House market has worst month since 2000
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House prices fell by 1.1 per cent last month, their worst performance in four years, Halifax, Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, has said.
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House prices dropped by 1.1% in October as the property market continues to weaken, according to the Halifax monthly house price index report.
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The average asking price of homes up for sale has fallen for a third month in a row, Rightmove says.
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The unexpectedly weak report suggested that home prices would fall further next year as the housing market struggles to break out of its deepest slump since the early 1990s.
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The number of new mortgages being given to house movers falls by 20% in the past year, Bank of England figures show.
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The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, is likely to get worse in the near term, economists said.
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Figures showed property price falls for the fourth consecutive month, down 0.6 per cent according to latest research, which predicts more falls to come.
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Sales of new homes plunged in August and prices posted their biggest year-on-year drop in nearly 37 years, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Thursday, underlining the depth of problems facing the housing sector.
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Mortgage lending has fallen for two successive months for the first time in four years, reinforcing observations of a weakening property market.
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The housing market took a sharp turn for the worse in September as prices tumbled and sales of previously owned homes fell to a record low, battered by rising foreclosures and tighter lending standards.
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House prices fell at their sharpest rate in four years in October, the Halifax bank says, in another sign that the property boom is over.
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Sales of new homes, plunging to their lowest level in more than 12 years, were weaker than forecast last month - leaving the market glutted with unsold homes and pointing to more trouble ahead for the battered housing market.
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New home sales posted the biggest drop on record in 2007, according to the government's latest look at the battered housing market released Monday, as a year that saw a meltdown in the mortgage market and a drop in home values ended with yet more signs of weakness.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.
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The price of existing homes sold in October fell for the third straight month and posted the biggest drop on record, an industry group said Tuesday, adding it expects weakness in pricing to drag on into next year.
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Business & money: Housing market still on the slide, falling as much as 6% in six months, as petrol prices spiral.
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The asking prices of homes put up for sale in England and Wales have fallen sharply in December, Rightmove says.