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According to a BBC News report:

UK house prices were higher year-on-year in October – the first annual rise for 19 months, the Nationwide has said.

Property prices were 2% higher in October than in the same month the previous year, with the average home costing £162,038.

But the pace of monthly price rises has eased – going up by 0.4% – and the building society said that values could level out in the autumn months.

This could be due to more sellers returning to the market, it said.

Full story – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8332861.stm

According to the BBC:

The Nationwide Building Society has introduced a mortgage allowing borrowers to take loans worth 125% of the value of the home they are buying.

It will only be available to existing customers in negative equity who want to move house.

Negative equity means that the value of someone’s home is less than the amount they owe on their mortgage.

Nationwide said the deal was a very “niche offer” and that not everyone in negative equity would qualify.

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