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• HSBC CEO calls for higher rates to fight inflation
  

  Published 27th May 2008

  The chief executive of Europe's biggest lender on Tuesday called on central bankers to raise interest rates in order to combat inflation, and said more regulation may be needed in the wake of the credit crunch

• New Government figures have revealed how the credit crunch is affecting UK house building...
  

  Published 20th May 2008

  According to the Department for Communities and Local Government, there were 32,100 new housing starts in England in the first three months of the year - 21% lower than in the previous quarter, and 24% down on a year ago

• Are house prices heading for a 1990s-style crash?
  

  Published 19th May 2008

  At moments of crisis we turn to history to provide guidance to what lies ahead

• Surveyors warn 40% fall in house sales this year
  

  Published 19th May 2008

  House prices could tumble by 7 per cent over the next year as the credit crunch continues to bite, according to a bleak forecast from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

• NAEA: Steady market ‘will return’
  

  Published 06th May 2008

  According to the UK’s biggest mortgage lender, the average UK home has lost more than £7,000 of its value in the last year

• Brits still aiming for dream home
  

  Published 01st May 2008

  A new survey shows that 60 per cent of Britons still aim to own their dream home

• HOUSE SELLERS FACE A 50 PER CENT CHANCE OF AN AGREED SALE FALLING THROUGH
  

  Published 30th Apr 2008

  Property sellers face a one in two chance of their sale falling through, according to research from a leading home purchase company