On the Housing Ladder, the Only Way Is Up; Pg 3 of 4 of Supplement

Byline: JOHN WRIGLESWORTH

Last year turned out to be a boring one for the housing market. And, if the experts are right again, 2006 won't be much different.

Or will it?

You might expect most of us to be glad that, for once, all the major house price indices are saying much the same thing.

Hometrack, the independent property research company, forecasts price rises of about one per cent this year and 2.2 per cent in 2007. And its figures are largely backed by other serious market watchers.

So will it be boring? Well, not necessarily. We've had years of rocketing growth driven at least partly by low interest rates.

But the …

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Publication information: Article title: On the Housing Ladder, the Only Way Is Up; Pg 3 of 4 of Supplement. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Mail on Sunday (London, England). Publication date: January 1, 2006. Page number: 12. © 2009 Solo Syndication Limited. COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group.

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