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US house prices top 2006 peak
...as global house price index records highest rate of growth for two years
A ‘dangerous cocktail’ mutes the outlook for global house prices in 2016
The global economy is supping on a "dangerous cocktail", says Knight Frank, as low oil prices, a strong dollar and a struggling China combine to quell expectations of property price increases in the coming…
Global house prices ‘almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007’
Global house prices are, on average, "almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007" trumpets the International Monetary Fund with its latest index.
Global house prices converge as steady growth becomes ‘the new norm’
Knight Frank's Global House Price Index up by 4% in the year to June 2016
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