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Scotsman.com Business - Top Stories - Home equity withdrawal exceeds late 1980s boom CONSUMERS are now even more dependent on extracting cash from their homes than at the peak of the late 1980s housing boom, the Bank of England revealed yesterday.

Find a Property - House Prices Race Ahead: "UK house prices soared by 2.2% in March, taking the price of an average property through the £150,000 barrier for the first time... "

BBC NEWS | Business | House price surge gathers pace The rise means the average property now costs £151,467, the Halifax said.

Home Equity Withdrawals New Record Britons withdrew a record amount of equity from their homes during the final quarter of the year as their confidence in the housing market remained high.

BBC NEWS | Business | Euro interest rate left unchanged
The ECB is responsible for monetary policy in the eurozone
The borrowing rate in the 12-state eurozone is to stay at 2% for April despite calls for reduced rates to help kick-start economic growth.

BBC NEWS | Business Why euro rate cuts are unlikely

Executive Intelligence Review: "Housing Boom: `History's First
Global Property Bust' Coming?"

Independent.co.uk Business News Quarter point won't halt house price escalator

Yahoo! News - House Prices Threaten Economy Says Researcher Unsustainable price increases in the housing market represent the biggest internal threat to the economy, according to Colin Hunt, head of research at Goodbody Stockbrokers

BBC NEWS | Business | Spring signals new housing boom UTTER MADNESS: Nationwide said it expected house prices to rise by 15%, rather than 9% it originally estimated at the beginning of the year.

BBC NEWS | Business | Consumer debt jumps in February: "Mortgage lending increased by its largest amount in four months to £25bn according to the Bank of England. "

BBC NEWS | Business | UK housing now worth £3 trillion "The value of the UK's housing stock has almost doubled in the past five years to £3 trillion, a new report indicates. "

Scotsman.com Business - Economy - Heat is on as the bank boils frogs "There is a limit to which it can push up interest rates without stretching the credibility of monetary policy to breaking point."