Location: Midlands

Deeply divided picture across the country...

"There are early signs of weakening average house price growth" reports Savills

"Stability" is word of the year so far (despite everything) as Savills joins in on calling the bottom of some prime markets

Manchester in top spot as capital slips to tenth in UK growth stakes

Official stats indicates that UK-wide house prices have risen by 6.2% in the last 12 months

West Country city named overall 2017 winner by the Sunday Times

Biggest March rise since 2007, reports Rightmove, on a par with last year's stamp duty-beating surge

Correlation is not causation, but it does look like house prices and some crime rates follow eachother

CBRE Senior Director joins regional consultancy

No mention of housing or stamp duty in the last Spring Budget...

Still a small town in the Wirral, apparently