This graph probably doesn’t look very exciting, but bear with me.
It comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index and shows an interesting shift in a recent trend.
Prices started to firm up last May and have been on the rise since then, but as our analysis of different market segments (first-time buyers and home [...]

A great big yawning gap is opening up between house price indices based on the Land Registry’s data and those based on lenders’ mortgage approvals.
Just last week Nationwide told us that house prices had tumbled into double-digit decline with a -10.5 per cent fall since August 2007.
The next day the Land Registry revealed that prices [...]

Some of our readers have scoffed at a story we published on Wednesday: House Prices Rose In April.
They think we’re trying to talk up the market, distort the truth and deny the reality of what’s currently happening to house prices.
Gareth Evans writes: “Amazing that you are still trying to hoodwink the populace and attempt to [...]