Hometrack

There was a small fall in the house prices of 0.1% in March, according to the latest Hometrack housing market survey.

Signs of a housing slowdown are now beginning to surface across the UK as a fall in the number of new buyers has now created a surplus of properties, suggests the latest Hometrack house price survey.

The UK property boom seems to have reached its peak as house price rises in June slowed for the third month in a row, according to a survey by Hometrack.

Saving enough money to put down a 5% deposit as a first time buyer now takes on average a whole 12 months longer than it did a decade ago, or nearly 4 years research by National Savings & Investments suggests.

The average house price in the UK is now past the £150,000 mark as lack of supply continues to push prices higher, says property research and database provider Hometrack.

The UK housing market is steaming ahead full pelt according to a troika of surveys just out, which will more than offset news inflation as measured by the government's preferred index fell last month.

Regulation of the mortgage sector after October this year could lead Aviva's surveying services company E.surv to do deals with networks such as Sesame or Inter-Alliance if lenders can be persuaded to relinquish some control over the valuation process....