Over recent months industry officials, housing developers, and the government have been desperately looking at ways to breathe life back onto the housing market, after house sales plummeted to record lows and estate agents reported average property sales equating to less than one home per week. With a number of factors affecting the housing market [...]

According to a recent report homeowners that are trying to sell their homes are knocking a fortune off the asking price in order to secure a sale in what have become very difficult conditions in the housing market. House prices have been falling month on month for some time now, but despite this many sellers [...]

Although house prices have been falling for almost a year in the UK many consumers are still unable to afford to purchase a home due to a variety of factors. Mortgages are in short supply at present, which is creating a problem. And whilst lenders have been cutting their interest rates recently the costs associated [...]

Following a ten year house price boom, which lasted until last October, homeowners in the UK have seen the value of their homes fall month on month, with property prices having dropped for the last consecutive ten months according to industry officials. This has raised concerns for many over falling into negative equity. One recent [...]

According to a recent report there have been house price falls in all regions of England and Wales, and officials from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors have stated that in some areas house prices have been falling at their fastest pace since records began in 1978. Amongst the areas suffering the worst declines on [...]