UK house prices ended 2016 up 7.2% despite London house prices weakness that according to the Nationwide increased by an average of just 3.7%, near half the UK rate. This illustrates why so many housing market analyst / journalists got UK house prices so badly wrong for 2016 as they mistakenly latched onto London weakness as a sign for a imminent UK house prices bear market or worse a BrExit CRASH. After all the consensus view was that if London was weak then the rest of the UK would be suffer far worse.

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US House Prices 2017

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By Nadeem Walayat

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Nadeem Walayat has over 25 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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upwarddog
26 Feb 17, 18:57

US House Prices 2017

Hi Nadeem, when do you anticipate your US House Prices 2017 and new mult-year forecasts to be completed? Thank you for the continued analysis. The most accurate of anything I've read and for many years now!

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