Pessimism on housing market
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Adrian Cole, director-general of the BSA, said the housing market would remain subdued. "It is becoming clear that neither prices nor transactions will show any significant improvement in 1995," he said.
However, Halifax, Britain's largest building society, forecast a 4 per cent rise in house prices next year with an 8 per cent rise in 1997. The figures were branded optimistic by some analysts.
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