House-price boom 'splits Britain'
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Rising property prices are making the gap between rich and poor far worse, housing charity Shelter say.
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New official figures have cast some doubt on the claims that the UK housing market has begun to cool in recent months. Home prices rose by a strong 2.1% during July - despite other evidence that the market
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MORTGAGE lending fell again last month, a further sign that the housing bubble has burst. About Â£25.4bn was lent by banks and building societies last month, down 4% on August and the second monthly fall in
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Flat prices in most parts of England and Wales are not keeping up with houses, Land Registry figures show.
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Home prices in Britain fell the most in three years in December, and the threat of more declines may cause the property market to seize up in 2008, said Hometrack Ltd., a London-based research group. The average cost of a home in England and Wales slipped for a third month, dropping 0.3 percent to Â£175,200 ($348,350). âThe second half of the year has seen a major reversal in confidence,â Richard Donnell, director for research at Hometrack, said in a statement. âJust as the financial markets have faced a liquidity squeeze, so the housing market is in danger of facing its own liquidity squeeze.â Prices increased 3 percent from a year earlier, the least in 18 months, Hometrack said.
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UK mortgage lending dropped in September and shares of house builders slid on mounting evidence that Britain&#39;s five-year property boom is coming to an end as interest rates rise.
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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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Prices are frozen or falling in most parts of Britain, according to research by Hometrack.
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Business & money: Young London couples spend more than half of their pay on their mortgage, writes Lisa Bachelor.
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The pound was dealt a blow Monday by a huge drop in a key measure of house prices.
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Business & money: Nationwide building society says the annual rate of house price inflation has risen to 9.7%, despite higher interest rates.
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SCOTLAND&#39;S property market is escaping the steepest UK-wide fall in house prices for nine years, it emerged today. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors&#39; Housing Market Survey of Great Britain shows
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A 12-bedroom guest house with beautiful views of the North Sea, a lighthouse and sandy beaches would normally be considered prime property in Britain, a nation where real estate prices are booming.  But Cliff House is nearly worthless.
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Average house prices in the UK are accelerating again,  the government's figures indicate.
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House prices in the UK are heading for a crash, warn the world&#39;s money men. Soft landing, please, say Britain&#39;s estate agents.
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Britain may be facing a fall in house prices similar to that experienced in the US, the IMF warns.
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Business & money: House prices have dropped for the first time in two years, adding to worries of unstable market.