House prices And Interest Rates
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How Interest Rates Affect House Prices
5 Comments Comments / Article written on 20 Jan 2008, and filed in the House prices And Interest Rates section
It’s said that the last housing crash in the UK, 1990-1995, was due to two main factors- low employment and record high interest rates. If people aren’t employed and interest rates are high, how will people buy houses or pay their mortgage? They can’t.
I was specifically interested in how the Bank of England Base rate [...]
How The Main House Price Indices Gather Their Data
0 Comments Comments / Article written on 16 Oct 2007, and filed in the House prices And Interest Rates section
Indices are statistical measures of change in the economy or financial markets. Here’s a list of the main house price indices, and how they individually retrieve their statistical data.
Land registry
The Land Registery report quarterly and gather their data from the actual sale prices paid at completion.
Adjustment: no seasonal adjustment.
Financial Times (FT) House Price Index
The FT [...]
