'Tough' market for rural houses
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A review by the Bank of Scotland says the housing market in rural areas is "particularly tough".
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The market's turmoil may be especially unsettling for middle-aged homeowners.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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A couple's move from England to Wales is scuppered by a rule aimed at making rural housing affordable for locals.
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Despite a slight slump in home prices, high housing costs trouble local residents more than concerns about education and healthcare, a new poll showed.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing  scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You  put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old  house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A robust housing market and higher prices for building materials, labour and land pushed up prices for new houses across the country in August, says Statistics Canada.
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Migration to urban centres is exacerbating problems in the countryside, the World Urban Forum is told.
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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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While the housing downturn has depressed once-thriving real estate markets around the nation, far-flung suburbs of major cities have suffered the most abrupt market correction.
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Pending home sales fall, but also prove opportunity for long-term investors.
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It's hardest to buy a home in these 10 places, where owning property is out of reach for most of the population.
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Real estate prices depend a lot on local conditions.
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House market trends are shifting away from a sellers' market and now favour buyers, new figures suggest.
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Rural America is having a hard time finding doctors and since 9/11 it's been more difficult to import foreign physicians to fill the gap.
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Handing over more greenfield land to housing will not curb rising prices, say campaigners.
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Eastern Europeans are becoming the mainstay of hard-to-fill jobs in Britain's rural areas, research suggests.