Many of the findings are unsurprising, such as the fact that house prices are rising faster in London and the south of England than elsewhere.
First, it addresses the question of whether rising house prices in the U.S. fuelled consumption through equity-extraction-financed spending.
Research conducted by Ron Epstein of Merrill Lynch Bank of America has found that Republican control of the White House and Senate has been the single strongest predictor of rising weapons outlays over the past 50 years (Epstein says political control is a more reliable indicator than threats).
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Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.
He busted a window and climbed out, only to get pinned against the wall of his house by the rapidly rising waters.
Meanwhile the rapidly rising house prices of the past few years have driven many would-be home owners out of the market, cutting the demand for loans.
They know that the Republican Party could be slaughtered in House elections this fall because of the rising opposition to our involvement in Iraq.
On the other hand, Americans today are forever being reminded that the value of their house is rising.
On Monday, the President gathered a group of college presidents at the White House to talk about rising college costs and strategies they can pursue to reduce these costs.
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Economists are interested in studying the borrowing response of households to rising house prices and increasing home equity during the recent house price boom for two main reasons.
The Regional Housing Strategy, which has been produced by the Regional Housing Forum (RHF), looks at rising house prices, the shortage of homes for key workers and homelessness.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee did more than just lament the rising price of journals.
Unfortunately, neither the White House nor Congress has offered a strategy to deal with the rising threat to the stability of the Western Hemisphere and to the security of some of our most important energy supplies.
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The topic of the hearing before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology was rising prices.
With rates remaining at such levels, house prices are expected to keep rising, adding about 14% to the value of the average house.
The two main indices of house prices are rising at markedly different rates.
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Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the FCA, told the BBC that many of the mortgages were taken out before the financial crash, "when there was a lot of optimism about rising house prices and wages".
In coming weeks, the House is committed to major legislation reforming our border security and immigration laws, alleviating the rising costs of gasoline and heating fuel before the winter, and saving tens of billions of dollars through reforming federal entitlement programs.
As long as jobs are plentiful and wages rising, the effect of weaker house prices will be muted.
In a recent report, the Bank of England argued that rising house prices do not create genuine wealth in aggregate.
Rising house prices lift the market value of collateral on banks' existing loans, so they are willing to lend more, pushing prices higher.
Through much of the 2000 campaign for the White House, particularly in the early primary season when home heating oil prices were rising steadily in the Northeast, Bush blasted the Clinton administration for not "jawboning" members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production.
At the workshop Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented a model of the American housing market, inspired by ABM approaches, which showed how a fateful conjunction of rising house prices, falling interest rates and easy access to refinancing created an awesome burden of debt.
First, publicly quoted builders now look vulnerable to takeovers from rivals or private-equity firms because rising house prices have pushed up the value of their land faster than their share prices.
Given that rising house prices have been one of the pillars of the current economic expansion, this could present Mr Bernanke with a slow-motion crisis early in his term.
Where is all that political acumen one is supposed to have when rising to the level of the Speaker of the House?
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This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank.
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Manufacturing growth rates are starting to taper off and the Chinese powerhouse suffering from rising house prices and other sources of inflation problems looks altogether more likely to raise interest rates on account of price pressures even if the economic growth burst is fading.
If you apply the financial accelerator to households rather than firms, it is clear that rising house prices reduced homeowners' borrowing costs by boosting the amount of equity in their homes.
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