Against all the odds - and, some may say, all logic and common sense - the UK was one of just five European countries in which house prices rose last year. In the Royal Institution of Chartered Accountants' latest European Housing Review the UK comes fifth to Norway (up 12%), Finland (up 8%), Sweden (noticing a pattern here? up 7%) and Austria (which, along with Switzerland, never experienced a downturn). The worst performing country? Latvia, where house prices halved. It's interesting reading. Find the official summary (in pdf format), here.

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