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1. Housing slide hits Barratt profit
A slide in the housing market led builder Barratt Developments to cancel its final dividend on Wednesday after underlying annual profit fell 13 percent and it warned that the market remained difficult.
10 Sep 2008
2. Brown unveils housing market support plan
Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled plans on Tuesday to boost the country's slumping housing market as he launched a fightback after nearly a year trailing in the opinion polls.
02 Sep 2008
3. Housing market pain grows in June
Approvals for home loans in June hit their lowest since records began and retail sales fell at their fastest pace in at least a quarter century as a housing market downturn threatens to derail the whole economy.
30 Jul 2008
4. Man's best friend frozen out as crunch bites
Thousands of dogs and cats face a bleak future in Britain because their owners are being forced to rent homes due to a housing downturn and landlords will not accept pets, a report showed on Wednesday.
16 Jul 2008
5. Housing slowdown starts to bite economy hard
Construction activity fell at its sharpest pace in at least 11 years in June, a survey showed on Wednesday, in one of the clearest signs yet of how falling house prices are hitting the wider economy.
02 Jul 2008
6. Crash worries grow over housing market
Fears of a property market crash mounted on Monday after new figures showed approvals for home loans plummeting to a record low and the consumer mood at its bleakest since the onset of the recession in 1990.
30 Jun 2008
7. Ricochet effect eyed as housing market teeters
As the credit crunch brings a decade of cheap mortgage finance to an end it is not just the foundations of the housing market, but its economy too, that are shaking.
26 Jun 2008
8. U.S. housing crisis brings Wall St. arrests
The U.S. housing crisis produced its first high-profile Wall Street arrests on Thursday, while the Bush administration called for broadening the Federal Reserve's powers over investment banks and said it has charged hundreds of people in a mortgage fraud probe.
20 Jun 2008
9. High street sales rise but house market suffers
Retail sales rose at their fastest pace in four months in May as sunny weather encouraged consumers to splash out, but a housing market survey revealed some of the worst conditions for three decades.
11 Jun 2008
10. Housing sentiment improves marginally in May
Sentiment in Britain's housing market improved marginally in May, a survey showed on Tuesday, but prices continued to fall at close to their fastest rate in at least 30 years.
10 Jun 2008
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