Housing market &#39;heading for stagnation&#39;
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The housing market will stagnate rather than slump, economists insisted after figures from the Halifax revealed a 1.1 per cent drop in prices last month.
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In a troubled housing market, is staying on the sidelines wise?
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Even the rosiest forecasts for next year&#39;s real estate market caution that higher interest rates nationally could shrink the pool of potential home buyers.
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The economy has slowed down. Gasoline prices hit new highs in early August. And the once-soaring housing sector is rapidly losing altitude, raising concerns it could drag the whole country into a recession.
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The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
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US economic growth is set to quicken as a healthy jobs market offsets weakness in the housing sector, a survey predicts.
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By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 26/11/2004). Increasing numbers of homeowners are renegotiating their mortgages to take advantage of the slowing property market, the British Bankers Association said yesterday.
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The drop-off is likely to hurt businesses that serve the housing industry, which economists donât expect to bottom out until the middle of the year.
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The combination of escalating real estate prices and largely stagnant incomes has contributed to the problem.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Activity in the UK housing market is continuing to slow, according to data from two major market participants, though a surprise 1 percent rise in house prices in November helped to offset immediate fears of a market crash.
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House prices will decline 2 per cent over the next year as the market experiences a &quot;measured slowdown&quot;, the Halifax said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- Restrained by a worse-than-expected slump in housing, the economy will grow at the slowest pace in five years in 2007, leading economic forecasters say. They predict consumers will get a break on inflation from falling energy prices.
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&#39;The ongoing stimulus of lower-than-expected mortgage interest rates was the primary driver of strong home sales in October.&#39;.
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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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UNITED KINGDOM - The process of property market weakening has been recently observed due to declining mortgage lending for the last two months in a row in the UK.
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Strained by an ailing housing market and credit woes, the economy in 2007 is expected to log its worst growth in five years and should be somewhat sluggish next year.
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The monthly figures may provide some relief however, that the UK housing market is not showing signs of a sustained downward trend after last month&#39;s figures showed a drop in prices of 0.1pc from August.