house prices

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

House prices continue to cool, declining 0.5% in February, according to mortgage lender Halifax.

Latest Nationwide figures suggest house prices gained in February but that the rate of house price inflation in the past 12 months has slipped again.

THE INLAND REVENUE has been forced to admit

More than nine-in-ten, or 92% of the UK's main postal towns are now out of reach of the average first time buyer of residential property, according to figures published by Halifax.

Data from members of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests residential house prices fell more slowly in December than in the previous three months.

A region of Scotland tops this year's list of places with the highest annual house price inflation, the Bank of Scotland says.

There are now only four streets left on the original London Monopoly board whose houses and hotels do not cross the £263,000 inheritance tax threshold, says Prudential.

A stagnating housing market could see residential house prices fall between 0% to 5% through 2005 as the market corrects for high prices relative to earnings.

Prices of residential housing fell in the past month for the first time in three years, data from Nationwide suggests.