Halifax has reported a 1.1% rise in house prices in July, marking the second increase in the last three months and the third rise in the first seven months of 2009. The lender’s more reliable three-month-on-three-month measure now shows prices up 0.8%, the first quarterly increase since October 2007. However, over the first seven months of the [...]

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Nice. encouraging. Let's see what happens in Q4.