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What makes the latest Rightmove figures significant

What makes the latest Rightmove figures significant

Let’s face it predicting house price movements is like trying to forecast the British weather. You can have a vague clue from the available data, but you are likely to be onto a loser more often than not if you try to pin down how things will turn out in a given part of the country at a given time. That doesn’t stop us trying. For most of us having some clue is better than having none. Not everyone can…

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There may be trouble ahead

There may be trouble ahead

How worried should we be about the the findings by the surveyors body RICS in its latest construction market survey showing that the outlook for the industry is at its worst for a decade? The short answer is seriously concerned. But that is only a partial answer. It certainly does not address the fact that what seems like only yesterday there were plenty of experts predicting all manner of problems, with the industry by now in near meltdown swamped with…

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