Posts Tagged ‘value’
Sharp rise in mortgage fraud
UK mortgage fraud rose sharply in the first half of 2010, according to KPMG. The accountancy firm’s “fraud barometer” registered 21 cases in the six months to the end of June, compared with 18 in the same period of 2009. More alarmingly, the value of the fraud rose to £96 million, up from £24 million [...]
UK housing assets double in value to £3,755bn
The total value of privately-owned homes in the UK has more than doubled over the past decade, new research from Halifax shows. The country saw a 118% surge, from £1,719 billion in 1999 to an estimated £3,755 billion in 2009, although the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation rose by only 29% during the same [...]