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Money for homes ‘a drop in the ocean’

Some quarters welcome the measures proposed by the government to stimulate the housing market but these still stop short of the drastic action demanded by the industry

OFT probes sale-and-rent-back sector

Complaints about the growing number of companies that buy poor people’s homes at a discount and then rent them back have triggered an inquiry by the Office of Fair Trading amid concerns about an industry that has expanded rapidly in the fallout from the credit crunch

Notes let slip fears of house prices collapse

Caroline Flint raised the spectre of a property crash when her briefing papers, describing a price fall of 5-10% as a best-case scenario, were captured on camera

Redrow adds to housebuilders’ woes

Redrow blamed trading conditions and the reduced availability of mortgages for deterioration in the housing market

Fear of falling prices hits homes market

A growing belief that UK property prices are falling is deterring both sellers and buyers, leaving housing-market conditions at their loosest since the mid-1990s, says a survey

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UK Daily View: FT index confirms house price slowdown

Norma Cohen

Norma Cohen explains why the drop in prices is more modest than those recorded by other surveys

    UK Daily View: House prices suffer annual fall

    Chris Giles

    Nationwide’s data show a sixth consecutive monthly decline, but Chris Giles explains why the situation differs from the late 1980s

      Comment and Analysis

      Why Britain’s economy will change

      Martin Wolf

      Martin Wolf discusses the Bank of England’s response to the credit crisis and the state of the UK economy

      Matthew Vincent: Time flies but houses sink

      The latest taxpayer-funded scheme to let banks rebuild their balance sheets will do little to restore fair value to equity or mortgage markets. The only compensation for borrowers - who get no state help - might be to cash in on banks’ profits

      The Short View: UK housing bubble

      John Authers

      John Authers says if UK home prices fall, the pound sterling will suffer the fate of the dollar

      Housebuilders next to suffer from lending logjam

      Lombard

      British banks are not the only ones worrying that the UK mortgage market has seized up. The country’s housebuilders are next in line to suffer if a way cannot be found to break the lending logjam

      Your property

      Slowdown fails to ease call for £1m homes

      FT index confirms slowing housing market

      Uncertainty sees fall in London house prices

      Slowdown bites for estate agents

      UK house prices to fall further

      Slowdown puts living standards in line of fire

      Halifax data add to housing gloom

      City job losses hit office rents

      House prices suffer first annual fall in 12 years

      Mortgage approvals lowest since 1993

      Property crash hits buy-to-let promoter

      Developers feel pinch as spending slows

      Brokers warn of further rises in mortgage rates

      Rents squeezed by flood of properties on to market

      Alert over ‘unrealistic’ homes target

      Persimmon adds to housing slowdown fears

      Mortgage approvals at 10-year low

      Lenders give little solace on mortgages

      £50bn UK offer for mortgage securities