Browsing: house-prices

More evidence that house prices are really falling comes from the Nationwide building society, in its latest official house price index. While it tries to draw attention more to annual figures in the accompanying commentary, which are still very much up, the quarterly figures for January to March 2008 are…

Ireland is falling. The US is plunging. After 15 years of house price growth and five years of house price bubble, is the UK housing market aksi turning downwards? Will Elvis finally be spotted on the moon? Prices are certainly stalling, with a drop of 0.4% in London last month…

While many people have made a fortune out of property in the UK over the past few years, some have lost a packet – even as prices continued to rise. These are the so-called ‘Sell-to-Rent’ brigade, who attempt to time the peaks and troughs of the house price cycle by…