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• Caution rules in house price debate

  The latest Nationwide house price survey for August recorded the fourth rise on the trot and puts the average price of a house £12,500 higher than in February. Surely this means the slump is over and the price of houses is back on the way up? Well no... Posted Aug 27 2009, 11:11 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, house prices, unemployment, Nationwide, interest rates, wage inflation

• Forecasters call the bottom of the house price slump

  The increasing stretch of stable house prices is leading forecasters to call the bottom of the slump. The Nationwide late last month tentatively said it may be time to think the unthinkable that house prices may exit 2009 higher than they entered it.... Posted Aug 08 2009, 05:45 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, house prices, RICS, unemployment, Nationwide, forecasts, CEBR, uncertainty

• 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

• Nationwide ponders the unthinkable: A house price rise for 2009

  The latest figures from Nationwide show a rise in prices for the third month on the trot, which puts the price of an average house at 1.3% more than at the start of the year. This sign of buoyancy is not isolated, we are seeing various indexes pointing... Posted Jul 30 2009, 11:52 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, RICS, unemployment, Nationwide, interest rates, economy

• 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

• Relief on the home front, but are we really on a road to recovery?

  The relief among those connected with the house building and selling industries must be enormous at the moment. Following on from a set of more encouraging sales data and a fall in pessimism among estate agents, we had figures from Nationwide at the end... Posted Jun 01 2009, 12:07 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Nationwide, Liam Halligan, Richard Donnell, Hometrack, Stephanie Flanders, bond yields, FT

• Home prices slide but rate of decline has eased, says Nationwide

  The latest Nationwide data on house prices is yet another pointer to suggst the slide in house prices is far from over. The April figure saw the average price fall by 0.4% in April after the upward blip of 0.9% a month earlier. The optimists may suggest... Posted Apr 30 2009, 10:25 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, house prices, unemployment, recession, Nationwide, homebuyers, home ownership, confidence

• 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

• Nationwide springs pleasant surprise for house sellers and builders

  The latest analysis by the Nationwide of house prices suggests that this spring has brought with it an unexpected 0.9% bounce in the price of houses. This will add some more cheer to those currently enjoying the blue skies, sunshine and abundant blossom... Posted Apr 02 2009, 10:49 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, housing market, unemployment, Nationwide, deflation, inflation, interest rates, Bank of England, David Blanchflower

• Is there any value in valuing housing?

  I thought it might be worth responding to the comment from Gerry. I don't get many comments and he raises a good point. My first reaction is to say that I couldn't agree more that people should see homes as homes and not as investments. I also... Posted Feb 26 2009, 04:18 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: house prices, Blue Book, Barratt, valuations, Nationwide

• £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