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• Future traders think the tide has turned for house prices

  The futures market is now pricing in strong growth in the housing market, with the Halifax index priced to rise by 6% over the coming 12 months and by 12% over 5 years. This is a marked rise in the prices from just a month ago and reflects the uplift... Posted Oct 08 2009, 10:11 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Halifax, house building, Tradition Future HPI, futures market, hedging

• Halifax sees house prices up 3% from the bottom

  The latest figures from Halifax put the price of an average house (not seasonally adjusted) up by 3% on the low they reached in March this year and broadly on a par with the level at the end of last year. This will no doubt help keep alive the hopes that... Posted Sep 10 2009, 11:13 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Halifax, optimism

• RICS: Housing market remains fragile, despite recent improvement

  The message from the latest update on the housing market from the surveyors' body RICS is that while the market may have found a clearing it is not out of the woods yet. There has been a torrent of better news on the housing market with both the Nationwide... Posted Aug 06 2009, 10:06 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, RICS, housing market, Halifax, unemployment, house building, Nationwide, interest rates, property transactions, affordability

• Recent housing data poses the question: Higher, Lower or Stick for prices?

  The latest Halifax house price figures showing a 0.5% drop, stacked on top of recent data from Nationwide , Hometrack and a range of others, suggest that prices may be holding steady. But what should we read into that? Which way from here for prices?... Posted Jul 08 2009, 11:38 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, house prices, Halifax, unemployment, Nationwide, interest rates, Hometrack

• And the good news is...

  The uber-bearish traders in house price futures appear to have softened their view on the depth of the slump in house prices quite markedly over the past month or so. At the turn of the year you could have bought a notional average house three years hence... Posted Jun 11 2009, 03:17 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Halifax, Tradition Future HPI, futures market

• Traders see a brighter future for house prices - but still expect a further 17% drop

  Follow the money they say. Well the money punted in the futures market suggests that average house prices still have at least 17% to fall. That puts the peak-to-trough drop at more than a third. But the good news for those selling homes is that the mood... Posted May 14 2009, 10:01 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Halifax, Tradition Future HPI, futures market

• We are back to April 2004 on house prices, says Halifax

  The Halifax house price index showed a further 1.7% fall in April dragging the cost of an average home down to £154,716 on the seasonally adjusted measure. The last time prices were that low was in April 2004 and Halifax puts average prices at about 23... Posted May 06 2009, 10:11 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Halifax

• Halifax figures dampen hopes of spring bounce in house prices

  The Nationwide figures published yesterday provided some cheer for those selling homes with the announcement of a 0.9% rise in its house price index for March. That hope has been rather squashed with the Halifax today releasing figures suggesting the... Posted Apr 03 2009, 03:27 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, house price crash, Halifax, Nationwide, G20 summit, Tradition Future HPI, Julian Birch

• House price collapse continues says Halifax

  The Halifax index of house prices returned to a downward path in February after surprising many when it showed house prices rising in January. The February figure suggests that on a seasonally adjusted basis 2.3% was wiped off the value of an average... Posted Mar 05 2009, 09:41 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, housing market, house price crash, Halifax, unemployment

• £1 trillion wiped off the value of UK homes

  Let's not get too worked up about the £40 billion loss by RBS - those foolish bankers that went into a bidding war to buy ABN Amro at peak. If the Nationwide figures are any reflection of the true value of houses in the UK then we have just witness... Posted Feb 26 2009, 09:25 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, house price crash, Halifax, RBS, Nationwide