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moneyweek.com

A great website and subscription magazine which brings together everything that is happening in the financial and economic world. They also have a free daily email service.

moneyweek.com

ITV News Property Portfolio

As the credit crunch hits the housing market ITV News is tracking the price of 50 homes in the UK to see how the value is hit. Click on a house to see how the price of a house near you changes.

ITV News Property Portfolio

creditaction.org.uk

This is a registered charity comitted to helping people manage their money better. It also contain a great section on debt facts and figures that is updated monthly.

creditaction.org.uk

house price visualizer

A useful calculator showing how much money a house has lost in terms of various consumable items as well as money!

house price visualizer

allagents.co.uk

Rate and review your estate agent! Bad news for Foxtons then!

allagents.co.uk

whichwayhome.co.uk

Attempts to explain the housing market and credit crunch as simply as possible.

whichwayhome.co.uk

Current Account Balances

Part of the CIA website that shows the current account balances of each country...guess where the UK is!!

Current Account Balances

home-repo.org

This site is all about repossessions and is a great resouce. It even contains real letters from lenders so you can see how you are treated if you default!

home-repo.org

caniaffordit.co.uk

Thinking of buying a house? You could do worse than check out this site. Just enter your information into a form and then see if you can afford it!

caniaffordit.co.uk

mortgage v rent?

Here's a great calculator that shows you whether you are better off renting or getting a mortgage.

mortgage v rent?

cracker.com.au

An australian real estate forum...they are already experiencing a house price crash so some useful information can be obtained here!

cracker.com.au

Property Facts

The name says it all, if you're looking for facts and graphs then this is the place to go.

Property Facts

londonpropertywatch.co.uk

A great site if you live in London. It covers all the London postcodes and shows you the average asking price in your area.

londonpropertywatch.co.uk

swingacat.info

A website that is trying to address the lack of space in many homes being built today.

swingacat.info

House Buying Tips

Questions and answers for home buyers. Also includes a sheet in Word that you can download to take with you when viewing properties.

House Buying Tips

saynoto0870.com

Not a property related site but an excellent website nonethless in the crusade against rip off Britain. It gives alternative numbers to 0870 ones and you can search by company.

saynoto0870.com

housingoutlook.co.uk

This website is run by 3 very educated economics chaps. Contains some very good material.

housingoutlook.co.uk

galmarley.com

A lot of people have been looking for a safe haven for their cash. Here's an information site all about gold.

galmarley.com

Professor Andrew Oswald

The economics professor who is not afraid to speak his mind and stick to his beliefs.

Professor Andrew Oswald

e-valuations.co.uk

Get a valuation of your property without anyone ever visiting your property!

e-valuations.co.uk

Department for Communities and Local Government

More house market stats than you can shake a stick at. Most of them are in Excel format so you can easily transform them into graphs.

Department for Communities and Local Government

Biz/ed - 1980's Key Facts

Great wesbite for economic facts and figures. It rather like a history book online and is aimed at students as a resource for economic studies.

Biz/ed - 1980's Key Facts

BBC - Property Message Board

Buying, selling or moving? Share your views with other property movers and shakers.

BBC - Property Message Board

Flood Map

Use the Environment Agency's online flood map when researching areas. Just type in a postcode or placename.

Flood Map

bullionvault.com

Buy gold online from this UK based company that specialise in making the process of buying gold cost-effective for the private buyer.

bullionvault.com

bulle-immobiliere.org

The French equivalent of HPC. Jean-Michel Pouré has done an excellent job with this site and is a regular on our forum so you can chat to him aswell...and he also speaks English!

bulle-immobiliere.org

bulle-immobiliere.fr

Another French house price crash site.

bulle-immobiliere.fr

Biz/ed - 1990's Key Facts

Same website as described on the left but we've separated it out into 80's and 90's facts so that you can click straight through.

Biz/ed - 1990's Key Facts

pricedout.org.uk

An excellent website aimed at first time buyers. Focuses on campaigning for affordable house prices.

pricedout.org.uk

uk.houseprices.yahoo.net

A useful Flash tool by Yahoo which allows you to zoom into your area on a map and see the 'average house price' of local areas.

uk.houseprices.yahoo.net

londonrenting.co.uk

This website is a property rental search engine for London, listing rented properties such as houses, flats, rooms and apartments.

londonrenting.co.uk

in2perspective

An excellent website which is bearish on the housing market.

in2perspective

Neighbours From Hell

Do you have neighbours form hell? If so then this is the website for you. Offering loads of practical advice and a lively forum aswell.

Neighbours From Hell

propertylicence.gov.uk

This site explains the new HMO (Houses in multiple occupation) regulations that came into force on 6th April 2006.

propertylicence.gov.uk

Housing market flash charts

Some excellent flash charts on this site relating to the UK housing market, although they are very out of date.

Housing market flash charts

emptyhomes.com

The Empty Homes agency is an independent campaigning charity, which exists to highlight the waste of empty property in England.

emptyhomes.com

allagents.co.uk

Rate and review your estate agent! Bad news for Foxtons then!

allagents.co.uk

houseweb.com

This website contains everything you wanted to know about buying a property.

houseweb.com

House Price

This is a website full of useful information about buying and selling property and the housing market in general.

House Price

stock-market-crash.net

This site has a great section on the US housing market. They are calling it a "massive housing bubble".

stock-market-crash.net