house prices

PEOPLE WITH a private pension will have to put aside an extra £6,000 over their working life to compensate for the two years of lost state pension or retire at 67, an expert said yesterday, reports the Times .

THE NUMBER of people asking about buying a house last month rose at the sharpest rate for two years, suggesting that the property market is beginning to pick up, according to this morning's papers.

Homebuyers are using delaying tactics in the hope house prices will fall, research from Alliance & Leicester (A&L) Mortgages reveals.

HOUSE PRICES in England and Wales are no longer rising faster than inflation, according to the Financial Times house price index.

House prices have risen over the past year despite a fall in the number of sales with the average London home costing over £300,000, according to the latest Land Registry figures.

New home prices in the UK dipped again last month as the housing market struggles to throw off the after-effects of a year-long slump, says property website smartnewhomes.

House prices were unmoved in October the latest figures from the Halifax reveal today.

October house prices have increased by 1.3% to reverse falls seen in the previous two months, with the average house now costing £157,107, according to the latest Nationwide report.

SOME OF Britain's most prominent business leaders have delivered a rebuke to Tony Blair after the government backed down on public-sector pension reform, according to The Times .

BRITAIN is being urged by business to use its leadership role as president of the European Union to push for reform and free trade at this week's heads of government summit at Hampton Court, according to this morning's papers.