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• House building looks set for growth in 2010

  The latest Government house building numbers strongly suggest that a shade more than 100,000 homes will be built in England in 2009. This would represent a 40% drop on the peak year of 2007 and make 2009 a record peacetime low. There are hints of hope... Posted Nov 19 2009, 10:22 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, house building, starts, completions

• Christmas sales come to the housing market

  It's the run up to Christmas and we're in a recession - well if not technically, we're definitely suffering from the recession - so don't be surprised to see redundancies on the rise and asking prices for homes on the decline. It is the... Posted Nov 16 2009, 07:56 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, recession, redundancies, Rightmove, asking prices, double dip, General Election, FindaProperty

• The stagnant housing market: More a problem of first-time movers than first-time buyers

  First-time buyers are increasingly becoming trapped in their first-time homes and unable to move on to homes that better suit their needs. That at least is the implication of some figures that caught my eye recently when I was looking though some data... Posted Nov 10 2009, 08:41 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, housing policy, inflation, interest rates, property transactions, first-time buyers, Richard Donnell, Hometrack, Council of Mortgage Lenders, Housing Market Intelligence, first-time movers

• Has the housing mini-boom run out of puff?

  All the gauges appear to be reading "set fair" in the housing market, so why the long faces among those in the know? The latest RICS housing market survey on the face of it provides every reason to suspect that better times lie ahead. This follows... Posted Nov 10 2009, 12:34 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, RICS, housing market, house building, Richard Donnell, Hometrack, double dip

• Orders figures continue to point to a rougher road ahead

  For those poring over the latest new orders figures released today to find guidance on the future of construction activity I suspect there is something for the optimists, but rather more for the pessimists. It must be said that trying to discern sensible... Posted Nov 05 2009, 12:44 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, commercial sector, house building, Homes and Communities Agency, construction orders, ONS, quantitative easing, Bank of England, public spending

• Food for thought for would-be housing minister

  The Building and Social Housing Foundation has emailed its latest report " The Future of Housing ", which has just been published. It would be rather tricky to summarise the document other than to say it provides a critical look at the state... Posted Oct 19 2009, 11:49 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, housing policy, Grant Shapps, John Healey, Building and Social Housing Foundation

• House prices on the increase, but so too are the questions marks over the housing market

  The big news is that for the first time in two years more surveyors in Britain said prices rose than said they fell, according to the latest RICS housing market survey. The big question is whether this is the start of a continuous and sustained recovery... Posted Sep 15 2009, 12:54 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, RICS, housing market, unemployment, economy, Item Club

• House building figures show huge jump in starts and completions

  There were two big boosts in the numbers released today for house builders. First, the latest Government data on homes built in England are by far the best for more than a year with a massive leap in the quarter to June. Second, gross mortgage lending... Posted Aug 20 2009, 12:45 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, housing market, house building, housing starts, housing completions, mortgage approvals, Council of Mortgage Lenders

• Summer sale has started in the housing market, says Rightmove

  Today's Rightmove figures showing a drop of 2.2% in the price sellers are asking for their homes provides a reminder of the need to remain cautious about the direction of the housing market. The numbers are obviously being spun to point to the £5... Posted Aug 17 2009, 09:33 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, housing market, property transactions, Rightmove, FT

• CML provides further evidence of the housing market becoming more buoyant

  The Council of Mortgage Lenders today adds yet more weight to the view that the housing market is in a period of stability if not growth. Its June figures show a 23% increase in the number of home loans over the past month taking the total to a level... Posted Aug 11 2009, 11:03 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, housing market, Council of Mortgage Lenders

• 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

• House prices are flat lining, says Hometrack

  For the third month in a row Hometrack has registered steady house prices, with a perkier southern market compensating for weaker activity in the north. But this has not led Richard Donnell, Director of Research at the housing market data provider, to... Posted Jul 27 2009, 09:21 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, housing market, Richard Donnell, Hometrack

• House prices likely to rise say surveyors

  The shortage of homes on the market has provided surveyors with increased confidence that house prices may rise, according to the latest RICS survey. For the first time since May 2007 more surveyors polled by the RICS expect house prices to rise than... Posted Jul 14 2009, 11:24 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, RICS, housing market, north-south divide

• Housing market medicine working, says CML

  The latest forecast from the Council of Mortgage Lenders paints a more positive outlook for the housing market than it did when it last forecast in December. It now thinks repossessions this year will hit 65,000, 10,000 fewer than previously thought,... Posted Jun 22 2009, 02:49 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, property transactions, mortgage approvals, Council of Mortgage Lenders, repossessions

• Rightmove figures provide food for thought on house prices

  The latest figures divined from the property website Rightmove show that asking prices fell 0.4% in the month. And at first sight this seem a little at odds with most of the data coming from the housing market of late. There is data to suggest that there... Posted Jun 22 2009, 10:40 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, housing market, unemployment, interest rates, optimism, Rightmove, pessimism, death, divorce, debt