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David Bexon, Managing Director of smartnewhomes.com, comments on CLG’s November house prices:
"Seven consecutive month on month rises in house price should help stimulate confidence especially among first-time buyers who have delayed entering the market for fear of falling prices. What we need now is lenders to be more positive about lending. House price growth is remaining steady and this should now instil more confidence in lenders ability to grant mortgages to willing and able housebuyers.”
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Date Published: 12 January 2010
