Buyer Demand
Property sales to rise, but house prices to fall in 2012House prices are set to fall next year as the fragile economic outlook continues, research suggests. According to the RICS Housing Market Forecast published today, headline price levels could drop by around three per cent across the UK. |
Buyer demand and sales ‘lift in November’Home buyer demand and property sales both experienced a boost in November, new figures reveal. But RICS warned that ongoing economic uncertainty is still holding the property market back from any significant recovery. |
Increase in UK housing market activityActivity in the housing market perked up last month, with a rise in both sales levels and property demand, research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests. Demand was strongest in the North West and South East. |
Warm spring weather boosts number of sellersThe April sunshine coaxed sellers back into the housing market - but an ongoing lack of mortgage finance means that only the cash-rich can really take advantage of the property scene, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. |
House Price Index
- House price recovery says Nationwide
- London Olympics forecast to stagnate house prices
- House prices for June show improvement
- House prices show improvement as market stabilises
- It’s a seller’s market in some parts of the country
- New build property prices ‘up 7.7% in 12 months’
- House prices ‘down 0.5% in 2011’
- Property prices ‘resilient in 2011’
- Property sales to rise, but house prices to fall in 2012
- Buyer demand and sales ‘lift in November’
Energy Bill
- Investigation into consumer understanding of energy bills
- EDF Energy to cuts gas costs by 5%
- Energy saving tips from ConserveEnergy
- UK fuel poverty hotspots revealed
- Ofgem outlines Smart Meter protection plan
- E.ON energy price rise to kick in tomorrow
- Northerners paying more for home energy
- Families blame each other for energy wastage
- A quarter of UK boilers 'at risk of breaking'
- UK homes braced for biggest ever energy bills

