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British property market is in “danger”

January 12, 2008 by admin  
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The British property market is in danger zone which is set to continue beyond 2008 and into subsequent years, claims the Daily Telegraph.

Findings from the Daily Telegraph and Lombard Street Research Housing Affordability Index has revealed that house prices can no longer be classed as affordable, due to the combination of inflation and increasing debt costs.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Diana Choyleva, the director at Lombard Street Research, said: “I would say that around about now house prices are in unaffordable territory – this is the danger zone for the market.

“It is still too early to say yet whether what happens next will be as bad, or perhaps even worse, than the early 1990s crisis,” she continued.

The index suggests that house prices are currently at their most overvalued since 1991 when many homes were repossessed.

Meanwhile, new research from Your Mortgage magazine has revealed that house price growth in inner London should hit 4.6 per cent with Greater London seeing 4.3 per cent growth.

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