,17 Aug 2013 17:12
It said that house prices were now back in positive territory, albeit only just, with 1 per cent more of its members overall reporting prices rising rather than falling.
The underlying picture showed that Britain's property market is still a game of two halves. There were strong gains in London and the South East and smaller rises in Wales and the North West.
But prices are still falling in all other regions, including significant drops in the north of England and Scotland.
RICS reported that new buyer enquiries rose to their highest level in over three years, with 25 per cent more chartered surveyors saying they rose rather than fell – almost double the 13 per cent recorded in March.
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