September 11, 2005
Property press releases about the housing price in UK up until 1998
Press clippings from Britains major papers give a good break down of the historic fluctuations of the UK housing market over the last decade.
The Times
SAT 05 MAR 1988
House prices increase by 16.9 percent
House prices increased by 16.9 per cent in the year to the end of February, compared with 16.3 per cent to the end of January, the Halifax Building Society announced yesterday. It said this increase, which shows the property market generally has not ...
The Times
TUE 24 MAY 1988
Prices boom as property 'cauldron' bubbles; House price rises
House prices increased by up to 50per cent in the Hereford area in the past 12 months and are rising by 40per cent a year in East Anglia, estate agents report in a survey published today by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. They are examp...
The Times
WED 22 MAR 1989
Marking time;House prices in Britain
House prices in Britain are likely to stagnate this year, the Halifax Building Society said yesterday. It expects high demand in the Midlands and North but a slowing down in the South.
The Sunday Times
SUN 16 APR 1989
House prices still rise in the north;Personal Finance
HOUSE PRICES in London and southeast England have fallen during the last quarter, according to figures published by both the Halifax and the Nationwide building societies. But the fall has been tiny. Nationwide's figures show a 0.2% decrease for old...
The Times
FRI 04 AUG 1989
All house prices `may fall'
House prices throughout the country could fall next year, the Halifax Building Society says in its latest survey. It is the first Halifax price index to forecast a fall in prices. Until now, it has said prices next year would be flat. Prices are fla...
The Sunday Times
SUN 05 NOV 1989
House prices may rise next spring
BRITAIN'S depressed housing market could pick up much sooner than expected, according to a forecast to be published this week. The Morgan Grenfell bank believes the housing market has reached a point where recovery is in sight. It says rising income...
The Times
THU 09 NOV 1989
House prices 'to rise'
Property prices in London, the south-east and East Anglia will recover next year and begin to increase by about 10 per cent a year, according to Morgan Grenfell, the merchant bankers, in a report on the housing market published yesterday. The recover...
The Times
WED 04 APR 1990
10% fall forecast for house prices
HOUSE prices will fall by between eight and 10 per cent this year, according to two surveys published yesterday. In London, however, the prospect was more optimistic as prices only fell by 2.6 per cent in the first quarter. The most depressing foreca...
The Times
WED 11 APR 1990
House prices are still falling, Halifax says
HOUSE prices are either static or still falling slightly, the Halifax Building Society reported yesterday. The annual rate of house price inflation, which was more than 34 per cent a year ago, fell to zero by the end of last month, with prices unchan...
The Times
WED 06 JUN 1990
Halifax predicts prices will keep falling;Houses
THE fall in house prices is accelerating nationally and is expected to continue for the rest of this year, Britain's biggest building society reported yesterday. But a firm recovery is forecast for next year. The Halifax monthly
survey showed that p...
The Sunday Times
SUN 14 OCT 1990
House prices bottom out
THE long slide in house prices could be nearing its end. The Halifax's latest quarterly survey of the property market shows that prices in general rose by 0.5% in September, and the indications are of a definite bottoming-out. Last week's cut in the...
The Sunday Times
SUN 18 NOV 1990
House prices set to take off in spring
THE worst slump in Britain's housing market for more than a decade will end next spring, an authoritative report will forecast this week. Prices will rise by an average of 20% within two years, Lower interest rates and higher wages will combine to s...
The Times
THU 06 DEC 1990
House price inflation up
THE annual rate of house price inflation rose in November. The 0.2 per cent year-on-year increase in prices was the first recorded since February by the Halifax Building Society. In October, prices had fallen 0.4 per cent compared with a year earli...
The Times
SAT 29 DEC 1990
Two-point cut in bank rate 'could revive house prices'
A CUT in interest rates by 2 points in the next few months could signal a recovery in the housing market and an increase in house prices of 5 per cent by the end of 1991, the Halifax Building Society predicts today in its annual review of the housing...
The Times
THU 08 AUG 1991
Halifax building society revises its forecast on house prices
The Halifax building society yesterday revised its forecast of a 5 per cent increase in house prices this year. Britain's biggest building society said it now expected prices to rise by less than 3 per cent this year due to the recession and soaring...
The Times
THU 10 OCT 1991
Fall in house prices dashes market hopes
HOUSE prices fell by 0.8 per cent last month and by 1.1 per cent in the quarter to the end of September, dashing hopes that the market might show signs of recovery by the end of the year, according to figures from the Halifax Building Society yesterd...
The Times
THU 05 DEC 1991
Market weak
House prices fell by almost 1 per cent last month, confirming that the market remains "very weak", the Halifax Building Society said yesterday, publishing its latest figures. For the year ending in November prices declined by 2.4 per cent and are l...
The Times
MON 30 DEC 1991
House prices stuck 'till 1993'
THE housing market should begin to recover in the spring, but house prices are unlikely to show real gains until 1993, the Halifax Building Society says in its annual review published today. The review, prepared before the announcement of a rescue pa...
The Times
THU 06 FEB 1992
Prices of houses fall 3.6% in year
HOUSE prices fell by 1.2 per cent last month, the latest Halifax building society house price index shows. It comes after a fall of 1.3 per cent in December and means that house prices are now 3.6 per cent lower than a year ago. Although there are signs of a recovery on the way…
The Times
THU 07 MAY 1992
Lenders split on housing trends
HOUSE prices fell by 0.4 per cent in April, according to the latest Halifax house price index. The average price of a house is Pounds 60,534, 5.5 per cent lower than it was a year ago. The Halifax's figure contrasts with a 0.7 rise in prices recorde...
The Times
FRI 10 JUL 1992
House prices edge up
House prices rose 0.7 per cent last month, the Halifax building society said. The rise, it added, could be a sign that prices were stabilising. "Further recovery remains dependent on improvement in the economy and in employment prospects," a spoke...
The Sunday Times
SUN 09 AUG 1992
House-price market spirals downward towards crisis
FAR from showing even the first flickering signs of recovery, the housing market is plunging deeper into recession, with the situation, according to some experts, now rapidly moving towards crisis. Prices have already fallen longer and further in Lo...
The Times
SAT 05 SEP 1992
House prices down
House prices fell by 0.7 per cent in August, following a 0.4 per cent fall in July, according to the Halifax, the country's largest building society. Prices are 5.4 per cent lower than they were a year ago and the society predicted no upturn in the market for the foreseeable future…
The Times
FRI 09 OCT 1992
Record fall in house prices
HOUSE prices fell by at least 2.8 per cent in September, the biggest-ever monthly fall and equivalent to a one-third cut over a year. The precise figure will be issued today in the respected Halifax price index. It is understood to be at least double...
The Times
SAT 10 OCT 1992
House prices
House prices have now fallen an average 7.5 per cent over the past year, according to the Halifax price index issued yesterday. House prices fell by 3.1 per cent in September, although the seasonally adjusted index figure showed a 2.7 per cent fall....
The Times
WED 06 OCT 1993
Annual rise in house prices
HOUSE prices are now higher than they were a year ago, according to figures for September from the Halifax building society which record a 1 per cent increase on the same month last year the first annual increase in nearly three years. Prices rose 0....
The Times
THU 16 DEC 1993
House price boom predicted for 1994
HOUSE prices will rise by 19 per cent across the country next year, and by 25 per cent in the prime areas of London, according to the research department of Savills estate agent. Savills accurately predicted a fall of 8 per cent for prime central Lo...
The Times
THU 06 JAN 1994
House prices fall, says Halifax
HOUSE prices fell by 0.5 per cent last month, according to the Halifax Building Society's house price index. This contrasts with the Nationwide's experience of an 0.8 per cent rise. The Halifax says that prices rose by just 1.2 per cent for the yea...
The Times
THU 03 FEB 1994
House prices discord
House prices fell by 0.4 per cent last month, according to the Halifax Building Society. The figures conflict with those published earlier this week by the Nationwide, which said that prices rose by 0.4 per cent in January. The Halifax said yesterda...
The Times
THU 14 APR 1994
House prices show first annual rise in all areas
HOUSE prices have risen in every region during the past year, for the first time in nearly five years, the Halifax building society said yesterday. Prices in Northern Ireland are on average 9.1 per cent higher than they were a year ago, average price...
The Times
FRI 03 JUN 1994
Fears for housing recovery as prices fall
HOUSE prices fell unexpectedly by 1.6 per cent in May, fuelling fears that the shaky recovery in the housing market is faltering. The Halifax Building Society, which published its monthly house price index yesterday, said that there were "no signs of a recovery …..
The Times
TUE 04 OCT 1994
House prices fall 2.9%
House prices fell last month by 2.9 per cent, their biggest drop since October 1990, the Nationwide Building Society said yesterday. The average price of a house in September was Pounds 53,918, which was Pounds 1,617 lower than in August. But prices...
The Times
THU 02 FEB 1995
House prices
House prices in the United Kingdom fell by 0.8 per cent in January, according to the latest monthly index published yesterday by the Nationwide. The Halifax index, due out tomorrow, is expected to paint a similar picture of a flat housing market. Na...
The Sunday Times
SUN 12 FEB 1995
House prices set for a `five-year freeze'
HOUSE PRICES are set for a five-year freeze, according to a new City forecast to be published tomorrow. The report, from the investment bank Kleinwort Benson, predicts that prices in real terms will be no higher in 1999 than they were last year. Rea...
The Times
WED 05 APR 1995
House prices fall 1.5% as Halifax piles on gloom
HALIFAX, Britain's largest mortgage lender, will today add further to the misery of 10 million people with home loans when it announces that house prices fell 1.5 per cent in the 12 months to March. As well as house price gloom, the new tax year star...
The Times
WED 03 MAY 1995
Halifax reports further decline in house prices
HOMEOWNERS today receive more depressing news, with the Halifax Building Society reporting that house prices fell slightly in April for the second month in a row. This, together with figures showing weak bank mortgage lending, confirms that there is...
The Times
SAT 03 JUN 1995
Fall in house prices is accelerating says Halifax
FURTHER evidence of the ailing state of the housing market was revealed yesterday amid speculation that the Government is proposing measures to help homebuyers in negative equity. The Halifax Building Society house price index for May showed a third ...
The Times
WED 02 AUG 1995
More gloom for housing as prices keep falling
HOUSE prices fell again in July for the fifth consecutive month and are now 3.1 per cent lower than a year ago, according to the latest Halifax index published today. On the evidence to date, it appears unlikely that prices will recover at all this year or...
HALIFAX FINALLY BECOMES A BEAR
The Times
WED 11 OCT 1995
House prices falling
THE latest survey of house prices published today will paint a gloomy picture of the housing market. Prices across all regions are now 2.6 per cent lower than they were in the third quarter of last year, according to the Halifax. The latest quarterl...
RECOVERY PROBABLY STARTED OCT 1995
The Times
WED 27 DEC 1995
Halifax forecasts 2% recovery in house prices next year
THE housing market will receive a much-needed boost today from a forecast by Britain's largest mortgage lender of a 2 per cent recovery in house prices during 1996. The Halifax Building Society, in its annual housing market paper, predicts that next ...
The Times
WED 03 JAN 1996
House prices remain lower than a year ago
HOUSE prices are still much lower than they were a year ago in spite of five consecutive monthly increases, according to Britain's largest mortgage lender. The Halifax, which has more than two million borrowers, will announce today that, on an annual...
The Times
TUE 02 APR 1996
House prices rise
BRITAIN'S biggest mortgage lender will today report a March increase of 1.2 per cent in the Halifax house price index. On an annually adjusted basis, the rate of house price inflation in the UK remains positive, at 1.7 per cent, compared with just 0...
The Sunday Times
SUN 05 MAY 1996
House prices continue to rise
RISING confidence in the housing market in April helped to lift property prices for the ninth consecutive month, pushing them back to the level of two years ago. But cheaper mortgages mean homes are more affordable. According to the Halifax's monthly...
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