Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Mike Carter
New-build crisis means that homes fall empty. Latest stats show an increase of 10,000 empty homes which brings the total of property sans inhabitants to 672,924, this is the first increase in empty homes in nine years. Read more at The Times.
Experts fail to agree on housing market. What, really? Chris Giles tries to piece [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Mike Carter
Everyone seems to have something to say about Nationwide’s latest figures and Peter Bolton King, Chief Executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, believes it’s not all bad news and that stability does seem to be returning to the market. He had this to say…
“The national sales figures do not tell the whole [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Mike Carter
You’d have to be living under a rock (albeit a rapidly devaluing rock) to have missed Nationwide’s most recent House Price Index results. The average British house lost 2.5% off its value during May and over the past year house prices have fallen by an average of £8000. David Stubbs, RICS senior economist, had this [...]
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