House prices- will they fall or rise in 2012?

Will the UK property market be even more depressed in 2012 than it was in 2011?Commentators and analysts expect sales to stay low – perhaps even lower than they have been in the past year.

And prices are expected by most observers to fall a little – though some predict larger drops of up to 10% [...]

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UK interest rates remain on hold at 0.5%

UK interest rates have been kept at a record low of 0.5% by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).Economists had expected interest rates would remain unchanged due to the subdued economy. GDP figures for the second quarter showed growth of 0.2% with a majority of economists expecting mortgage interest rates to remain unchanged [...]

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House prices rise in prosperous areas

The average house price rose in the 10 most prosperous areas by 219%
The value of homes in the most economically prosperous UK locations – including Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Bournemouth and Poole – surged ahead of properties in the country’s poorest areas, a survey showed.

Homeowners in the 10 areas with highest growth rates in [...]

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Costs of buying a seaside home has more than doubled

The cost of owning a home by the sea has more that doubled over the past decade the Halifax bank has found.
It also found that property prices in seven out of 10 seaside towns in England and Wales have seen greater increases than the national average since 2001.

Wadebridge in Cornwall, a few miles inland from [...]

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UK economy to grow more slowly warns OECD

UK economic growth- the main driver for property prices- will be slower over the next three months than previously predicted, according to a forecast from the OECD think tank.
In a survey of the G7 economies, the OECD estimated that UK gross domestic product would expand at an annualised rate of 1% in the second quarter.

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