house prices

UK annual house price inflation stood at 4.3% in January, up from 2.9% in December the latest government figures reveal.

Mortgage lending for house purchase at the end of 2005 stood at 46% of all lending (£37.6bn) reveal new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

The Land Registry's latest residential property price report shows average house prices in England and Wales rose 4.6% during 2005 despite a fall in prices between October and December.

One quarter of all married couples are finding it hard to get on the housing ladder according to Alliance & Leicester Mortgages.

Annual house price inflation rose by 0.7% in November from 1.8% to 2.5% according to figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) released this morning.

A MUCH-touted house price crash has failed to materialise in 2005, forcing one of the harshest pessimists in the market to renounce its forecast for a 20% slide in property values, according to the Daily Telegraph .

House prices have started to rise again for the first time in 15 months claims the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).

IFA NETWORK owner Misys is parting company with the head of its banking systems, Ivan Martin, "by mutual agreement" - three months after issuing a shock profits warning that sent its shares tumbling and enraged its investors, according to The Times ....

UK house price inflation was 3.3% in September, up from a nine-year low of 2.8% in August, according to latest figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

ALMOST TWO fifths of Britons say they have lost faith in the private pension system and say it would take "an act of God or the Government" to make them reconsider investing, according to the Daily Telegraph .