From: "Troy Steadman" 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Record numbers go bust in 'live now' Britain
Date: 4 Feb 2006 06:13:35 -0800
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Crowley wrote:
> Tumbleweed wrote:
> > "Crowley"  wrote in message
> > news:1139056130.124000.107380@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > > And from today's Telegraph.............
> > >
> > > Record numbers go bust in 'live now' Britain
> > >
> >
> > Are you going to post the same story every time a different newspaper
> > publish it?
>
> Now, now........

House prices seem to be going bonkers around here again (SW London).

Reasons? Since the turn of the millenium Greater London prices are up
73% as against 104% in the UK as a whole:

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/Default.asp?calculate=true

Q1/2000 vs Q4/2005.

That imbalance may be partly to redress a previous counter-imbalance,
but the enormous land grab and population influx surrounding the
Olympics is (keeping my fingers very firmly crossed) going to send
prices up a long way yet.