UK housing prices down a record

By Edward Harrison On May 29, 2008

MarketWatch is reporting today that Nationwide has said that UK home prices are down a record amount.

House prices fell for the seventh consecutive month, dropping 2.5% from April, and were 4.4% lower than they were in May 2007, Nationwide said. The string of seven monthly price declines is also the longest since 1992, during the housing crash of the early 1990s.
–MarketWatch, 29 May 2008

This is the nail in the coffin for the UK. House prices are in a steep fall, reminiscent of the U.S. market. Expect major writedowns from UK banks by the Q3 reporting period in October and November if not before.

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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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