The property market is set to show a recovery in 2013 as a series of positive signals emerge from a national house price index published today. The Rightmove Index measures trends in asking prices, search activity and inquiries, and all three are up on the same time last...
Ministers and market leaders are trying to reduce the risk of owning a home, but it doesn't all come down to money. The vast majority of British households still aspire to own their own home, but, with the risk of borrowing too much and falling into negative equity or being...
“L P Hartley famously said that, “the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there”. In many respects these sentiments apply to the UK housing market, with a marked difference between current conditions and those prevailing between 2005 and 2007...
RICS August 2012 UK Housing Market Survey Activity in the UK housing market held relatively firm during August despite the distraction of the Olympic fortnight, says the latest RICS UK housing market survey (11 September 2012). In the three months to August, chartered surveyors...
