We have an interesting graph this week from our research team showing the relationship between falling stock levels and rising prices.
According to our figures, stock levels in the sales market are down 21.7 since their peak in February and have fallen month-on-month since then.
Significantly, house prices stabilized in April and have been on the rise [...]

Read a piece by Merryn Somerset Webb, the Editor of Money Week, a few weeks ago and meant to reply.
MSW gave Graham Norwood a bit of a clip round the ear for suggesting that the slump in house-building was sowing the seeds for the next house price boom.
“This is all total complete and utter nonsense,” [...]

I get regular news bulletins and opinion pieces from the excellent MoneyWeek, and they’re usually fairly feisty – especially when it comes to the housing market.
Last week John Stepek got in a right old strop when he read a piece in the FT suggesting that all is not lost because there is still a lot [...]