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• "House price falls are over" say futures traders

  House price falls are over. That is the declaration made over the past two months by the futures market after two years of grim expectations. As recently as last December you could forward buy a notional average house three years hence for £106,153 on... Posted Sep 14 2009, 09:53 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, house price crash, Lehman Brothers, credit crunch, Tradition Future HPI, futures market

• 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