Tuesday 5 July 2011

Online House Hunter: Graphic facts | Alan Cleaver | Independent Property Blogs

Online House Hunter: Graphic facts | Alan Cleaver | Independent Property Blogs

EACH month – sometimes each week – a new survey or set of statistics is published announcing either the rebirth or continued decline of the housing market. In order to make a good story, exciting headline or just turn dull figures into something interesting, journalists often gloss over important provisos about the data.

For example, they may not make it clear that the exciting headline is based on a survey of half a dozen estate agents living in a hot-spot in South East England. And even if the survey’s base covers hundreds of buyers, sellers or agents that might equate to just one in the North West region where you live.

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