of all residential property transactions completed in England & Wales in September 2009 was 0.6% higher than in August. This is the fifth month in succession in which we have seen positive, though mode...

House prices in August rose by 0.4%
The average price of all residential property transactions completed in England & Wales in August 2009 was 0.4% higher than in July. This is the fourth month in succession in which we have seen positive growth in house prices, albeit at low levels.

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England and Wales house price trends from Acadametrics

 

• House prices in July rose by 0.1%
The average price of all property transactions completed in England & Wal...

In a move which could give the UK property sector a solid foundation for future growth it has been revealed that pension funds and investment companies in the UK are currently in talks with the government about acquiring large scale housing developments. The idea is to create an institutional p...

 The annual rate at which house prices are falling is showing signs of moderating as buyers return to the market, figures have revealed.

 

The Land Registry said house prices dropped by only 0.4% during March, the lowest monthly fall for 11 months, while the annual...

In the wake of current economic forecasts and the slowdown in UK housing markets, you could be forgiven for feeling slightly nervous about purchasing a buy-to-let property as an investment, however as Janice Farnan of award-winning developer Dandara explains, residential property in the Isle of...

There has been a large scale negative outlook on the property market for quite some time now, directly related to the presence of the credit crisis being felt globally. A important point to note is that many don’t realise is that the property market is still buoyant and bullish in the int...

FAILED lender Northern Rock is preparing a major return to the UK mortgage market by offering loans of up to 90 per cent to customers.

The nationalised firm had been scaling back the number of new customers it took on in the last year.

 

But in a move gi...

Buy-to-let landlords worried about the credit crunch can buy a cost effective warranty against tenant default.

Buy-to-let landlords concerned that rising unemployment might see their tenants default on their rent should consider buying a rental warranty, says ludlowthompson.com,...

Property prices throughout the UK continue to decrease and the latest data shows that prices are decreasing at a steady rate. The London market which has shown greater resilience also retracted. The UK is now in its 16 month of the credit crunch and the GDP figures now confirm the UK is in a re...

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The word “Recession” is a three syllable word that when mentioned strikes fear in the heart of all of its understanding listeners, not to mention their wallets. A recession in lamens terms can best be described as a decline in business activity; often defined as two consecutive quar...

As the number of bankers losing their jobs grows, there is speculation that Canary Wharf, the steel and glass east London office complex, will become a ghost town.

 

Dubbed Wall Street on the Water, Canary Wharf was the world's securitisation factory, the place where so...

Property sales rose by 8% in October, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

 

At 65,000, sales were 5,000 higher than in September, the first monthly increase since May.

However, they were still 50% down on a year ago, with ba...

The number of people signing up for rented accommodation rose in September, with demand up 50 per cent year on year, according to the UK's second largest lettings agent Your Move, which has 250 branches nationwide. The number of leases commencing in September jumped 4.34 per cent compared to Au...

 

RBS is to raise £20bn with a further £17bn to be put into HBOS and Lloyds TSB. Barclays intends to raise £6.5bn withou...

 

When I bought two off-plan, new-build buy-to-let flats in the City of London, I remember swinging my 11-stone girth into a car (I was eight months pre...

The credit crunch will soon become a distant memory, according to the first authoritative report which forecasts a bounce back in house prices.

 

But don't jump for joy yet. Coming a day after Halifax revealed a record drop in house prices, the report provides little c...