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• House prices to rise 20 per cent - CEBR
  

  Published 01st Feb 2010

  House prices will rise more than six per cent during 2010 and will be around 20 per cent higher than today's levels by the end of 2013, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research

• Commercial property upturn unsustainable says Ernst & Young's ITEM Club
  

  Published 01st Feb 2010

  The end of quantitative easing and banks’ ability to refinance loans could destabilise the UK commercial property market, according to Ernst & Young's ITEM Club In a special report released today the ITEM club said that UK commercial property prices rose 3% in December, their highest monthly rise in 23 years, but the chances of a sustained recovery in 2010 and beyond were unlikely

• House price rise hopes boosted as recession ends
  

  Published 26th Jan 2010

  Britons appear more hopeful about house prices this year than they were at the start of 2009 Photo: PA Most Britons believe that house prices will rise this year as the country awaits official confirmation that the worst peacetime recession is finally over

• Eviction threat of sale-and-rent back plans
  

  Published 25th Jan 2010

  Older homeowners who need to unlock cash from their property could be forced into the hands of unscrupulous sale-and-rent-back operators because the equity-release market has shrunk so much, with deals either too expensive or unavailable

• Paid by Northern Rock to go away
  

  Published 25th Jan 2010

  Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM), the so-called “bad” arm of the government bank, is quietly offering to reimburse mortgage customers’ early repayment charges if they want to borrow more money with another lender

• Time to switch to a fixed rate
  

  Published 25th Jan 2010

  Homeowners have been warned that mortgage rates could rise sooner than expected after official data last week showed inflation leapt 2.9% in the year to December

• Irish 2010 house prices to fall 10 percent
  

  Published 25th Jan 2010

  Asking prices for residential housing in Ireland are expected to fall by 10 percent this year, with the prospect of some stabilisation in the second half, property website MyHome.ie said on Wednesday