26-May-2008 | Dubai House prices up 15% in two months and could double
The price of oil spiked to $128 a barrel last week and has been taking Dubai house prices up with it. Even the most cursory survey of price changes over just the past two months shows 10%-15% increases across the board. This is probably the highest rate of change in Dubai property prices since the modern freehold revolution began in 2002.

05-May-2008 | House prices jump as interest rates fall
But falling interest rates have already put Dubai house prices in an upward spin this spring, with 10%-15% increases in asking prices across the board.

05-May-2008 | UK House prices suffer worst decline since 1996, says Halifax
Further confirmation that the economy is entering its worst slowdown since the early 1990s came yesterday, as the Halifax index showed that house prices fell by another 1.3 per cent in April.

22-March-2008 | House Price Data from Land Registry
London experienced seasonally adjusted annual price growth of 13.1 percent, approximately twice the rate of England and Wales as a whole.

13-March-2008 | Ten reasons Dubai real estate will continue to boom Dubai Property
Dubai real estate may well be the next asset class bubble to be created by inappropriate interest rate levels set by the US, alongside Hong Kong property. But there are at least 10 good reasons to think the present realty boom in Dubai will continue for rather longer than many outside observers believe possible.

07-Feb-2008 | Dubai property prices rise as other markets suffer Dubai Property
With the International Property Show Dubai 2008 running for the next three days, here is an international case study. Both the Western Australian capital Perth and Dubai have overheated, commodity price fuelled economies. And yet property prices stalled in Perth last year after a 40 per cent rise in 2006, while in Dubai real estate prices continue to rocket upwards. Why?

07-Feb-2008 | Surrey tops expensive counties list - Houseladder
Surrey has been named as the UK's most expensive county, according to the latest Halifax County House Price Survey. The average property price in the county was £364,115 in 2007...

07-Feb-2008 | Top 10 property hotspots for 2008
The outlook for Britain's property market might not be as bright as in recent years, but prices in some areas are expected to rise strongly in 2008.

01-Feb-2008 | Home economics house prices and stock market turmoil
A week of turmoil on world equity markets and somewhat drastic action by the Fed to try to avert a recession in America will have done little to bolster the confidence of housebuyers here.

01-Feb-2008 | Repossessed homes sold at auction soar
Europe's biggest residential property auction house Allsop said almost 40 per cent of all the homes it was currently putting under the hammer were properties that were being sold by banks and building societies that had repossessed them.

25-Jan-2008 | Mortgage approvals by UK banks fell to record low in December
Citigroup is confident on the long-term health of the UK housing market despite the recent slowdown, forecasting that house prices will continue to grow broadly in line with wage growth over the medium to long term, due to short supply.

21-Jan-2008 | Half a million homeowners miss mortgage payments
Almost half a million cash-strapped homeowners have missed a monthly repayment on their mortgage in the past six months, according to new research.

21-Jan-2008 | Bargain hunters reignite UK housing market
A rush by homeowners to put properties on the market ahead of the introduction of Home Information Packs (Hips) has pulled down the average of cost of a house which has fallen for the third month in a row.

09-Jan-2008 | Citigroup upbeat on housing fundamentals despite short-term slow down
Citigroup is confident on the long-term health of the UK housing market despite the recent slowdown, forecasting that house prices will continue to grow broadly in line with wage growth over the medium to long term, due to short supply...

04-Jan-2008 | Mortgage approvals fall in November Business Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Mortgage approvals for house purchase fell for a fifth straight month in November to hit their lowest level in almost three years, providing further evidence of a slowdown in the housing market...

29-Dec-2007 | China and India to shrug off US recession - Telegraph
The global credit crunch, and a supposedly impending UK house price crash, have kept economics on the nation’s front pages this year. That will continue during 2008, as the world economy undergoes seismic change.

29-Dec-2007 | Your money - Your property - Flat, not crash, is 2008 view of property professionals
Mortgage lenders, brokers, estate agents and valuers agree that property prices will slow dramatically in 2008 – and, in some regions, fall. But none is predicting a crash in the residential or buy-to-let markets.