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House prices fall 3.4% in year
9:57am Tuesday 11th January 2011
House prices fell by 3.4% during 2010 after sliding by 1.3% in December alone, Halifax has said.
House prices up slightly in 2010
12:17pm Tuesday 4th January 2011
House prices edged higher in 2010 but are still expected to drop in the first half of 2011, mortgage lender Nationwide has said.
Bank keeps interest rate unchanged
12:54pm Thursday 9th December 2010
The Bank of England has ended the year as it began as it left its emergency support for the economy unchanged.
Average home prices down once more
9:19am Friday 3rd December 2010
The recent run of house price falls have wiped out most of the gains seen to property values during the past year, figures have revealed.
Living cost 'higher in rural areas'
10:39am Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Rural families are struggling to make ends meet and typically need to spend 10-20% more than city dwellers for an acceptable standard of living, research shows.
Interest rates held at historic low
9:31am Monday 8th November 2010
The Bank of England has chosen not to follow US counterparts into another round of emergency measures to prop up the economic recovery.
House prices fell 3.6% last month
9:45am Thursday 7th October 2010
The UK housing market has suffered a major jolt as figures from Halifax revealed prices slumped 3.6% in September - the biggest monthly drop since figures were first compiled in 1983.
Housing market stalls in the North and storms ahead in the South
11:24am Monday 4th October 2010
A North/South divide is emerging in the housing market with sales racing ahead in southern regions but remaining sluggish in many parts of the north, new figures show.
Housing market heading for double dip
4:36pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
THE housing market is heading for a double dip as mortgage lending slumped, while thousands of people who bought a home at the peak of the market could remain trapped in negative equity until 2014.
Housing supply outstrips demand
10:47am Tuesday 10th August 2010
Property professionals saw house prices fall for the first time in a year last month and expect further declines as demand weakens, according to new research.
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