House prices look likely to end the year higher than they were in January, in defiance of dire predictions from industry experts. Prices have risen for five consecutive months, according to the Nationwide building society index, and are back where they stood in September 2008. There has been a 4% rise over the year so [...]
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Hopes for a recovery in the housing market were fuelled today as Halifax, the building society, recorded a 1.6 per cent increase in house prices for September. Halifax said that house prices rose for the third consecutive month in September and have risen in five monthly periods so far in 2009. House prices nationally have [...]
Herne Hill is a tightly knit piece of Victoriana in South London, located between the rough edge of Brixton and the sleepy deli-haven of Dulwich. Two of its greatest sons, the prodigious Victorian art critic John Ruskin and the exalted steel engineer Sir Henry Bessemer, had neighbouring estates on the hill. Quite what they talked [...]
