· Prices increased in 53% of the locations monitored by the Knight Frank Global House Price Index in the year to the end of March 2010 · The Asia Pacific region saw the strongest growth with prices increasing, on average, by 17.8% · Annual price inflation for all global housing markets moved into positive territory for the...
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House prices now rising in more than half of countries across the globe
UK House Price Challenge
With the latest news that house price decline in the UK has hit double digit numbers, and that the decline is even more rapid than at any point in living memory. We are following through with a suggestion we made some time ago …...
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Service sector economy to collapse
Anyone who can remember the Thatcher era, will remember that the great mantra at the time was that we were moving to a service sector economy. With steel works and mines closing we witnessed great swathes of devastation cut across many parts of the...
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House Prices – catch a falling dagger
News in the UK press this weekend has been full of insightful articles about how the housing market is in trouble and that even financially solvent people have no...
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How far will the housing market fall
We’ve been harping on about the housing bubble for some time here at The Business News Source. As we pointed out it wasn’t ‘if’ – but ‘when’ the collapse...
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UK CML encourage more debt
With an astounding example of inappropriate timing, the UK’s Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) yesterday announced that the equity release sector should be encouraged to grow by the government. ...
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