Archive for November, 2009

The government is being urged to stimulate the housing market in order to avoid a so-called double-dip recession.

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Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, has warned of further “downward pressure on house prices” as it unveiled a 64 per cent fall in first-half profits.

Healthier mortgage lending and housebuilding figures published gave hope of a return to better housing market conditions, but remained far below normal levels.

According to Zoopla.co.uk, the online property website, increasing the stamp duty threshold has failed to kick-start the housing market in the way the Government expected.