Extortion 'hits house prices'
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Protection rackets add Â£600 onto the cost of every new home in a County Armagh town, an MLA claims.
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UK buyers take fright as thousands of illegally built homes are threatened with demolition
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Â· High interest rates biting, surveyors' report finds Â· Only London property prices rising
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When Hurricane Charley moved out, the conmen moved in. From selling $5 ($A7) bags of ice by the road to charging up to $11,000 to take down damaged trees, the rip-offs are rampant.
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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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UK house prices rose by  0.7% in October from the previous month, figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) show.
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The rate of house price growth more than halved in June in the face of higher interest rates, a report claims.
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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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The final cost of tracking down two murder suspects may exceed Â£1.5m.
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Debt-ridden homeowners sell up to companies and rent their property back - but they can then face eviction.
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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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Business & money: Annual house price inflation reached its highest rate in more than two years in July.
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Â· Jocular approach attacked as living costs spiralÂ·  Rising prices hurting the poor, say fundamentalists
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The Tequesta resident accuses her of attempting to extort millions from him by threatening to publicly accuse him of abuse. By Missy Stoddard.
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FURTHER interest rate rises could trigger a house price crash in the United Kingdom, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday.
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Business & money: Many have lost their homes after repayment pledge failed to avert repossession.
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Business & money: Â· Property costs at least double in every county Â· Northern Ireland dearest outside south east