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Property prices 'to soar 40% by 2012'

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Property prices 'to soar 40% by 2012' - House prices will rise 40% over next five years, making average property worth more £300,000, is claimed today Banks under fire for new-listings debacle - Investors new stock market listings run by Merrill Lynch have lost staggering £1.6bn year, figures show today



Property prices 'to soar 40% by 2012'  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
House prices will rise 40% over the next five years, making the average property worth more than £300,000, it is claimed today
Banks under fire for new-listings debacle  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Investors in new stock market listings run by Merrill Lynch have lost a staggering £1.6bn this year, figures show today
Market report: Monday latest  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
13.00:ICI has agreed to open its books to Dutch giant Akzo Nobel and that helped drive the price up 8p today to a new high of 639½p
Brits have 52m old mobiles lying around  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Britons are collectively hoarding more than 52m unused mobile phones worth £1.1bn, research showed today
Europe to end TV phone-in quizzes  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's beleaguered phone-in quiz show industry faces the axe thanks to an imminent court decision, with the European courts due to bring an end to the shows
More pensioners living in poverty  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Average income from company pension schemes fell last year while the number of elderly people living in poverty rose, official figures show
Post Office hush money for branch mergers  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Post Office bosses were accused of a second blackmail after staff were offered £1,000 bonuses to keep quiet about branch mergers
What now for bank charges?  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Banks last week announced £21bn half-year profits, but a bank charges test case has left customers in limbo with extortionate charges still being applied. Helen Loveless investigates
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Here's our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
Fidelity makes company pensions plea  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Fidelity International will call on Gordon Brown for an urgent change in the law to save what is left of Britain's envied system of final salary works pensions
New risk for troubled firms  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Attempts to rescue troubled companies and save jobs are facing sabotage by a new breed of creditor with a vested interest in the firms' liquidation
The middle class money boom  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Middle class families have seen their earnings rise at double the rate of increases in living costs in 10 years. Average income is now £36,000
Floods send home insurance bills up 10%  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
A leading insurer is to send house insurance premiums soaring by about 10% in the wake of last month's floods
Energy firms cleared to lock in customers  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
The official regulator has given gas and electricity companies the green light to tie consumers into contracts that prevent them from switching
Fresh furore over 'impossible' Sports Direct  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Two scathing reports from senior City analysts have further damaged the battered credibility of Mike Ashley's Sports Direct empire
RBS-NatWest surges to record profits  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Royal Bank of Scotland, owner of NatWest and Churchill, saw its first half profits rise to a record £5.1bn despite hits from reclaimed bank charges and floods
Dreams are real return on Premium Bonds  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Premium Bonds may not deliver the greatest retrun on investment but they do bring one thing most other financial products fail to - the dream of a life-changing event
Midas: New dogs off to poor start  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Three months ago the Midas Dogs of the Footsie was begun again from scratch, so how are the stocks faring?
Hetherington: British Gas bullying and travel insurance failures  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's ace investigator takes on British Gas' widespread failings and says the firm's actions are akin to demanding money with menaces
We lost the plot on farming  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Food prices are on the up highlighting the importance of maintaining Britain's agriculture in the face of tough pressures
Get a grip by breaking BAA's hold  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
The chorus of outrage at the atrocious standards at Heathrow will not go away until the virtual monopoly controlled by BAA, now in the ownership of Spain's Ferrovial, is dismembered
Small cap share tips: IBS Opensystems  [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week IBS is a strong buybut steer clear of Corero