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• House prices dropping in eight out of ten regions in England and Wales
  

  Published 31st Dec 2010

  House prices are falling in nearly every region in Britain, amid fears that next year could be disastrous for the property market

• Housing minister warns FSA crackdown on mortgage lending 'risk shutting out house buyers'
  

  Published 31st Dec 2010

  The housing minister warned today that new rules introduced by the Financial Service Authority to halt reckless mortgage lending could mean shutting thousands of buyers out of the property market and deepening house price falls

• House prices set to plummet by up to 10% in 2011, experts predict
  

  Published 29th Dec 2010

  House prices are set to fall by up to ten per cent next year as Government spending cuts bite and the problems in the mortgage market continue, economists said today

• House prices surveys: who publishes what and when
  

  Published 25th Dec 2010

  The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has published a useful graphic (see above – click on the magnifying glass logo) that starkly illustrates the number of organisations offering housing market data in the UK, and why they can vary so much

• How householders are starting to assert their consumer rights to beat a wave of gas and electricity price increases
  

  Published 20th Dec 2010

  Millions of households face higher energy bills in what threatens to be a long and harsh winter

• Mortgage alert for families on variable rates: Eight million could see payments rocket
  

  Published 17th Dec 2010

  Millions of households face mortgage misery in 2011 because they are vulnerable to higher interest rates, the Bank of England warns today

• Property prices could drop 5 percent in 2011 - Rightmove
  

  Published 13th Dec 2010

  Asking prices for homes in England and Wales have fallen 3.0 percent over the past month to stand just 0.4 percent higher than a year ago, due to economic uncertainty and low mortgage approvals, property website Rightmove said Monday