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Simon Morris, the former Leeds United football club director whose property group collapsed last year with reported debts of more than £50m, has been declared bankrupt. 

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In most parts of the UK, August out-performed September in terms of sales activity – underlining what a topsy-turvy market this has been.

A staggering 79% of homeowners expect property prices to rise in the next six months, according to Zoopla.co.uk’s latest quarterly sentiment survey.

Mortgage volumes increased 29% in the year to August, according to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Lenders and government ministers were aware of reckless lending as long ago as 2005 but each felt that the proble was the other's resposibility.

October 07 2009 A leading ratings agency dampened hopes that the housing market had recovered, warning that there were more price falls to come.

Halifax have reported a third consecutive monthly increase in house prices, but agents warned that their pipelines are looking awful.

House prices rose by 0.9% in September, the fifth consecutive monthly increase  High supply of rental property raises questions about durability of price recovery

Monday 28th September 2009

House prices crept up by 0.2% in September, according to Hometrack. It means prices are now just 5.6% below what they were this time a year ago.

Friday 25th September 2009

The number of house purchase approvals from high street banks in August rose 81% compared with August last year, says the British Bankers Association.

Supply falls in both the non-residential and residential sectors

11.09.09By Richard Heap

property professionals are on alert after revelations about buy-to-let mortgage fraud based on inflated property valuations.

The number of clients borrowing 85% or more of the value of their property has surged 96% in the last three months, according to Countrywide Mortgage Services

The average number of property sales per surveyor increased by 10% between June and August

The number of mortgages secured for house purchase increased 14% to 50,123 in July, marking the fourth consecutive increase since April, according to the Bank of England.

There have been important developments in monetary policy this month, with possible implications for the housing market.

House prices rose by 1.6% in August * Year-on-year decline slows from -6.2% to -2.7% * Low interest rates helping to underpin prices for the moment

July figures from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) show increases in the number of mortgage approvals and the amount of new lending, although this was below seasonal expectations.

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever day for visitor traffic.  

The average house price will surge 20% to £227,800 in 2014, according to the National Housing Federation

House prices rose by 0.9% in June. Three month rate of change turns positive for first time since December 2007. Low supply supporting prices for now, but a sustained recovery still faces risks

The Bank of England has left the base rate unchanged for the fourth straight month as the nation continues to struggle with the recession

Sales volumes plummeted 58% to 31,315 per month between November and February

The recent upturn in market activity is “fragile and prone to collapse", claims Jones Lang LeSalle.

House prices rose by 1.2% in May. Annual rate of decline improves sharply from -15.0% to -11.3%. Low supply levels may explain some of the improvement in price trends

Buy-to-let lending plummeted 69% year-on-year in Q1, marking the sixth consecutive quarter fall.

Instructions plummeted 55% to 61,000 in May, reveals Rightmove’s latest House Price Index.

RICS Global Commercial Property Survey

With this week's media interest in the fact that one of the Government's Home Buying schemes has already run out of money. The following Parliamentary question on numbers helped by the various schemes makes for an interesting read...

Further rise in buyer enquires but new instructions fall again

Predictions for repossession orders and distressed sales could exceed 1990 levels, claims Moore Blatch.

House prices fell to £154,716 in April, according to Halifax's House Price Index out today.

Sales volumes plummeted 57% to 24,770 in January, according to the latest Land Registry statistics.

The price of a typical house fell by 0.4% in April. Housing measures in the budget are welcome, but are unlikely to turn things around. Economic fundamentals will continue to dominate housing market prospects

House prices increased by 0.9% in March House purchase activity reaches highest level since May 2008 Welcome signals of market improvement but too early to talk of house price recovery

Asking prices in Greater London fell 3.2% to £387,161 in April, reveals Rightmove’s latest House Price Index.

House prices made a surprise bounce of 0.9% last month, according to Nationwide's March House Price Index.

Activity in the housing market showed signs of picking up during February with the number of mortgages approved for house purchase jumping by nearly a fifth, figures have showed.

House prices could fall by up to 55% from current levels, reveals a report from investment bank Numis Securities

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published its latest mortgage lending data for the United Kingdom covering the period from Q3 2007 to the end of Q4 2008.

The property website Rightmove has released its latest house price index for March.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has released its latest house price index this morning, which is based on mortgages completions during January 2009

If you are involved in buying or selling homes in England or Wales, there are three key changes which apply to properties marketed on or after 6 April 2009 that you need to know about:

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New buyer enquiries increase at the fastest pace since August 2006, but newly agreed sales and sales per surveyor continue to fall.

House price drops within the capital's wealthiest central postcodes are beginning to slow as confidence and in particular Russians return to the market, says a leading London agent.

Collapsing oil prices have pulled oil rich countries into the global property malaise with capital values falling in emerging nations for the first time in the survey's history, according to RICS' latest Global Property Survey

House prices are now at their lowest level since March 2005, according to a ‘poll of polls’ by Chesterton Humberts

The house price downturn started well before it did in the UK - where is it today?

LSL Property Services, the parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains estate agencies brand, was badly hit by the housing market collapse last year.

Yesterdays’s rate cut to 0.5% has failed to excite estate agents, who say that the latest reduction cheapens Britain to foreigners, whilst acting as a deterrent to savers and making it harder for lenders to lend.

New buyer registrations surged 17.1% in February, according to Hometrack’s National Housing Survey.

The average UK house price has fallen 2.3% to £160,327, according to the February Halifax House Price Index.

The Bank of England has once again sought to address the current economic downturn by reducing the base rate to an unprecedented low of just 0.5%. If their hope is that this will stimulate activity in the property market they may well be proved absolutely right – finally!

The government has refused to give home sellers a grace period to prepare a Home Information Pack (HIP) for their property despite a recent petition to Downing Street asking for one signed by nearly 1,700 members of the public.

His alluring smile and boyish good looks propelled Phil Spencer, 39, from little-known estate agent to national icon. But in the final analysis no amount of TV fame could steer his posh home-finding firm through the credit crunch

House prices fell to an average £147,746 this month, from £150,501 in January, according to Nationwide's House Price Review

House purchase approvals rose 7.4% to £2.9bn in January, reveals today's statistics from the British Bankers' Association.

With the appearance of many accidental landlords entering the market and the seasoned investor making the most of the current downturn to expand their portfolio, some tenants are being spoilt for choice when choosing their next place of residence.

Commercial property insolvencies are set to surge, a leading business rescue firm is predicting

Interest in the property market has been increasing, according to data from a directory inquiries service

Plans to inject more money into Countrywide, which includes Abbotts estate agents in Norwich, and write off much of its debts have moved a step forward.

Transactions levels in January slipped to their lowest since the1950s. According to HM Revenue& Customs, a record low of just 43,000 homes changed hands during the month.

The Government’s new rescue package aimed at kickstarting the housing market and the economy starts today. The intention is to encourage lenders to start lending again.

The total value of new buy-to-let loans was 65% less in the last three months of 2008 than in the same quarter for 2007.

The number of people who lost their homes soared by more than 50% during 2008 to hit a 12-year high.

The typical marketing time for residential property has tripled since the onset of the credit crunch, according to property search engine Home.

The number of new sellers on the market is 45% down on February 2008, according to Rightmove.

Give 'Em Enough Rope

Agents completed an average 9.9 sales in the three months to January, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey

The number of people buying a home fell last year to its lowest level since 1974 as the mortgage drought restricted activity in the property market, new figures show.

There may be an unexpected silver lining to the housing market's downturn: we could end up with larger rooms in our homes as a result

The Government is today launching a consultation document on strengthening protection for vulnerable homeowners.

Monday 9th February 2009 Sapey & Co in Norwich has taken on all 485 properties that were for sale with Tops, after doing a deal with administrators Begbies Traynor

This will be promising news for anyone worried by the current weak property market, the woes of which are often blamed on first time buyer blues.

The average time it took to sell a property lengthened by 40% last year, according to the company that analyses Land Registry data

Survey of English Housing, published by CLG. The report presents some preliminary findings from 15,622 households that were interviewed for the Survey of English Housing in the year beginning April 2007.

House prices increased 1.9% in January to £163,966, according to the Halifax House Price Index.

Over half of consumers plan to buy a property in the next 12 months, according to a survey of Rightmove users.

Two former bosses of Norfolk estate agency Tops, which went into administration last week, are launching a separate new business selling houses under the ownership of property developer John Howard, the Eastern Daily Press reports today.

In around two months' time on the 6th April it will be illegal to market a property without a HIP

We need more FIRST TIME BUYER properties to satisfy INCREASED DEMAND

Vendor interest is gathering momentum and translating into sales, according to a number of agencies across the country.

House purchase approvals in 2008 were 52% lower than in 2007, reveals the latest statistics from the British Bankers’ Association

Applications for new-build starts in the UK declined 47% last year, reveals the latest statistics from the National House Building Council

House prices fell by 1.3% in January Annual rate of decline reaches 16.6% but 3-month rate improves slightly Economy now officially in recession, but considerable stimulus is in the pipeline

THE housing minister, Margaret Beckett, has claimed that there are signs of an "upturn" in the property market despite official figures showing prices dropping at an unprecedented rate.

The Property Information Questionnaire will now by law have to be included in HIPs from April 6 onwards.

Email leads have more than doubled, with the rightmove site delivering 513,771 leads nationally from the 1st -14th of January 2009, compared to 242,090 during the same period last year, as buyers actively scour the market looking for a deal.

A mortgage rescue scheme to help vulnerable families at risk of repossession to stay in their homes is being rolled out across England today.

Rumours abound about one of the Top Estate Agents in Norwich that has been sold.

A bit shocking if you ask me, but meant as a joke I think.

The cost of a mortgage repayment on a terrace house is coming close to the rental figures.

Economies such are the United States, Britain and Ireland, where soaring house prices fuelled a long-running credit boom, are expected to bear the brunt of a deepening global recession born out of a lending drought since widespread bank exposure to high-risk debt began to emerge in August 2007.

The number of homes changing hands has fallen to a record low despite increasing buyer interest, figures have showed.

The decline in the value of two-bedroom homes has been sharper than any other property type

Some Pundits predict that prices could 'bounce back' sharply!

Friday 9th January 2009A new daily record has been set by Rightmove this week, with more leads than ever sent to agents.

Who is there left on the High Street that you can trust with the sale of your house. Strange tactics by agents make one wary.

House prices fall by 2.5% in December Annual rate of fall reaches 15.9% Continuing uncertainty means forecasts can be misleading Outlook for 2009 subdued, but low supply will play a part in recovery

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