{"id":358,"date":"2011-02-18T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-02-18T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:51:50","slug":"dclg-house-prices-up-0-5-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/18\/dclg-house-prices-up-0-5-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"DCLG: House prices up 0.5% in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official data from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) today revealed UK house prices rose by 0.5% in December compared with November, with the average UK home costing \u00a3208,148.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, on an annual basis, house prices are 3.8% higher, according to the DCLG.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2010 year, house prices in England and Wales increased by 4.1% and 4.3% respectively, while house prices rose in Scotland by 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>However, Northern Ireland saw its house prices plummet by 16.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Leading think tank, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), recently said higher inflation and unemployment will knock the housing market recovery and lead to a fall in UK house prices.<\/p>\n<p>It is forecasting a 1.7% fall for prices this year, reversing its earlier prediction of a rise of 0.8% for 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official data from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) today revealed UK house prices rose by 0.5% in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}