London Home Prices on Fire

Despite recent interest rate increases in the UK, home escalation continues proving that the fundamentals of income growth and supply and demand are the key factors..........

London Homeowners Reap $150,000 as U.K. Prices Jump (Update3)

"April 16 (Bloomberg) -- London homeowners gained an average 76,000 pounds ($150,000) on the value of their property in the past year, triple the median salary, as U.K. house prices rose the most since 2004, the country's biggest property Web site said.

Asking prices for a home in the British capital reached an average 379,846 pounds in the four weeks through April 7, up 25 percent from a year earlier, Rightmove Plc said today. The cost of an average house in the U.K. rose 3.6 percent on the month and 15 percent from the previous year, the most in almost three years.

Three interest-rate increases since the start of August have failed to contain a housing boom that has driven up the price of a parking space in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea to equal that of a home in the Midlands. Soaring property values are stretching mortgages to six times salary and prompting young people to live at home with their parents for longer. ........"

By Jennifer Ryan - Bloomberg

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