Location: Midlands

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

Camborne Land Investments to launch "Hygge" brand with 500-unit scheme near the Bullring

Hometrack UK Cities Index at 6.9%; London overtaken by Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool

Gavin Barwell's full speech to the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England's 2017 Annual Lecture

Knight Frank says current conditions are similar to those seen in 2010, when investors started piling in after two years of price falls