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East London Homes Selling Fast for Countryside Properties

Countryside Properties is celebrating substantial sales success at two key East London developments with over 110 homes sold in less than a year. With strong local demand, good design and excellent transport connections, Base3 in Bow has sold 58 homes … Continue reading

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Beat Stamp Duty While You Still Can

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The Charitable Side of Bramshott Place Village

In a community of like-minded people, who enjoy helping each other, keeping active and involved in all aspects of village life, it is inevitable that there will be some healthy fund-raising going on! And as Liphook’s Bramshott Place Village grows, … Continue reading

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High demand for off plan properties in Swindon

Homebuyers have been snapping up the stylish properties at Crest Nicholson’s Grosvenor Place development in Swindon – with 10 of the 13 properties being sold before the development has been completely built.

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Global housing market at its weakest since 2009

Results for Q2 2011 

Global house prices rose 0.1% growth in the three months to June 2011, contributing to annual growth of 1.7%
 
Asia continues to outperform all other world regions, here prices rose on average by 8.0% in the last 12 months
 
House prices declined in 23 of the 50 countries monitored by the index in the last three months
 
Price growth is st … Continue reading

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First Time Buyer Mortgages Ten Month High

The mortgage market has started to see a light at the end of the tunnel as this summer saw the number of mortgages taken out by first-time buyers reach a ten-month high. According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the … Continue reading

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Economic Gloom Hits Housing Market

The RICS UK Housing Market Survey for August released today reports the housing market remaining subdued and continuing to be caught by the overall economic gloom. The overall net price balance for housing edged down further into negative territory, from -22 to -23. This means that 23% more surveyors recorded falling rather than rising house [...] Continue reading

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“Modest Improvement” – Who could as for any more?

The Halifax House Price Index (HPI) for August shows a monthly fall of -1.2% and annual change of -2.6%. However the Quarterly change, which can sometimes be seen as more stable, reports a 1.0% increase. This sets the average house price for the UK at £161,743 and is higher than the previous quarter. Although the [...] Continue reading

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Surveyors continue to see London steaming ahead with price rises

Top headlines from the survey are:

House prices continue to decline
Price expectations negative albeit less so than previous month
London steams ahead with rising prices Continue reading

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Halifax HPI for July show various increases

The Monthly increase was 0.3%, taking the average UK House Price to £163,981. Over the three months to July, often seen as a more realistic figure, the increase was slightly higher at 0.5%. Continue reading

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